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With regard to the common good (lemmy.world)
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An old-school meme featuring a scene from the movie "Office Space." Caption: If U.S. citizens could stop their criminal regime from terrorizing the world, that would be great.
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[–] 44 points 7 months ago (4 children)

They can’t do that! They are the greatest democracy in the world, with means they are utterly powerless! Don’t you understand?

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Well, I thought I’d give it another try, now that the Dow is below 50,000, a barrel of oil costs nearly $100 (will soon be even higher again), and even the "First Lady" is so openly turning against her husband by pointing out again that Epstein didn’t act alone and that no one has been held accountable for the monsterous misdeeds of the "cabal," which the regime is trying to protect by any means necessary because various people from their own ranks as well as many of their most prominent supporters are so obviously involved in these horrible crimes.

    I still have some hope left that U.S. citizens might reconsider and extend the general strike planned for May 1 indefinitely - namely, until the regime steps down and perhaps even some of the the long-overdue, far-reaching reforms are initiated that would be necessary to reduce the rampant corruption in the political and legal systems to a somewhat tolerable level - that seems to me to be the only civil way to break the power of the oligarchs who hold the country in a stranglehold.

    You see, the most common argument I’ve heard so far as to why this isn’t happening is that U.S. citizens insist they can’t afford to risk their jobs. Perhaps the fact that the country is on the brink of a recession -which would cost many U.S. citizens their jobs anyway - will change that somewhat -or perhaps the fact that the cost of living is so high that their salaries no longer cover their basic needs.

    We’ll see...

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    He killed (minimum) 300,000 USAmericans by dismantling the pandemic response team, and then willfully rejecting all support in restructuring it during a pandemic. Because Obama built it. He was "allegedly" (at the time) implicated in a literal pedophile cabal. Then he was voted in again. Those voting for him have such insane cultural cognitive dissonance they'll tell you "Well I'm hurting, but I'll sacrifice whatever I need to for AMERICA" asking them "America's what? What for America?" Doesn't even make a dent in the cognitive dissonance, it's so willful.

    You're thinking about the whole thing from the "myth of the rational consumer" perspective.

    In the right wing mindset the leader IS the group IS the persons. They cognitively need those three ideas to align. That's why their rhetoric uses monoliths for people - "The Blacks", "I am Christian", "Us vs THEM". 30% of any given society are RightWing Authoritarian Personalities. Another 30% are likely passive at best. How the balance of power shifts is about how your society structures it's discourse, politics, and community - and the narratives derived therein. Be careful, it can come for you too.

    On the plus side, if the USA gets to vote again, it won't literally be him.

    Edit: Opposing him isn't about just opposing a leader choice - it's about opposing the people and the whole system that valued putting a bad-guy reality tv host in power because it made them feel powerful when having a black president made them feel weak and not the in-group.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago

    You’re absolutely right about all of this, of course. The only thing I might add is that I suspect the apparent support for the disastrous policies - of which the “Orange One” is, of course, nothing more than a figurehead - could well be an illusion created by the fact that virtually all major media outlets are under the direct control of those responsible.

    Control over the media allows the regime to distort public opinion, or what is perceived as such. Through their influence, they can make minority opinions appear as if they were majority opinions, which may not necessarily be the case.

    Since, despite everything, I continue to believe - admittedly rather naively - in the good in people, I suspect that the vast majority of U.S. citizens do not agree with what the regime is doing. If this is the case, an emerging mass protest movement could make it clear that the majority of U.S. citizens are in fact in opposition to the regime and demand that it be held immediately accountable for its crimes (even before new elections or the hope for the Democrats, whom, in my judgment, one can only count on to a very limited extent).

    It would be the ideal opportunity to finally do away with the system once and for all, of which the current regime is, in fact, merely the latest symptom.

    I realize, of course, that this seems rather utopian, but I fear that there is no other way forward than through continuous mass civil disobedience if the situation is ever to change fundamentally.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    We won't see shit. They haven't drawn the line yet, after all their country is doing to the world; I don't have any hopes they will draw it at all. People will keep suffering because of them, but that's fine, because "there's nothing they can do".

    I only hope we start seeing gas at double digits, because that's the only thing that may change something, which says a lot about the kind of country they are.

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