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You're talking about a guy who told an average of 21 lies per day during his first term, and you believe him when he says he has your best interests at heart?

He has no intention of putting the USA or it's citizens first. He's a liar and you've bought into his bullshit.

It's a tradition we're starting just now, but a tradition nonetheless!

When the value of your money is only measured by how much of a different currency you can exchange it for, and not it's actual purchasing power (which is 0 for 99.9% of all cryptocurrencies) then it's essentially fake money. Literally no different than the monopoly money Luigi was carrying around with him.

The important thing is that we remember. Every last one of these shitbags who are kissing the ring must never be allowed to wash their hands of the stink of Trump.

If some public figure or company kowtows to Trump, they might as well be dead to me. I'm not going to forget that shit in 4 years when Trump is gone and they try to go back to pretending that they are on our side.

Hasn't even been sworn in yet, and they're already sucking him off for doing nothing.

At least there were tiers of canon in old Star Wars. If there were ever inconsistencies in the lore, there was an easy way to determine which version of events was lore accurate and which was just a goof or a reimagining of events.

Disney doesn't seem to think there needs to be nuance like that in the stories. Axing the old canon was necessary for their new "everything with our stamp is canon" approach to work, but they haven't exactly been the most diligent stewards of the lore since then.

In this political environment, when the corporations are the kingmakers, you can't afford to not be a corporatist. Democrats and Republicans are both very pro-business, but big business likes the Republicans better because they are completely mask-off about letting them do whatever they like, while the Dems have to pretend they care about stuff like regulations to appease their voters.

Bernie, or someone like him, is essentially fighting an uphill battle. You can't take money from corporations, while simultaneously having to defend yourself from far-right extremist slander and the DNC actively trying to sabotage you so they can replace you with a corporatist. Meanwhile, Trump can be the big tent and get everybody in bed with him because the right will clearly stoop to any level to win and businesses have no scruples about who sits in the chair as long as they get a return on their investment.

It's frustrating. Maddening. We are completely screwed for the foreseeable future unless Trump manages to fuck up even worse than he did in his first term or a grassroots left wing movement really gets going in time for the next election, presuming the institution of voting isn't completely ratfucked or dismantled by then.

Probably the same people who were googling why Biden wasn't on the ticket on election day 🙄

It took centuries for the Roman Republic to fall. At some point in time, they were past the point of no return without themselves even realizing it.

I think we are in that position now. We have been on the decline for more than a decade now, and have had several opportunities to correct or reverse course, but the wrong decision is made at every opportunity because it's far easier for powerful influential people to increase their power, wealth and status at the expense of everyone else and suffer no consequences for doing so than it is for them to sacrifice their own power, wealth, and status for the benefit of the collective. Are we past the point of no return? I'd say an argument could be made for either yes or no, but we are undeniably closer to the precipice than we have ever been as a nation since the Civil War (which never truly ended).

My theory is that the type of person who falls for conspiracy nonsense is the same type of person who also succumbs to solipsism. They have a core belief that they are the protagonist of their own story, and their story can't be plain, humdrum, or boring like their daily lives had been up until the moment they "uncovered" the grand plot to deceive the world. Acknowledgement of the fact that they are not special or somehow inherently different from any other individual is psychic death, so they retreat into safe spaces and echo chambers that validate them, which make them easy targets for pseudoscience and quasi-religious beliefs.

Conspiracy allows them to indulge in the fantasy of grandiosity, while also introducing them to a community of like-minded people who will welcome them and their beliefs, and never challenge them. That makes it all the more difficult for them to break out of the spell, even when presented evidence that runs contrary to what they believe.

Best comment of the thread so far 😂

I never would have guessed, but that makes a lot of sense now. I'm on board with the theory that it's a big tax scam of some sort.