220 points

It’s class war. It’s been class war all along.

That’s why the courts and the legacy media and the bulk of the political establishment have been at the very least enabling him - because what he’s in fact doing, and has been doing since the beginning, is working for the explicit benefit of himself and his moneyed class cronies, to the detriment of everyone else.

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66 points

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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31 points

They felt fear because of Luigi. Nothing changed. They simply must be removed.

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Luigi worried them, he didn’t cause them fear. It’s also going to take more than one single event. A line in the sand needs to be made with actual lethal consequences for crossing it. Until that happens they’ll continue doing whatever makes them richer at the expense of literally the rest of the world. One single Luigi changes nothing. A million Luigi’s would permanently solve the problem.

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10 points

They felt fear for only one minute.

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28 points

It’s basically what set off WWII and the rise of nazism. The west, monarchies and wealthy owner class saw the rise of communism and wanted to enable or at least let go of the leash that held back a mad dog set on reestablishing a new world order with their friends at the top. It also helped the legacy wealthy people that the mad dog turned his attention to the east and wanted to destroy the heart of communism. It nearly did as it killed 20 million in the eastern front and set back the soviets decades while the west accelerated with wealth.

It’s always been a class war … when you think about it, it’s never stopped.

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6 points

It’s class war. It’s been class war all along.

War implies more than one combatant. No one has been fighting for the working class.

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8 points

Very true.

I still think “class war” is the most accurate term for it though, and the fact that the working class isn’t (yet) fighting it is just the biggest reason that the moneyed class is winning (so far).

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4 points

Class domination, maybe.

As for someone fighting for working people? I summon:

Bernie Sanders

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4 points

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98 points

Wow, really? But I thought he wanted to make Mexico and Denmark pay for things, and do all’s kinda of stuff to help people?

It’s almost like some fucking idiots voted a guy into office who doesn’t care about them, and wants to create a feudalistic state or something. Like…who ever even saw that coming?

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Like…who ever even saw that coming?

Literally nobody*

*except any person having more than one braincell.

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91 points

The party who’s caused a recession every presidential term they’ve held power in my lifetime… Might cause a recession this time too???

Try to kick the football again Charlie Brown 🤷‍♂️

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20 points

Might? That’s literally why the oligarchs put him in power. So they could buy everything cheap.

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14 points

Unfortunately that’s not how a large portion of the population sees it. To many the economy a president inherits matters more than the state they leave it in.

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13 points

I don’t know why my fellow Americans can’t see the correlation

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16 points

Cause they’re dumb as fuck.

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2 points

Don’t worry it won’t be just a recession this time

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78 points

“Revealed”

Fuck you. Fuck anyone surprised by any of this. They wrote it down. They lied to your face and laughed when they were called out. If you are feigning surprise you’re either willfully ignorant or outright mental.

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6 points

I do believe those people are called the party of “Leopards eating my face”

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75 points
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I was listening to a podcast (Professional Left) and they played a clip of some caller who was saying the country voted for donvict because they wanted him to ignore the Constitution in order to deal with the emergency (I think she was talking about the border) and then “hopefully” he’d restore it afterwards.

JFC, these people are so very fucking stupid. I know, I know, Yahweh forbid we blame the fucking stupid voters that voted for this shit. Obviously this is all Biden and Kamala’s fault.

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27 points

The number of people still mad at Biden…

I work in a college financial aid office, an one of my responsibilities is outreach to former students whose loans are in delinquent or default status. This is the only part of my job that makes me want to quit, but that’s besides the point.

The number of people who rant about Biden forgiving random people’s loans but not theirs, or forgiving student loans of celebrities and athletes (that’s apparently a talking point for these people?) is staggering.

I like to remind them that 1) Biden did try to offer sweeping forgiveness of 10-20k, but he did not have the authority to do so on his own, so he acted with the authority he had, and 2) now Republicans have full control of the executive and legislative branches, so we can wait to benefit from their plan to help students. I get crickets on that last point.

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15 points

It’s basically the same group of idiots that thought Obama should’ve done more about 9/11.

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9 points

He should have. Dude should have been born earlier, beaten George Bush when running for president in 2000, and been president to stop Osama. It’s so clear now. Thank you… /s

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3 points

Shit, I’ve heard people unironcally bitching about how AOC didn’t help out during 9/11.

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3 points

Any advice on what to do about a TEACH grant that I served 3 of my 4 years ago before my state decided that trannies can’t be teachers? Did a “borrowers defense,” was told they’d maybe look into in a year lol

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These people should seriously read into German history…

Or fuck, just watch Star Wars for fucks sake if real history is too hard for them.

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10 points

I think you are greatly overestimating the average Americans media literacy skills.

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4 points

So Star Wars it is!

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5 points

I doubt that she used Cincinnatus as an example

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and then “hopefully” he’d restore it afterwards.

Because this is, of course, what happens, generally, based on historical facts.

Its well known most dictators step down, once the immediate emergency is over with, right folks?

Right?

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