• Lucky_777@lemmy.world
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    This is the cyberpunk timeline coming together. We don’t get the cool tech or outfits until 2077

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      Isn’t the story playing in 2077? In the storyline, the tech looks pretty advanced, so I guess early stage stuff should come soon.

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    This isn’t the confederacy that’s taken over, this is a hostile acquisition by corporations. The key difference is that while there’s a blatantly racist tone to the current administration, it’s all a cover to make the racist conservative block feel like they’ve won, while the corporations get all the deregulation they want, and everyone who is not wealthy is getting their pockets cleaned and their right to complain removed.

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” -President Lyndon B. Johnson

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      A better way to look at it is that tech companies were quietly siding with Trump before the election and pushed a massive amount of disinformation on social media to heavily influence the election in favor of their guy.

      This might sound wrong in the context of this current week, and downturn in the stock market, but I’ll bet money that every major corporate C-suite has had a presentation on how much they stand to profit long term from Mango Mussolini. They are about to get their wildest wet dream: company towns free from regulation, and all the tax breaks they could ever imagine.

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        this doesn’t change the fact that no one stopped it. this entails that everyone allowed it (some even encouraged it, as you pointed out).

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          That is putting a whole lot of responsibility on a people who never actually had control over government and elections, and it ignores the blatent media manipulation and information war that’s been waged against U.S. citizens for decades.

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            you don’t need to control the government or elections to disallow the election. I am not taking any blame from the media, either. I am just being a bit pedantic about the term “allow”. for comparison, when someone accuses me of leaving the lights on, I point out that they left them on too, as did the neighbors, police, and president.

            when something is undone, it’s because no one did it. everyone didn’t do it.

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      see you are on the jailers side in all this

      plenty of canaries like myself putting good roots based efforts in and always has and will be

      our efforts are not battled against by citizens but our overlords

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    no group of votes decides anything in the United States because voting is a fantasy perpetuated by the tech and religious oligarchs that really run this country in order to continue the football politics charade

    blaming your fellow sick because of no healthcare, polluted due to corporate plus military pollution, under educated because of an extremely underfunded education system, rights stomped in the mud citizens is only doing our jailers work for them

    if we all rise we can all rise

    quit being the crabs that pull the crabs almost free from the bucket back in

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        In the sense that it’s a two party system, yes. The ruling class only gives us the illusion of choice.

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        The choices are rigged. You can’t vote for change if change isn’t on the ballot… The best sounding politician in living memory was voted in. and we got…(Checks notes) increased drone bombing and sold out to the insurance companies.

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          Regarding insurance companies, you’re blaming Obama which is absolutely bullshit. Republicans are the reason for all those shortcomings

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            They are also to blame, but you see how thoroughly you are convinced that it is “the other guy”? That is the beauty of a rigged two party system. Your republican neighbor is all “Damn Obamacare” when the bill was a Republican design “pushed through congress” by a Democrat. Like a ballet.

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              I am convinced by the many sources of information I consumed. I watched this happen in real time. Democrats being shitty does not make them equivalent to Republicans. Republicans benefit from that lie.

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      I just posted a video from a cultural psychologist that talks about this. It’s exactly what you think it is, the hyper-individualism that capitalism cultivates that causes this mentality.