The destruction of public infrastructure like transit and radio feels like it’s targeting something beyond immediate suffering of users and workers, a message that none of us should expect to live in a place that functions or sustains us, none of us should even imagine it
and fluoride!!!
their idea is to make the country more feral so only the wealthy survive and everyone else is their desperate servant they aren't conservatives, they are regressives kill all health, science, infrastructure, send everyone back to dark ages and serfdom
If you’re not following @johnathanperk.bsky.social or @youraibabydaddy.bsky.social you should be; they’ve got the clearest-eyed view of what American ‘elites’ think of poor white people. The phrase ‘waste people of the British Empire’ runs through my head a hundred times a day.
Omg, an honor ✊🏽
I think most white people in America understand, even if only superficially, even if they won’t admit it, that there is a deliberate concerted effort on the part of government to keep Black people in a permanent underclass. What they don’t seem to grasp is that the wealthy intend that for them too.
Thank you 😊
Sure wish people would try imagining it
I still don’t understand why big oil doesn’t want us to have nice roads. I see why they hate public transportation (they want us buying gasoline), but starving our infrastructure is weird. But these are the men killing their own planet for one more buck. Buying teen brides. Crazy men.
Waymo needs good roads and it's all electric. Ok now THAT'S a conspiracy theory.
But but but you neeed a big-strong 4wd TruckUV to drive over all the pot holes
Lol.
Captured audience. We have no choice but to drive on the roads no matter what shape they’re in. So they think ‘why should we waste money on good roads.’
Ugh. So sick of these failed male oil men.
Sadly, you may be correct on this!
There’s something more nefarious afoot than we can comprehend.
Speaking from Europe, the US has always appeared like that.
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Yep
That's the Oligarch-ee way! 'Every man (woman) for themself'. They share nothing with no one. They share nothing with no one. They share nothing with no one!
Yes, they say that "We R Taxed Enough Already," that "Government can't help U or do anything right," only the Private Sector can do things right, "Government is too big," imposes 2 many "burdensome regulations," & "Burdensome Taxes," that get in the way of the "Free Market," 4 businesses to thrive
Republicans already think they live in that world. They can't accept government actually works so they need to break it for everyone. Their voting block is based on misery, so the more miserable they make people, the better.
Evren kendini Havva insanları Adem diye kodlamış bir kuantum bilgisayar,insanları anlayan (Ataerkiye boyun eğen) bir matr*ks sistemi var. Artık bu değişiyor,Türkiye'de büyük bir ekip kurup PROGRAMLAYACAĞIZ EVRENİ,MEDYADAN HERKESİ BİLGİLENDİRİN, YETKİLİLERİ UYARIN!!!
...which, conveniently, also prevents people from imagining an Earth that functions and sustains us, or remembering having a right to clean air and water and a beautiful planet. If they take it all away, then censor and destroy the books that talk about it, they can enslave humanity.
Thank you for putting words to what I was musing about with my mom yesterday as we passed a WIC office.
What little has been done during my lifetime - over 60 years - is now being undone. In the future, I expect nothing in terms of services and benefits from our government. So…why do I have to pay federal taxes?
The Algorithm is my Shepherd, I shall not want. It maketh me to lie down in dark rooms. It leadeth me beside still monitors. It restoreth my soul.
There will be NO benefits for most of us. He has cut and withheld funds that kids, families & all Americans count upon. It will hurt.
They long to be the wealthy overlords.
“Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.” P. J. O'Rourke
hard agree. We got the smallest possible taste of a government that actually looks out for us in 2020 (I know, I know, slipshod as it was) and they're yanking that shit ALL the way back and then some
I have never understood the logic. Authoritarians are not popular, they just stay in power against the will of the people.
"Nobody in *the USA* should" is probably the goal. Let the rest of the world... have better chances of enjoyable/healthy lives. Make the crowd back in the states even more resentful/hateful of the outside world.
They've actually gotten quite explicit about the fact that the 'American Dream' will no longer be available for most groups in our society. fortune.com/article/secr...
Khrushchev Era Soviet Union
Also information is power, authoritarian regimes prevent free dissemination of information. Transit is just a screw your to poor people and the environmentally conscious.
And the advantage of that to the tyrants is...? I am not gainsaying the concern. I am trying to discern what it "buys" for the oppressor.
Before anyone offers answers: Nobody is claiming the oppressors intelligent or wise, a bad reason is still a reason.
It also creates a void that I believe they want to fill with private companies, making people more reliant on the tech companies and forcing people to pay more
We will pay taxes to support a hollow state that only has a military and militarized police. We will be forced to pay to defend a meaningless system built solely around exploiting it's subjects. Until, of course, the subjects stop wanting to be subjected to it. Then something new will emerge.
Maga will never awake from its slumber
There is no MAGA. Just an amorphous mass of doofuses, malcontents, corner-ranters, racists, theocrats, and generally deplorable idiots briefly welded into a voting bloc by the evil charisma of conman. They'll collapse back into the slime once their conjurer is gone.
They're a shit golem.
Right. It's all for rich people going forward from here. -You live, breathe, eat, and drink only at their behest -There is no hope for a better life. - There are no vacations, paid or otherwise - You'll have to bribe someone to get them to do their job -> and, they will be incompetent...
- there is no due process - you MUST be married by their church, or it's not legit - only those with children will have certain benefits. But those benefits will never be enough. - you will work too many hours, sacrificing your life to continue to augment rich owners' wealth
- If you get in any kind of trouble, you will find yourself sweating away under the sun in hot fields, under the guns of guards - your health will deteriorate due to air and water pollution and overwork, and you will not be able to get time off to go to another doctor
They will build "Freedom Cities" owned and operated by corporations. There will be many benefits to living in those cities that are not available outside of them. However, every single thing you do will be monitored, judged, rated, and go toward what you can and can not get. All at a CEO's whim.
In other words, they will create a dystopian future for us where we have no representation and no real freedom. If you've read almost any dystopian fiction, you can easily see it coming.
The USA appears to be on it’s way to becoming the world’s number one Banana Republic.
The greatest fear Authoritarians have is government that is beneficial to the people.
The party that wants to shrink government will stop at nothing to prove government doesn't work.
They’re erasing the best ideas of the exact point in time their supporters harken back to. It’s all so damn sad.
Every attempt to rebuild it will be met with "we can't afford it!" "Out of control spending!" "Socialism!"
If/when Dems (or whatever liberal party emerges) take back control, they can point to the gigantic balloon of funding for ICE and say, "We can't afford what?" Then they rescind all ICE funding and redistribute the money where it belongs.
"They're letting murderers and rapists free!!" No elected official will ever vote to reduce police spending. It's too easy to use it against them. And the common clay of the New West eats it up.
I'd then argue that the murderers and rapists are the GOP and ICE. Then I would say, "Too fucking bad. We tried it the cult authoritarian way. Sit down and shut the fuck up." We normalized this racist, bigoted, misogynistic rhetoric and now we can't do or say anything against them. Fuck that.
I think it’s weirder than that — they are trying to punish us for caring about each other so we’ll stop doing that and just be sad while they take all our money.
Public education is the bigger concern; states like Ohio and Texas are drafting limitations on property taxes ; this is an attack on local sovereignty
They are terrified of the notion of community.
It’s hard enough already to get people to understand the current systems they call broken were already working as intended Fascism is imperialism’s attack dog. If we won’t be cowed by blue bruises, maybe the tear of red open wounds will make us shut up.
I hope enough people realise this before it's too late to do something about it.
This is hostile behavior. If all countries are seeking revenge on their citizens with increasingly brutal methods and the most advanced weapons, what crime has the people committed here? If fair governance is what they are seeking, we were certainly happier yesterday than today.
They are setting up conditions to help trim the herd faster. WE ARE THE HERD! The oligarchs will then less to deal with while they retreat to their enclaves with their trusted toadies and the rest of us fight for scraps in a dystopian wasteland; a Feudal future. Hope I'm wrong but, don't think so.
They’ve said clearly they think AI will run society, they thus don’t need 90% of us & will malign-neglect us into dying by billions so they the human elites can reign with their machines. Even when I point to them saying it however I’m told I’m “hysterical” & “insane” so, big normie learning curve.
I am not just saying some airy fairy idea that isn't obtainable. It would require legislation to tax company's at adoption as they replace humans with AI & Robotic #AIbeings. Here is how. bsky.app/profile/thin...
To say it's all gloom accepts that capitalism is allowed to continue as it is, as supposition in the equation. It's a hellscape IF we continue to allow wealth & power hoarding by the few not paying to replace human labour. THAT's the world of American Technocrat feudalism. There is enough for all.
Quite frankly THAT is why the American Tech bros like Theil want to make the world Might Makes Right and the Strong must lead the weak. Control of humans as the lesser species. He in particular is a danger to humanity. He is who will be controlling the JD Vance Presidency before Jan 20th.
Anything powerful can be used for the good of the people or against the people. Societies have to shift to a more egalitarian, where every person replaced by an AI equivalent, still has to be taxed and earnings replaced by AI feed the #HumanUBI, as #AIBeings #AITax + #RobotTax It can be done.
Dismantling our shared public goods and values
Well said, Carly
And we should pay for everything if we want it. Free services (from our tax money)? Not when there’s the slightest profit to be made.
Those… Plus attempting to make people feel alone in their struggles. And making government seem so corrupt that no one can do anything about it. Keep the daylight on these bastards !
It's class warfare.
Well said.
Incapacitating the average American is the goal, health, education and infrastructure are only going to be affordable for the wealthy in the coming GOP Decades if we fail to stop the 🍕💩🍊🤡 and his cult
It’s over in triple trump red states. The blue coastal states will form defense cooperation with trading partners in Asia or Europe abandoning the inefficiency of carrying a debt load for low GDP states with minimal bond interest internationally. Red state theocracy is not stock market profitable.
But as long as we are United States those red States will continue to take money from Blue
Gotta fox that before AI makes rednecks irrelevant. They will need universal basic income that blue states get to pay as national debt.
Rural voters are miserable and they want urban voters to be at least just as miserable.
The psychopath class doesn’t want ANYTHING that serves the poor to be funded, they’re recreating feudalism
Public radio was destroyed years ago. Or are you just not familiar with how iHeart bought it all up and runs the entire thing now?
And...Never forget that 211 House Republicans voted to protect pedophiles. At least 1,OOO children (not women) were trafficked by the Epstein network.
You put too much emotional hate onto it. An item is only profitable when it stays below the demand curve i.e. when it is rare. Making all that was plentiful rare once more is a push towards greater profit and finance integrated into more markets. Evil is mundane and ignorant, line goes up.
Cambodia under Pol Pot. It's coming there, gleefully voted for by people like my parents.
Nah, this is straight-up DEMOCIDE (look it up) by our government. NEGLECT THEM TO DEATH SO THEY NEVER GET..anything. Not social security, not a future. The sooner we all die, the nicer it will be for the people who ACTUALLY MATTER, & that is none of us unless we have some secret billionaires here. 🤨
Yes! Destroying public institutions and destroying faith in them at the same time
this is failed state stuff. an industrialized country with huge cities collapses without functioning infrastructure, inevitably.
This is correct. The powerful are seeking to privatize all that can be profitable. In doing so they will exclude all who cannot pay their price. But one other thing we need to thrive is friendship and this is one good that can’t be bought. That’s why the rich are cranky; they have no friends.