☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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Cake day: January 18th, 2020

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  • Trump just didn’t magically appear out of a different dimension, and opportunists like him were always there. What changed was that the material conditions declined to a point where large swaths of the public lost faith in mainstream politics. They never recovered from the 2008 crisis when Obama bailed out the banks and left the public hanging. That set up the stage for the first Trump victory where he campaigned on draining the swamp. Then they were hit by the pandemic, and the proxy war in Ukraine under Biden. And the anger at the collapsing standard of living, lack of jobs, housing, and healthcare started driving people over the edge. And that’s the America we see today. One ripe for a conman to tell people how he’ll magically fix everything. But make no mistake, all this is a product of liberal politics working over many decades.

















  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerica™
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    3 days ago

    I find when you are trying to educate people you know, you kind of have to learn how the person thinks and then tailor the message in terms that will likely resonate with them based on their own values. How you express an idea tends to matter as much as the idea itself.






  • The US is absolutely massacring its own citizens along with people all over the globe, and has been doing that since time immemorial. The US runs a literal torture camp on the territory it annexed from Cuba. The US is a home of the Alligator Alcatraz. ICE goons are literally killing people in broad daylight. Stop with this idiotic narrative that the US is entering precipice of fascism. The US has always been a fascist state, German nazis were literally studying the US as an example.


  • And, for the sake of the argument, let’s say they were. Let’s say everything our pedo elites were telling us about other countries was true. What business is it of ours. Surely those people have as much right to self determination as we do. Why are we to impose our broken system on them?



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    4 days ago

    I think it’s really hard for people to accept that everything they believed in is basically wrong. They don’t live in a democracy, they don’t have a voice, they can’t vote their way out of the hole they’re in. That’s a hard pill to swallow for the crowd that convinced itself that they just need to vote harder and everything will be alright.