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I used to think like that when in my early-mid 20s I would revisit childhood cartoons of mine (80s and 90s stuff) and I would say to myself that this crap is unrealistic because no way the villains could have such dumb followers and be that dumb and continue to exist.
Now I realize that the only truely unrealistic scenario is that in those cartoons you have the good guys who are lauded as good guys for defeating the villains. In reality the villains would simply have some basic PR and propaganda to label the good guys as the real villains and people would swallow that shit up like nobody's business.
Unfortunately, I think you are right about this.
I don't know who this villian guy is but I'm hearing good things on the kill all superheros network.
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
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Yeah I think it's a sacrifice they're willing to make, unfortunately.
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Not only US politics. Romania is about to vote for a right wing extremist as their president, Germany is going to vote for a right wing, extremist party in February, France gave right wing extremists 30% of parliament, Spain voted for a right winger too, Hungary has had Victor Orban for years, and so on. All the while progressive and left leaning people either don't vote, strategically vote for a center right party, or vote for some unknown, unimportant, backwater party that has no chance of doing anything in parliament.
The problem is that centrists consistently align themselves with the far right in order to screw over the leftists.
And leftists can't unite because they spend their time arguing about whose motives are more pure.
"Judean People's Front!? We're the People's Front of Judea! And if there's one thing we hate worse than the Romans, it's the bleeding Judean People's Front!"
Leftists are busy screwing over other leftists because they're not good enough.
MAGAs are dumb but 'both sides same so I'm not going to vote' leftists might as well be braindead.
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Centrist is the funniest political term ever. Most self-proclaimed centrists are actually further right than most self-proclaimed right-wing people, far less supportive of democracy, AND are also the least informed about political matters than either right-wing people or left-wing people. All of this has been verified by multiple studies, too.
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As Yeats famously wrote:
The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
Seems it's happening again.
This is not new though, Orwell pointed out in 1939 that demcroacies inevitability turn Fascist when times get harder.
Climate change will see that get even worse still.
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"he tells it like it is! and unlike the liars on the 'left', his lies are obvious and so we're all in on it!"
Wanton stupidity abounds...
No one told me there'd be wontons!
What were you saying about stupidity?
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They'll just keep blaming it on the other sheep and the sheepdogs and the shepherds
Yeah, he will just manifest a new enemy to blame for his incompetence. Last time, it was the "deep state." Remember, everything he says is accepted as fact. Like election fraud, where the only evidence is that he said it. Reality has never stood in the way of sheep logic.
2024 is basically just "2016: The Sequel"
With a bit of added 2020 spice
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Anybody else wish, that people remembered, how to use commas?
In German, the above is how a comma used, and this type of usage might might be common in other languages too.
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Hitler also carried out everything he campaigned on. It's the appeal of a populist strongman, they actually do what they say they're gonna do.
The problematic part was all the extra stuff he didn't mention. When he said he would deal with the Jewish problem few people understood how far he would go. He was also beholden to big business despite his apparently socialist posturing.
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What's crazy is if you are an American that has lived in a "developing nation" you have a very realistic idea what is going to happen here.
And there is no way to show/explain/persuade any "real American" of what is coming.
this is too optimistic. Probably like 3/4 of these doofs will watch another sheep get eaten and go "must be a lion in disguise"
WAAHHH HE'S EATING THE WRONG SHEEP!!!!!!!
They will not have this level of self reflection. They will blame whoever they’re told by the wolves to blame. Particularly, the closest and most convenient differently-colored sheep.
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He said he was going to eat the other sheep, not us?!
I wish.
And I'd like to propose a more humane perspective, the "wolves" here will go great lenghts to keep their fanbase from understanding what's going on.
Between that and all the "I told you so" people, I can't fucking wait to go online for rich social experiences from very great Americans taking action about their situation /s
Edit: Yes, I have set up some Lemmy filters, but it's gonna take time to refine. If anyone has a good list of filter keywords, it would be kind to share out to others.
All of them
A lot of people voted based purely on their economic feelz; they think that they're struggling economically, and so they voted for a person that took over from Obama. (...After Obama had presided over rebuilding the economy that crashed under Dubya.) If Trump goes through with his tariffs and deportation schemes, then we're going to have record inflation, and everything is going to get so much more expensive. In 2026, will these same people be looking at 2021-2025 and be saying, wow, I was doing so much better then, I should vote for someone that isn't a Republican this time? Or will they think that maybe we need more of the same?
They will blame Hillarbamala and their deep state of course.
The kerning on filled is distracting me. What font does that?
I don't see anything weird about the kerning, unless you mean the "fi" ligature.
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Make trumpgret great again
2025 will be sheep watching the wolf use sheep to build a fence to keep the other wolves (actually sheep the wolves have combined the inside sheep are wolves) out, 2026 will be the slaughter of the sheep.
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