EndRedStateSubsidies

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Bruh, on election night a Jew from Jews for Trump complained antisemites were at the victory party, too.

How many dumb as fuck old people vote for Republicans that will cut social security?

How many Hispanics (even fucking undocumented) supported Trump because he'd keep illegals out?

How many obese straight white men over 40 railed against DEI that will be laid off because they're old? Dropped from insurance because they're fat? Have their taxes raised because they're low earners hit harder by regressive structures?

I have seen basically every group targeted by Republicans for the last 40 years send its dumbest motherfuckers to support Trump with zero self awareness.

Americans are irredeemably stupid, weak, and worthless.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Crazy, computers use power?

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There's no way my balls aren't hanging out.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Everything about Christianity is basically backwards from what Jesus actually fucking said.

No idolatry is the first commandment for a reason. People that worship the idol of the cross have already failed to learn what the religion was to teach.

Basically, look at Republicans. They absolutely worship the flag yet at the same time defile everything the country supposedly stands for.

Yes, no, kinda, maybe.

The system is so bloated, corrupt, and convoluted there is no fixing it.

The bad actors are so many, so uniform, and so powerful there is no removing them.

The masses are so poor, tired, fractured, and ignorant, there's no uniting them.

We're looking at a likely push for a Trump dynasty. Even if the Democrats win, they're really just controlled opposition to maintain the status quo and repiss off the red base by existing.

Say the impossible happens and all the bad guys die, there's revolution that sees through the theatre of duopoly... Then what?

30% of the country eagerly embraced a convicted rapist after he spent decades being a piece of shit. 30% prefer Democrats making things worse slightly slower.

Everyone else checked out because they either know too little or too much about politics.

At the end of the day the problem is that nothing matters and it's all just screaming into the void.

We could be 100% agreement on every detail and we'd just need 350 million other people to sign on to change a system they know is broken but don't understand well enough to fix while very rich, very crazy people spend great deals of money to basically cause problems everywhere they can do they can sell a monthly treatment but never a fix because cruelty is basically always the point.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This country isn't worth fighting for. Shit pops off and I'm stamping my own card because I've suffered you assholes long enough.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The greatest illusion of humanity is that reason is a default state.

We are hormonal meat beasts that require decades to tame to any productive end and even still we are all literally one phone call away from losing our shit completely.

My entire school life there was so much pontification over what "you" would do during segregation or the Holocaust or slavery?

Turns out my entire family would grow a toothbrush moustaches and start painting vegan landscapes while I kept working because the cost of living rises more than wages and I long for the reprieve of death.

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is exactly how drug dealers operate; the first bump is free to get you hooked and dependent so they can raise prices and cut product because you don't have alternatives.

There was a new Black Mirror episode along these lines as well.

It also raises issues with what happens when all firms use AI models that source the same data and we end up with a longer walk to the same price fixing...

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Most people have a terrible understanding of most things because most subjects are basically infinitely complex and get worse the deeper you dig.

A representative Republic is the illusion of democracy at this point. You get to cast a vote for whomever you think will best ignore your ass while sucking off donors because the cost of elections is a product of capitalism and not a fault of democracy itself.

Any civilization that wants to function requires a government. The problem is usually who ends up in power.

Most people can't understand all the issues. Elections are largely popularity contests for single issue voters. The key to popularity is lots of advertising. Supply, demand, profit, ensure it keeps getting more expensive because most media outlets are privately owned and publicly traded.

Trump was put into office via billions in free news coverage legitimizing an obvious and known fraud making election coverage a horserace for ad revenue instead of informing people about facts.

It's never been easier to learn anything you've wanted to, but this is the first time people have actually started getting dumber to the point they dispute the shape of the planet under their fucking feet.

The better educated people are, the more questions they ask until they realize things don't actually work like they're told and then we get riots.

The US is a falling police state run by two private corporations that own the nation.

The dnc and rnc are privately held corporations that control who gets to run for office and both are well right of center entities.

Have you read about Smedly Butler and the business plot?

[–] EndRedStateSubsidies@leminal.space 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Unfortunately, what many don't realize is a win for capitalism is a loss for basically everyone else.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

Tldr- the endlessly parroted "capitalism has lifted more people out of poverty" notion stems from a study that basically equated subsistence farming to poverty because despite meeting all their needs and desires it made zero money per day.

Basically, the entire notion that capitalism is swell is a lot like saying Africans were better off as slaves because they were previously unemployed and then given jobs. Which is basically the first argument capitalists tried to make while "extracting value" with the slave trade.

 

When television first started, there were 3 channels and a handful of commercials. After a few decades of more channels and more ads appearing, cable showed up. Now you could pay a subscription to get premium content without ads!

But after a decade, not only were they putting ads on cable you paid a premium to watch, they were speeding up both the shows and the ads to fit more into breaks that kept getting longer.

Younger people are just starting to see the cycle is underway again with streaming services, but over the last 10ish years, I've noticed all the various cliques going "why is {our interest} going to shit" as if it were an isolated incident and not happening everywhere.

The first act of capitalism when it was created was the slave trade. Corporations have always been vehicles the ultra rich use to extract wealth.

Revenue is how much money a company brings in selling things. Profit is how much of that remains after paying for materials, leases, power, reinvesting into the business, and paying wages. Basically, CEOs are paid 300x more than employees to defer maintenance and suppress wages.

Economics 101- charge as much as you can, pay as little as possible. Any corporation that makes billions in profit only does so by gouging customers and stiffing workers.

Real wages are stagnant, pensions aren't a thing, and they're trying to get rid of social security. There's a reason we're told to use things like HSA, 529s, and 401ks: it enriches the already rich.

There is something called a fiduciary duty to shareholders which basically means publicly traded corporations must act in the best interest of investors. It SOUNDS like a good idea, but it's not really well defined.

The reality of the situation is BlackRock basically owns the stock market and the Federal Reserve.

The Federal Reserve is owned and controlled by a group of banks- not the US government. Those banks are publicly traded corporations that own chunks of everything and each other. It's a giant rich guy circle jerk that basically means the recent uniform RTO mandates were probably from Larry Fink himself due to how central commercial real estate is to collateral for things like naked shorting.

Inflation isn't things costing more; it's the dollar being worth less as more money exists. The reason the rich buy art, watches, and shit is because they benefit from inflation. If you hold on to $5,000 for a decade you have $5,000 that buys less after a decade of inflation. If you buy a painting, jewelry, or whatever, it appreciates overtime being worth more than $5k.

Federal minimum wage was 7.25 in 2008. Not much, but you could buy 1-3 shares of AMD or 18" of Subway. Today, M2 (a measure of money in the economy) is three times what it was in 2008 and minimum wage is still $7.25 and might get you 6" of sandwich. AMD, on the other hand, currently sits around $120 a share.

Someone that works to eat will always be falling behind while someone that's not struggling can just load up on wealth that keeps growing. A majority of the country doesn't have money on hand to deal with a $500 emergency while more than half the wealth of the country is owned by a handful of people that make lifetimes of wealth through passive investments alone.

Unfortunately, it's all very complicated and basically everyone is stupid most of the time with only brief windows of subject specific competence. Reason and rationality is a best case outcome but people act like it's the default.

Welcome to the meat grinder. None of us matter.

 

In addition to the link, when Mondale got absolutely destroyed by Reagan, he still managed to flip 30 counties across the country.

Despite getting more votes than Biden in some areas, Harris didn't flip a single county anywhere in a far closer race.

https://www.kkoh.com/2025/01/21/nv-sos-launches-investigations-into-election-fraud/

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