114 points

These people are crazy and very dangerous. I hope Americans - and especially American media - can stop bothsidering Joe and unhinged fascist craziness like this.

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42 points

But Joe didn’t stop the genocide!

You know, by acting unilaterally… In a foreign country over which he has no authority… Mired by centuries of dissent…

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25 points

Right, he didn’t actively say he’s a Zionist and pledge support no matter what Israel’s actions.

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So “both sides” because Biden believes Israel should be allowed to exist? 🙄

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8 points

he could have stopped all military aid and placed sanctions to the maximal extent of presidential authority and pressured congress into doing what he alone can’t. he hasn’t even denounced the genocide. the CIA has couped countries for much less bad things, why not now?

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29 points

Listen I don’t like Biden’s support of Isreal right now either but to not vote for him just because of that is lunacy- allowing Trump to win will result in a genocide within our own nation. Just look at project 2025, the Trump crowd is planning it.

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2 points

That’s a complicated question with an even more complicated answer. The two words I will use are geopolitical advantage.

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7 points

“Ok, so he did stop the genocide. But he didn’t stop it fast enough! Oh, the same day you say? Well he didn’t stop it from happening in the first place!”

You can’t argue with people who aren’t really arguing.

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It’s not the average American you have to worry about … it’s the corporate controlled media companies that are pushing this narrative.

If you opened up the stage for people to speak up, they wouldn’t want any of the people that are in place right now.

The media and the establishment are the ones who drive the narratives because they are the ones with all the money and control.

So average people aren’t deciding on wanting someone like Trump … it’s corporate heads and wealthy backers who are promoting, advertising and pushing this narrative because that’s what they want.

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13 points

If these stories didn’t sell, the media wouldn’t run them. Yes, they should be objective and stop being culpable in this ongoing assault on American democracy… but they’re serving a market.

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10 points

They’re not serving a market … they’re serving a master.

The general media is not an independent entity that does things to make a bit of money … they are a tool that is used by corporations and the wealthy elite to corral people into a certain mindset and beliefs … that eventually lead everyone into electing only those people that are marketed to them.

“It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They’ve long since bought and paid for the senate, the congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.” - George Carlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Zqbg6QThg

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5 points

People wanting to read crazy, unhinged, insane, chaotic garbage about how the world is falling apart doesn’t mean that they want it to keep happening or that they approve or that they think these are the right people to have in charge.

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So you’re blaming capitalism? I’m very much with you on that one. Except that the job of media is not to make money, but to report objective fact, and have people pay for that. You seem to have it backwards, otherwise there’d be no news, only sports, gossip, and porn.

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And that’s why, even though finally Biden opened his mouth to tell corporations to stop price-gouging, prices are still high.

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The propaganda machinery is total. They dictate to us what we can even talk and think about just like those 24/7 radios from 1984 installed in everyone’s homes (which was a real thing in the Soviet client states, by the way)

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8 points

The fate of the country doesn’t matter silly, ratings do!

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Dude, they are the worst fanatics there, but this shit has spread all across the world. I can’t even recognize my own country anymore, used to be one of the most socially progressive nations in the world. All it took was a little bit of consistent funding to right wing extremist groups over twenty years, which is nothing to achieve such dramatic political aims. With the help of the amoral conservative “private enterprise is more efficient than government ~for the capital~”, people just sleepwalked straight into it.

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The worst part is that I can’t even figure out where your from with that description. Netherlands? UK? New Zealand?

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44 points

I didn’t read the article, but I watched the “rally.”

It’s been a while since all this shit gave me the chills. That is, or rather should be, legitimately very, very concerning language…

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes. Let’s punch it in the throat before it can finish this bar.

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History only repeats itself when people forget about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRmHOSnehTk

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42 points

Yeah that’s what the Catholic Church told us in Québec during the great darkness. (La Grande Noirceur) That if we didn’t vote for the then leader of the Union Nationale party, Maurice Duplessis, we would go to hell.

The Catholic Church was promptly kicked out when the boomer generation finally reached voting age and the silent revolution began.

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27 points

Until every Catholic school is removed from public funding, I’m gonna continue to be pissed at the Canadian government for giving those fucks my tax money.

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4 points

Amen brother.

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3 points

Is this irony?

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0 points

Aren’t Boomers usually more Protestant? I’m only like half joking

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10 points

In Quebec?

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5 points

boomers are a generation not a religion

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Yeah but they’re all in on all the “work and die by the sweat of ur brow”, “no help, no hand”, “suffer alone and pull yourself up by your bootstraps”, “you’re responsible for everything and you get nothing and ai get everything” etc.

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3 points

Not in Quebec. It’s a French thing I suppose?

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2 points

This is more of an outside Quebec thing prolly aha, Quebec is/was bery Catholique

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41 points

Christcucks commit more blasphemy than actual pagans.

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If they really thought Hillary was the devil, they’d worship her.

I guess Baphomet for president it is.

We all know he is going to win, right?

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36 points

There’s no way either outcome in the 2024 election will resolve without at least some sort of attacks from the far-right, and I can’t imagine what would happen after a Trump victory. The fate of the nation hangs by a silver thread.

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And next time, project 2025 will ensure there are no more threads for our democracy to hang from, in addition to helping Putin to destabilize the cis region and boost his ussr resurrection dream, catapulting us ever closer to wwiii

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9 points

May we stop living in interesting times…

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3 points

civil war either way. not even being hyperbolic

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