• @niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    i’M tOo LaZy To bE bOtHeReD WiTh BaSiC CiVic DuTy, So i BeLiEvE aNyOnE oNLinE wHo TeLLs Me ThAt bOTh ParTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe? LoL_!!!_ 🤣🤣🤣
    i’M sO pUrE!!! 😇🤪🤩

    Millions of self-destructively lazy, stupid mediocre people shouted in unison (again):
    Vote for a woman? When PIGS fly!!!

    Or if Biden had remained in the race:
    sLeePy JoE! LoL!

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      I mean you can exist in this world if you want to. It is more fun than the truth which is sad and boring.

      Most people really do care and have good intentions, but are too overworked and too uneducated to pull apart the propaganda that’s being pushed to them 24/7.

      The oligarchs didn’t win when Trump got elected the second time. The won when they got control over the media. That was a while back.

  • @Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    Are you sure? I checked around and couldn’t find much about this. Cable and broadcast news don’t seem to be reporting it, and none of the major newspapers. It’s not supported by X or Facebook either. I don’t see a lot of books about it on my Kindle. I mean, that’s quite a conspiracy theory you’ve got going there. For it to work, a small group of people would have to somehow hold over half the wealth of America and use it to elect politicians with so few scruples that they’ll appoint anyone to powerful offices. Even that is assuming they could somehow pack courts with compliant judges who are willing to declare that corporations are people and money is speech. Next, you’ll be telling me that a median salary is unlikely without a degree that costs almost as much as a new car, but that it doesn’t matter anyway because a median salary can’t support a family in the same standard of living they were born into. I can’t imagine people would tolerate this kind of thing. We’d have to be living in some kind of dystopian, authoritarian plutocracy like a bad 1970s sci-fi.

  • @WhatSay@slrpnk.net
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    304 months ago

    I thought characters in webcomics were more politically aware, but I guess they are just 2 dimensional.

  • @theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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    Hungary didn’t crack down on education? Our scores are still competitiv-ishly high in Europe! Our teachers are unfortunately paid in animal crackers though, like most important jobs! The teacher, doctor, bus driver scarcity is just more apparent than some others

    In our system Viktor Orban have bought the media with stolen public funds! And the opposition parties and much of our economy…

      • @theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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        We only really have one brand, its our own! Its the 3rd of our largest export! According to us the Serbs only stopped trying to reunite parts of Yugoslavia because we stopped exporting our animal crackers to them, so their country fell to ruins!

        • ⓝⓞ🅞🅝🅔
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          Haha! This was a most unexpected response. 😂

          Now excuse me while I scour the interwebs for images of the majestic animal crackers. I think I have an idea of how we might change the course of world events with them.

  • @volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
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    USians are so racist you have to explain bad things using the words “Russian” and “Iranian” next to them. Like, you have Fox news already for half a century don’t you? What do you mean “Russian style disinformation”? You guys invented it before the Russian Federation existed lmao

  • @MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    You guys always manage to make the worst out of a morally questionable concept. Did it already with slavery.

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        Ah, no, i thought more about that there were different types of slavery (african, british, etc.) that somewhat worked with society but US took of every type the worst parts and made it an inter-generational instead of a limited-time thing.

  • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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    94 months ago

    I’m not at all ready for it, but I’ve been acutely aware it was coming since the night of Nov. 6th.

    • @peregrin5@lemm.ee
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      I mean most of us were acutely aware of it since November of 2016 and perhaps even before, but yeah. So far the awareness seems to be more of a punishment because we can see the train wrecks coming but can’t seem to convince the drivers of the car we’re in to actually stop parking on the tracks.

      Perhaps blissful ignorance may save our mental state.

      • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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        I avoid news a lot more than I used to because all it does is cause distress about things I have no control over. In his first term I at least had the hope that the shaky guardrails were there to keep him from going too far, but those are gone now and I’m fully aware I live in a country under a fascist regime with no opposition from anyone with the power to do something about it.

      • @labbbb2@thelemmy.club
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        By the way, there were sanctions against Russia in 2014 because of occupation of Crimea, and that gangster fascist state significantly started to use psy-op techniques and weponizing of corruption against Western countries.

        But people still should have personal responsibility, anyway.

  • @labbbb2@thelemmy.club
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    It’s like Americans lost their national identity or something. They literally act like Russians, judging by the comic.

    • @dmention7@lemm.ee
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      If the GOP is riding in under the banner of the Christian god, then Hail Satan indeed!

  • @Yipper46@lemmy.world
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    This is what I ordered. Not how you famed it but the exact thing I wanted I am getting here. So… not too worried.

      • No I think it’s more likely than not that there’s a small extremely dedicated group of terminally online progressives who are wholly unaware of how bad they make basically every liberal look.

        Except on reddit, which is clearly astroturfed to hell from some organized group. Probably multiple.

        • @peregrin5@lemm.ee
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          No they are aware. They hate liberals more than they hate conservatives. They say so all the time.