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Uncomfortable? People are going to die macniel.

If my argument nullified the capacity for agency then propaganda could not exist.

I am saying that propaganda was used to make people vote for Trump. Without that propaganda, they may have voted in their own interests, like protecting bodily autonomy and basic human rights.

Propaganda is the thing that swayed them.

Some people are defenseless to it. They never stood a chance against the billion-dollar machine built specifically to win their vote. I feel sorry for them because they were tricked into giving away their futures.

.. The voters? We're talking about the people who cast votes. Not the ones who didn't vote. Keep up.

No

What? Who is the economy great for? Many Americans are one missed paycheck from bankruptcy.

What

They don't care because they will be dead before they ever see the effects of their selfishness. They will literally never have any consequence.

I'm sure they know in their hearts that their descendants will suffer and die because of what they do today, but they don't plan on ever feeling bad about it because at the end they will be safe, warm and comfortable in their beds, surrounded by their loving families, after a lifetime of luxuries. Everything to gain and nothing to lose. Why not fuck the planet?

The elites have been studying for decades. They now know exactly how far they can push us before we fight back. That's why inequality is worse now than before the French revolution, but nothing has changed. They've learned how to prevent us from revolting.

My neighbors are all republicans. Nothing will make them go quiet. Leadership could bus them and their children into a giant municipal sausage grinder and they would be babbling happily about winning right up until they died.

Carpenter's axe to the utility line outside my house

They're not to blame. They've been convinced by a powerful, wealthy propaganda machine that their identity is more important than their planet, their children's futures, or their own basic human rights. They were scared, tired, desperate, and when the machine came for them and it felt so good they bought it without checking the receipt. They've been tricked into giving away their futures and they are going to suffer for it. They're stupid, but they're not evil.