I still don't get why he's got any power. He's easily the stupidest person I've ever seen, and that includes fictional TV characters. Why did anyone ever listen to anything he ever said?
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Because the republicans have slowly but surely dismantled public education, and always prevented any media literacy initiatives to take root, while using religion to amplify these effects. There's a German musician named Reinhardt May who had the following line in his song "Sei Wachsam"("Be Aware"): (Edit: i realized a better translation to preserve the exact meaning would be "Be on your guard")
Der Minister nimmt flüsternd den Bischof beim Arm: Halt du sie dumm, -- ich halt' sie arm!
(poorly) translated:
The minister whispers to the bishop, touching his arm:
You keep them dumb, i'll keep them poor.
The song in its totality is now 30 years old, and can't be beaten in actuality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdBo34ycvkw for a live recording, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGjpz1feBsU for english lyrics.
Don't forget the Russians desire to destroy us and the part they played
Who owns the media and the algorithms? Of course Russia tried, like the US in other countries, but that can't be the power structure behind Trump.
Sure, but they exploit the weaknesses created by internal forces.
He was chosen as distraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
Who currently asks about the heritage foundation or Peter Thiel?
Who diskusses which political decisions should actually be made when war with Canada is the hot topic?
Because he's a figure head. He's the stupid barely a billionaire face that the Epstein class has no trouble controlling. Perfect blackmail and bribery target.
He's not a figurehead, he's a scapegoat. Their hope is that we hate him so much that we'll be so relieved and satisfied with his end that we don't come after them for everything they've stolen in the interim.
When his reign is over, be happy, but do not be satisfied.
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He's an accurate ambassador for his base. They're all like him.
Rapists? Child Molesters? Wife Beaters? Fraudsters? Trust Fund Babies? Charlatans?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Rapists? Child Molesters? Wife Beaters? Fraudsters? Trust Fund Babies? Charlatans?
You don't even have to pick - an inclusive "yes" is enough
Laws protect the rich and bind the poor. More precisely: the State imposes the will of the capitalist minority upon the proletariat majority. The law is the public, legalistic face of the capitalists' will.
Thus, the fact that the law protects Trump does not indicate that the law has failed in it's purpose. Exactly the opposite: the law is designed precisely to protect people like him and bind people like us. 
Justice is blind....ly doing the will of the rich and powerful
Why is the woman in the background different than the woman in the thumbnail lol
Who are these people
I downvote every post with this format. It's stupid and needs to go away
I'm a bit biased because I respect OP as one of the most wholesome people on this whole site so I don't downvote often....but yes I wholly agree.
This and replyguys. They make an unfunny/unoriginal reply, screenshot it, and post it around. They add nothing and are just doing it because they desperately want to be an influencer
The woman in the background is there to grab attention, the woman in the thumbnail was there because it was too much effort to crop her out or change etc.
Agree with the sentiment, but could you just post the text in the post title and skip the image?
Yeah, I don't get this. I'd rather just see the tumblr/twitter/Facebook/nextdoor/xanga post than it laid over an absolutely irrelevant picture. It's the same as the side-by-side YouTube videos for the attentionally impaired generation.
What the fuck are laws for?
What they've always been for since laws were first invented: protecting the powerful and oppressing the powerless.
To constrain those the rich do not like.
I keep seeing this background image. What's the source/meme behind it? Just a rich blond or did that particular person do something dumb online?
I dont think it's a meme, i think people tend to scroll past text but not past a young blonde.
What are laws for? They're for the poor.
Fines are just the cost of doing business to the rich, it's ridiculous. Where's jail time? Man, as they've said about the 2008 Recession, if we jailed them like in Iceland, we wouldn't be sliding back into another fuck up.
Laws exist to perpetuate the system, ie capitalism, which is based on exploitation. Also to enforce it with violence—physical and otherwise.
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Suppress the poor. Duh. 🙄
creating slave labor
How is the vehicle interior so nice but the steering wheel so disgusting?
Very rarely do laws apply to the rich. Especially recently. Like most things in life it’s only us common folk or especially the poor
There are those that the law protects but does not bind and those that the law binds but does not protect.
Spider webs of the rich and the powerful
What the hell did she do to her stearing wheel?
Why do we even need the background photo at all?
In 2026 people can't read 4 lines of text unless there's a nice distracting border around it to give their drifting attention spans something to ingest as a break partway through.
I'm sure this is a pithy joke (and carry on if so) but for anyone who wants the real answer...its an old algorithm thing.
Way back when, Facebook didnt like the influx of tumblr/reddit screenshots (aka The Federation Mom Says We Have At Home), nor did they like the spreading of information via digital flyers.
They suppressed images that were over a certain percentage text, and one way to get around it was to present the text as part of another image. Designers could get around this with art and such, but scrapers and many screenshotters kinda just use whatever.
Edit: in this case, it seems the creator went with the strategy of "smiling young white woman in car" which most algos smile favorably upon as opposed to say, a photo of the people the tweet is actually about.
Excessive hand sanitizer, I'm guessing.
That piece on the back is a paddle shifter. You press it in with your fingertips to switch gears. (Sort of. It's not like a true manual.)
If you don't mean that, then idk what you're referring to.
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Same as international law. It's for the colonised or about to be colonised countries only.
So close
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