Hemotep
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That does seem to be their guiding principle, which is a complete lack of principle.
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Should we be worried that this is only going to escalate conflicts in the Middle East?
Yes. Hopefully, Biden takes the advice he gave to Israel and is measured in his response.
Doubtful
The U.S. Public Has Never Been More Anti-War. Biden Isn't Taking Note — TIME
Biden has vowed retaliation for a drone attack in Jordan that killed 3 U.S. troops. But many worry about getting pulled into another war.
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threesunrises
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I saw this on twitter early this am. The first articles only stated it happened in Bucks County so I dug deeper (my daughter is in Doylestown)
This is horrifying and sick. Terrifying that people can become so brainwashed that they resort to actions like this.
Apparently the video was up for hours, and I'm sure it's still online on twitter and other places. When the war in Gaza began, I changed my twitter settings to prevent videos from autoplaying. There are some things that once seen will never be unseen.
Dtknuckles
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So yea the media diet of this person was a problem, but it’s not 100% of the story of how this person ended up at this point.
There are some crazy stats on this. So first, most millennials that have homes either had inheritance or help from their parents. Millennials are hoping for inheritance but due to skyrocketing medical expenses, they could be left with very little from their parents’ estate given that boomers have a higher life expectancy than their children. Roughly 60% of all lifetime medical costs happens after a person is over 65, and this stat is getting worse as more people age into retirement and hit an already strained health care system.
Welp... he's a poster boy for MAGA brain.
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Details emerge about background of man accused of killing, beheading father in Bucks
More and more information has been coming out about Justin Mohn, who lived with his parents in a suburban street lined with single family homes northeast of Philly.
So a person who would have benefited from a free or subsidized college education and affordable housing initiative, which are socialist ideas, turns to MAGA and the far right…Welp... he's a poster boy for MAGA brain.
Details emerge about background of man accused of killing, beheading father in Bucks
More and more information has been coming out about Justin Mohn, who lived with his parents in a suburban street lined with single family homes northeast of Philly.
It hurts my brain to imagine the mental gymnastics going on that makes them say, that the answer to all of our social ills should be for corporations to start hiring and paying people better, for landlords to not charge so much, and think that this will happen with a totally uninhibited capitalist system.
It makes no sense when you approach these issues with logic and reason.
When people’s fears are preyed upon they react out of emotion and in the moment there decisions often defy logic.
The right wing machines constant peddling of outrage and FUD keeps people in a constant state of fear. That type of stress over long periods of time will break many people.
Also, the anti-intellectual bias and religious fundamentalism of the right discourages critical thinking and makes it easier to manipulate and control people. Whenever, someone with an elite education tells you that you don’t need to go to college or shouldn’t believe experts. Be very suspicious.
It’s the usual cocktail of desperation and lies. People’s standard of living is much worse than their parents for the first time in over 100 years, if they are working in traditional blue collar roles political operators of all hues have ignored them for 40 years and so they cling to the lies of unscrupulous “rebel operators” rather than the ignorance and indifference of traditional moderate politics.
Corporations have bought our countries and people just don’t matter anymore. The world is fucked.
Bull Shannon
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I think also we encourage zero-sum thinking in America and its politics; there's a narrative that if we pooled all resources together and distributed evenly, we'd all come away with even less than what we get now. Mix up the concept of the American Dream with a fixation on personal responsibility and the result is people attributing their personal struggle to systemic failure and others' struggles to personal failure. Then a ruling class of oligarchs perpetuate those ideas ("I earned my keep fairly, so don't tax it") and leverage the American Dream so the lower class thinks they're just one lucky day away from being so rich.
From its very inception the American dream was only for a minority of rich white men from the ruling classes whilst being a utopian fairy story to quell unrest in the population at large. America is a religion and that is its founding lie.
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I tried and experience and shared this video with my father and got the result I expected.
My father completely disregarded the message here. Called the guy a commie and that video is nothing but propaganda.
So how do you get through to people like my father. I fear there is no way other than fear.
Bull Shannon
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avecigrec
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No one “earns” a billion dollars. Exploitation is the only way to make this sort of money.
You can’t, hun. He believes so many wacky things that he can’t really tell what reality is.