I thought I was gonna hate that video but I didn't. Its just good to hear a lot of people know the top of our society is ratfucking the bottom. Its good to hear the singer refute his bullshit line about fudge candies and obese people. And god damn I wanna hug that guy with the one ear ring because he's right, just a normal dude somewhere, but he's right. You see, this shit is real easy to see when propaganda isn't pissed in our eyes constantly, but for a lot it is.
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Yeah it really feels like they almost have a sense of class consciousness and when you tear away the "politics" from the politics, they know who's fucking them over.
I feel like a ton of conservatives would actually be socialists if they had any idea what socialism actually was. Mostly they have only known the word as a synonym for 'thing I don't like,' but I always find it striking how much socialist language conservatives use when they want to get their base on board with something. Even the introduction for project 2025 goes like: socialist idea, socialist idea, socialist idea, statement condemning socialism as the cause of the world's problems, positive sounding authoritarian statement presented as a solution. Then it goes back to socialist statements to keep the reader engaged and feeling like the author is working in their best interest. It's like some weird rope-a-dope bait and switch strategy.
I bet if socialism got a rebranding that stripped out all the language that usually triggers the conservatives, you'd see a lot of conservatives jump on board with it. At least until the billionaires spin up their media machines to destroy it again.
What it often is, is they want an easy solution. The idea that things are bad isn't lost on them, but when presented a choice between someone laying out a multistep plan and someone presenting a convenient scapegoat, they're happy to run with the scapegoat every time.
It's not even entirely an inherently conservative thing. Many of us can fall prey to it due to the fatigue of late stage capitalism and just running with something we want to believe without researching the underpinnings.
If you look at national polls at the macro level, Americans agree more often than not.
It's these "culture wars" that divide us, because if we realized that we control the means of production and there was a general strike of even just 30% of the population this economy would grind to a halt. However Fox News, Breitbart and the rest need us to argue about mustard suits or gas stoves to distract us.
It's pretty much why there was a really "odd" Bernie/Trump voter. They're sick of the "establishment" fucking them over and were on board with what Bernie had to say, and unfortunately fell for the lies of Trump too.
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“He’s the world’s best crime boss.”
And from a podcast about NAFTA and Masterlock I heard the other day “trump is gangster.”
These are the people who want Trump in charge to disrupt the system and it’s fucking terrifying.
The thoughts on welfare. Fuck me. These people have never actually known anyone on welfare, acting like it's a lifetime job. I was making $83K and lost my job, no fault. I'll be getting $275 a week unemployment for a max of $3,500. That's not what I was making a month, after $1,400 in child support. And I won't get food stamps because my wife makes $17 an hour. We're too wealthy.
“There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.”
Any wonder the handful of billionaires who own our media constantly rail against the best multipurpose weapon a working man can use and afford? Ever thought on that? Huh.