• Ton@lemmy.world
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        And billionaires that are not government officials but rather unelected bullshitters hanging around el presidente.

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    That’s the problem … American isn’t paying attention … they haven’t been paying attention for 40 years

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      Or they have been paying attention to the wrong thing for years. Imagine if your country allowed a right wing propaganda media arm to masquerade as “news” for 40 years.

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        Bro the average American is more plugged in and detached from reality than Neo was back when he was just Thomas Anderson. They don’t even know reality is out there.

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          We fully entered the realm of the hyperreal, a world where simulations of reality seem more real than reality itself. Our digital representations of reality have more influence over us than our actual material conditions…at least until we can no longer afford to eat or have a home.

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            The Century of the Self documentary is a great introduction to how we got here.

            Basically, PR was always about controlling people and never about advertising. Bernays, the father of PR, even says his intentions were to rehabilitate the concept of propaganda, because the general public had begun to see it as a dirty word following WWI.

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      The republicans have, people seem to think this all came together with trump but behind the scenes i 'll bet this is a long con to hand America to the very rich, and its worked perfectly, you just dont realise it yet, there are no more checks and balances, you arent getting another election.

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        The orchestrator of the Red Scare, MacCarthy had a left hand man, Roy Cohn.

        Roy Cohn is Donald Trump’s mentor, his other mentee was Roger Stone. Roger Stone is the one who got bush elected in 2000 by kerfuffling in Florida with proto proud boys

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        @Aliktren @ininewcrow I think they’ve been packing all the little local committees for elections and education for years. It’s not a coincidence that so many black people got kicked off voter rolls at the last minute in certain states.

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    They need round-the-clock community driven monitoring and protection.

    Might as well get started catching the fascists in the act.

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    Where I think this is gonna end up is that one of the J6ers will take matters into his own hands and off one of these judges… And F-47 will just pardon the guy. That’s your Constitutional Crisis.

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    Let me know when a judge puts the orange man or the rat in jail or prison. When they start doing their job, I will care about them.