Allonzee @ Allonzee @lemmy.world

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This has all been theater for a long time.

Our owners just don't care to pretend otherwise anymore, because they no longer need to. They're even starting to cut out the former "opposition" party they got on the take in the 80s to accomplish this coup.

Welcome to the party most have willfully ignored, hoping to be a big winnah in a sea of exploited losers.

Sad most just want to back this off to the neoliberal policies that set the table for this and call that victory, when we need a new framework, something between the New deal and Norway. Unless we socially enfranchise our society from the bottom up with tangible, economic support, and start judging the health of our society by our worst off members, we'd meet right back here after another 10-15 years of the well bribed good cop party(D) being just dandy with murder for profit health insurance schemes and our most betrayed neighbors dying under our crumbling freeways.

Centimillionaire and proud neoliberal Nancy Pelosi spent the months before Trump took power safeguarding the levers of Congressional power... From AOC.

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/aoc-pelosi-oversight-committee-connolly-raskin

This constitution has failed. It failed decades ago, but few were willing to acknowledge the ugly truth. If you don't accept that as a starting point if you're American, you're still digging.

We turned the bull loose as the slogan said.

What do bulls do to people?

Glad I went Emby.

This capitalist coup started under Reagan. Trump has been courted by Putin since the 90s.

If people realized how serious this shit was, Wall Street and the capital markets would have been righteously burned to cinder years ago.

Instead they laughed at those protesting it, I was there.

We're hopeless. We'll be breathing capitalist climate change made dustbowl fumes, drinking unregulated leaded water, and still showing up to our jobs running up the owners' ego scores even as said owners retreat to their luxury bunker complexes to bark their orders remotely in an attempt to pretend everything is fine.

We're a pathetic people. Not entirely our fault, the capitalists have been sabotaging public Ed to keep us stupid, willfully ignorant, largely hostile towards critical thinking, and cut their taxes for a century, but we are a pathetic people.

Now the French, There's a model of how a society needs to act when their greed class gets out of line.

You get it. The last, last, last, last, last stand to have any rational hope of righting the current constitutional framework using its own mechanisms would have been to soundly rebuke the Reagan/Welch give away the store Revolution as a society half a century ago. Even then the hour was late and unions were being systematically attacked, but getting the former supposed opposition party on the take, today's neoliberals, was the ballgame, and Citizens United was just a capitalist victory lap pissing on the corpse.

We surrendered the active class war with no terms and began our class occupation in 1980 with nothing more than the false promise that the right people would become the wealthy fuckers living large on the backs of their exploited neighbor fuckees. There are still pathetic fools waiting for that golden shower of Prosperity any day now.

This collapse is brought to you by the people that would have been running away from town to town selling piss snake oil to marks had they been born a couple centuries earlier. Capitalism made them our kings,and they don't have to run anywhere, everyone else has to get out of their way.

I'm anticapitalist and it's inevitable conclusion of fascism when the unrestrained capitalists finally gets their way.

X is literally owned by a fascist, basically the stupid Goebbels to Trump's stupid Hitler. And sadly, they represent the general malice of the US and our toxic hyper-individualism perfectly. Sounds like you just lump everything you think is bad together.

No world superpower isn't drenched in blood, but China actually seems to care about there being a future for their people and future generations beyond the next quarterly earnings call. Why wouldn't a humanist root for that over this dog eat dog rigged race to the bottom with no plan, actively eviscerating any future to goose the next rich fuck earnings call as our neighbors die of exposure under and police capital defense force brutality under a freeway in a box after the capitalists are done breaking us?

If empathy is the weakness to my species, I'm glad we're committing suicide by capitalist made climate change.

Without empathy, we have no redeeming characteristics and nothing of value will be lost.

I was actually still surprised to see that some Luigi praise has been getting through on TikTok.

Rednote is still better though.

Donald and Ivanka Trump.

Shit, sorry, same thing.

Modern conservatives lack the creativity to imagine plausible damning accusations.

They must draw from life.

When they hilariously try, we get "Jewish space lasers" and "pizza parlor child fight club rings."

Then they get angry that basically every creative and artistic field is dominated specifically by not them. When they get handed a budget to attempt creativity, we get preachfest garbage like "God's not dead 23" that spends 2 hours basically turning to the camera lecturing viewers about conservative grievances in the form of repetitive gotcha strawman scenarios like it's Festivus.

That's the problem with only hating, with only negativity, with only being against change. It's like trying to grow a flower by watering it with vinegar.

The Matrix.

Pretty fucking screwed.

It's even worse than that. It floors me that it's widely accepted that soldiers murdering soldiers in war isn't murder. It's murder when a contract killer murders by order and gets paid, the fact that a government is paying the contract and giving you a spiffy Lil wardrobe to do it in is a really arbitrary line. They don't even have a proper word for it, they just say "it's not murder.... IT'S WAR!" What a lazy non-argument. It doesn't count because we're doing murder Costco style, in bulk?

I mean yeah, it's people killing people that don't want to die on the behalf of people paying them to either gain something or secure what they have. It's more cut and dry than my first example, where you could argue that if the party to be murdered consents to be murdered, it no longer fits the definition.

As George Carlin said, the word is avoided to soften what needs to be done, to defang language until it is robbed of the emotional weight of what is happening. Target neutralized doesn't have the baggage of human murdered. Don't want those soldiers in the field to internalize the weight of what they're doing, or they won't comply as reliably!

It's a fast track to power over others without having to first gain significant knowledge/wisdom to wield responsibly.

A surgeon is a allowed to cut you open and rearrange your insides because they have been through the intense trials and scrutiny to be trusted to do so.

Cops are just a few weeks of training. Who does this fast track to power without commensurate burdens of responsibility attract? BULLIES. The kids that stole your lunch money are the ones handing out speeding tickets and on drug dealer bribe takes.

That's the paradox of power, the harder someone seeks it for its own sake, the worse a candidate they are to possess it. Maybe if Law enforcement were part of some kind of mandatory national service where everyone has the option to hold it for a year or two would help, but this sociopathic place is too selfish for such ideas.

Morality is subjective. Ethics are an attempt to quanitify/codify popular/common moral beliefs.

Even "murder is wrong" is not a moral absolute. I consider it highly immoral to deny murder to someone in pain begging for another person like a physician to murder them painlessly simply because of a dogmatic "murder is wrong" stance.

Promises promises.

Anyone else on Rednote?

The Chinese citizenry at least is far more eloquent and seemingly educated than Americans are. Our higher Ed is going the way of the utter ruins of our K-12. They speak their second language more fluently on average than the lower half of our country speaks its first language. And the social empathy? Holy shit they're practically Canadian. It's almost a shock to the system as an American living in this encouraged sociopathic cesspool of glorified hyperindividualism 🤮 where we work against one another to try to get moar oligarch scraps for ourselves.

It's US President Putin's goal I'm sure, but all this does is make the US less relevant. I'm all for that to be honest, so long as they continue to stand for the wellbeing of their people, I'm rooting for Europe. We should lose our global influence. The planet is dying(as a habitat for humanity, it'll be fine once we've finished our capitalist made climate suicide), our people are miserable, and we've been exporting that hypercapitalist misery for decades using our hard and soft power using that global influence. No one in the world should be doting on us. We're hostile to a future for humanity, our geopolitical interests start and end with our oligarch's short term ego scores.

He's one of those athletes using all the muscles except the one that matters.

Useful idiot stooge.

This country was destroyed under Reagan. We needed a national security strategy against the capitalists back then and instead invited them into the government.

This is just the fire sale, the vultures picking the well rotted corpse clean. Reagan and Welch destroyed this place, don't give Trump that much credit. He's just an opportunist who saw profit in chaos.

The United States 1776-1980 - Died of thirst waiting for Promised Golden Showers of Prosperity that never came - Useful Idiots

Enjoy the high latency.

Which means there's no hope for this framework and the best thing that can happen is collapse and rebuild for even any long term hope for our descendants after a lot of pain.

I agree the people have been systematically made hostile to policies that would defend them the laborers from the capitalists by capitalist for profit media propaganda and capitalist captured government propaganda.

If the people are only willing to vote as "left" as the good cop fascist dems and it's a coin flip between them and the can't go any further right fascist Repubs, there is no solution short of letting entropy tear it all down.

You can't repair a sinking ship when the only solutions available are make more little holes(D) or make more big holes(R)in the hull. The people would need to at minimum have a stop making new holes (funneling all resources to the top 0.1%) party. But that's evil communist leninist Marxist socialism Herp derp! Better starve to death under a freeway 🇺🇸