• no banana@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Watching this from Sweden and can only react with “what the actual fuck”. That’s weird and sad and unfathomable to me.

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      We literally have millions of working poor fighting and voting against unions because they watch fawx news, listen to preachers, and believe a New York city slicker/rapist/con-man is the next coming of Christ.

      Don’t ever let your right-wing party cut education. The bullshit we are dealing with is a direct result.

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        It doesn’t help that Americans have been told for decades, long before Fox News, that unions are all corrupt and just care about taking a percentage of your paycheck.

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          That was weird watching American movies in the 80s. Every other movie somebody had to mention “Sorry, can’t do that. Union rules.”

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          Don’t forget about McCarthyism, where everything attached to the labels of communism and socialism are evil. That of course, does not include socialism for corporations. That’s fine.

          Then you couple that with classic Ayn Rand individualism.

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        We have the most privatised education system in the world where publicly traded companies get tax money to educate people and make profit off it. It’s a shit show. It’s already happened.

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      The threshold of pain and abuse the Americans have is impressive. It’s going to be very impressive when their feelings finally explode.