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[–] 162 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I don't really think it's the press's fault. I think America simply doesn't give a shit anymore. They seem to be completely inured to the crime, corruption, fascism, blatant lies, performative cruelty, election interference, embarrassment on the global stage, etc.

It's very peculiar.

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  • [–] 106 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    I’m sure it seems like that from the outside. There’s so many of us inside that are fully sick of this, but we also all feel helpless for a number of reasons.

    Nobody wants to be alone in making the first move of outward revolution.

    None of us can afford to take a week off, much less the foreseeable future off to plan and execute any kind of meaningful action.

    Once we lose our job from participating in said action, we don’t have healthcare anymore.

    We’ve got to be so far past the point of no return that the status quo can’t continue before most people will be able to do anything.

    Combine that with the press hiding most of this from the people, and people still wanting to hold out hope for…something…and you’re where we are at.

    I’m crossing my fingers that the midterms (or lack thereof) will be the turning point.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I was reading about the French Revolution yesterday and the thing that really got things started was mass starvation. Something like 90% of French citizens were actively starving.

    There will need to be a singular suffering affecting 90+% of people before we'll all take to the streets and put heads on pikes. I'm guessing climate change might get us there.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Tbh with the sheer scale of America I doubt even mass starvation will work. The government could probably just keep the states immediately around the capitol sated and leave the rest of the country to die and most people won't be able to afford travel to the capitol to riot. I bring this up in every thread but to travel from the west coast to Maryland to start a riot is the same distance as traveling from Ireland to Moscow to riot. And we have barely functional trains.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Well there are local governments. The federal government can't exert it's control by itself.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    I mean... it literally can. Only ~20 states have their own State Defense Force and the federal government can turn any state's national guard on its own people. The national guard has been actively leveraged to help ICE brutalize and disappear immigrants and American citizens already.

    Also if we were to consume Gavin Newsom, for example, that does not help us get a functional federal government back.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I don't think starving will stop his supporters as long as "the libs" are starving, too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    We don’t need his supporters on our side. It would be nice, but once the rest of us are starving too there’s more of us.

    Hopefully though, we can finally get through to them that it’s the ~2000 billionaires or so actively waking up each morning and deciding not to end world hunger that are the actual issue.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I totally get your point,

    I’m crossing my fingers that the midterms (or lack thereof) will be the turning point.

    but a friendly reminder to everyone in that same position: hope is not a strategy. At least try to come up with a plan for when it get worse. Do not be naive; as long as it can get worse, it likely will be.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    No, you’re completely right. Hope is not enough. I’m also planning, but need to have hope that others outside my circle are too.

    It will get worse. In fact, it has to - or else the majority of people will just brush their hands and say “hey we fixed it, nice job” …kinda like Biden 2020.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (6 children)

    From the outside it looks like it’s similar to turning a big ship in a way. It’s just taking time for it to turn; meaning enough to get sick of it. It’s definitely wrong now to say nothings being done by people, you’ve only got to look at the videos people are taking of the migration police to see there’s resistance flowing through.

    This situation here is a clear abandonment of media responsibility. Journalists themselves, or their profession, will take the reputational fall for this and it won’t matter if that’s fair to them or not. The right kind of reporting on this would go a long way to driving resistance against it.

    Yeah I hope the midterms are somehow fair and held. It’s the best solution. I hope people turn out for them too if they are. The more that do, the harder it should be to rig or prevent voting at the polling booths.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Its not peculiar, its by design. Flood the people with so much "News" all the time that they stop paying attention. You can only keep up with so much before you just stop trying. Even those of us still paying attention have to take breaks or go mad.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I think you mean buy up all the news outlets. Make them mouth pieces for the rich rather than focusing on facts. Discredit news as fake and watch people turn to their echo chambers to learn about anything and nothing at the same time. How many people including yourself do you knowtjay doesn't trust the news. Gotta be close to batting a thousand at this point no?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago*

    I can’t do it anymore because the “press” are actually just fascist influencers and they are all lying. I don’t believe a single thing any journalist had to say. I don’t believe a single thing the government has to say. I’ll never respect the rapist president. I’ll never accept the heroin addict running the health department. Countries are ideas and this one is fucking dead.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    "Being American" is apparently a facade based off something that appeared briefly in the 1860s.

    You'd think it'd be from 1776, but they love to rip on the French who 100% carried them to independence and was still nice guy enough to gift them a statue for it too. So, first half of the 1860s; that's the first and only time where they stood up for themselves and actually won. The only time they were being American and not just playing make-believe.

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    [–] 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

    The fact that an incompetent and failed narcissist businessman who has no clue about politics, speaks and thinks incoherently, and has a penchant for racism and underage girls, could become POTUS, should've been a scandal.

    The fact that he got re-elected after he has proven for 4 years that he and his posse are exactly as brazenly incompetent and corrupt as the above suggests, should've been a crazy, crazy scandal.

    Everything after that is just more of the same.

    Still, don't stop reporting it.

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    [–] 37 points 1 week ago

    Just add it to the pile.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago

    There is no bottom that 'Murica can hit

    They'll somehow find a new low to sink to

    There's no way they'd be stepping in for some black kid accused of littering

    This is to show their base of rapist losers that they have their backs

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  • [–] 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    The Epstein class found out that scandals don’t stick anymore if you just flood the zone, which is what they did and have done ever since.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    It does appear to be working for them. I’m not sure it’s so much “flooding the zone” as it is “shitting the bed and not giving a fuck who else might be trying to sleep in it”. The Confederates collectively figured out that none of the laws have any teeth if they control all three branches, so why the hell not? It doesn’t help that they’re all like 80 years old and nothing they do will harm the one person they love more than anything or anyone else: themselves.

    Voting isn’t enough. We need a lot more organization. A union of the people so we can act as one and pretty much get whatever the fuck we want so long as masses agree. It was supposed to be Democracy but that’s been corrupted so something fundamental would need to change. I think if we had more open tech (and we will) we could build the tools we need to better organize. The ruling class has every advantage, except the numbers.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago*

    Totally expected.

    Why would this play out differently? MAGA are paedophile and rape enablers, supporting sexual slavery.

    Duh.

    We’ve known this the whole time. Sorry you’re(traditional media) just catching up now.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 week ago*

    And to think Al Franken resigned his senate seat after being photographed hovering his hands near a woman's boobs. smh

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    No it shouldn't. You're still living in the past when morals and ethics, rules and traditions held power over our twice elected rulers. We live in a new age now where everything can be used to profits the ruling class even if it leaves it destroyed.

    Americans voted for people who want to destroy the world and keep the rubble for themselves.

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    [–] 18 points 1 week ago

    It is a crazy scandal; it's just overshadowed by the larger crazy scandal that is all of America right now...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    But Al Franken made a butt joke!

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    [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Crazy shit goes down in Florida.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    The thing is, anyone already against these folks was already against them. If your hate-o-meter is maxxed out, it can't increase.

    Anyone already supporting these folks either never heard about it through their echo chamber news source of choice or simply doesn't care.

    That's kinda the state of (American) politics in 2026.

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    [–] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Is US government just doing evil sidequests now?

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah, people don't actually care what happen to women and children

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    [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Rapists and pedophiles are the Republican’s utopia, it seems.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Not sure how true it is but the rumor (maybe fact?) Is that Baron Trump got to be friends with them at some point over the past few years. They think they knew what they were doing keeping him close for this exact reason. Pretty sure theres other things they did together but idk enough to comment.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    The Tates are the replacement for Epstein and Trump who were the replacements for Cassablancas and Barr. The most rich and powerful always need help with their human trafficking, sexual crimes, pedophilia and in the case of Epstein cannibalism.

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    If biden did this there's a near 100% chance trump would complain

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    [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty ignorant of piles of shit, but aren't they British?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    IMHO... We should take out our own trash. I doubt they will see actual justice if they stay in the US...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    sorry bro, u can't make me give a flying hootenanny about the taint brothers

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    The press is unfortunately entirely too competent at manufacturing consent for capitalist crimes and atrocities.

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