stopdropandprole @ stopdropandprole @lemmy.world

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political memes often are news though. they aren't like, mutually exclusive.

yep. we all definitely need breaks. i take long breaks every few months or in the winter when seasonal depression kicks in.

but this is a critical junction for global history. class warfare has escalated and accelerated, and the vast vast majority of us are being actively oppressed through the dismantling of economic and social welfare programs.

my family stands to lose too much for me to be burying my head in the sand right now.

some aren't ready or able or willing to do the work of preparing a response. others have no choice but to pay attention because their family's future literally depend on knowing whether today is the day they "come for you" and all this (bwamp bwamp) news actually reaches your doorstep.

so while people are arguing anime fandoms and who wins The Big Game, I'll be trying to understand my enemy, encourage my allies, and decide what an appropriate response looks like (in real life) using the latest information i have available.

OP is onto something.

maybe people are getting sad out there. maybe news is coming at us fast.. because change (unprecedented bad bad change) is happening faster than ever before?

it's a sign of the times. people blaming news junkies or whining about blocking comms don't get it. we're no longer living in a time when we can afford to ignore what's happening around us.

ps, I'm not arguing against memes. in fact go check !conservative@lemmy.world it's been turned into a satire comm under new mods and it's wonderful!

i don't wonder that. let the normies have their Destiny 2 and PublicFreakout and fantasy sports communities elsewhere. seeing comment section after section on Reddit filled to the brim with "I'm so funny!" unserious one liners was obnoxious. people talking about GoThrones fandom and RC cars while inequality skyrockets or the rich dismantle every federal govt program that benefit 99% of the population is not a good thing to yearn for. the founders-effect dominance from a handful of narrow ideologically centrists is not something we need more of.

I see... and is the fraud in the room with us right now, Elon?

tax the rich.

if they don't comply, seize their assets.

if citizens can be 'civil asset forfeiture'd for being suspected of a crime, then billionaires can have their accounts seized and lands taken for tax evasion. but how do we make the politicians afraid enough to actually do it?

there's going to be a significant increase in homeless grandparents

who do you think will be buying up all those homes, all that sweet easy money passive income generating real estate?

a handful of ultra wealthy parasites are looting the country just to add a few zeros to the ends of their bank accounts.

agreed. extremely valid points being made. a community purpose should be largely a decision of the community at large, based on participation and engagement. it's clear there is a substantially higher degree of rich conversations happening on so called meme posts than in "ideological conservative" posts which simply parrot right wing media headlines (and offer very little to discuss or engage ideas).

we desperately need a workers party in this country. Bernie can't do it alone though. what can we do?

when will people snap and say '"enough is enough, we refuse to be poor and exploited". when will we empower a cross racial coalition the likes of which King and Hampton were murdered to prevent?

i just hope to see it in my lifetime.... but i have my doubts.

the future is looking bloodier by the minute.

federal workers are terrified right now that if they make one wrong step, they'll be on their asses, with families and mortgages depending on them to be perfect.

this email alone resulted in thousands of unplanned mandatory meetings with supervisors, checking with coworkers, asking PR and internal communications experts, consulting with division directors, on and on up the chain of command.

trust me, they spent way more than 10 minutes, more like hours and hours per employee across the whole govt.

Get fucked, Muskrat!

that he's a foreign-born citizen matters so much less than he's an incompetent ketamine addicted billionaire narcissist. but I get it, something something right wing hypocrisy.

I don't think anyone really doubts that. entire 4000+ word think pieces decrying why "move fast, break things" doesn't work in govt are being written alongside hours+ long YouTube essays describing project 2025 goals to dismantle the state. you're not sharing a secret, you're describing what we see with our own eyes... well, I guess maybe apolitical brainwashed normies aren't aware.

but breaking shit isn't the actual GOAL, imo, at least not the whole goal. it's a methodology, a strategy perfected in silicon valley boardrooms unleashed into the realm of politics. it will merely pave the way for other goals down the road.

heritage foundation freaks might be content with dissolving government, but Thiel and Musk and others like them have much longer term plans than that. we need to focus on that while yes, simultaneously spreading the truth of what's happening to the normies.

Sorry officer, I've never seen this person in my life...

...and even if I did, I'm sure they didn't do it, and if they did do it, I'm sure it was self defense, and if it wasn't, well it must have been that the other guy really deserved it.

I want to reclaim this country so bad.

this is our homeland, we're not leaving it. we might be slaves under capitalism or whatever, but I don't have to be a docile slave. they're going to have to fight us for what little we have left.

thoughts and prayers bruh

meh. you're not a psycho.

compassion is a muscle. if you've never spent much time, dedication, or effort working on empathizing with other people you won't be good at it (or even think about it).

we just so happen to live in society where those skills are not as rewarded compared to being self centered, independent, and ruthless. conditions maketh the man. hang out with someone who's got a lot of compassion and concern for the feelings of others and you'll quickly realize what you thought was your personality is actually a learned maladaptive response to living in a cruel and apathetic world.

a singular politician. he's going to die on the job, in the middle of an impassioned speech on behalf of the working class. indefatigable. not even Lincoln or Kennedy had a fraction of the perseverance and consistency this man has demonstrated. a true public servant.

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