Rooskie91

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

It's a culture of repressed violence. Once you see it, it's bursting out of every seam that holds this country together.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Aren't we kind of already in that??

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Well good thing we have massive, well funded media campaigns!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

That, and people become economicly dependent. They tried UBI when Nixon was president (I know right) and it was considered a failure because the divorce rate went up. What later studies showed was that the divorce rate went up because women in abusive or dead end relationships were finally empowered to leave the spouses they had become depend on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

It's like they're trying to make it the next step from neoliberalism but people are starting to even see the flaws in neo liberalism.

[–] [email protected] 179 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Wait till he hears how necessary it is for life to get harder for billionaires.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

TBH, it feels like social media always needed some back door business like this to make it profitable.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You don't know them either, so why pick any side?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago

Theory divorced from historical context results in all kinds of cognitive dissonance, and that's what I see there for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Most of them are paying teams of retired Navy seals to protect themselves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

America is closer to fascism than China is. All fascism's are authorization but not all authoritarian regimes are fascist.

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