• Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      40 years of crippled public education and propaganda talk radio

      It isn’t pathetic, it is an engineered strategy that has been ongoing since before any of us were born and it’s working because almost no one bothers to do anything but meme about it

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      I have my doubts that we did it twice. 2024 looks fishy. I’m glad it’s finally starting to get talked about

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          I think it might get a lot of people who don’t like what’s happening but accept it to cross over into not accepting it.

          I’m not super hopeful that it would matter legislatively or judicially, but I might be the kick in the pants the population needs to go on a general strike, or take other actions.

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    Calling that disgusting snake Chuck Schumer the Palestinian senator is pretty hilarious, given where he stands on the genocide.

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    I feel like getting trump to write an angry tweet about you is as good an endorsement as Weird Al wanting to parody your song.

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    He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he’s not very smart, he’s got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.

    As a Canadian I know almost nothing about Zohran Mamdani, but I do know that he has more class than a man ever will who, while President of the USA, writes this, or the people who see a non-white left-winger win a democratic vote and immediately call for his deportation. The world can see this. Trump and MAGA are bringing shame on your country.

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        +1

        every day is more embarrassing than the last. i have felt shame in the past for the things our ancestors did, but there’s something different about living in the midst of it. i fucking hate this place. any time i hear “well leave if you don’t like it” i’m like “I FUCKING WOULD IF I COULD”

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          I haven’t felt any embarrassment at all. This bullshit has always been a way of life.

          Straight up impending doom this time aeound. Perhaps its that I’m older, but I doubt it.

          This tweet by Trump is close to calling for an assassination.

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            close to calling for an assassination

            i’d say it really can’t be interpreted as anything else but “who will rid me of this meddlesome ______”

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      Whatever the outcome of this presidential reign of stupid. The American system needs to fundamentally change from the ground up.

      Trump is about half way to making America sink lower then North Korea on the world stage.

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    He’s prepping up the fascist transition for the midterms, and it couldn’t be any more obvious. If it isn’t outright theft it’s going to be voter suppression and voter manipulation on an entirely different scale. It’s so ridiculous to think the US is a democracy anymore, at this point the whole country is a confidence game and a scam that’s just mobilizing the capital of the people who they already have scammed against new targets.

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    “All the (centrist fucks) are extreme leftist Marxists!”

    “OMG a (milquetoast moderate) won, the Marxists are taking over!”

    “Holy shit a (moderately left leaning person) won an election! It’s over for America the Communists won!”

    “The crazy Marxist Democrat extreme leftists have gone too far with this (standard progressive)”

    …etc etc…

    now we have an “actual” socialist, but the boy cried wolf so many times they can’t label him anything more extreme because they already threw those words at people like… (Checks notes)… Nancy Pelosi… Lol

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    It’s a Mayor these guys are freaking out over.

    The president is freaking out over a Mayor.

    That’s true fear. They know we intend to use the law to put the real criminals in jail.

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      To be fair, NYC is a huge city and so its mayor is a major figure in the US. The most recent population I could find was 8.8 million people, vs. the total US at 340 million. NYC is, therefore, home to 2.6% of the US population. As a polity, NYC represents more people than the 9 least populous states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, N Dakota, S Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and Maine) combined. In fact, there are only 12 US states that have a bigger population than NYC alone, and one of those is New York state. From a population perspective, the mayor of NYC is equivalent to the governor of Virginia. That’s why everyone is freaking out about this so much. Plus he’s young and very handily beat the candidate backed by the DNC establishment, showing cracks in what they assumed was a solid neoliberal core.

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      Not a mayor, a mayoral candidate who beat his fascist opponent for the opportunity to be represented in the election.

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      Imagine calling someone out for his looks in a professional setting. In most places that would get you fired or sued.

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        but also the person you’re calling ugly is obviously more handsome than you yourself are, so everyone just stands there staring dumbfounded at you

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        So it should. We’re supposed to be more civil than that. But as others have said, this is mask off. Trump unmasking what has been lying under the surface of the capitalistic elite for decades. Utter contempt for the working class who are basically regarded as slaves, and anyone with any influence or power who challenges them is painted as a traitor, criminal, and honorary slave as well.

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        Over her proposing to impeach to him? I didn’t but I can imagine. Does he want to “deport” her as well?