• Wren@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    We need to ensure that we maintain the notion that an administration saying things like “suck it up” is never accepted as normal.

    The memes are funny, yes- but the more this becomes a joke, the more we begin to allow for it because that’s “just what they do.”

    That may be just what they do, but accepting it as commonplace doesn’t have to be just what we do.

    Use THIS to speak your voice and don’t accept this administration’s attempts to dumb down our politics to memes.

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      They’re so tone-deaf and under-educated, they have no clue that the things they say are not only lacking in humor, but lacking in any connection to reality, humanity, and they don’t even understand the concept of empathy.

      That administration and their remaining followers have no value for life of any kind.

      We can’t forget that.

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    James Donald Bowman is a sack of shit.

    And I will be deadnaming him in every thread I come across.

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    Rich people should be shot the second they pretend to understand how poor people feel. Even people who were once poor and struck it rich usually quickly lose touch with what it feels like to be poor.

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      Gotta be ok with owning firearms to do that. Progressives neutered themselves and even still with the gov going the way it is, have anti-2a people still leading.

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      Even people who were once poor and struck it rich usually quickly lose touch with what it feels like to be poor

      I’m not sure about that one. If you’ve been poor you’re semi-terrified of ever being poor again. It can make you do strange things which sometimes causes you to end up poor again.

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    9 days ago

    Has he actually explained a plan to even “cut our taxes” because if I recall every tax proposal that’s come up raises the taxes on people living paycheck to paycheck.

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    The first president of Estonia after regaining our independence, was once quoted saying “The situation is shit, but it’s the fertilizer of our future.”

    The meaning is very similar, in that he was saying that the hard times need to be suffered for things to get better, but what’s different between him and the current American administration? Well, for one, the situation wasn’t shit because of his personal ego trade war, it was shit because the economy was shit in every ex-soviet nation for a time. It took time to accustom to independence and free markets. But most of all, he spoke from a place of respect, not one of disrespect. Him saying that was his honesty to the Estonian people. He didn’t lie and say everything would get good quickly. This was also a man you could simply approach publicly and he’d answer your questions. Didn’t need to be a press release and you didn’t need to be a journalist or a celebrity.

    What I’m saying is that dear Americans, your current president and vice president simply don’t respect you.

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    So what is the actual strategy at this point? They are being way too bold about this. Like I’m worried they have an escape pod that they’re planning to hop on while fly away while they flip us all off and leave us stranded on a smoldering earth.

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      The goal is to cause civil unrest, to declare martial law and violently put down the unrest. To fragment the US into micro nations, tech cities governed by oligarchs, as well as Christofascist Gileads.

      It’s accelerationism, it’s been accelerationism, the weirdos on /pol/ and Mencius Moldbug have been pretty clear on that.

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        Well I know that, but how does a statement which actually serves to in-group most of America against the administration actually achieve that?

        Dividing left and right and instigating a civil war fits with the plan. Splintering factions within the left, white collar vs blue collar, college educated vs non college educated, all of that seems to fit with the accelerationist plan. If you don’t keep your base and or military happy though, who fights on behalf of the elite?

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    Not that I am against the article but this is nearly 3 weeks old. Is it news at this point?