"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Undocumented immigrants are more than a fifth of the construction work force, so deportations would severely hamper efforts to increase the housing supply. (And no, contrary to what JD Vance said, immigration hasn’t driven the recent spike in housing costs.)"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Could we easily make up for the loss of these workers by replacing them with native-born workers? No. Employment among native-born adults in their prime working years is higher than it was at any point during Trump’s first term. There just isn’t a large pool of idle but employable native-born Americans to put to work."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"For American democracy, this election has been like going to the doctor for a routine annual physical, only to be shown an X-ray revealing a sinister dark mass over the heart. ...
This election has taught me that our country has made a fundamental shift in its core values."
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
“He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler. But I voted for the man.”
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/12~ Scranton, Pennsylvania, voter Matt Wolfson
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FIAR Lightreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Pretty much it WAS their fault and 50 years of neoliberal bullshit that dems like Clintons, Obama, Biden (the worst) embraced (and Reagan, Bushes amplified). They took votes for granted; then shit on labor, the poor, BIPOC, the planet, just offering window dressing and crumbs. Of course the "answer" wasn't Drumpf and now we're all horribly, thoroughly 100% fucked to death. ALL. Including the .1%--it'll just take a wee bit longer to get to them.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"Politics isn’t about politics anymore.
That significant numbers instead see it as a vehicle to channel their fears and resentment-driven emotional instincts – beyond facts – is the existential challenge facing democracy today. ...
The tech revolution has changed everything."
~ Hardeep Matharu
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #future #disinformation
/13https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-psycho-social-techno-politics
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"For many outside of progressive, liberal, and left-leaning circles, social media platforms rife with conspiracy, disinformation, and hate are what people are seeing daily – and where they develop their sense of the world they live in. Social media is now the media."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"In this ecosystem, what matters is what resonates, regardless of how outrageous, and getting riled up is rewarded by the algorithm. Again, there is the interaction of such visceral instincts with the more factual grievance of the system not working in their interests."
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Prickly Pam (D-PA)replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
First, I have to admit I didn't read/listen to this article.
That said, many people just don't read/listen to mainstream media. They can't be bothered. It's not fun.
Instead they get their news from podcasts and TikTok videos.
Those are more entertaining to people who can barely read.
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lolonursereplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
Anyone who hasn't seen the "comedy" film A Day Without A Mexican", you really ought to! -
William Lindsey :toad:replied to FIAR Light last edited by
@LightFIAR Feel free, if you choose, to focus on the perceived shortcomings of Democrats and not the serious threat looming before all of us, and, in particular, before the most vulnerable of us.
Some of us don't have the luxury of playing that supercilious, self-defeating game. I'm among those "some of us." I refuse to entertain it, not even for a second.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to lolonurse last edited by
@lolonurse Thank you for recommending it. I haven't seen it and will look for it. I need comic relief now, for sure.
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@wdlindsy Deportation is expensive. Bullets are cheap. The final solution in the situations is always the same.
We're going to arrest and enslave people and then when we've decided we've got all we need, we'll execute the rest. This playbook was written a long time ago.
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Thinking that one way to punish states what weren't loyal to DJT would be to sweep them clean of undocumented workers.
Disruption of production. Wages rise. Local inflation. Less local purchases.
Products from loyal states stay cheaper.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Prickly Pam (D-PA) last edited by
@PricklyPam Yes, this is the case. Many people, especially ones raised with the internet, read less and less in any case — and that's surely a big part of the problem facing us now.
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@wdlindsy Some years ago a raid on 2 Missouri chicken processing plants rolled up 700 undocumented workers. Don't know if the employers were arrested. Definitely sure locals didn't cue up to fill those jobs.
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@Nazani Yes, this has gone on in waves in some places in the past decade or so. Agricultural workers in Alabama were targeted, and the upshot was that crops needing to be harvested were left to rot in the fields. Some of us are so eager to hurt others of us that it never seems to occur to us that we hurt ourselves in the process.
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@skua Yes, I could see that possibility. If so, we would all need to be very concerned about the fact that so much of our food is supplied by the blue state of California, where immigrant labor is absolutely essential (as in the rest of the country) to growing and harvesting food.
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@gooba42 Yes, when we set ourselves on this path, we need to be very aware of grim historical precedents. Many of us are low-information voters who haven't troubled to inform ourselves of that grim history.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Prickly Pam (D-PA) last edited by
@PricklyPam Yes, you're right. For many of us, the old adage, None so blind as those who see, is going to be right in front of our noses soon.
