They're just cutting government spending to afford more tax cuts for the ultra wealthy. It's all so obvious.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2025
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It's a bit more than that. They are essentially doing to America what America has done to other countries. Forcing complete privitization of all aspects of life. They're basically doing what was done to the former USSR in 90s but now internally. "Shock Doctrine".
Fascism is Imperialism turned inward on the imperial core itself. The suffering of the working class will be blamed on "the left" resisting and "harboring criminals". They'll use that as an excuse for further militarization of the police and ICE. By the time white middle class people realize what's happening the US will have started a "defensive" war and rely on nationalism to keep the population subservient during ever worsening material conditions.
Such a state of affairs can only continue for so long before it becomes untenable to continue.
By then, everyone who had a hand in it will either be dead or dying and thus unable to give a fuck.
"[The Jew] is and remains the eternal parasite, a parasite that spreads more and more like a harmful bacillus, as well as inviting only a favourable culture medium. The effect of its existence, however, is similar to that of parasites: where it occurs, the host people die after a shorter or longer time."
— Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
The use of the word "parasite" is not a coincidence.
ironically, parasites don't kill their primary hosts.
They're desperately trying to fund space hotels so the richies can all be off planet in 2032 just in case the asteroid chooses to save Earth. thats my, not even all that crazy, conspiracy theory.
That asteroid is only a city killer not a planet killer. Even if it does hit the planet it’s most likely to hit ocean.
With any luck it will just hit Elon.
Ejected water is a climate change contributor, it would at the very least accelerate things.
X marks the spot!
Republicans were always the welfare queens. And now they’re traitors, too. Unworthy of the oxygen they draw.
They really don't have one redeeming quality. Totally worthless. I literally hate them.
Sadly, a lot of them voted for Elon's buddy.
I would really like to have a real psychological analysis of this behavior.
It's not like this is the first time, people vote against their interests and against their better knowledge everywhere and all the time. Are they really just that stupid?
I mean it's not that complicated. Most people struggle, often financially. You have someone promising the world. You have someone who blames the former establishment for your problems and offers simple easy to digest solutions for problems that are much more complicated. All of this is going to sound compelling and frankly he had a number of easy lay ups this electrician race. Honestly the Democrats botched this whole race. It was half Biden who nobody saw as fit and Kamela came in too late, had the weight of any one displeased with Biden's tenure and let's face it, was both black and a women, two thighs the US has a historically mixed run with.
Obviously this is a platform of lies but that's all you need to get in.
But it's also not that complicated to see through his lies. Or any demagogues for that matter.
That's what I mean by "against better knowledge". They have to willfully ignore the warning signs and contradictions. And that I don't understand.
I think one big issue, is that it requires confronting the cognitive dissonance of being a sucker. They'd have to accept that they've been fooled for so lobg which is a blow to the ego a lot of people can't handle.
They don't want to confront the obvious lies, because they're invested in believing them. They're caught in phantasms.
And fear. If you get someone to build up enough fear for everything but you then they feel irresponsible not to vote for you. We, the users of a decentralized Linux forum, are not the type of people to fall into this mindset
Yeah, that's true. There's a self-selection bias here that makes us more likely to be technically minded and part of a counterculture. That probably gives some of us a bit of a blind spot to the thought processes of the average American.
It's actually quite very complicated to see through lies.
An example that some people could relate with:
Have a close relative whose social media account started receiving "go out and vote" electoral ads from friends and acquaintances during election season. And those ads hit exactly the right notes that pulled them in. By the end of it, the candidate turned out to be an extremist who planned to do a lot of bad shit that could incidentally achieve those electoral promises. They were exposed early and had to drop out, but my relative was left disappointed and without the will to continue fighting because this one candidate was the only one who even touched what they cared about.
Without proper representation, the first one in gets the vote. Doesn't matter if they're lies when a chance is better than no chance.
There's a lot of reasons. Some got passively sucked into right-wing brainwashing by Fox News and talk radio. Some dove into fascist Internet rabbit holes.
But my guess is most are people who avoid political news and commentary, don't really know what's going on, and don't really care unless there's an election on, and even then only at the last minute; and they're most influenced by the last, loudest message they heard before pulling the lever. Those folks stopped paying attention the day after the election, and they aren't really. paying attention now. If you point out to them that eggs are still expensive, they'll look back at you in confusion and say, "Are we still talking about that?"
It’s a national culture. Greed and hate.
That's the thing, it's not tied to a specific nation.
Here in Germany, poor people are voting for a party that wants to abolish minimum wage, unemployment benefits and healthcare. Farmers were protesting last year against a reduction of subsidies - and they supported a party that wants to abolish all of their subsidies.
Look at brexit, Meloni, Geert Wilders, Milei. It's the same everywhere.
Real people wake up and think Elon has any of their interests at heart is scary,
The dude abides and the government subsides.
Giving all your tax money to a foreign power didn't you have a bit of a to do about that?
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