That’s what 60+ years of fascism-directed conservative politics distributed by the likes of Fox News, systematic defunding of public education, and an almost complete halt in wage increases so 90% of the population no longer has any discretionary income and is essentially forced to work paycheck to paycheck has given us. It’s working exactly as intended.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
-President Lyndon B. Johnson
The US is an experiment in how much the people will take before they actually start a revolution. Turns out they take it all and they won’t start a revolution ever.
My limited knowledge of history suggests that it’s always something really random that finally sets off a revolution. Real “straw that broke the camel’s back” stuff. For example, Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire and suddenly the entire Middle East is experiencing the Arab Spring. There was a lot of discontent leading up to it, but in the grand scheme of things, nobody could have predicted that that would be the final straw.
To borrow some terminology from Criminal Minds, there’s a difference between a stressor and a trigger.
Damn autocorrect, it was expanded saying now it can fix grammar and stuff beyond just spelling, but then it completely ignores that same stuff if it’s close enough. Technically I guess that sentence still made sense, and it’s not smart enough to discern context.
Every few years I go “ugh autocorrect is terrible, I’m turning it off!” And in the past I have eventually come back to it. Not anymore. Going without autocorrect is actually better than having it in 2025.
To be clear, those conservative politics are shared by both parties. How often do you see Blue Dig Democrats extolling Clinton for balancing the budget (by cutting welfare) or Biden for securing the border (by locking more migrants in cages)
That’s what 60+ years of fascism-directed conservative politics distributed by the likes of Fox News, systematic defunding of public education, and an almost complete halt in wage increases so 90% of the population no longer has any discretionary income and is essentially forced to work paycheck to paycheck has given us. It’s working exactly as intended.
The US is an experiment in how much the people will take before they actually start a revolution. Turns out they take it all and they won’t start a revolution ever.
My limited knowledge of history suggests that it’s always something really random that finally sets off a revolution. Real “straw that broke the camel’s back” stuff. For example, Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire and suddenly the entire Middle East is experiencing the Arab Spring. There was a lot of discontent leading up to it, but in the grand scheme of things, nobody could have predicted that that would be the final straw.
To borrow some terminology from Criminal Minds, there’s a difference between a stressor and a trigger.
We USAmericans love our bread and circuses!
Bad bread and boring circus 🤷♂️
Going to assume you meant “defunding of public education”, heh.
Damn autocorrect, it was expanded saying now it can fix grammar and stuff beyond just spelling, but then it completely ignores that same stuff if it’s close enough. Technically I guess that sentence still made sense, and it’s not smart enough to discern context.
They CLAIMED AI fixes this. Of course it’s a lie.
If anything autocorrect keeps getting worse. I’m pretty sure apple keeps deleting wrongthink words from the dictionary on their devices.
Every few years I go “ugh autocorrect is terrible, I’m turning it off!” And in the past I have eventually come back to it. Not anymore. Going without autocorrect is actually better than having it in 2025.
To be clear, those conservative politics are shared by both parties. How often do you see Blue Dig Democrats extolling Clinton for balancing the budget (by cutting welfare) or Biden for securing the border (by locking more migrants in cages)
I never tried to claim the Democrats haven’t followed right behind the Republicans as they marched their happy asses straight towards fascism.