You think billionaires care about a rounding error? They’re still rich enough to buy most governments, and the mere concept of not being able to afford islands, mansions on every continent, and a private jet to fly between them is still non-existent.
It’s the bottom 99% who have to worry.
I’m sure the post would’ve highlighted it if it were a democrat. Just fascist propaganda things…
It’s probably like this downfall scene, except with dementia and pants-shitting.
Honestly I’d bet the “too stressed to care” make up only a few % of the middle 33%, and that the middle is more representative of a different kind of ignorance. I’m talking about the people who were born reasonably comfortable and never found history, science, or politics interesting. People who devote most of their time and personality to things like sportsball, video games, or social media. People who choose to watch bottom-barrel reality tv unironically. Basically the “centrists” who don’t really know how anything works, ignorant of pretty much everything outside their niche education or profession, whatever’s spoon fed to them, and the mainstream media.
It will not be reported. Instead, soundbites about how “nothing could be done to stop this” will be reported ad-nauseam.
As to political party, the post is “apolitical,” so there is no party affiliation.
We already know there’s like a 90% chance it’s a Republican, even without knowing that this is rural North Dakota.
You are much smarter than the users I encountered below, who downvoted the following examples I provided:
It’s no different to a “means test” for voting. It sounds great initially, but falls apart if you dig deeper. The virtue of the means test is determined by who governs the means test. Once you create it, you have created the attack vector, and all the fascists have to do if they weasel their way into power is simply change the terms of the means test — you’ve already completed and normalized the hard part for them. As an example, Trump is currently using a 200 year old law to deport any immigrant an ICE agent chooses, without trial. He’s using this law because it gave the president blanket unilateral powers to apply it as they see fit.
Another example from the US that has assisted fascism in denying blacks their right to vote; an old law declared anyone convicted of a felony ineligible to vote, then conservatives created the war on drugs to target and persecute blacks and the left. All they had to do was make non-violent drug offences a felony. As a result, millions of blacks have been denied the right to vote. All because the gov could decide who could and couldn’t vote because of X, and any future gov could control the terms of X.
Extremists need to be defeated, but you can’t defeat fascism with the tools of fascism. If the 2nd example I gave above were never created, America may have never devolved into MAGA/fascism.
The secret ingredient was hundreds of millions of dollars
“Sure we nuked the planet and rendered it a desolate wasteland, but at least the nuclear weapons manufacturers saw record profits!”
While not exactly the same thing, it’s the same parasitic and self-destructive vibe.
Lol, this is legit under the actual headline:
Approximately 72% of fatalities are aged 13-55 and are men - the demographic category aligns with Hamas combatants.
This tracks with what we already know — Israel considers every Palestinian male to be “Hamas”, therefore every one of them is a terrorist, therefore it’s okay to indiscriminately murder them and anyone in their vicinity, who are also terrorists, otherwise why would they be hanging around Hamas?
It’s an easy way to equate every Palestinian with terrorism. There are no civilian Palestinians. Only terrorists!
Yes, but now the shoe’s on the other foot!
All this displays is that the abused are likely to become the abuser — a well-known statistically significant reality in psychology — and that religious nationalism and conservatism will always lead to fascism.
The rest of the “free” “democratic” world has supported them the entire time, and is now equating merely voicing support for the victims of genocide with terrorism.
I figured the turning point would come around the time Israels far right committed domestic terrorism, and violently stormed IDF bases demanding the release of a soldier charged with using rape as torture. That changed nothing. Our “ally” is fucking indistinguishable from any Nazi, and our governments continue to whole heartedly support genocidal fascists.
So they can only expel them from Berlin? If they can expel them from Germany, then they act on behalf of Germany.
US patients already pay the price; for tens of thousands with their lives, each year.
Goebbels don’t give a fuck.
THIS IS WORSE BECAUSE A DEMONCRAT DID IT!!!
This is the bad place.
You thought you were gonna get star trek? PSYCH! You get fascist dystopia!
They should just skip all this nonsense and make it illegal to be anti-genocide…
But then they couldn’t commit genocide, and they really enjoy the suffering.
42.12 in 70.2
More like asking the slaves about productivity advances in slavery. “Nothing good will come of this”.