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They know absolutely nothing, but learned they can climb to the very peaks of power in the world by lying brazenly. It’s depressing.
Even more depressing how many people are still like “Is… is that right? I dunno how to feel about that, like, maybe they think they’re telling the truth or it’s nuanced or something…”
The only real solution for them likely lies into allowing immigration, and a lot of it
Yup, which for a country like South Korea is probably less likely than reformation with North Korea honestly, and that’s also pretty damn remote.
And surprise surprise, along with the turbo-capitalism, they also allowed right-wing conservative movements to flourish to a degree that makes the US’s incel problem look like a quaint boy’s clubhouse that says “no girls allowed.” It’s almost like the two things go together, the desire for wealth/control/power and the oppression of others.
Maybe sooner. At this rate it would take something like every adult woman to have five kids, and each of those five kids would also need to have five kids.
We haven’t seen actual population collapse in a developed nation in our lifetime, the world will be watching closely. Maybe it will be the spark that some countries will need to realize how dangerous it is to ignore social trends and right-wing influence along with unrestricted capitalism making success more important than community and connection.
It just took a handful of connected conspiracists with no principles and some forward thinking about how to sow the worst seeds.
Names like Bannon, Epstein and others who funded them worked in the dark and with great amounts of support from a variety of institutions, worked to simultaneously make fascism cool and make average Americans too distracted to care. Eroded attention spans, people fighting online until nobody knows how to relate to each other anymore, dissolving communities and amplifying the most ridiculous or rage-baiting takes on both sides of ever issue.
That’s all it took for people to stop caring as cartoonishly iconic fascists and nazis took power in the US, and the whole time we were thinking that cartoonishly stereotypical “bad guys” belong only in hollywood and can’t possibly be real.
We all said that to some degree as the cartoonishly iconic and stereotypical villains rose in power and people were too burnt-out or distracted to give it any deeper thought.
The only people Newsom appeals to are neo-liberals ashamed that Trump won’t keep up appearances and isn’t keeping his criminal imperialism masked in the liberal pageantry that we’ve done for decades or centuries in the US.
He is courting the right, he made a day to celebrate Ronald Fucking Reagan, jesus christ how loud of a dog-whistle do you all need.
Tankies are just roleplay kids, they hate everyone who isn’t roleplaying also. Newsom is an actual threat to democracy wrapped in a too-wide smile and promises of a “return to normal.” He would be more dangerous than Trump and he would do his damage behind a facade of national cooperation and stability while empowering the lunatics like Thiel and Musk.
Worst thing is those in power in the US think they’re actually winning
No they do not, they don’t even give two flying shits about America other than the nutcases that think they can reshape it into a white-techno-fascist-oligarchy and that they know what’s best for the population as they practice super-villain speeches in the mirror. But enough Stephen Miller specifically. The rest are just trying to get their bag and run.
Those in power in the US are deliberately hiding the advancements of other countries to keep the middle-class and blue-collar workers here deluded into thinking that their 10-hour workdays with no benefits is still the best in the world because you have the “freedom” to go buy mass-produced goods at Walmart or pay $7000 to walk into the ER of your choice when you suffer a critical illness or injury.
And it works wonders. You don’t need to censor the whole world or make militarized walls like North Korea (But it helps, hint hint: the “wall” they wanted to make was not to keep people out.) you just need to keep the bulk of people busy and distracted and out of touch with the rest of the world, and most people don’t care about anything outside of their daily life anyway.
If you want evidence of how deliberate this campaign of mass-delusion is, just fire up your favorite media website in another country, and look how radically different the news stories are, how radically different the tone is, how huge the outside world is and what the bulk of humanity actually care about. (Usually it’s everyone worried America is going to fuck everything up for everyone else.)
While you cannot see the color of most nebula, as the scales are too large and the distances too vast to really get vibrant wavelengths your human eyes can see, it is worth noting that “red” would be one of the more common nebula colors if you could actually see them, and in fact when you do a long-exposure of many nebular they come out red because of ionized hydrogen, the most common gas in the universe.
They’ll have to broadcast it live on netflix with all kinds of pre-hype about atlantis and mermaids and shit, and a cut-away every 5 minutes to a couple of C-list celebrities sitting on a couch on a stage that looks like a live studio but it’s not, and they will jangle their keys and talk about how spooky and dark the water is.
I’m pretty sure I have a few coils of rope, we could even buy a few more, if you have a rock or something we can probably go do the thing and get a measurement, but I also have shit to do this weekend.
Average median voter.
And why innocent people are being murdered in the street and why we don’t have auto emission standards anymore and why the FDA is abolishing disease research.
Because that’s not enough, they are a resource, if we don’t tap that resource, the other side does… as they are doing now.
I’m saying it’s not an “abstract group of people,” I am talking about the currency that shapes nations, the force behind the declarations and policies and intentions.
That power comes from only a small number of sources, the top two are violence or money.
The right has both, and they are doing everything they can to secure them before others can, and there are a LOT of forces trying to get a piece of both those pies. We could wrest a section of it with careful political messaging and coordination and establishing local communities and electing leadership that actually wants better outcomes instead of better donations. But you don’t do that without knowing exactly who you’re trying to message and what your message needs to be.
None of this is as simple as “fuck them, we’re doing our own thing” we’re all in this together, even the people you don’t like.
I’m glad I can use reasoning and deduction to actually figure things out or I would be equally stuck in a black-and-white false dichotomy.
For example, I assumed you’re a bot immediately, then I made a small effort and checked for clues, and found the first mod action performed against you on lemmy was a comment removed for asking about microwaving your balls, which tells me you’re likely a human. But I also know in relatively short time even those clues will be meaningless as tactics get more and more sophisticated. It’s just like always being on guard when you go outside. You can be on guard for danger without always being anxious or paranoid.
See? it’s not so hard.
Ah, another victim of the chaos, flailing and directing energy at an entire narrative spun by people deliberately having dedicated time and energy to making you specifically feel outraged at people who are your ally, filling all the blanks with your worst case fantasies and the lovely opportunity to police your own side.
Get off the internet. https://www.progressivevictory.win/ has people you can support and actually get off your ass and help for local representation and leadership. Nobody is coming. Nobody is saving us. There will be no revolution. Rebuild community and drop the rage.
If the unpopular voices of a random person on the internet are too worrisome and problematic for you to focus on what matters, you’re no good to any of us. I won’t see a reply, I don’t have the energy to deal with .ml’ers right now.
Whatever, slippery coward.
MAGA DESTROYED
TRUMP FANS REVOLT
GOP CRUMBLING IN SHAME
MAGA REGRETTING THEIR VOTE
Etc, etc.
it’s all utter bullshit, the base hasn’t budged. It’s still between 23% and 28% and holding very steady in that range from the start. This is just the algorithm pushing stuff to Lemmy browsers that it knows will get the most views.
Now the nuance here is a LOT of liberal America who voted for Obama also voted for Trump, because again, atomization and algorithms, and basically a population completely tuned out.
I would be a lot more impressed if I saw a headline that reads “MEDIAN MIDDLE-CLASS VOTERS START USING CRITICAL THOUGHT AND LOOKING UP INFORMATION ABOUT THINGS BROADLY” because that would mean something far more profound than anything else we’ve seen so far.
Every time someone in Europe tries to start some shit about how dumb Americans are for allowing our democracy to crumble, I like to gently remind them that we’re all being held hostage by the same people. This isn’t a local problem, this is what happens when you give corporations everything they want to control your society.
It’s a very depressing worldwide scale-back of all science and development.
I mean, worldwide except for China. China is going to have the whole solar system in a generation.
Even worse in the world of the young, he’s cringe.
Look at the body language after the historic punch, look how they’re all avoiding the ICE kid and all still gathered around the kid in brown. They’re not sure what the fuck is going on entirely but have the visceral reaction to cluster around the puncher, not the punchee.