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I know about ALL those things, and more, so it's getting covered somewhere.
The list might get longer, But we still talk about it.
Censoring across the board.
War is a beautiful thing...
This is just another drop in the bucket. Not even worth mentioning. It serves no use to imperial narrative.
USA is a racist genocidal empire. It actively supports fascism like this attack. But the far greater fascism is inflicted upon palestinians, iranians, lebanese, yemenis, syrians, etal. We don't ever hear an honest narrative about this terrorism. Forget about some fash pastor.
(Also crying about "american citizens" is just supporting attacks on refugees. This lib shit is really gross.)
mush used "a.i." to rebrand himself as an autistic mother-loving manic-techboi whose father recounted, suddenly at the height of misdiagnosis crisis, he was called "retard" in grade school. and just like that, a white african repackaged himself using every grief he could mine from american grit and soul.
he channeled the white negro and sold it back to american men after jeff bezos reduced their morale with the API Mandate (why anyone celebrated this draconian move, will remain a mystery of capitalism).
People's minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.
It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren't seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.
There are differences of course bcz there isn't as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn't seem completely unlikely.
Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there's no going back. We're now in a place where "fuck you I've got mine" and "make me" is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it's Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.
I figure we'll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.
California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn't dropped the ball.
dropped the ball
Saved the ball you mean. Daylight-saving time is a curse which should be abolished not set in stone.
At this point I’m down for either daylight time or standard time as long as we stop changing back and forth!
I’ll grudgingly accept that as less awful than our current arrangement.
The documentary, HyperNormalisation, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.
Just a fun tid bit I thought I'd share.
Edit: spelling. Thanks, u/A_norny_mousse
Yep. It's been a while. Already contained Trump.
If you (anybody) haven't watched it yet, please do.
BTW - and I don't say this to nitpick, just to make it easier to find - the documentary is named Hypernormalisation.
I know this narrative is wide spread, and I have no chance to fight it, but it's not fucking not.
USSR has collapsed because of a lot of factors, but the most important of them was that the political elite was willing to change (not to be mistaken with to go away). USSR had an infinite space for doubling down deeper and deeper
I experience the opposite, at least here on Lemmy. It all leads me to conserve my attention for the things that are actually happening.
I mean sure, it's still draining and hard to keep up with, but I think we all learned to filter out some of the nonsense, and see behind the clown show. Except for those who thrive on the outrage, and not actual concern.
I have a prediction:
Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the 'behalf' of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don't need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.
The Trump Regime has destroyed America's intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.
I have seen articles and discussions about all of those items multiple times. We've known trump was an associate of Epstein for how many years? 20? 30? The problem is that there's literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything unless the person being held accountable is just a regular person living paycheck to paycheck.
Why do you think fascists create wars?
As a distraction for internal problems they caused
suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations
the three pillars of american education
That's four pillars... I'll start again...
...
"Amongst the pillars of American education are such diverse elements as..."
Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.
¿Por qué no los dos?
War, what is it good for?
Apparently it's good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.
"Flood the zone with shit" is working as intended. It‘s chilling to see how quickly push comes to shove and we‘re in a world war once again.
We have limited ram in our biological CPUs.
There are so many things that should make the headlines that nothing makes the headlines anymore.
It's called desensitization.
And honestly, if you think some cazy dude killing two people is what should be on page one these days, you got your priorities wrong.
Hypernormalisation
And that's only the last couple of weeks. That list could be a hundred times longer.
Strap in because the next one will distract us from war with Iran.
“Yes, we do have a moon base and yes, we are experiencing some bear problems.”
We're drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won't forget that turd, but there's literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It's amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C'mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.
Idk I saw news and discussion for all these things and when I brought them up with people I know they also heard of them. We all have a somewhat wide diversity on how we learn about current events too.
I dont think the disinformation/distraction machine is working as well as it thinks
Elon's minions are still running amok in our government agencies doing god knows what with our personal data.
I stole this. Quite shamelessly, too.
Can we impeach and convict and remove/imprison him yet?
Impeachment requires majority, Republicans have majority and MAGA will never cross their cult leader.
A pastor? Never heared of "Thou shalt not kill"?
Someone hasn't read the Old Testament...