• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    Reading about the USA really is incredibly depressing. I just look at news articles like this, and wonder how things ever got so bad.

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        8 days ago

        It’s not hacked. Our government is working exactly as intended: for the benefit of the owning class and reinforcement of their hierarchical control over society.

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          6 days ago

          Both things can be true. But it was definitely hacked

          And by that I mean the democracy part has been manipulated over a long period so a minority has more power than the majority. That’s why religious extremists are able to achieve things like this - they’re a small group of the population, but the fascist technocrats behind it all like to use their heraldry

          But without voter suppression, breaking norms, and stacking the courts, this never would have flown

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        8 days ago

        These problems have been brewing since before we were a country. Turns out you can’t make a system that panders to racist slavers without substantial consequences.

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          6 days ago

          The cracks were always there, but it’s like global warming. Decades and decades of people ringing the alarm bell and warning signs before things come to the natural conclusion

          We’re getting real close to the find out part of both issues