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[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm sure glad that tariffs are a tax paid on the selling company and not the consumer. /s

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They can stop voting for assholes. That would be a great start.

[–] verdantbanana@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

not all of us here are allowed to vote legally and for those that can the vote is not entirely their own due to the fact the system has been rigged through lower education standards, poverty, etcetera

when a few resource holders take what they own and use it to manipulate the narrative through owning the local newspapers weakening grassroots movements along with public knowledge, terrible nutrition because they own that too, the prisons that are either owned privately or everything in it is or both, and pretty much everything is corporately controlled including our agency

hell even the schools have got the rot now just like prisons are ran except Jostens is the company name there but all the same owners/resource owners when get to the tippity top

nobody's vote in the United States is their own because some resource hoggers are bending the story to stack up in their favor just like with the media they own so even our fads and culture etcetera are not our own anymore with any media that goes against the narrative being disappeared

so how can a mind have any chance of growth? cannot and that is point of this controlled story warm bodies kept at bare minimum of existence with no chance of growth just stagnation warm meat for the grinder that has to run or else the few on top will cease to have everything

South certainly did win and all these years later the owners are still on top in this country controlling everything

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Here's an interesting discussion that underscores your point that the south won the civil war.

Edit: fixed link

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This link failed for me. Went to the empty search page.

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sorry, I thought I'd bypass the web page and link directly to the video but something went wrong. I updated the link.

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/how-south-won-civil-war-oligarchy-democracy-and-continuing-fight-soul-america