It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

Philip Cardella

@wdlindsy the rest of the wealth comes from the economic collapse in 2008. People forget that part. Billionaires benefit from economic recession and depression.

While they lose perhaps more of their wealth in a concrete percentage than the average person, they don't need the vast majority of their wealth to even maintain their standard of living.

So when a recession hits a person worth $10m or $100,000 is destroyed--but their wealth is gobbled up by the super rich.

Dianora (Diane Bruce)

@wdlindsy Ellul predicted this would happen. Those that own the media control the propaganda.

William Lindsey :toad:

"Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this?"

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/20

What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?

Timothy Snyder, the author of books including "On Tyranny" and "Bloodlands," on how the President may use the Internet to try to become a dictator and create a cult of January 6th.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

Platypusman

@wdlindsy The United States is not a democracy and has never been a democracy. It is a democratic republic, or at least that was the way it was designed in the original Constitution. The two major differences between our government and a democracy are the Electoral College and the Senate. In a democracy there would be one vote for one citizen and there would be more senators to more equally represent the widely varying populations between states, like New York and Montana. For that matter, the size of the Supreme is ridiculously small considering the current population to that of the original 13 colonies. Throw in the Citizens United decision by our totally corrupt and lawless SCOTUS, and you get a big fat oligarchy, which is what our Republic, for which our flag stands, has become. So asking people if this so-called democracy is what they would prefer, is basically a joke.

Patrick Leavy

@wdlindsy you're missing the point. All those groups can live side by side (even if not really interested in each other) - it's the #algorithmicmanipulation from #bigtech #platforms that is stoking anger.

It's dividing people from other people way further than they normally would be.

Look at where people got their #news before the election...

William Lindsey :toad:

Trump proved proved "that the most vicious campaign of lies, misogyny, racism, and xenophobia ever waged—and yes, I am including his previous two campaigns—was not enough to stop nearly half the country from supporting him. …

It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be."

~ Susan Glasser

Second statement quoted by Charlie Sykes, /19 above.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/21

Even Losing May Not Stop Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance

Susan B. Glasser reflects on the stakes of the 2024 Presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

The Wookie

@wdlindsy

I don't get these ... "It's all broken" ... laments. 68M people obviously feel that Trump & what he represents was the wrong direction. If we are profoundly unserious no one would have supported a message of hope, progress, and democracy. A vast number of us still see a better path despite broken journalism & algorithms that feed the darker side of the human psyche.

When Trump fails to deliver relief to the working class & causes a recession with tariffs opinions will shift.

William Lindsey :toad:

"This election was a CAT scan on the American people, and as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption. Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative.”

~ Peter Wehner

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/22

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

Trojan Duck

@wdlindsy You see? She almost gets it. 'Almost half the country,' she writes. Well, this certainly implies that the non-racists are in the majority. Where did all those folks go? Who can say? It's all such a big mystery why these people are too stupid to vote for us. Better double-down on the queer-bashing.

William Lindsey :toad:

@todwest Whatever you need to tell yourself.

William Lindsey :toad:

@NJWookie "68M people obviously feel that Trump & what he represents was the wrong direction."

But the rest of us chose to place all power in the hands of Trump and MAGA.

patrickco

@wdlindsy @SykesCharlie Algorithms of engagement and social media broke journalism a long time ago by sucking all the attention and all the money away from journalism. We moved from a healthy intellectual diet to junk food for our brains. Trump is a consequence not the cause of that.

Trojan Duck

@wdlindsy This is your response? Seriously? Well, why do you think nearly 10 million Democratic votes disappeared? It wasn't racism.

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@wdlindsy The Truth Decay this caused has infected everything. Left leaning media can't be trusted anymore either.

William Lindsey :toad:

@patrickleavy Someone doesn't want to see the point — you're right about that.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Dawilson999 Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Dianora Yes — an excellent point.

William Lindsey :toad:

@janggolan You're welcome. Thank you for the positive feedback at a time when unsavory trolls are crawling all over social media feds like mine.

ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

@wdlindsy I mean, part of this comes down, I think, to the failure of the neoliberal consensus to actually improve the lives of most people. Especially when people are told capitalism and democracy are intertwined (they really aren't, but that's the narrative), then feel the negative effects of capitalism, why wouldn't they reject democracy?

William Lindsey :toad:

@Rworld Sorry, but I'm not understanding your question.