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[–] 74 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I still don't get why he's got any power. He's easily the stupidest person I've ever seen, and that includes fictional TV characters. Why did anyone ever listen to anything he ever said?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

    Because the republicans have slowly but surely dismantled public education, and always prevented any media literacy initiatives to take root, while using religion to amplify these effects. There's a German musician named Reinhardt May who had the following line in his song "Sei Wachsam"("Be Aware"): (Edit: i realized a better translation to preserve the exact meaning would be "Be on your guard")

    Der Minister nimmt flüsternd den Bischof beim Arm: Halt du sie dumm, -- ich halt' sie arm!

    (poorly) translated:

    The minister whispers to the bishop, touching his arm:
    You keep them dumb, i'll keep them poor.

    The song in its totality is now 30 years old, and can't be beaten in actuality.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdBo34ycvkw for a live recording, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGjpz1feBsU for english lyrics.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Thanks for that, that was really good

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Np. I was a kid when my parents where listening to him in the car. He has a lot of upbeat and outright funny songs too, all with very well done lyrics (he is a poet, after all) which is why i liked him as a kid. I do not listen to him on the regular because i like other genres more, but he had a lasting influence on me regarding my taste in lyrics.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Because he's a figure head. He's the stupid barely a billionaire face that the Epstein class has no trouble controlling. Perfect blackmail and bribery target.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    He's not a figurehead, he's a scapegoat. Their hope is that we hate him so much that we'll be so relieved and satisfied with his end that we don't come after them for everything they've stolen in the interim.

    When his reign is over, be happy, but do not be satisfied.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    He's an accurate ambassador for his base. They're all like him.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Laws protect the rich and bind the poor. More precisely: the State imposes the will of the capitalist minority upon the proletariat majority. The law is the public, legalistic face of the capitalists' will.

    Thus, the fact that the law protects Trump does not indicate that the law has failed in it's purpose. Exactly the opposite: the law is designed precisely to protect people like him and bind people like us. anarchy

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  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Why is the woman in the background different than the woman in the thumbnail lol

    Who are these people

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I downvote every post with this format. It's stupid and needs to go away

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    I'm a bit biased because I respect OP as one of the most wholesome people on this whole site so I don't downvote often....but yes I wholly agree.

    This and replyguys. They make an unfunny/unoriginal reply, screenshot it, and post it around. They add nothing and are just doing it because they desperately want to be an influencer

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Agree with the sentiment, but could you just post the text in the post title and skip the image?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, I don't get this. I'd rather just see the tumblr/twitter/Facebook/nextdoor/xanga post than it laid over an absolutely irrelevant picture. It's the same as the side-by-side YouTube videos for the attentionally impaired generation.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    To constrain those the rich do not like.

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    [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I keep seeing this background image. What's the source/meme behind it? Just a rich blond or did that particular person do something dumb online?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    What are laws for? They're for the poor.

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    Suppress the poor. Duh. 🙄

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    Fines are just the cost of doing business to the rich, it's ridiculous. Where's jail time? Man, as they've said about the 2008 Recession, if we jailed them like in Iceland, we wouldn't be sliding back into another fuck up.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Very rarely do laws apply to the rich. Especially recently. Like most things in life it’s only us common folk or especially the poor

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    creating slave labor

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Laws exist to perpetuate the system, ie capitalism, which is based on exploitation. Also to enforce it with violence—physical and otherwise.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Spider webs of the rich and the powerful

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    There are those that the law protects but does not bind and those that the law binds but does not protect.

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    The law is for human mostly, but it need enforcer so it can apply to human, which should be done by human.

    What about when it's not involving human anymore? the law not apply i guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    some do. like the ones that punish the rest of us for taking punitive actions against their usual misbehaviours

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    usually the poor go to prison. the rich and big companies get fined. sometimes the cost of the fine is worth it, so they intentionally violate rules (esp environmental protection rules) and just pay the fine...

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago