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  • Snapz@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump Takes Legal Action Against the Washington Post
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    22 hours ago

    Bezos likely wants this and was likely part of the quid pro quo for optics. Nothing will come of trump lawsuit (because nothing ever does) but sends the temporary signal, for a brief press moment, that they are somehow adversaries. WaPo is another media outlet captured by another billionaire (same as twitter, facebook, fox, new york post, wall street journal, Sinclair owned local news stations, oann and all those recent pretend online “channels” that routinely host pillow salesmen as political experts) and needs that context considered when reading any of its content.

    Bezos carries this shame for the rest of his hollow life. Anticipatory obedience, same as many gave to the nazis in lead up to the holocaust.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump’s Transition Team Head Says R.F.K. Jr. Converted Him to Vaccine Skeptic
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    3 days ago

    I’m wagering this is just pandering, not that he’s actually a vaccine skeptic.

    They count on you using your energy to do that math for them - why do you need to? Just don’t.

    Why not just believe him. He’s a fucking idiot, who (at best) doesn’t have a firm, established position on a key, fundamental part of human life into his 60s. That’s not a serious person, it’s an ignorant person at best, someone who will shift on major positions in exchange for power at worst - either way he shouldn’t be within the proximity of power.

  • Snapz@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Trump praises Chinese president for controlling citizens ‘with an iron fist’
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    7 days ago

    Yes, that’s the complexity I’m talking about. The fact that you have time to post on Lemmy, as I do, and aren’t setting something on fire, knocking on doors, etc. right now is the point. But we’re in it now, make no mistake, this is that developing moment, this is the time it can be reversed, if ever. We’re either lazy, or feel like we have too much relative comfort/friends/career standing to lose to be loud and active right now. But this is that moment, we are the frog in the pot. We’ll never realize it’s actually possible until the day after, because we need to hold on to the hope that it’s actually impossible for it to happen again, but it is possible.

    You speaking with confidence here it’s also a way for you to personally calm yourself and reaffirm that same “actually, it will never happen” mentality. That’s “them” not “us”.

    As with anything, there’s a spectrum and plenty of the complicit German citizens were all too ready to drop to their knees early - the “anticipatory obedience” that bezos and the LATimes billionaire just demonstrated by not endorsing a candidate. Some of us will always stay quietly defiant, until enough of our comfort is taken away and we’re left with no choice but to be active. But this is definitely a “flood the streets to denounce the steady rise of fascism” moment, and the streets aren’t full, and you and I are both inside right now.

    I’m not claiming a moral high ground, or providing forgiveness for bootlickers - I’m speaking to a place in the middle, where capitalism has worked very hard to make us comfortable enough, docile consumers. I include myself, because it’s all fucking hard, and society is engineered so we can find our minor reliefs, while never forgetting about the looming absolute failure waiting for you if you get off the treadmill for too long. Where your life will peel away from you in layers, until you’re left cold in the streets while pandemics rage, atmospheric rivers pour, heat domes wait around the corner and it’s illegal to sleep outside and the shelters (built by the private prison companies) are all full.

    Don’t be afraid to talk out loud about this reality we share right now, fascism is on the rise throughout the whole world now. Russia is the instigator, US is the theater and the whole world is given permission as more is tolerated here. We can feel some shame and some anger, that’s okay. Maybe it will motivate us or hopefully, maybe it will piss off the younger kids with less “stuff” and comfort amassed to lose. I was that kid, quick to jump into a dangerous crowd with a cause, with lines of tactical swat cops surrounding major intersections/freeways we occupied. I was able to do that then, because it was my decision, but my decisions are attached to other people now and, again, there’s just more complexity.