Pretty much all I ever talk about, and its also all over the news, idk where you’re taking shelter under.
Always appreciate more attention on it, tho, good work.
Joffrey has really upped his game this season.
Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.
¿Por qué no los dos?
A pastor? Never heared of “Thou shalt not kill”?
Idk I saw news and discussion for all these things and when I brought them up with people I know they also heard of them. We all have a somewhat wide diversity on how we learn about current events too.
I dont think the disinformation/distraction machine is working as well as it thinks
I have a prediction:
Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the ‘behalf’ of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don’t need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.
The Trump Regime has destroyed America’s intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.
Probably many sleeper agents in the US already
American concept of law enforcement at the hands of the Executive resulted in this lawlessness
And that’s only the last couple of weeks. That list could be a hundred times longer.
Spread spread spread! Cowardly press will give the people what we want when they see us doing it first. Spread spread spread.
Well, Americans shooting each other is hardly news.
People’s minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.
I experience the opposite, at least here on Lemmy. It all leads me to conserve my attention for the things that are actually happening.
I mean sure, it’s still draining and hard to keep up with, but I think we all learned to filter out some of the nonsense, and see behind the clown show. Except for those who thrive on the outrage, and not actual concern.
The documentary, HyperNormalisation, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.
Just a fun tid bit I thought I’d share.
Edit: spelling. Thanks, u/A_norny_mousse
Yep. It’s been a while. Already contained Trump.
If you (anybody) haven’t watched it yet, please do.
BTW - and I don’t say this to nitpick, just to make it easier to find - the documentary is named Hypernormalisation.
Here’s hoping it’s leading up to a collapse this time too.
It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren’t seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.
There are differences of course bcz there isn’t as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn’t seem completely unlikely.
Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there’s no going back. We’re now in a place where “fuck you I’ve got mine” and “make me” is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it’s Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.
I figure we’ll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.
Balkanization comes to mind
California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn’t dropped the ball.
dropped the ball
Saved the ball you mean. Daylight-saving time is a curse which should be abolished not set in stone.
At this point I’m down for either daylight time or standard time as long as we stop changing back and forth!
I’ll grudgingly accept that as less awful than our current arrangement.
Those are called interstate compacts, and they tend to be specific to individual laws. I was thinking more along the lines of military alliances, so kind of a more advanced form of this type of political alliance-making
There are differences of course bcz there isn’t as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
You sure? Black separatism was big in the 60s and 70s, and once the dissolution of the Union filters into the wider public consciousness, you’ll probably see Latinos want to do their own thing.
I know this narrative is wide spread, and I have no chance to fight it, but it’s not fucking not.
USSR has collapsed because of a lot of factors, but the most important of them was that the political elite was willing to change (not to be mistaken with to go away). USSR had an infinite space for doubling down deeper and deeper
I have seen articles and discussions about all of those items multiple times. We’ve known trump was an associate of Epstein for how many years? 20? 30? The problem is that there’s literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything unless the person being held accountable is just a regular person living paycheck to paycheck.
Mostly agree, but the Epstein bit gave me pause. Did anything new come to light recently?
Sure there is. There’s more of you than there is of them.
Strap in because the next one will distract us from war with Iran.
“Yes, we do have a moon base and yes, we are experiencing some bear problems.”
Aliens or moon nazis is on my bingo book
Or, more likely, accelerate it.
I stole this. Quite shamelessly, too.
Can we impeach and convict and remove/imprison him yet?
Impeachment requires majority, Republicans have majority and MAGA will never cross their cult leader.
suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations
the three pillars of american education
That’s four pillars… I’ll start again…
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“Amongst the pillars of American education are such diverse elements as…”
Why do you think fascists create wars?
As a distraction for internal problems they caused
To create a ladder?
A ladder of what?
