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[–] voaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And again, because he's a Zionist, Bernie leaves out the elephant in the room: Israel.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 121 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump is just the symptom, he is not the disease.

When he leaves office (by hook or by crook) the disease will remain; they have purchased replacements already.

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

Like Squid Game -- the billionaires have already chosen a replacement and continuing the operations.

[–] Jarix@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

He is absolutely a disease, he just isn't the only one

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

yeah we need stronger anti trust laws

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[–] br0da@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That’s a long list of companies I’m not going to fuck with anymore. They can produce whatever they want, doesn’t mean we have to consume it.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 week ago (15 children)

We are absolutely NOT obligated to consume ANY of that corporatist shit.

Best thing I did was get rid of my TV when I cut the cable back in 1999.

My current TV is a 50" budget "special needs" 4k Hisense I use for gaming. That's it.

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Arr 🏴‍☠️

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It won't be hard to avoid. Most of it is going to be lame propaganda that you wouldn't want to watch anyway.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're also going to go full-on into AI slop, which you likewise won't want to watch.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The slop is INSANE!

I've been "Do not recommend channel"-ing my youtube feed for the last few weeks., it went off the rails when my brother sent me a link to some "HFY" sci-fi short story.

I had no idea those were all AI content and once I watched part of one.. holy cats, that was it.

Say goodbye to my carefully curated home page.

FUUUUCCK!

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been diligently curating mine for about 3-4 months, and it's gotten a lot better. Be sure to keep at it.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I already don't watch any of them, but now I can have a chip on my shoulder about it. Win/win.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Consuming it, but not paying them anything for it, is also an option, but I certainly respect avoiding it altogether out of principle.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

We really dont talk enough about how Trump and the modern right was made possible by 90s politicians. Those dumbass "new democrats" who basically decided to be Reagan Lite and the Republicans who happily turned the wheel even further right in response.

[–] krzschlss@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The American "Left" calls it "Lesser Evil" while screeching "Vote blue no matter who" on TikToks and Youtubes to a braindead audience.

We've heard Trump "fighting" for peace during the election campaign, and now his circle of friends has free reign to murder and bomb at will. We've seen Bernie and Hillary denying the genocide in Gaza while the genocide was happening in front of our eyes. They are all grifters. They come out of their holes when their respective party needs promotion and donation money for another election that won't change shit.

Meanwhile their MAGA and "vote blue no matter who" underlings slide further right without noticing...

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Pretty remarkable that they control that much and still can't meaningfully control culture.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Have you not noticed the global rise of fascism fueled by billionaire owned media companies controlling the narrative?

Over here in Europe, it's extremely obvious. Everything a left-wing party does is scrutinized, every new right-wing scandal is barely worth mentioning.

Lemmy is just a left-wing bubble. Lots of people watch TV and simply believe most things they see.

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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't they?

"You don't need 100% of the people to love you. You need 10%, fuckin' pissed. You have followers. I have soldiers."

  • Stormfront, The Boys (paraphrased)
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So refreshing to see another person who realizes this didn't happen overnight and has been an incremental and bipartisan project.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately, the US education system teaches that everything is compartmentalized and not interconnected to other actions by government. A cut here, a clip there, before we know it, the entire tree has been taken down.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised."

Ah man, the end of that quote must've gotten cut off by a guillotine or something

[–] AffineConnection@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Good thing this isn't Reddit.

[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

On the plus side, half of those are effectively dead.

[–] GarboDog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

NOT CARTOON NETWORK!!!!

[–] Bieren@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well do something about it other than post on social media. You are the politician in DC.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Bills don't get the kind of popularity social media posts do.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

They also are often used as performance pieces. A politician introducing a bill that is doomed to failure is not helpful, nor does it accomplish anything.

"Oh but it's important that they introduce them so that when congressmen vote no we have a record and-"

Shut. The. Fuck. Up. If I have to hear the "important to have a record" argument again I'm gonna scream. It is not important to have a record because the record doesn't mean shit. We've had records going back decades, it doesn't sway people in any meaningful way and it's foolish to pretend it does.

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[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bust that shit up. I can't believe we just let this sort of monopoly happen. Further proof that both parties are corporate-owned and always have been.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Democrats always lay the foundations for Republicans to further subjugate the working class

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Perhaps we should stop blindly believe what’s presented to you in the media, especially if it aligns with your views.

[–] AlexLost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Arrr mateys, it be smooth sailing on these here high seas.

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[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Cool, I've just stopped watching all of these because they mostly suck, seems to be an easy boycott

Just in time for cable to become completely irrelevant.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

I'm more glad for ditching cable than ever.

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