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A lot of regular people get swept up into the default

this is the terrifying thing about hegemony. the ruling class uses it to convince people to think things are normal that aren't. racism is only 400 years old. across the globe societies had trans and non binary people until colonialism arrived in their place. so called "barter" societies that predated currency weren't using resources in inefficient systems of trade, they were just sharing with eachother because compassion and love for our neighbors is far more default and natural to us than religious leaders want you to think.

it's all the same crisis baybay! the entire time throughout all of history

i know there are. that doesn't change the fact that only 46% of americans support israel. not a majority. i'm not using lemmy as my basis, i'm using the best most up to date data available, and that indicates a majority of americans do not support israel

the majority of Americans don't support israel. it's a superwealthy minority who dictates policy. the issue is too many americans have been propagandized to believe they have no power, no voice

turning on your own group to appease the overlords will only ever provide temporary reprieve

he's desperate for approval, but the only people he's ever gotten that from was 4chan nerds. he's trying to manufacture that now, but simply can't because the number of people on 4chan who are actually exemplified by 4chan are limited, and the number of people who were joking and left the platform are more. so now elon is catering to a super minority, and ultimately isn't even doing that right because he's a total fuckin' phony. he never liked any of their shared nerd shit, not really, not the way they liked it. he liked all that stuff aesthetically because it helped him purchase cultural cachet to talk about hitchhiker's guide, video games, and technology.

the reality is he's a pathetic loser that no one at home ever loved, and all the kids and school bullied because his family never nurtured empathy within him.

it also shows consumer purchasing power, the metric that matters when you're buying things, falling. inflation tells us that our currency is just as valuable as ever when compared to other currencies, but CPI tells us that our ability to live on that currency is reduced. which is what i'm trying to say and talk about. the fact that inflation has been stable, but consumer purchasing power is reduced speaks to massive amounts of petty greed coursing through the system. the problem from here is that 47 is a greedy fucking bastard and so are all his cronies. the theft machine is getting way more intense right now, but that doesn't change the fact that for most americans, they didn't get to see the benefits of the pandemic recovery, but 47 and his buddies certainly did. they then used that financial power to by tv coverage and ads that would ensure a greater likelihood of taking over and intensifying the greed machine. i appreciate what you're ultimately saying, that 47 is worse for people than the alternative, but if we're going to ever have our country back from the greedy wolves, we need to convince our fellow sheep that a wolf shouldn't be in charge, and to do that we need to understand how they got tricked by the wolves

what a fuckin' loser

we have always been allied with eurasia. we have always been at war with east asia

Except for the part where not really. CPI kept going up until it outpaced CoL adjustments. Not to mention for minimum wage earners, their paychecks have been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. From 2020 to 2022, the united states dropped 5 spots in Human Development index, and when you adjust for income inequality are doing even worse. 64% of US adults are delaying medical care because they can't afford their next treatment because of pre-existing medical debt.

This system of focusing entirely on traditional economic indicators and ignoring the growing chasm between the impoverished in this country, the vanishing middle class, and the wealthy is weird. It's not normal. It's not okay.

That's legitimately why the republicans want to rename the Gulf of Mexico

The Enola Gay dropped one tiny atom on Japan

what the fuck are they going to ultimately say the underground railroad was? What will they say it was helping who escape? THIS WHOLE THING IS STUPID!

i want to make it abundantly clear. rebublicans are horrible terrible no good very bad fascists. but one of the goals of the left needed to be convincing the democrats that being republicans circa 2006 wasn't doing any of us any favors. the inflation of the post covid lockdowns era was similar in nature to the economic recovery of the post recession era: it wasn't reaching everyone everywhere. that's what bernie sanders was talking about when he said a democratic party that turned its back on the working class had the working class turn its back on them.

it's not whining to say that neoliberal economic policies don't benefit everyone everywhere equally. biden obsessed with traditional economic indicators, meanwhile people's paychecks were not keeping pace with the increasing cost of living that was resulting from unchecked systemic greed. the minimum wage needed to go up. the healthcare system needed to be adjusted again. overall the desperately poor needed to be given assistance to not be desperately poor.

i would argue this desperation, and the democrats refusal to listen to that they needed to apply consequences to fascism and engage more with economic populism was what handed trump the election. telling people who are desperate to shut the fuck up, everything is going great, actually, is incredibly tone deaf. and to reiterate: the MAGAts are embarrassingly unaware of who and what they just voted for and that things are getting worse now because in the race between bad and worse they chose worse. being desperate is no excuse for voting for trump. but the democrats also have no excuse for doing so little to provide for the little guys. Kamala started out strong promising people housing assistance, but stopped emphasizing that down the stretch as she courted corporate donor money.

i mean sure, as long as you were making more than $120k and were located in an area with low cost of living

that's the entire basis for "news entertainment" like what rupert murdoch and vladimir putin pump out

when you're raiding a quaker meeting hall, you're automatically on the wrong side of history

elbows up! (am i saying that right? i'm based in the southern us and i know y'all keep saying that but i don't know why)

don't be like us down here. we really fucked it and now all my friends are either in danger, hiding, or both

that's why this is happening. this is the point.

hopefully someday people understand that hamas is not palestine and being in favor of israel not committing genocide is not being pro-hamas. also, israel has long since shown that this is not about hamas, but rather about ethnic cleansing.

on the whole, palestinians just want what we all want: to be free, and to know that their next meal is secure.