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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 13 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I wonder how many typical maga idiots, if they even are aware of what is happening, are wondering why donvict is not hurting the people he "needs to be hurting". The others are probably blaming Biden.

And then I have to wonder what the bothsiderists/centrists and so-called "leftists" that were claiming Harris/Biden were no different are going to say as they wake up to stuff like this? They were and are spending so much time on trying to gaslight everyone and telling people that an economy that had so many positive indicators and was trending in the right direction was just terrible, etc., ignoring the fact that a dummy like donnie could easily destroy what others have built...

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

If i have to hear one more of them try to not explain what Donald is doing with “Biden“

Just no. That doesn’t explain anything. Explain Donald. Make that make sense. Explaining Biden just to describe how much they like Donald is just them chanting their brainwashing tape at this point.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago

They’ve largely disappeared, as the foreign disinformation campaign has successfully concluded. Only the most pretentiously loud and gullible are left.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 45 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

Cutting benefits for the poorest.

Recipe for civil unrest, riots.

Riots mean more militarization of police, more authoritarianism, and domestic camps like Arpaio’s shitholes.

Now you have opportunity for forced labor to take the place of the exploited migrant labor we used to have.

Republicans just wanted to put minorities back in the fields as essentially slaves.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Not only did the Soviets win the cold war, but the South won the civil war. Should we check to see if the Spanish somehow ended up winning thr Spanish-American war too?

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yes, of course. What they always wanted was cheaper labor; they cultivated hatred of immigrants among conservative voters as a way to enslave all Americans, including their own electorate. They will make everyone poorer so they are desperate enough to accept putting their children in the mines and factories.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 16 hours ago

You mean more minorities. The prison industrial complex has been about slavery in all but name since the Reconstruction era.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 34 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

It’s almost like they aren’t aware of this piece of history

[–] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 1 points 31 minutes ago

It's almost like people think times haven't changed since then

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Magats will think this only exist for dems.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I’m sure their were boot lickers in those days too

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 50 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Gonna be honest with you.

Americans don't have the balls.

Hope I'm wrong. Pretty sure I'm not.

[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

They don't have the balls or the outwards thinking. The only time they'll be thinking "We need to guillotine these bastards" is when they're being dragged into an ICE-truck. But of course the onlookers won't be thinking that.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

You know, the last ten years have been a whole lot of "no way that will happen" and then that thing happens. I never ever would have believed that Luigi would have caused the kind of outpouring that he did or possibly even set a UHC bankruptcy in motion. We're sitting on a powder keg, saying it'll never go off because the sparks never caught for long before.

[–] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 10 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Brian Klass is a political scientist who recently put out his own philosophy of chaos theory. I think it's a pretty useful tool to look at contemporary movements and really refutes the "it couldn't possibly happen here" message.

Pre-2011 there was a paper published on why middle eastern dictatorships were so stable. The next year almost all of them fell. Klass argues that the author wasn't wrong, they just were working with the rules and tools we knew at the time, but didn't know the rules had changed with the invention of social media.

In his perspective, the idea of a "fluke" is not a fluke at all, it's a data point showing that things are changing and changing fast. Things just feel like flukes when our assumptions of the way things work become outdated.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 day ago
[–] nthavoc@lemmy.today 26 points 1 day ago

"I didn't vote for this!" - Every dumbass that voted for this.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago

As others have pointed out, this is social murder.

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