@339afc2d perhaps politicians have been lying about what they stand for, for a very long time since many have stood by and not done a damn thing or worse engineered much of this.
It’s a sane justice naive world
If you make the median #income or below a massive portion of your #money goes to #housing #rent #food and #transportation #gas
Those costs suck, so those metrics that keep getting trotted out don’t mean a damn for tens of millions of Americans not to mention #healthcare and people suffering from the issues of #covid
So for the #election?
Maybe focus on #ukraine and #abortion & #democracy if you want #biden to win
@62a04c04 #Fox hasn’t changed other #news #media have become more like fox in various ways.
Democratic government formed to rein in the problem with concentrated private power, well that’s the only way to fix this.
Pressure our elected government to fix it, they can regulate, tax, break up, investigate these companies & individuals until it gets better.
No, it’s not hands off the press, when the press is just billionaires propaganda machine bent on destroying democracy
@64a08a3c When you are chilling on the couch with friends, have some cocktails in you and someone clicks on a Harry Potter movie, well I have watched people react differently than I have seen the very same person react on Twitter 😂
@133a688f Over the last 30 years the tolerance, acceptance and even promotion of such cognitive dissonance has built to this point.
It started with the indoctrination that #economics should be divorced from #ethics & #politics and moved on from there
@4a23ad3a agreed, thank you for posting this
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“A Clinton-era telecommunications law granted social media companies immunity from the libel laws that newspapers and TV stations have to follow. Now we’re living with the consequences: billionaires controlling what does and doesn't count as a lie.”
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We really have to deal with the mess that is #billionaire controlled mass #media #news #information and #propaganda
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#goverment isn’t #bigbrother
We have #bigtechbros in charge
@62a04c04 ok so this #rightwing #trump supporting #gop #radioshowhost was in occupied #ukraine as an #election observer during the #russia sham #elections
Someone please look into this jerks finances
#followthemoney
If you think #voting with your dollars isn’t important or that you can separate your #consumerism from #politics
You are wrong, it’s exactly trying to elevate #greed and pretending #economics is morally neutral that got us here
https://www.rawstory.com/will2rise/
@98042630 #Trump attacked the #media but ya know, they are pretty damn messed up.
The difference is, that people like myself want to see more #regulation enforcement of #antitrust laws to break up #monoplies and stronger #labor laws and pro #union #legislation to break the hold of a few rich pricks on the narrative and stop access #journalism over actual important work for #journalists
@d936fe90 careful about that “vote blue no matter who” thing.
The best option is to turn out in droves in the primaries and nominate better democrats
Also vote for instant run off and ranked choice voting in local & state elections to fight this crazy extremism.
“The former Supreme Court lawyer for the Barack Obama administration and a Democratic senator-turned-lobbyist are pressuring justices to block Congress from ever instituting a wealth tax on the superrich…”
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Pretty damn annoying #democrats slap this down ok cuz #billionaires are a danger to #democracy
https://jacobin.com/2023/09/wealth-tax-supreme-court-katyal-safe/
#superhero #movies are ridiculous primarily because they have rich people as the heros trying to save the world when in reality almost invariably they are the ones focused on destroying it.
Yeah sure iron man 🙄
@d03d9b7e shocked I tell you I’m just shocked that the #democrats don’t even have a damn candidate 🙄🙄
Yet we will will here how it’s all up to the voters not the #dem party not the #dem big money donors not the big strategists, all of us just scrapping by well 🖕
@d6e4c7e0 and pretty dejected with the level of dysfunction, corruption and abject failure of the Texas gop that the Dems can’t seem to get their $hit together to make any headway in that state.
@62a04c04 also with the massive blanket of right wing radio in rural Wisconsin which is then echoed on people’s FB none of that will get out to tens of thousands of cheeseheads
@e155a6e8 I’m pretty sure the way massive companies like Microsoft Apple Google is etc look at it is “I’ll do what I want. screw you, whatcha going to do about it it?”
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The government isn’t going to help, they’ve been neutered.
@467d5e7a it’s a flag that has blue stripes honoring law enforcement which is now corrupt since it’s defund the fbi & defund the doj time so all that is left is god and who doesn’t like little dogs.
Seriously people are nuts
@62a04c04@a3d6e30a as the election season heats up, we will see waves of trolls here on the fediverse. I’m not sure folks are ready for it. The old timers on the fediverse despise such things and are going to go nuts. Those who fled from Twitter have a higher tolerance and may get caught in the crossfire
@kravietz 🦇 the reoccurring bane of our times #profitsoverpeople
Tax the damn rich subsidize the farmers protect the freaking Black Sea shipping routes
@f8d9bc1c 🤔 it’s hard for me to read while: driving, jogging, working out, doing housework, grocery shopping
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But I can listen to podcasts while I do those things
It’s basic time management
@f8d9bc1c Truthsocial 2.0 bigger better with sports betting and talk radio like streams along with a home shopping network featuring crypto bros and stock pushers
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There ya go
@845afb93@83462892 😊 my lady listens to audiobooks at 1.25 and 1.5 speed I’m not sure how she can do that, I like the readers too much to turn them into chipmunks 🐿
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