no it's because they support rape
no excuses
they support rape
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I don't get it personally. I don't see how they conspiracy-hole this and that, and pretend the most outrageous things, but then supposedly diesel or whatever is the last straw. Decades of being financially fucked into the ground by conservative policy, a decade of But Joe Biden!, and now diesel does it??? Ok I guess.
It is how human psychology works. Fuel prices are something people are confronted with on a regular bases and they are a direct expensive, easy to understand, in the moment.
"It's the economy, stupid."
Yep, they're all clincally diagnosable as having presistent, specific delusions.
Aunt clara can't conspiracy theory the oil and gas industry?!?!
British petroleum invented the carbon footprint and climate change denialism but aunt clara want to talk about little simon's gender...
Has there ever been a more shameless shower of bastards than BP? Talk about choosing the greater evil.
Forgot to also add they killed Mohamed Mozadegh, the first democratically elected president of iran in 1953, a socialist and instead placed the Shah with the help of the british crown and the US gov, If you wonder why Iran has it for europe and the US, this is the tip of the iceberg of why. Plenty of fucked up shit happened later as well.
And then the Iranian Revolution deposed the Shah, and started the current regime. MAGA likes to speak of this incident as the beginning of the Iran War, instead of America's illegal coup in 1953. It's always THEIR fault.
There are plenty of other events like flight 655 which was a passenger flight from Tehran in the 90s which got shot down by a US navy warship for no reason. 300 innocent people died because of a miscommunicated order by the navy personel.
To add something; I like to think of Hegel in those moment and the master/servant dialectic,simply; two consciousness find themselves in a shared space. Since they exist for themselves in that first moment and are encountering a plurality for the first time, they enter a conflict. One wins, the other loses and both establish different states of self-consciousness due to this.
The loser becomes the servant, has to think of himself and his duty to the master, and finds meaning and recognition in the master's eyes. The master does not think of the servant's thoughts, only his own. The servant in the eyes of the master gains meaning, he can revolt, improve, love or hate, whilst the master is not seen, he only is, and this means his self-conception is not anchored, thus the master cannot reach self-consciousness but his servant can as he experiences a higher authority.
In practical scenarios, this is what explains in my eyes the hubris of the powerful and the optimism of the miserable. The tyrant punishes through anger, because he cannot gain any satisfaction from his state, whilst the one in servitude learns through his opression what resilience is, finds internal freedom and liberation by experiencing the worst. This really resonates with the psychotic crisis/mania the US states are going through right now and the strange self-aware calm the Iranians show whilst being in the most vulnerable position.
It's not just that. Those people are also really really stupid. They don't have the ability to connect any dots. They can hear the dumbest shit straight from Trump's mouth and they don't realize he's an idiot. Where they get the news from is a secondary issue. If you forced them to watch CNN all day they would simply not understand any of it. But yes, they can understand diesel getting expensive the same way a dog can understand a stick. When prices fall they will still not understand why it happened and will go back to voting for racists and homophobes.
Actually, they've done studies where they've taken people off Fox News, and had them watch other news, and their political views soften very quickly when exposed to stories they don't hear in the Conservative Propaganda Machine.
I have a business acquaintance who is still an unapologetic MAGA, and he isn't aware of 75% of the crazy shit that's these people do, and when I tell him, he thinks it's all fake, because Trump and MAGA wouldn't do anything bad. He has Fox News playing next to his desk all day long, every day. It's his sole source of news.
yes, that being his sole source of news makes him stupid
But if I assume people are stupid, I can just feel angry and superior about it. If it's a solvable problem like education and news reform then I have to do work and also recognize that some of what created my views is the luck of my environment.
Fact is, even with such high diesel prices, this wasn't a real tsunami. Blue won, but not by that much. Blue don't have a supermajority in either of the houses. This means that there's a huge portion of the electorate still thinking that they prefer trump over a dem candidate.
Bruh, fucking Kansas turned blue. KANSAS. That is practically unheard of. This is a win beyond our wildest expectations.
I'm an old guy, who has been paying close attention to elections since the 60s, and I've NEVER seen anything like this election.
"Blue won, but not by that much." Dude, TEXAS turned BLUE. Not just a little blue, ENTIRELY blue. The only Republican left is Ted Cruz, and that's only because he wasn't up for election. He's in big trouble in 2028. Georgia turned fully blue, too. 75% of the states in the country are ruled by Democrat governors.
This win was beyond ANYONE'S wildest imaginations. Sure there are a few dummies who think it's a temporary issue, and MAGA will roar back in 2028, but they're delusional. Looks like you're one of them.
Blue don’t have a supermajority in either of the houses.
Only about a third of the Senate was up for re-election, and the House is gerrymandered to hell. The will of the voters is unequivocal here.
God, I hate that the fight for democracy is essentially continuously trying to explain reality to the dumbest people to have ever lived, and hoping that they learn something.
Clackton byelection was a sneak peek.
I was so disappointed that Binface didn't win that one. I mean, I didn't honestly expect him to, but I really wanted him to. And the idea of anybody voting for Nigel fucking Farage makes my skin crawl.
This isn't default democracy; this is a failure state created by the rich's desire to own you (also known as capitalism). The media environment that makes such delusion possible and the deregulation that made that environment legal (looking at you Reagan and Clinton) were created by rich people and their stooges and they can (in theory) be destroyed by The People™. It also bears notice that when politics works for the average person (think FDR) it's not quite that dysfunctional; again the current situation is a failure state created by the oligarchy controlling politics, though you could argue instead that the oligarchy is the default and periods where politics works for the average person are the exception.
Yeah, and every last bit of it comes down to the dumbest people on the planet buying in whole hog.
It's explaining a reality that disagrees with the pre-conceived beliefs. The reason why Facebook works is that the algorithm makes it so it feeds them information that they already believe.
And because the people who buy into it are the dumbest people on the planet.
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And we come back to Ronald Reagan.
Reagan gutted the FCC. There used to be rules restricting the number of TV/radio stations one company could own. There used to be a Fairness Doctrine that gave equal time to anyone who opposed an editorial.
There are still roots of this with Nixon. He was able to walk away with his indiscretions. Then we got Fox News.
Back in the day, after Ford pardoned Nixon, there were two kinds of folks.
Most of the Nixon haters were willing to accept his resignation. Very few people at that time were ready to see an American President on trial, let alone behind bars.
Nixon's pals looked at everything and started plotting to make sure none of them would ever be treated like that.
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The big issue is that the elite have built a propaganda machine that would give Goebbels a raging hard-on.
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