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A Boring Dystopia

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44474394

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Welcome to conservative America.

Who knew giving a group of people with a notably low IQ and an absence of morality power would lead to what we're seeing?

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Who knew, right?

Meanwhile, Presidents have been ignoring the Constitution since at least Reagan, they've repeatedly murdered people around the world and bombed half of Africa, the Middle East, and South America... and not one of them ever declared war.

Democrats won't save you, they are sitting at the table with Nazis so they are Nazis and so on

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Truly dystopic, Jesus christ

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

His name must be Mike Wazowski. Seriously though its not like anyone up there cares about anyone down here.

[–] odelik@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago

Looks like his name is Dow Jones to me.

[–] ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Iranians are dying for their country, Americans are dying for their bankers.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

I mean, a very similar story was told when George W. Bush was in office. Someone had some oil that needed some American Freedom.... I mean, WMDs! They had WMDs...

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Our country is run by bankers. There is no stretch of the imagination in which someone who works for us would vote to bail out the banks and not bail out the people.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

DOW isn't even at 50k either. Perfect storm

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 1 day ago

To be fair, the stock prices are the biggest casualty for them.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To paraphrase a famous draft dodger

They're not war heroes. They were a war heroes because they was killed. I like people who weren't killed.

[–] paranoid@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (11 children)

His name is Maj. Jeffrey O'Brien

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

Clearly his name is Dow Jones.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

The us GOVERNMENT. The us is the rest of us who disagree with that GOVERNMENT.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Thank god you disagree. Otherwise they would bomb schools and terrorize the whole world.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

There's no pleasing some people...

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 8 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately a majority of Americans voted for this. The "rest of us" is actually a minority group. Maybe we are the majority now with this war, but a little over a year ago we were not.

[–] Soulg@ani.social 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

The majority absolutely did not vote for this. Not only did a massive chunk of the population not even vote, but among those who did vote, Trump got less than 50% of those votes

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

chunk of the population not even vote

This is also a choice. And in 2024 it was absolutely obvious that it's a choice for Trump.
Majority, supermajority even, either wanted Trump to be an absolute leader, or was OK with it.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

This is also a choice.

You need to get out more. Or educate yourself on the issue. Believe it or not, it's not always a choice. That's just a fact of life here in the US that getting out or self-education will help you realize.

[–] PetteriSkaffari@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

77M voted for Trump against 75M for Harris. So the majority voted for Trump, despite everyone telling them what a shitshow it would be. Which we can now witness on a daily basis.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 4 points 18 hours ago

The left: war is bad, because it hurts people. The right: we died enough for foreign issues. The rulling parties: did you say...more war?

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[–] kingofras@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

May they rest in 46,495

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There's like 2 groups in this country that are generally treated as sacred: "Little white GURHLS" and soldiers.

Literally not that hard to fuck it up. Is it a little white girl that died or disappeared? Then treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face. Did a soldier just die in war? Then also treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face.

This is clearly a violation of the "treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face" criteria but obviously we know that the media is focused on preserving power for the ownership class over the working class, so not terribly surprising.

[–] Katrisia@lemmy.today 1 points 8 hours ago

I mean, the number of violent childhoods (physical violence, but also psychological and of course the poverty, hunger, the stress of those situations, the neglect, etc.) in your country, plus the pederasty and pedophilia club running the government and corporations make me think children (in the second case it's mainly 'little girls') are not that important either in current years. Yes, we make fun of the "think of the children!" discourse in the U.S., but those are just words. At least from the distance, I don't think you're protecting children enough (and the same is true for a lot of countries, but that's beyond the point).

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Our soldiers are only sacred until they need healthcare or protest something, then fuck 'em.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A correction, dead soldiers are only sacred for about 30 seconds of the broadcast, after that it's the "idea" of soldiers and not the messy reality. Always phased as "our brave men and women".

Anything more than that and people might start questioning why those soldiers were there in the first place.

[–] Bloefz@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

And children are only sacred until they're born.

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