Around the 1970’s the oligarchs realised that the greatest risk to their wealth and power was democracy, so they set about implementing corporate dictatorships and ramped up the class war.
Fascism, culture wars, etc, etc are just a means to achieving their ends; that they can profit from the entire coup.
Fascists, sociopaths, and psychopaths don’t believe in free speech. They can’t be shamed. They don’t care about hypocrisy. They don’t possess morals or ethics. They don’t believe in the meaning of words.
They will claim to be the good guys until the very end.
These people are not well in the slightest. They are mentally ill, and capitalism continues to empower their sociopathic megalomania.
The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying ALL socialist/liberal/democratic advances made to date, and returning the working class to ignorant destitution; much easier to control and brainwash mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).
Rest in piss indeed
When profits are involved, always assume malice.
The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person or marketing team will lie to make a sale).
This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and other wealthy narcissists several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the same corporations/oligarchs.
No war but class war, and the capitalist class is winning.
Oppose genocide? Believe it or not, straight to jail!
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They’re psychopaths. Not completely demented fucking morons.
Sky News AU (not affiliated with the UK) is the closest equivalent to Fox News this decade, since Murdochs fascist state media machine was working so well in the US.
Which is rather ridiculous, because the IDF didn’t need any assistance to make them look bad.
Capitalism guarantees externalities are shouldered by society, as that’s most profitable.
You don’t succeed in business by cleaning up the mess you make.
Yeah but most people are idiots, so…
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I’ll give you a hand… The implication is that you need to be brain damaged to want a toilet cam.
Imagine how much value would have been created if the several hundreds of billion spent on the shitty VR sims went to wages, or taxes, or healthcare.
But no. We should all marvel at the efficiency of the oligarchy!
Have you tried brain damaging yourself? If that fails, repeat until you something or whatever.
Eh. I don’t use bsky, and think most current ICE staff should be imprisoned for terrorism for the rest of their lives, but I don’t want any communications services to decide which entities should and shouldn’t be verified. That’s how you end up with power-tripping mods, propaganda bubbles, and censorship (exactly what fascists are doing with X, fb, tiktok, etc).
The goal should be an open protocol where users/orgs can sign messages cryptographically (like PGP) and every other user can decide which users, feeds, or algos they subscribe to without censorship. Like, if I subscribe to my friends and family (trusted sources), or friends of friends, I don’t want any form of moderation between them and me, but the freedom to sub to moderated topics is also necessary for public (untrusted sources) feeds/comms.