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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 15 points 3 hours ago

Cheetos can't melt steel beams.

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

I mean... I'm from the US myself and this is extremely true

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago

Uhhhh get this human generated slop out of here!

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 88 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I've never seen anything in the US more complicit towards fascism and autocracy than the US media. They reported NOTHING negative about Trump for months? Why? Fairness? But Kamala got fucked every headline ''Job Numbers trending up, but are the numbers too soft because of Harris? " type of bullshit.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Always has been. Have you ever checked out how the imperial media covers genocide?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 57 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Almost as if the rich and powerful have WAY too much control. Break out yer guillotines!

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 16 points 8 hours ago

They want fascism. It's an element of class war.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 127 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

The pathway to authoritarianism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting

[–] yarr@feddit.nl 4 points 4 hours ago

The pathway to chronic fatigue leading to inaction is lined by people catastrophizing every day. Sometimes I wish the criticism of Trump was a bit more targeted. Some people claimed with a straight face that he would amend the constitution to take away women's voting rights on his first day of office. While time and effort was spent talking about that, some of the "lesser activities" he performed, like greatly curtailing the EPA, or budget cuts to the IRS went unnoticed.

I don't know if there is a name for this effect, but it seems like so many people are talking about how the world is burning in every way and that makes it difficult to conduct opposition to his efforts.

The only "good thing" for me is that almost by any way you measure his presidency, it's been pretty bad. Wages haven't gone up, productivity hasn't gone up, GNP hasn't gone up, etc. Every day it gets a little harder for his fans to defend him. I suspect instead of leaning on actual data that they will just confabulate some other data that makes things seem favorable.

I find it a little comforting to think that it wouldn't have gone as bad as this if Kamala got in.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I hope as fuck that everyone who said that eventually realize they were warned, and take some humility into the future

Maybe, maybe, break Cassandra's curse. At least for a little bit

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 34 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yea, and then they’ll say “never forget” and build a monument and a museum. And then everyone forgets 2 generations later. Just look at Israel, the families there still materially experience the lingering effects of genocide yet they continue to perpetrate another one.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 11 hours ago

That is the unfortunate reality of it. I wish I could say that I hope it will be different this time but..

About the one hope I have is that during the next iteration we overhaul society's systems to so solidly work for the average person that it helps counteract this cycle, but it's hard to stay optimistic for sure

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 226 points 21 hours ago (26 children)

2016 was worse for America than 9/11.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

2000 was worse for America than 9/11.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

I'm sure this has been discussed to death but... would Gore have read the memos and stopped the attacks?

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[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 140 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Mr. President, a second presidency just hit the south tower.

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