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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And you are fighting democrats. "Socialists" spend more time attacking democrats than they spend on attacking republicans.

Hasan Piker is millionaire that's on the front page of a website owned by Jeff Bezos every night. What is it with Americans always getting scammed by the wealthy?

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm fighting those that oppose free healthcare and taxing the rich.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Hate to tell you this, but I'm pretty sure Jeff Bezos isn't for taxing the rich. Hasan Piker is a millionaire, so he doesn't want that either. He's gotta give that some lip service to keep his audience, but his primary goal is to promote racial tensions. This is how the wealthy have been keeping people divided for a very long time, so you're unable to make a unified effort to tax the wealthy, and do trust busting. I doubt Hasan ever even mentions trust busting, that's simply not in the public discourse at all. Because wealthy people like Jeff Bezos have control over what people are seeing and are able to keep certain things from entering into people's minds.

Hasan is in the wealthy class, and his job is to keep you from thinking about things Jeff Bezos doesn't want you to think about. The fact is Biden was doing antitrust actions against Amazon and others, then suddenly monetized leftism turned against Democrats. Whether that's a coincidence isn't all that relevant. The nature of algorithmic information consumption is you're fed what's in the interests of the wealthy regardless of the intent of the content creator. If a leftist is saying Democrats are bad because of Israel stuff, while the wealthy think Democrats are bad because of antitrust and higher taxes, they don't care about the reason why you turn against Democrats, only that you stay home instead of voting for a party that's against their interests.