Sad. It’s pathetic that our society is captured by oligarchs that appreciate the brainwashing and have no desire to counter it.

If only one side is willing to use a weapon, only one side can see the value in negotiating it off the table. Russia needs a reason to agree to stop, and using these methods to topple Putin gets us closer to that discussion, but that would mean acknowledging the use of similar practices by corpo-fascists domestically.

That’s not easy at all with their useful idiot in the whitehouse.

How convenient.

Damn. Iranian citizens can’t get a break. Iran is a great example for the world of the uselessness of theocratic dictatorships. Take note America.

I will, thank you!

I see what you’re saying. It’s how people like Trump can convince them he’s after their best interests; from the things he says to what the news reports, they’re conditioned to not be concerned with data points that are “true”, so much as which data points work for them emotionally because the consequences are intangible and modern life is so automatic. Idiocracy, basically. Kinda funny that people always boogieman with slippery slope fallacy of “the end result of socialism is communism” while we watch the end result of this capitalist society become some mutation of idiocracy and authoritarianism.

Thank fuck!

I think you’re right.

I think I’m a bit confused by the fact that when I was younger my conclusion was that everyone is smart, they just need access to information, but that wasn’t true. They need to be taught to process information first. What we have instead is everyone in their own little virtual reality where facts are estimated based on what feels best, because too few people understand the value and necessity of critical thinking and instead apply religious reasoning and whatnot.

Good points, and to counter my own point: the source of a lot of the mis-education is capitalists attempting to maintain this lop-sided status quo… lol

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To me the truly troubling thing about it is that I think social democracy works when people are educated, because educated people understand the role of trust, respect, and fear in the social contract. Unfortunately, we live in a world of half-educated, or frankly mis-educated people, that think magic thoughts about manifesting lottery wins and such. I think social democracy currently doesn’t work for the same reason communism wouldn’t which is that half of us are too stupefied to grasp the concepts. I’m not sure how to solve that, and alternatively (and somewhat tangentially) I despise people who lean into capitalism as a reaction to that fact. They’re a bunch of Erika Kirks to me.

I just think the reality of our social fabric reflects the need for a more socially-democratic approach for the time being. I’m a dummy though, and I’m always open to hearing other people’s thoughts on the subject if you’d like to share.

“Communism has yet to be achieved” “doesn’t work”

I’m not a communist, but this is weak af.

I’d add to this that it’s the case for at least some of these folks that the reason they can’t see Trump for the evil POS that he is, is because they’re actually too good to conceive of it. They’ve never imagined that level of shittiness existing in someone and for them some things are too big to lie about, but not for Trump.

I’ll put you down for the good of nature.

History is rewriten again and again in realtime by a million “public relations” and “news” organizations.

Perhaps you could explain it to me.

McDonald Trump, surely… Come on, man…

Isn’t it just commentary on how both groups (white supremacists, and Jewish supremacists ie Zionists) declare themselves special in the eyes of a god that grants them an undue sense of entitlement to enforce a specific social hierarchy that favors them above everyone else?