• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      44 minutes ago

      Like a parody of posters about building a better future. It calls out some visible suffering but then instead of asking for a donation or something to help the situation, it asks readers to place bets on whether it will be better, the same, or worse in x time. Big smiling face on the bottom with the quote, “I won $235 because I guessed the day one of the homeless locals would die correctly!”

  • Revolutionary_Apples@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Damn, this is real. I was working Dollar General during this 4th and literally every person working there was personally and negatively impacted by Trumpistan but we still had to sell that crap. My boss was pissed (he is a gay man who lost his trans sister to violence associated with MAGA). This wasnt just 250 4th of july shit, it was straight MAGA.

  • agent_nycto@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 hours ago

    “AND YOU DESERVE IT THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT YOU DID THIS YOU WANTED THIS YOU’RE ALL THE SAME I HOPE YOU SUFFER YOU MADE THIS HAPPEN WHY AREN’T YOU DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT”

    Someone from Lemmy, probably

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      makes sense.

      how many times have you been told to stop voting for the political duopoloy, but you still kept doing it anyways or – worse yet – not bothering to vote at all?

      how many times have you been told to start using green tech to mitigate climate change’s impact, but just shrugged your shoulders when your gov’t effectively banned green tech and maxed out fossil fuels nonetheless. and did you vote for them anyways because the red team was slightly worse for the world – not just the united states – than the blue team?

      how many times have you been told that your media has chocked fully of propaganda but never bothered to change your media consumption habits while decrying all other media sources as propaganda?

      how many times have you been told that it’s not a coincidence that all the us empire’s political enemies are “authoritarian” hellholes, but you still accept the lies that your propaganda keeps telling you despite the fact your government had already effectively admitted that are lies decades ago?

      this i-told-you-so nagging is annoying, but it’s the only way to keep people aware that they’re choosing this enshitify their own environment, society and future just so that the epstein class can keep their control over us.

      • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 hour ago

        “and after all that, someone will come up and tell the powerless it’s their fault for failing to stop the powerful”.

        “But have you considered that the powerless deserved it because they failed to stop the powerful? I know it’s annoying I’m doing this, but it’s the only way to keep the powerless aware that it’s their fault”

        That’s how much of an asshole you sound like.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 minute ago

          the only assholery on display here is the presumption that they’re powerless and the re-enforced misinformation that you’re spreading here.

          history proves that the people can be just as powerful as the epstein class — and that’s exactly why they expend so many resources keeping you from ever doing what that nagging tells you to do.

      • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        doing all these things on a personal level also didn’t do much to help as far as i can see. i get conflicting propaganda now, and can maybe see accidental glimpses of the truth more often, woohoo. and i pay more for the privilege, but as lest i actualy have the financial mobility to make that choice. makes the nagging much more shrill.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          the epstein class has been forced to reveal several times that collectivism is the only threat to them and all of this nagging directly points out to how the epsteins prevent collectivization from happening on an individual scale.

            • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 minutes ago

              the nagging points to the things that you – as an individual – can do to ruin the epstein class’ day.

              and collectivism will make you understand why & how doing it will ruin their day and take it a step further.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      and they would be right.
      But no need to do something.
      On the contrary, glad to see them go down the shitter.

      • Squirrelknight@lemmy.world
        1·
        43 minutes ago

        Given how many countries the US has victimized, it’s at least a little comforting to know they’re getting some of it turned back on them.

        They had a chance to make things better, unlike so many other countries. They had it good for decades, only to blow it all up for some narcissistic, billionaire pedophile. Fuck em.

      • eepydeeby@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        4 hours ago

        Its less derangement and more hypervigilance because theres no real disclosure etiquette. There are nicer ways to check an OP for it than that tho…

        I’m a visual artist with a sharp eye for AI who inspects every image anymore, and will vouch: the human giveaways for this being real are the consistency of repeated elements (cigarettes, flags), clarity of text (written consistently, makes sense even when cut off or at odd angles), and sensible variation in detail (it is unimportant to flesh out hundreds of packs of cigs bc most viewers have the cultural shorthand for it, it is important to render the counter mat that seems to list food offerings or advertisements.)

        Hopefully this can help sharpen the next guys AI detection so OP doesnt catch any more undue strays 🫣