Verdant Banana @ verdantbanana @lemmy.world

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Happened the moment the first ships landed here hundreds of years ago

No the mask just fell off

Can't turn into something you always were already

As a United States dissident fuck this country

Only goal in this country has been oppression of citizens so as to have a stock of warm bodies to fill the factories, restaurants, ecectera since the start

Same reason Republicans got Roe v Wade overturned and the same reason Democrats never defended it

Also same reason neither party has pushed for living wages and of course students have to go especially the college taught ones because they might disrupt the system with all that new found knowledge

Pollution is also kept high because it breeds low class pull up by your own bootstraps bubba spitting rednecks that will help continue the narrative of the system as well as provide a stable slave labor workforce

Education funding is kept at abysmally low levels for the same reasons

Constant crapper drain that for the citizens never ends but constantly churns out products for consumption for the small population actually running things

Eventually it be the same as that short story by the Chinese author that is about the last capitalist

About a dude that buys everything on the planet including air which he generously sells back to all the citizens who are unable to afford to go outside because they don't own the land or air as well as selling other resources which no one can go without with police being used to protect the interests/property of the last capitalist

Eventually the benevolent capitalist builds a space ship very economically including cryotubes because he did not include enough air or air makers for the ship and proceeds to evict everyone off his planet earth

Particularly from 1981 on, through corporate lobbyists and the merging of various ideological perspectives from both the Republican and Democratic parties, the new lower tax system for the wealthy and for corporations took shape.

Can't vote this away

just because some rich elites hijack a government and use two "opposing" parties to simulate choice and then the same oligarchs make sure the education system is in the crapper along with low pays and no healthcare and get those same citizens to live in areas that are polluted due to industry just to churn out voters that will continue to play the game does not make it the citizens' or their offsprings' fault

like cyberpunk?

obvious that voting Democrat would have yielded same results except it would have been Harris being butt buddies with the rest of the Republicans at the whim of the oligarchs that really run this country

election meddling done by both parties through the lowering of the education standards in the country, keeping everyone poor because of low minimum wage laws, making sure everyone is kept sick from lack of proper healthcare, etcetera ensures the country kept where it is at now by ensuring citizens never make it to their full potential and are always voting poorly thus rigging the board so the oligarchs always win

by design and voting will not change it

goddamn right it did

and to salt the wounds they catered to celebs and the rich while ignoring the citizens that were protesting right outside the convention

the "left" has been in collusion with the right the whole time

no right and left citizens but just citizens caught in the crossfire being fed the horseshit that it is the US "two-party system"

But will they do anything with it or are they just more paid off politicians working in cahoots with the Republicans towards the goals of the elites?

thanks Democrats for selling us out as much as the Republicans do but hey people will still rush out to vote for either of them

two party system is beyond broken at this point and this is just as bad as the Democrats wasting a billion on the election possibly pocketing a lot of it

voting is not working and hasn't for decades

Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X knew that voting was not the only tool to fight oppression and were killed for it

been time to march to the white house again and has been for hot minute

“It might not seem important, but it’s actually really important. And it could determine the fate of the country,” he said. “This election is going to affect everyone in the United States.”

does not seem important because it is not important

if it were important than what the fuck happened the last important times some being full on wins for Democrats but somehow minimum wage, healthcare, worker's rights, and everything else the "Democrats" supposedly stand for never happen and always gets blamed on Republicans even when had the majority

When the President's party holds the majority in both chambers, it is considered a unified government. Since 1857, the government has been unified 48 times, 23 under Democratic control and 25 under Republican control.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Presidents-Coinciding/Party-Government/#%3A%7E%3Atext=When+the+President%27s+party+holds%2Cand+25+under+Republican+control.

Democrats have failed us 23 times and Republicans 25 times

how many more elections before it is realized that neither party has the interest of the people at heart

just get an office call taker and if it gets bad be like everywhere else that just stops answering when the digits ring if they even have any

"Drug traffickers and smugglers were exploiting the fact that Canadians could use the U.S. entrance without going through customs. We are ending such exploitation by criminals and protecting Americans," the statement said.

no more drugs or nudie pics from libraries by God!

some of us here are not watching because we have been living in a dual state and anyone who has had to deal with our legal system will say the same thing

If France can do it so can us here in the United States

"They want to know if the people of America are going to stand up to Trumpism, oligarchy," Sanders said to a cheering crowd.

fuck y'all

been nowhere for decades and country been needing a revolution but just now decide to do something acting like MLK

where was this "energy" a decade ago or two or at any time? Trump is just the latest spokesperson and not the only time we faced shit like this

if another rally is held most likely be in a blue state and odds are these two are just opportunistically cashing out like last time