UpperBroccoli @ UpperBroccoli @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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The answer is: they do not give a shit.

They do not care about the US as a country.

They do not care about the Americans as a people.

They do not care about the economy.

They do not care about anything apart from their own personal interest. Lining their own pockets is all they care about. If someone helps them do that, they are friends with them. If they don't, they do not matter.

Congratulations, you now officially live in a cleptocracy where they shake you down, take all of your money and give it to the guys who already have billions. All the taxes they claim to save by obliterating social security, affordable care etc? They are not going back to you, they will stuff them in Musk's pockets through bullshit contracts and other schemes.

And at the same time, they are critically crippling the IRS to make sure the billionairs no longer even have to pretend to pay taxes.

In that case...

Next up: marriages between people with different skin colours.

You need a new party that is everything the republicans accuse the democrats of being.

Did you know you can just build a guillotine?

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a great way of exposing that attitude through the Ferengi. Quark, the proprietor of Quark's Bar, mistreats his employees again, and they are pissed. Station chief Miles O'brian tries to rally them to form a union of bar workers and to strike, and one of them, Rom, actually says:

Ferengi workers don't want to stop the exploitation. We want to find a way to become the exploiters.

The lie of the "american dream" - don't rally against rich people, for you might once become one of them^[your chance might be less than one in a trillion].

Bit late for that. I think at this point what you need is a revolution.

At this point, I really do believe the guy could step onto timesquare and just kill a bunch of people, and his voters would still do the mental gymnastics to explain all of that away as the act of a genius businessman just out there to save your average white suburbanite slob. If they even believed it in the first place, the probability of which is quite low.

So yeah, no, that seems quite unlikely.

I think in psychology, this is called "projection".

...because his daddy already plundered ZA?

I get confused... is that the famed American free speech that Mr. Vance wants to foist upon us backward Europeans?

When "fuck everyone and everything up" becomes the sole raison d'état.

A true revolution: now featuring AI generated Wilhelm screams!

I'd have to say Invader Zim.

So, please remind me again. You have this ammendmend to your constitution that allows you to "bear firearms" of any kind, even guns usually only used in wars, for the sole and explicit purpose of being able to defend against tyranny.

So that's going down now, King Shitty Pants the first is about to take over completly as dictator supreme. What is your next move now, American people?

Harry Potter and the Drunk Lonely Transphobic Billionaire.

This timeline starts to feel more and more like the fourth season of Lexx.

You really think people like him have to "roll over" for that?

Easy! Just watch Lexx.

"Pain for thee but not for me", and the MAGA crowd cheers while their pockets are emptied, too.

How did Berthold Brecht put it:

Nur die dümmsten Kälber wählen ihren Metzger selber

(Only the dumbest calves choose their own butcher)