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Jason844 π@SmudgeTheInsultCat πΏ Sadly true...
CockneyLaurie@SmudgeTheInsultCat The lie that Americans have been buying into since the country was founded is the same one that the National Lottery has touted for the last few decades "It could be you" and so in case that one chance in a million come to you you shouldn't want to allow the rich to be taxed
The irony of course is that the very rich wouldn't miss the tax and the poor would benefit but
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Yet they broke many laws too
Yet they broke many laws too
BillSo what? They just buy a pardon.
@w_b @SmudgeTheInsultCat a pardon avoids consequences but takes away legitimacy forever.
The legitimacy of the presidential pardon has been waning for some time.
Bebef π¦¦πͺπΊπ΄ββ οΈπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈππΌπ₯¦π©π΄@SmudgeTheInsultCat The "Rags to riches" and "land of opportunity" propaganda works just fine.
Everyone STILL thinks they can become one of them just by enough hard work.
That's at least what it looks like from the outside.
Steven Heywood
Isaac Ji Kuo@Bebef @SmudgeTheInsultCat If you look at someplace that is just plain dirt poor, like West Virginia, the people have no illusions that they will ever get anything. But the whites still vote for the Republican billionaires into power anyway.
They just hate the idea of non-whites getting anything out of society, and stubbornly refuse to believe that any government policies can ever help them. This belief is very important to them because it excuses voting against the interests of their family.
Aethelstan@SmudgeTheInsultCat IF we have independent historians then. My guess is they will all be employed ai-writing North Korean style praise of our dear leaders.
@SmudgeTheInsultCat It would be nice to imagine a future where appealing to racist sexist regressive bigotry was surprising. The USA is not special in this regard. Look almost anywhere in the world where autocracy and broken democracies have taken hold. It's the same playbook everywhere.
π₯ Yours Truly! Unruly π¨π¦πͺπΊπΊπ¦π»The margins between the critical mass needed for fascism and that needed for freedom are slim. Today, we have many more lumpenproletariat.
I disagree with the reason in the quote They don't vote against their interests because it would "hurt someone else" ie the rich, it's because they believe in the "American dream" that it will hurt them when they become the rich ... it's the same motivation as the National Lottery sales motto "It could be you" (even though it 99% plus won't be (unless you mean the fiver* you get occasionally to keep you coming back
* or whatever it is these days - is it still a fiver I've no idea)
LisPi@SmudgeTheInsultCat Technically, under the very broad antiterrorism laws of the land? What they did was in fact illegal (and those laws have some funny aspects regarding rights). They will never face charges under that though.
I'm sure there are less generic and abusably-written ones that were broken too, though.
As for the compliance of the population? Yeah. It is bewildering, especially from the "land of guns", as it were.
Bart Smit / β²β²β²β²β²β²β²@SmudgeTheInsultCat "John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." -- Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
Inc Hulk π§ͺ@SmudgeTheInsultCat In the 1930s, poor Germans were told their poverty was the fault of the Jews (today trump says βimmigrantsβ). These Germans ran camps to expel the unwanted Jews (only later an alternative way of elimination was made). It was the support of the masses of poor Germans that allowed the atrocities to happen.
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The long running game of "Let's you & him fight (LYAHF)" is the most successful con of "white supremacy"
The long running game of "Let's you & him fight (LYAHF)" is the most successful con of "white supremacy"
Steffi the Redhead@SmudgeTheInsultCat the kings of old would be so proud! π₯²