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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Are you tired yet from this winning global markets? 🫲🍊🫱

[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If people knew what was good for them, they would have supported him. Instead, racism, bigotry and intolerance was a priority for the majority of Americans. Good job fucking yourselves over last election. I hope Trump keeps this shit up till you guys reach the boiling point....

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good folks in America, but arguably, not enough yet.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://www.salon.com/2016/02/13/un_democratic_party_dnc_chair_says_superdelegates_ensure_elites_dont_have_to_run_against_grassroots_activists/

“What do you tell voters who are new to the process who say this makes them feel like it’s all rigged?” Tapper asked the DNC chair.

“Unpledged delegates exist really to make sure that party leaders and elected officials don’t have to be in a position where they are running against grassroots activists,” Wasserman Schultz calmly explained.

Fuck Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Fuck the DNC. They literally worked against the will of the people to install an establishment candidate and told the world they did it. This is not democracy. This is the event that radicalized me.

[–] pfried@reddthat.com -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You're confusing the DNC with the primary voters, who gave Clinton a landslide victory over Sanders. You can't get any closer to the will of the people than that.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but thats a shallow fact. It ignores the very real truths of the dnc not staying neutral in 2016. It ignores the concept of superdelegate that existed back then. Sure the promary voters ultimately decided, but pretending like the dnc didnt put the thumb on the scale with its media aparatus is to be disingenuous.

[–] pfried@reddthat.com 2 points 6 days ago

Superdelegates existed in 2008 as well. They were mostly in Clinton's camp, but when Obama got ahead in the primary voting, not even anywhere close to as big a margin as Clinton had over Sanders, they switched. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/23/uselections2008.barackobama

When she ultimately lost the primary, she threw her support behind Obama in the general election. https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/senator-hillary-clinton-2008-convention-speech/194032

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago

Don't forget the Democratic National Convention ratfucking Bernie twice. Establishment Democrats can't let progressives get into power because it threatens their own, since Dems and Cons share a lot of the same donors (AIPAC, etc.).

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Oh, I get it.................This is the bad place.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Been watching this again, it's nice to absorb something positive for a change. Gonna have to find something with the same tone to binge after this

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago

Gonna have to find something with the same tone to binge after this

Good luck with that, The Good Place is pretty singular

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've always wanted to watch it and finally got around to it. Great show, wish I didn't sleep on it!

I did a Binge Watch January (totally didn't make this up) and caught up on a half dozen shows. I got some whiplash going from Barry to The Good Place to Severance lol

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm still surprised and low-key amazed by the writers of The Good Place. Making a show about philosophy, existentialism and theology all mixed together into a great comedy is a feat and they pulled it off really well.

Even when I literally called the "twist" of season 1 from the first episode I enjoyed the walk there and never felt like it was super contrived. They easily could have taken that plot and ran it into the ground.

Honestly I can't think of another show that's dug into some pretty meaty philosophy and made it so much fun!

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[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Just watched a couple episodes, and yeah, thats about as close as I could expect, thanks for the heads up!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

I'm always going to be a little bit pissed off that we never got President Bernard Sanders.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Of course, I realized this right away. When we are done destroying everything, we are going to have to pay to fix it all up, as well as fix our own broken government.

Before we take it out of the Treasury, though, we should confiscate the entire fortunes and corporations of a few people, starting with Trump, Musk, Theil, Ellison, Bezos, the Waltons, and a bunch more. They wanted MAGA, they supported MAGA, and that choice will cost them every penny they've stolen to clean up their mess.

[–] unclejeeves@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Why? It doesn't have to be. We are in unprecedented times, and it will require unprecedented solutions. Just because our elected leaders were too cowardly to do it the past, doesn't mean we have to keep following their shameful malpractice.

Perhaps the biggest one is a conscious decision that the citizens do not exist to serve the wealthy. The wealthy are allowed to keep their wealth, as long as they are serving the needs of the citizens. As soon as they are found to be hoarding wealth, abusing their employees or the systems, engaging in corruption, etc., they will be imprisoned, and their entire fortune confiscated, and their families prohibited from accessing government assistance.

The wealthy will quickly learn that wealth comes with important responsibilities and harsh punishments, and it might not be worth it to be wealthy.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

America first. Where did I hear that?

[–] SirHery@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Fist in the "get fucked in the ass* konga line.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

No you mistook their meaning. They said "Us first". Everyone thought they meant the USA but the oligarchs literally mean "us".

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

who spends money on trump's businesses tho

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 13 points 1 week ago

On his business perhaps, this is also bribe territory. Big time.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So much for "America first"...

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You didn’t see that little wording, “American billionaires first”

Should have read the fine print

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

And that's gonna come back through his resort isn't it

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

The leverage of course being switching from the US petroleum dollar to the Chinese petroleum yuan.

This message brought to you by the Chinese century. The Chinese Century: Ni hao, motherfuckers.

[–] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let their fucking billionaires pay for it. Or just keep the war going til they move. Either way, not on my goddamn tab, thanks.

[–] ThunderQueen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

How do you plan to stop them? Are you able to refile your taxes as exempt effective immediately? Because otherwise you are going to pay and there is next to nothing you can do about it...

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If the US doesn't bail out the UAE they will need to sell some of their $2 trillion in assets to fund their SimCity in the dessert thats suffering because of ~~Epstein's~~ Epic ~~Fuck-up~~ Fury. A lot of those assets are in companies owned by Trump and his Oligarch friends.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

KSA was the one building NEOM. But Dubai as simcity is acceptable. Property values down quite a bit since start of war.

America First!!! 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 🦅™

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Well, it's not his money he's investing but it would be him who would see a return.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just tell them theyre a fucking colony now. Blow up the fucking palace. Would be cheaper, less unethical.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But the UAE doesn't have enough bombs to blow up the USA.

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2 points 5 days ago

If only they could do each other. The dream.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Worst, I'll call you a low IQ SOCIALIST. Boom.

[–] Cherry@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I honestly wasn't sure which ruthless dictator family he was talking about...Trumps or UAE. I take it he is referring to money going to the UAE here?

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

GCC states are US colonies. If they were not, they would get couped by CIA/Mossad. Only legitimated democracies in the world have CIA/Mossad approved governments. People in these nations generally have a poor view of Israel, and US has shown an incapacity to protect them. US alliance is a liability.

95% likelihood end of Iran war is US just leaves, and world figures out how to ship through SoH to the satisfaction of Iran. GCC colonies are instrumental to massive US financialization values. Petrodollar is not important, but recycling wealth to US is critical. To keep that colonial arrangement, US will need to help with reconstruction even if they no longer get arms sales and bases in the region, and CIA/Mossad threats to monarchies will continue even if some short term reversal of assistance flow occurs.

If war resumes, it can only be through consent of GCC (and other US colonies), and quick defeat/withdrawal of that consent occurs by destruction of desalination, ultra expensive ships that are sitting ducks serving those regimes, in addition to $Bs of damage to oil production/shipping infrastructure.

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