• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
    551·
    5 days ago

    Are you sure? I checked around and couldn’t find much about this. Cable and broadcast news don’t seem to be reporting it, and none of the major newspapers. It’s not supported by X or Facebook either. I don’t see a lot of books about it on my Kindle. I mean, that’s quite a conspiracy theory you’ve got going there. For it to work, a small group of people would have to somehow hold over half the wealth of America and use it to elect politicians with so few scruples that they’ll appoint anyone to powerful offices. Even that is assuming they could somehow pack courts with compliant judges who are willing to declare that corporations are people and money is speech. Next, you’ll be telling me that a median salary is unlikely without a degree that costs almost as much as a new car, but that it doesn’t matter anyway because a median salary can’t support a family in the same standard of living they were born into. I can’t imagine people would tolerate this kind of thing. We’d have to be living in some kind of dystopian, authoritarian plutocracy like a bad 1970s sci-fi.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    19514·
    5 days ago

    This comic depicts four people who couldn’t be bothered to pay attention to anything for ten years.

    I have no sympathy.

      • Elrecoal19_0@lemmy.world
        393·
        5 days ago

        Voting. They were given the option to vote, but chose to be the type that “don’t care much about politics”

          • Elrecoal19_0@lemmy.world
            121·
            5 days ago

            Sure buddy, Dems might be nearly uselesss because of that, but they weren’t actively trying to overthrow the goverment or kill democracy

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            103·
            5 days ago

            Did you ever canvass for any alternative candidate or do you expect them to just rise out of the ether?

          • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            5 days ago

            So replace the term “both parties” with “the only party” by categorically discarding all faith and worship in all political parties that have done absolutely nothing for anyone of the working class.

            Then make a new party that’s even better.

            • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
              24·
              5 days ago

              That’s what the Greens and PSL elected to do. They’re the best way out that doesn’t involve bloodshed.

              • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                4 days ago

                What, the anti-nuclear “green party” with the vaccine hesitant Jill Stein? Pass. We need a scientifically aligned, pro-labor party not a career spoiler candidate.

              • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                4 days ago

                And I’m sure their policies would introduce runoff voting for future elections; but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of “the other big party” - for which voting Green poses an extreme risk.

                • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
                  4·
                  4 days ago

                  but as it stands, most voters are currently voting out of fear of “the other big party”

                  Which is a confidence game. The big parties only matter because people have been convinced that they matter. Once this illusion is broken, real progress can begin, but until it is broken the US will simply continue its vicious cycle into oblivion.

                  Besides, what chance to Dems have of winning at this rate anyway? What chance did they have leading up to this past election as they covered up Biden’s dementia, enabled a genocide, and imposed a candidate of their choosing after denying the people actual democracy? Are they redeemable?

        • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
          937·
          5 days ago

          Pay all the attention you want, it’s not like anyone was ever actually given the option out of this mess through the system.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            92·
            5 days ago

            I’m out of this mess through the system. They didn’t do shit to stop me getting on a plane and flying across the ocean last Monday to a more civilized part of the world. It has its own problems, but at least people don’t get into things like massive healthcare debt.

            • Krauerking@lemy.lol
              61·
              4 days ago

              Yeah that’s taking advantage of a privilege that practically zero other people have to flee to a safer distance from the problem. That isn’t helping clean up the mess and doesn’t entirely fully remove you from it.
              It allows you to claim you aren’t involved because you stay uninvolved but it’s not the same as being helpful or even being offerable advice to anyone else other than a percentage so small it rounds down to zero.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                24·
                4 days ago

                I am saving my queer daughter’s life.

                I suppose you would rather me stick around and have her marched into a camp?

                Do you have any kids? Would you sacrifice children for your cause?

                • Krauerking@lemy.lol
                  6·
                  4 days ago

                  I didn’t say that. I was pointing out the privilege of your statement when you offer that as a solution to this issue.

                  You can use the idea that anyone pointing it out is some villain who would have your family hurt but that’s not reality. It’s just an emotional response to protect your mindset. That’s fine. Don’t treat me poorly because of it though. You already got more privileges than the queer people left behind who may be in what you fantasize and have nightmares of.

                  It’s not a sacrifice if we can’t leave. It’s just reality. Something you have a privilege to alter to ignore.

          • em2@lemmy.ml
            212·
            5 days ago

            Well, this new alternative is working out wonderfully.

            • Krauerking@lemy.lol
              3·
              4 days ago

              Doesn’t mean that people weren’t desperate for an alternative. People don’t have the knowledge you do and often don’t think through every possible outcome. If they know they are suffering and there is a chance for change they will leap towards it even if it’s out of the pot and into the fire. Humans crave change and the status quo has been used as a cludgel against them for decades.

              You can be upset that this is the change that’s happening but don’t blame people that are suffering and try not to be smug about it when they suffer more or they will never view you as kind to their plight.

        • OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml
          52·
          4 days ago

          Yes, yes they are. Actually the Republicans at least have the virtue of being honest about being evil. Dems are too craven to even admit that.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    8420·
    5 days ago

    i’M tOo LaZy To bE bOtHeReD WiTh BaSiC CiVic DuTy, So i BeLiEvE aNyOnE oNLinE wHo TeLLs Me ThAt bOTh ParTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe? LoL_!!!_ 🤣🤣🤣
    i’M sO pUrE!!! 😇🤪🤩

    Millions of self-destructively lazy, stupid mediocre people shouted in unison (again):
    Vote for a woman? When PIGS fly!!!

    Or if Biden had remained in the race:
    sLeePy JoE! LoL!

    • deaf_fish@lemm.ee
      17·
      5 days ago

      I mean you can exist in this world if you want to. It is more fun than the truth which is sad and boring.

      Most people really do care and have good intentions, but are too overworked and too uneducated to pull apart the propaganda that’s being pushed to them 24/7.

      The oligarchs didn’t win when Trump got elected the second time. The won when they got control over the media. That was a while back.

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Stupidity and ignorance are way too widespread. It should not take a genius to figure out that trump and the GOP are pretty much against the working class. I’m not saying democrats are saints, but at least Biden tried to cancel student loan debt, and somehow that got looked at negatively??!?

  • WhatSay@slrpnk.netEnglish
    351·
    5 days ago

    I thought characters in webcomics were more politically aware, but I guess they are just 2 dimensional.

  • volodya_ilich@lemm.ee
    299·
    5 days ago

    USians are so racist you have to explain bad things using the words “Russian” and “Iranian” next to them. Like, you have Fox news already for half a century don’t you? What do you mean “Russian style disinformation”? You guys invented it before the Russian Federation existed lmao

    • Miaou@jlai.lu
      21·
      4 days ago

      These people have presidents swear on the bible and talk about theocracies smh

      • belastend@slrpnk.net
        1·
        2 days ago

        Not that i lile swearing on the bible, but considering this anywhere close to “our Law is based on the sharia, thats why a woman’s testimony is legally just half as useful as a man’s” is kinda dimb.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lol
        5·
        4 days ago

        The US has only had 1 president who wasn’t Christian and that was Thomas Jefferson who thought the Bible had been adopted by to many political ideologies that tainted the better moral frameworks.

        Every president after has been directly and only Christian. No Jewish, no Buddhists, no separation of church and state ever allowed.

    • Crikeste@lemm.ee
      6·
      4 days ago

      At the end of the day, they’re still pathetic amerikkkan exceptionalists who think “we are better than this.”

      We are not better than this, and we never have been.

      Fucking pieces of shit got us where we are with their ignorance.

  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    156·
    4 days ago

    I hope these fuckers are happy now. They got what they wanted. Or just ignored the problem and now that it’s not going away they’ve finally realized that maybe they should have voted differently. Or at all.

    I hope y’all bastards suffer.

    • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
      13·
      4 days ago

      If you think they’re rethinking their choices, or are even aware of any of the problems, you are a god damn child. They live in a bubble and think things are better than ever.

    • redisdead@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      They didn’t get what they wanted and will never get it but they’re too brain rotten to realize.

    • labbbb2@thelemmy.club
      1·
      3 days ago

      But Americans who voted for Kamala will suffer too, unfortunately. I don’t understand, why if people voted for Trump, the country just after that gone authoritarian, downhill. It could be prevented with strong rule of law.

  • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    4 days ago

    I’m not at all ready for it, but I’ve been acutely aware it was coming since the night of Nov. 6th.

    • peregrin5@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      I mean most of us were acutely aware of it since November of 2016 and perhaps even before, but yeah. So far the awareness seems to be more of a punishment because we can see the train wrecks coming but can’t seem to convince the drivers of the car we’re in to actually stop parking on the tracks.

      Perhaps blissful ignorance may save our mental state.

      • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        I avoid news a lot more than I used to because all it does is cause distress about things I have no control over. In his first term I at least had the hope that the shaky guardrails were there to keep him from going too far, but those are gone now and I’m fully aware I live in a country under a fascist regime with no opposition from anyone with the power to do something about it.

      • labbbb2@thelemmy.club
        2·
        3 days ago

        By the way, there were sanctions against Russia in 2014 because of occupation of Crimea, and that gangster fascist state significantly started to use psy-op techniques and weponizing of corruption against Western countries.

        But people still should have personal responsibility, anyway.

  • labbbb2@thelemmy.club
    4·
    3 days ago

    It’s like Americans lost their national identity or something. They literally act like Russians, judging by the comic.

  • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
    301·
    5 days ago

    Hungary didn’t crack down on education? Our scores are still competitiv-ishly high in Europe! Our teachers are unfortunately paid in animal crackers though, like most important jobs! The teacher, doctor, bus driver scarcity is just more apparent than some others

    In our system Viktor Orban have bought the media with stolen public funds! And the opposition parties and much of our economy…

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
    143·
    5 days ago

    You guys always manage to make the worst out of a morally questionable concept. Did it already with slavery.

      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
        11·
        4 days ago

        Ah, no, i thought more about that there were different types of slavery (african, british, etc.) that somewhat worked with society but US took of every type the worst parts and made it an inter-generational instead of a limited-time thing.

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      15·
      5 days ago

      I remember when I discovered the CD would change from white decal to black with 1’s and 0’s all over it from the heat of being played

      dude that was peak CD art with an amazing album that has a vivid theme and the biggest fuck you idiots we are all doomed no matter what

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      If the GOP is riding in under the banner of the Christian god, then Hail Satan indeed!