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• Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’s practically the entire goddamn government.

  Why don’t you draw the logical conclusion, and realize it’s the American population that elected the dumb motherfucker that is responsible for the entire administration. And an American population that also elected a congress that doesn’t do anything!

  For fucks sake, Americans elected an obvious psychopath for president, with an equally psychopathic vice president!!!

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  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s 100% on the people and not the constant onslaught of propaganda; the fake checks and balances that were actually escape hatches for the wealthy; the terrible propped up candidates, like the time the US population very much wanted Bernie, and instead got Hillary; AIPAC and other lobbyists permeating the government; nepotism; the ramping up of police funding; the capture of all media by the right; manipulation via companies like Meta, who have been involved in regime change and genocide before…

    This is simple cause and effect which seems to be lost on a lot of people. Trump and his dipshit admin is losing traction daily when it comes to voter support because they can no longer uphold the lies. We’re now at the point where they’re telling us the pond is clear when it’s green.

    But the people are 100% to blame for this one. We only had a metric fuckton of literature and predictions dating back over a hundred years telling us this would happen and that capitalism would absolutely collapse and corrupt in this way.

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  • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Electoral politics means nothing when the entire issue is rooted in the very foundations of the country and capitalism as a whole. One dumbass being elected isn’t an anomaly, he’s an inevitable symptom of the problems that have been there for ages.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So are you one of those that claim that Republicans and Democrats are the same?
      That having a Republican controlled congress with a Republican president is the same as if they were both Democrat?

      because if you answer that with a yes, I think I’m just gonna block you.

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      • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Your comment assumes the people have real power. The parties are not the same but they also are in ways. This is the manufactured fight they shove us all into because it’s beneficial for maintaining their power and keeping us distracted. Both roads lead to a genocide continuing and they both allow the same people to maintain wealth. It’s not a blue vs red issue; it’s an us vs them one. It’s class war among the wealthy and the poor working class. You can vote blue if it helps you sleep at night, but just understand that it’s the equivalent of Maggie’s steering wheel in the Simpsons intro. The illusion changes on the surface but continues the same behind the scenes at the root, because they will never allow us to vote away their power.

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      • nfreak@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Spoken like a true lib lmao

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  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Careful, lemmings hate it when you point out that voters and non voters are responsible for the government we have, or that it’s largely a reflection of the culture and society we propagate.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Absolutely, Trump is a symptom not the disease, American society is sick. That doesn’t mean all Americans are sick, there are good Americans. But enough Americans see psychopathy as an expression of freedom. So they are willing to vote for a clear psychopath. The disease in American society is like a cancer, it’s not all cells in the body that are cancerous, but it’s enough to make the society very very sick.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They hate it just about as much as the non-statesians here hate this article

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  • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The American people are the most propagandised on Earth. Our education has been eroded over decades and we are steeped in a media sphere almost entirely owned by the wealthy which constantly discredits anything remotely socialist and tells almost nothing but lies about the outside world. People can’t even usually protest in a serious way without losing their jobs, and therefore their healthcare and housing. When protesters burned down the police station in Minneapolis in 2020, that was ranked with a higher approval rating than nearly any politician elected at the time.

    Even if a good candidate is elected, the power comes from the wealthy, they will subvert any thing progressive using their trillions of dollars and surveillance panopticon.

    So a lot of Americans did vote for this horrific administration, but most people don’t even know what they are voting for, and voter turnout is egregiously bad because most people don’t feel they can even trust what they are told about politics.

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    • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So a lot of Americans did vote for this horrific administration, but most people don’t even know what they are voting for

      And the second time around?

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Even if a good candidate is elected, the power comes from the wealthy,

      Exactly, taking your country back, should start with taxing the rich heavily. That would be a good start for Americans.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  abolish capitalism

  What does this mean, exactly?

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  • Patariki@feddit.nl ⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Communism, comrad!

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  • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Reorganize our economic system into one in which the means of production, ie factories, farms, etc, are collectively owned by the people instead of being owned by the rich elite who take all profit for themselves.

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  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you take capitalism

    you place under guillotine

    you manœuver guillotine

    done

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  • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure, but let’s live a little, try something new and see where it goes.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I play music and grow some mean artichokes. Like they have thorns and everything they’re delicious. Willing to trade sass for butter

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