

Surely if anything it’s cynical rather than naive.
Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Surely if anything it’s cynical rather than naive.
The most powerful in every society are the ones with the most resources and they’ve always been the ones with the free time to operate a government, which they use to pursue and secure their interests.
As far back as we have written and archaeological evidence of heirarchical institutions existing, they have been controlled by and on behalf of the rich and powerful.
I’ve got bad news for you, our government is already owned by the rich. Every government is. That’s the whole point of having a government, it’s how the rich control others.
There is no data to suggest that protest non voters swung the results and some recent data from Pew that they did not.
If you want to be mad at someone, be mad at Dems for choosing policies they knew in advance would supress turnout.
But again, this election was neither free nor fair. Only those who engineered this coup are responsible for it.
Personally, I blame the murderous fascists.
If we were a democracy then maybe it would make sense to blame the public. But our elections are a cesspit of corruption, vote buying, gerrymandering and rampant open illegality.
The public have had little to no relevant say in who forms a government for a few decades at least, probably since the 70s. It makes no sense to blame the public.
That’s more deaths than the Holocaust at a much early stage of fascism too. Of course that doesn’t account for inflation - 6m dead is closer to 20m with today’s total population.
But have no fear, this republican regime will do everything in their power to surpass their idols.
policies that
support growthonly exist to further empower the rich, such as deregulation and low taxes
Fixed it for you, cnbc.
“If a DSA member like Mamdani were to win … it would be terrible for the city,” reads the Third Way memo. “Do New Yorkers really want socialist city-run grocery stores?”
According to an April survey by the Climate & Community Institute and Data for Progress, they do. Two-thirds of New Yorkers said they support the creation of municipal grocery stores … including 72% of Democratic voters … Third Way executive vice president Matt Bennett insisted in an interview with Politico on Saturday that a Mamdani victory would allow Republicans to attach the Democratic Party “to ideas that are outside of the mainstream” on a national level.
Just classic establishment Dems here: attacking a wildly popular policy and supporting a corrupt sex offender to avoid fascists calling you a commie.
The coup is appointing apparatchiks to solidify their control over the military.
This is a common refrain online but doesn’t really make sense.
Antisemitism means prejudice against Jewish people.
Separately, the technical term “semitic” is used to mean a subgroup of related afro-asiatic languages including Hebrew, Arabic, Akkadian, Phonecian, Assyrian, et al.
The fact that the word for prejudice against Jews contains a root word that refers to a different classification is just one of those weird language things - antisemitism has only ever meant prejudice against Jews.
Lust and gluttony don’t need a month, they’ve got everything figured out. Sloth couldn’t care. Wrath and greed already rule the world. And envy is sad cat face about everything
Greens and pointier browns, the greens were incredible, but I always prefer green olives.
When I worked at a fair trade store we had these Palestinian olives that were so damn good. Every morning I’d open a jar for customers to sample, eat olives till I made myself sick, then do it again the next day. Good times.
Any regime moves involving rich celebrities are an intentional distraction from their latest plans to kill ordinary americans.
anyone but Trump probably can get elected
That’s not how a fascist coup backed by the majority of our corrupt elites works.
He’s a slimy career politician who has ambition where his ideals should be.
When he gets belly rubs he often raises his arms above his head in a “hands up don’t shoot” pose, and he always looks scared. I don’t have a photo of it cause I’m always too focused on getting that belly.
But here’s a picture of him saying hello:
It’s just what the evidence from pre-history through history supports.
The rich are the government - from local ‘big men’ style rulers, councils of nobles, mercantile empires from Assyria to the US, to local governments that serve property developers.
The history of the state is the rich working out ever more sophisticated ways of getting what they want without revolt.