ThinkBeforeYouPost

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[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Do you have any links to articles where you heard this? I'd be interested to deep dive it further.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The last count I heard was 16 folks have been shot by ICE this year, but it's hard to find figures.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You mean totally normal, "sexual matador", Stephen Miller, whose wife (who is definitely not a foreign agent or beard) said inspires her every morning with his anti-left rants?

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

That was why Melinda divorced him.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Sure, but it's not about that.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In our defense, we're a huge country and the states are quite varied. Not so much as Europe, but that's the nature of human settlement and expansion post locomotive travel/industrial revolution.

Our generational drain on education, health care, and quality of life by Republican politicians created the mess, but the decision by Democrats to be complicit in it, for profit, meant there was no more "right left pendulum of politics" swing because the "liberals" were a ratchet that prevented the Overton Window shift any way except Right.

Our empire has been in decline for decades due to political, governmental, and corporate malfeasance. Our representative "democracy" evaporated, mostly, by the 80's. The vestiges continued a bit into the 90's, but campaign finance fuckery and a captured judiciary has doomed any chance of return.

I part with this, large, interconnected systems collapse rapidly. Once the USD is no longer the reserve currency, the United States will collapse like the USSR. This is the fault of the US Baby Boomers, particularly their leadership, but they can't grok it because that requires education and empathy. Instead of reinvesting the untold riches in infrastructure, health care, and all the other things that developed nations do. It was allowed to be pilfered and hoarded by the great dragons of our age, and the tech robber barons. Billionaires are hoarder sociopaths to a person, but it's impossible to tax their wealth with the current system because it is thoroughly corrupted by many factors, but mostly the power that comes with extreme wealth inequality in a "capitalist" state that perpetuates the problem instead of dealing with it.

The question is, what is there to do besides leave, for a better life, and party for the next few decades until the Great Filter erases the podunk experiment that was intelligent life on planet Earth. Beats targeting 800ish billionaires for wealth repatriation, when your fellow citizens are organized enough to do it because any sense of community has been thoroughly destroyed.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Intentionally so to trigger the Great Firewall.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I agree, but they got the translation wrong. This is interesting because this is not uncommon due to the dialectical differences between Russian and Mandarin.

When you listen to the actual audio clip, you will understand that it is said "one becomes child again". It's a sly dig at aging brains that doesn't translate well when done literally. The nineteen eighty nine authoritarian response and slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians in response to the tiananmen square protests and xi being a winnie the pooh knob head is hilarious you authcino bootlicker if you don't understand the cultural idiom component.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Uyghur what? It's already happening.

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Exactly, Jeffrey Epstein had deep Mossad ties and compromised many wealthy and influential people: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ex-cia-agent-explains-why-epstein-may-secret-israeli-agent-why-list-will-never-released-1738842

[–] ThinkBeforeYouPost@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Well, give me some links and I'll vet your sources!

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