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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

It almost never trickles down.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yes, they’re saying and doing terrible things, but can we please derail this into a discussion about how it’s all the Democrats’ fault for letting them do this?

[–] Soulg@ani.social 1 points 2 hours ago

If only kamala could've done a better job convincing everyone why she was better than the fascist!

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"Yes, Harvey Dent. You're in the hospital now, because I, the Joker, almost killed you, and now your face is disfigured. But don't be mad at me! It's not MY fault! Be mad at Batman, for LETTING me get away with doing this to you!"

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The Joker is, at best, a mid tier antagonist to Batman. Shame he's such an A to S tier villain in almost anything that centers on Harley Quinn. I'm reasonably certain that Harley would be a far more formidable opponent for Batman than either The Joker, or Two Face could ever be. I'm also convinced that The Joker specifically is so competent when Harley is the focus of the story, because she believes he is more competent than she is, despite all evidence to the contrary.

Mr. Freeze, and Poison Ivy are completely misunderstood heroes of the setting.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 14 points 1 day ago

But if you say anything unkind about the republicans, you're the real monster! /s

Every maga hat is a danger to society. Fuck them.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

With more words, I nonironically believe this. And it's really the oligarchy, Republicans are just their best tool.

It will be slightly more subtle. But IMO this is the crux of the overall strategy, and frankly it's plain as day IMO.

This is the abridged version of the final solution as far as I can tell:

  • The only use for the religious part of the religious right is to get birth control down and birth rates up. The reason for this is to keep the factories they keep promising to build stocked with workers to ensure the oligarchy has their workforce. Anti-gay stuff? Gay couples don't make babies. And babies are what it's all about.

 

  • All that "savings" on those ridiculous cuts to healthcare and healthcare research? It really is savings when you don't care if people die. And they think they don't have to care if people die because "only the strong will survive" and also women are now going to be making babies as fast as biology will allow. All the anti-trans stuff? Gender affirming care is expensive, that's money that could be funding private jets and rebuilding Lolita Island 2.0. Autistic kids? Hey, they can do menial labor as well as anyone. Oh and also, that's why Pro-life only means "until birth." After that, there is no reason for them to give that baby a different go at the statistical survival game than anyone else. Doing so would not be anything but a net-drain on the profits of the oligarchs.

 

  • Now that's all damn ridiculous and people will surely figure that out as we are doing right now. But, they are slashing all that education funding and removing or whitewashing all those things from history. All they have to do is wait for the pre-dictatorship generations who had a broader education to die out, and (they think) what they will have left are the "fittest" survivors of their eugenics program, who will be educated such that they have education and opinions only as molded specifically to their place in society and support of its dogma.

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They will replace all the scientists and the educated folks who built everything we have with AI, and that’s how they think we’ll keep up with the rest of the nations.

 

  • All those cuts to arts funding? Selling out our national forests to exploit the resources for profit? A nation of semi-educated workers doesn't need art or national forests.

 

  • My buddy the unicorn decent republican would never support anything like that. They probably don't. Most of the shitty ones probably don't, either. First they will assist the rising dictatorship to destroy it all in the name of stomping out wokeness as above, then the rising dictatorship just has to remake it as desired. At that point it would be too late and their opinions won't matter.

 

  • Even Republican congresspeople wouldn't let that happen. They'll do what Putin and whatever other blackmail tells them to, and those that aren't in someone's black book get whipped into shape by Trump, who is clearly a puppet of Putin (at least.)

 

I could itemize this list much further. Just look at everything Trump is doing or trying to do, and ask yourself "What would be different if they were trying to set up a lossy system of easily controlled wage-slaves and didn't really care about quality of life, or deaths to preventable disease, or care for the mentally unwell or elderly, because they believed in the end they could just breed those things out after several generations of massive death and suffering, and end up with the perfect subservient worker population, compared to what they are doing now."

Mind you, I think we as a nation will not go so quietly into the night and we will stop them. But I truly believe there's a group at the top who is intentionally driving us towards exactly what I have described. A future where we all slavishly manufacture the same products we then purchase with our meager wages in an economy designed to ensure we can survive well enough to buy crap but still line their pockets.

 

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A future where we all slavishly manufacture the same products we then purchase with our meager wages in an economy designed to ensure we can survive well enough to buy crap but still line their pockets.

Some would argue that describes the current economic design.

They will replace all the scientists and the educated folks who built everything we have with AI, and that’s how we’ll keep up with the rest of the nations.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

See, why you gotta lie. They don't want to kill you. They want you to live a good long exploitable life full of profits for them.

[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

Once you are not exploitable, then they want you to die.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

They want to kill you slowly.

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

But not until you're born first. Otherwise you rob them of the pleasure.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Also, you got any kids?

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, it will indeed.

Before now, I'd have trusted in historical precedent to save us, because Clinton, Dubya, Obama, Trump, and Biden all lost their hold on Congress at the mid-terms.

But this group of Democrats sucks to such an extent, and is collaborating and bootlicking so vulgarly, that it just might happen that Donald manages to keep Congress this time around.

[–] Dragomus@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Oh at the VERY LEAST Trump will deny any midterm outcome that does not suit him.

But I am plain assuming there already being a plan for shenanigans to cause a disruption which gives Trump a reason to cancel/nullify the whole thing, that is if he does not outright insert a full chunk of voter fraud and numbers manipulation.

Heck in his 2024 election there were far to many coincidences and eyebrow raising numbers to consider the election untampered with.

Alas those who should have enforced a fair election all gave up day one after the election and small protests were quickly silenced.
Even the Democratic party hung its shoulders and shuffled off instead of at least trying to start 1000 lawsuits.

As it is now, like with the Epstein files (where is the full untampered release?):

Nothing may endanger Project 2025!