• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Not people

    Paid pundits who’s sole job it was to keep the US population distracted over dumb shit while real shit was happening

    This has been a thing in the US for what, decades, now? It’s pretty much the sole reasons for Fox News existence, to distract people with bullshit so that the billionaire thugs can rob the coffers dry

  • saltesc@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    No. US media was talking about it as they pushed narrative. Americans, who live and die by their social and news media feeds, then started copying that, as usual.

    They don’t think for themselves, they just follow their feeds and timelines. If their feed stops talking about Epstein, so do they. If their feed starts talking about Iran, so do they. Literally that’s all that happened with the tan suit and why the ballroom is nothing.

    Hell, scroll through Lemmy’s ‘Hot’ and ‘New’ feeds while the US is active if you need to see it in action.

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      4 months ago

      This… This is a link aggregator website. It exists to link to external sources and discuss them. I’m sorry did you think this was Original Thoughts dot com?

      • saltesc@lemmy.world
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        No, This is politicalmemes and a comment section anywhere is for expression and discussion, but especially more common for memes. Kinda the whole point of the culture of it existing.

        What I do think is you’ve given an excellent example of irony… dot com; or whatever.

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          You literally specify about Lemmy’s Hot and New feeds, why would you try to bluff about only talking “memes”?

          It’s ok to be wrong some times. Bit embarrassing though to, 2 comments lower, claim you meant something else.

  • Klox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Yeah and those several times Obama shit his pants on camera. Oh, right, that’s President Dump.

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    He’s literally only saying this as a distraction. From the Epstein files and now Iran (which was originally a small distraction from the Epstein files).

    THAT’S CRAZY! WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES?

  • joelle_ether@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    I really just can’t take people who support this seriously anymore. Either admit you got conned or you’re a big ol jerk who’s profiting from the destruction of America, which one? You haven’t “owned the libs” or anything, you just made yourselves look like the biggest dupes ever.

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    4 months ago

    I think it was the black guy more than the tan suit that they took exception to.

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    4 months ago

    Shit at least he didnt express a preference for Dijon mustard. Because that would be clfucked up.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Obama was not just a black president, but a well-spoken, intelligent, knowledgeable black president who navigated the US out of the subprime mortgage crisis and won a second term despite all efforts by the GOP to wreck his chances.

    Granted, he still abused the disposition matrix, failed at his promise of executive transparency, ratcheted up surveillance of Americans to eleven and stuck to neoliberal policies which still pulled wealth up from the working class to the ownership class, but the conservatives and Republicans had no complaint about any of this. These grievances came from the left.

    But how dare he be a black man, and far more competent than Bush!? (Curiously, he got a Nobel Peace Prize just for not being Bush. Even Obama was surprised and admitted he hoped to earn it during his tenure.)

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      Many racists, maybe even most, don’t recognize that they are racist. They have some other excuse in their head for why they hate somebody.

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    Yeah let’s leave it up and use it for advertising. Nothing says sophistication more than an ad of Goya Beans in front of your house.

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      Honestly, I agree. This should stay. Maybe the next time a spot next to Trump opens up, all his sycophants can fight it out in a cage…