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      Any minority that supports trump will regret it eventually. White men are the missing piece

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      We still need to have that conversation, specifically the influence of the massive propaganda machine that control nearly half the media-watching eyeballs (viewership).

      We’ve seen our own relatives get radicalized, to no end that serves the public (or their social relationships). So what do we do to counter this wealth fueled monster?

        • We’ve just shown in November that Americans can be made to elect a literal Hitler, knowing what he intends to do. And even though the Democrats made some mistakes, they did run a solid campaign. Their losses in the battleground states were by razor thin margins.

          One factor is the giant far-right propaganda machine.

          The other, as noted by the boring British economist guy (looking… Richard J. Murphy) is that too many people live in precarity for the status quo party (the neoliberal party in whatever country – Democrats here in US, Labor in UK) to draw voters. Essentially, when you’re going to starve under King Log, then King Heron starts looking good.

          And we saw this in the elections near November 2024, far-right parties were advancing in the EU. They started going the other way after Trump and MAGA were in power in the US, mask-off and painting a ghastly picture of what a King Heron reign looks like.

          The cure for the latter is to go way progressive (e.g. FDR’s New Deal). In this case, go far more progressive than the likes of AOC or Bernie Sanders are offering (the rest of the Democratic party doesn’t like them much).

          But the cure for the former is unknown. Not known to me, anyway, and not discussed even on far left media (e.g. Breadtube) possibly because they don’t have answers either. Mind control does work, even if it’s not as beamy and instant as it is in sci-fi. And if we can’t counter it, we’ll have to discover through suffering and death why we don’t use it. And that assumes we have time before one of the other imminent great filters proves unnavigable.

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    All we need to do is to take the template of the ICE deportation emails and then change it to be “Selective Service System” along with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” images and email them to conservatives. Let’s see how quickly they change their tune.

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    I reckon there’s plenty of abhorrent MAGA women that are capable of fighting as well.

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    And while the military is too busy warring with Iran and whoever else that decides to back Iran, it makes for the perfect opportunity for the people to rise up against the government at home.

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    Do you know what the truest expression of conservative American values and bravery is?

    Human wave attacks against machine gun nests.

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      Unfortunately, they want you to be young and full of promise. The greatest sacrifices are honored most. Fucking mental cases, if you asked me.

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    Hopefully their mobility scooters are four-wheel drive. And forget solar power, charging, let them hump gas cans for Generators.

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    I’m there!!!

    Right after you go to the front line between Ukraine and Russia…

    The real problem here is that they haven’t marketed it properly. What you want to do is call it an exercise in “preserving democracy”. This would get all of these new anti-war people on board with providing endless weapons and billions upon billions of dollars to a war that we have absolutely NO business being part of!

    It’s all about the optics with those that are easily manipulated into supporting war.

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      Ukraine and Russia wasn’t started by Biden. This one however was a deliberate choice by Trump for direct US action.

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      TBH, if I had to be drafted, I’d feel 1000x better in Ukraine than Iran. Invading Iran would be like fighting against Ukraine in their straight up war of conquest, except even stupider.

      Not that I want either.