• atro_city@fedia.io
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    18 days ago

    Decades of “I vote myself and my kin” or “I vote against others even if it hurts me”. Reap what you sow. Vote to #TaxWealth or #TaxWealthNotWork and maybe you’ll get somewhere.

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      17 days ago

      not an american but i just wanna chime in and say that it pains me to see that the rich can destroy an entire country and its people will still find a way to blame the propagandized masses

      like it’s not your neighbor’s fault that they fell to incredibly elaborated propaganda campaigns

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        17 days ago

        There’s always two sides. You can grow up poor and uneducated but that doesn’t mean you have to be mean and hateful. And even if you grow up middle-class and are exposed to propaganda, that doesn’t mean that you have to fully give in to it. To be this far gone, you have to have also let it happen.

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          17 days ago

          It’s not something that happened overnight, this has been a half century in the making. Fox News did most of the heavy lifting, but even before the industrialists came up with a long game to overthrow the republic back in 1971 at the Business Roundtable.

          It happened a little bit at a time, and all it would take to reverse it is a popular alternative, yet we trust the democrats to do that as they decry popular as the great danger we are facing. They call the republicans populist, and they are dicks, so therefore populists are dicks, is the logic. Too stupid to even refute if it wasn’t so effective with out chemical pollution addled weak minds, (present company excluded.)