Post #2393533
2026-05-02 20:52 UTC
Replies (6)
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@foodandart@lemmy.zip 2026-05-02 21:15
What you are seeing is the end result of a fifty year long *class war* against the middle and working Americans that the rich have waged, and won. Warren Buffet was making this known [two decades ago](https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html) and no one listened.
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@thal3s@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-02 23:40
Sure the government has been corrupted and hollowed out, but the people deserve some credit. From Minneapolis Minnesota standing firm, building barricades in the streets, and bringing food to families to afraid to leave to folks in Portland directly engaging with frozen water cops, common citizens have shown they won’t roll over so easy. I also just saw on Threads this morning (ick, I know) there’s a “warehouse fire tracker” that’s up to 90 now (!).
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@cmbabul@slrpnk.net 2026-05-03 02:46
And distrust of one another! Don’t forget that important motivation
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@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 00:33
It's the failure of the managers of the Democratic party to elicit even the weakest of resistance that gets me above all else. The fascists and racists are clear about who they are. Democrats and the ruling "NPR" liberal class lie to you that they are some kind of ally simply because they expect you to vote for their proffered member of the management class.
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@stickyprimer@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 03:14
Congressional Democrats shut the government down for a record length of time in refusal to fund ICE. There are a million other things they didn’t do, but they did do this one thing.
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@Nalivai@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 19:27
It's not that the system is bad, although it's not robust enough, it's that it was totally taken over, and no system can survive that. Congress isn't inactive and complicit, it is, as well as all the other branches, under complete control of the same group of people it was supposed to keep in check, and that happened as a consequence of decades of direct political action. People felt victim of apathysation and surrendered control of their country to grifters and frauds. That happens sometimes. Better luck next time.