It’s simply because the ruling billionaire class believes there are too many people in the world and they simply want most of us dead. They fully understand how little money it would cost. However, providing health care other things that people need are counter productive to their goals.
They will not give it to you. They will manipulate you by teasing it as a possibility.
No cdc, usaid, hhs, etc. Nothing that keeps you alive. They want you dead, they want pandemics to thin the herd. Wars are great, they make rich richer and kill poor people, really efficient.
Not yet. Have to perfect the robot worker first. They push too hard and people will push back, and they know this. Fortunately people are also good at infighting among themselves and losing focus, which is what they fuel a lot.
Absolutely you can, when your leadership doesn’t feel accountable to you in any way.
I’ll never understand until the day I die how any American can watch their tax dollars used to bomb the shit out of a country, and then their tax dollars used to rebuild that same country…and see that as a win.
Oil down, markets up, keep believing the illusion and everything will surely be ok…
It’s been since happening since Nixon was pardoned.
You aren’t seeing the opinions of the average American. The average American has no idea what is going on until they ask their coworker why the gas prices are so high. The average American has a coworker that is happy to inform them of the mainstream media narrative, basically telling them that all they can do is “vote”. Occasionally getting a MAGA perspective depending on where they live.
But, they won’t get pushed into organizing and, quite frankly, they don’t have the time or money to even start.
The average American then thinks “hmmm, that doesn’t sound right but I don’t have time or energy to investigate that”.
They move on with their day so long as they can stay above water by leveraging credit card debt and whatever amount of gig work they can fit in. On the rare days they have off work they will recover by either scrolling videos or going out with friends that are just as unknowledgeable about the world as they are. Maybe some of them get a short explanation of the gas prices from a video they watched.
The average American needs their working class conditions improved to give them time to educate themselves. “Wow, they pay for child care in New York City? Thats what socialism is?”. This is our one last hope at educating the masses. I don’t think electing 100 Mamdani’s will change our system from within. But, it is however, the best way to educate and show the population what political power that favors the working class can do.
Either that or, the entire countries material conditions need to decline so drastically that the population is forced into action because they literally can’t afford bread to eat. And that will result in higher degrees of fascism as the capitalist state defends itself; and “century of humiliation” levels of conditions will result in America after our empire lashes out to the rest of the world.
Yeah it’s the last thing unfortunately. It’s already started on the margins of society (disabled, socioeconomically isolated). We just had a disabled person kill themselves in Canada in protest. It starts there and slowly works its way up the status ladder until it’s serfs and lords again.
Not sure there is a solution, more like it’s just a cycle built into a greed based system.
The average American has no idea what is going on until they ask their coworker why the gas prices are so high
At which point the average American tilts their head in confusion, seemingly unaware that the US is at war, then complains that everything is political nowadays
Or they get a spoonful of MAGA propaganda, as you mentioned
Propaganda, it works
Many people don’t think. They feel.
When their in-group is going along with something, they go along with it, too. Feels good to them. It’s a high.
That’s it. That’s the problem. It’s a big part of why republicans vote against their real-life interests. They’re more concerned with chasing the high of being part of the in-group. So, sure, Trump might lose a lot of money and influence and everything, but he’s our tribe-mate!
It’s stupid. Worse then children. Worse than dogs.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
- LBJ
Now that I think of it, it makes perfect sense that they’re always screaming “indoctrination” when left wing ideas like environmentalism or basic kindness are taught to children… they don’t think it’s based on reality, just the opposing “feeling” side of their own version of reality. No facts, just feelings. And those feelings go against what their tribe says.
This meme sums up everything there is to say about the U.S.: This war is an act of aggression against a sovereign state that is completely contrary to international law. It doesn’t matter at all how inhumane the ruling regime is (if that were the case, both the U.S. and Israel would be held accountable for their crimes).
It really is all too telling: The U.S. is deliberately bombing schools, where hundreds of children are being torn to pieces by the bombs, but all U.S. citizens care about is how much of their tax money is being spent.
This country is beyond redemption; it is the embodiment of evil. Your president represents this country as well as anyone could: absolute selfishness, absolute inhumanity. That is the U.S.
Pretty sure the meme is expressing that most US citizens would have preferred spending money on fixing our own problems instead of bombing innocents.
This meme expresses what reasonably educated U.S. citizens think. And it’s not even the irrational MAGA cult, which has no foothold in the Fediverse. These are U.S. citizens expressing their opinions on this platform. And their opinion is that the heinous war crimes committed by their governments don’t matter—only their own well-being does.
If these are supposed to be the critical-thinking U.S. citizens, it’s very easy for me to understand how it’s possible that a serious criminal and obvious pedophile can be their president.
I just wanted to thank you for telling me what I think, I thought I thought differently but now I know.
And their opinion is that the heinous war crimes committed by their governments don’t matter—only their own well-being does.
Yeah, we never ever see any US citizens decrying their governments actions here. Never. Nope. No one speaks up at all, you’re right.
Who says they are asserting they don’t matter?
There are so many wrong things to talk about all at once. A throwaway meme pic is going to touch one point, not be a comprehensive dissertation on the entirety of the situation. There are tons of other memes addressing other facets.
The U.S. started this war, committed the most egregious war crimes in the process, and threw the entire world into turmoil by blocking one of the most important trade routes in violation of international law.
And then U.S. citizens still complain that the pedophile mafia boss they themselves elected is costing them money.
I find that despicable.
In a war where innocent children were killed, you complain about trade routes?
You are actually of course right to also complain about the trade routes as well as the atrocities, but by your logic, you should only be complaining about the worst thing and nothing else.
They’re complaining that they aren’t being taken care of in favor of starting wars.
You’re complaining even when US citizens express disgust at what their government is doing.
It’s clear you just hate the US, which is understandable, but attacking individual citizens in comment sections isn’t doing what you think it is.
THEN FUCKING DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT !!! Why do you think we are pissed off at you ? You Americans have the biggest mouth abouth freedom and virtue signaling. You have one 400M guns in your country yet all you guys do is go for a walk to protest and keyboard warrior behind your screens. When you collectively decide to “fight back” you do it legally when your government spends it time doing illegal things at home and abroad.
Even worse now a b-52 crashes which is big news for US outside the US and all Americans can do is downvote our celebrities. That is some nerve there.
Americans don’t have enough to lose yet it seems and everyday you decide not to go to the capitol and mag dump the white circus and it’s occupants the same way they do on poor people (I was going to say black but I saw a good number being white get mag dumped by your untrained police) makes the average American citizen a more valid target.
Stop complaining for god’s sake arm yourselves you have the opportunity.
When you collectively decide to “fight back” you do it legally when your government spends it time doing illegal things at home and abroad.
Say that to Renee Price or Alex Pretti.
Say that to the “members of Antifa” that got arrested today.
Things are happening here and, again, a meme that is explicitly expressing disgust at this unfounded war isn’t the place to yell about US citizens not saying shit.
Maybe you should leave this card to the people who, unfortunately, have to put up with your dull argument. As a European, it doesn’t really affect me all too much, but it certainly affects millions of other people.
As if your constant “US and US citizens are all evil” card isn’t dull af at this point either.
We get it. A meme expressing that US citizens would rather NOT be in this war or killing innocents probably isn’t the place for it.
all U.S. citizens care about is how much of their tax money is being spent.
This is an intentionally moronic string of shit you made up to further your hatred for a nation, you fucking bigot. Thanks for letting me know though. I aim to block all the toxics.
It’s literally what the meme says - no matter what imagined additions you think it contains, it’s only complaint is spending money on reconstructing Iran. There is nothing there that in any way alludes to America being the one that destroyed Iran. It’s so utterly America-centric that it even assumes it’s American money being spent, not Iran’s stolen money being returned.
I think your completely inappropriate national pride has made you completely forget what the word “bigot” means.
I’m really sorry, but you’re a rogue state—which, by the way, is a term the U.S. itself invented.
Here’s my point: You’re still defending the actions of your obviously completely degenerate regime because you see yourself as a proud American. Newsflash: Everything you believe defines your country is a lie.
There is no country in the world that harms the progress of humanity as much as the U.S.
The reason is your inhuman ideology.
I noticed that too, completely defended the actions by implying that he didn’t agree with your assessment of his mindset.
I hope you don’t become lactose intolerant and the office votes to have pizza, but 60% of the people voted against pizza, but since the boss is paying he decides to count the accounting group as one vote so he can buy pizza, and then when your pizza arrives you get made fun of for saying you’d rather have a salad than bomb Iran.
In donOLD’s defense, pretty sure he likes it in the ass…
Always complimenting men, checking out men, checking out dicks, only wants to be around men, some pedo stuff involving a boy…
Because they won the war. The American government isn’t going to give 300 billion to its citizens unless they too fight for it.
You owe them a lot more than that without the war at all!
Good news for the dems. They can run someone even more abysmal and still expect to win. They’ll be putting forth Satan himself in the general election at this rate. And between Satan and trump, satan will probably win.
Are you talking about Putin or Xi?
“Most powerful man in the world”. Nationalistic egocentrism never fails to get a laugh out of me.
That sleepy pedophile is ostensibly in control of the most powerful military on the planet by an order of magnitude, so it’s not inaccurate, just unfortunate.
The most powerful military! The one that couldn’t keep a small ocean strait open for a small amount of time. Powerful!
most powerful military on the planet by an order of magnitude
Apparently, that reckoning only works if you include the nukes, which even Trump couldn’t get anyone to use.
Considering this is a topic about said military losing a war this point seems rather moot.
Keep the jokes coming!
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by an order of magnitude
I think it’s time to question: Which magnitude?
We know they spend a lot of billions on the army. Big numbers in comparison to any other country.
However Trump also just paid $14.2 million to have a pool guy throw buckets of paint into a pond. With no effect.
If this is the same way that money is spend elsewhere in the government, throughout different presidents sure, but if this is any kind of measurement of how the US makes investments, then I don’t have to question why the military airplanes are falling down by themselves on a daily basis.
Also look at the January 6th. happening. Whether or not you’re for or against what happened, you have to admit that it’s pathetic that a bunch of hooligans could simply walk straight in from the street and literally shit on the table of the “most powerful” administration.
How else was he going to distract from raping children?
By raping men, duh!
What the fuck is mission tacomplished even?
Successfully failed?
What happened yesterday. That’s what
TACO — trump always chickens out
I can’t believe I couldn’t figure that out… Thanks
I know. Crazy, right?
He bent over before as it wasn’t America’s war
The elites miscalculated. Thiel, Musk and the others that hold Trump’s leash thought that it would be a quick victory. But the Iranian people turned out to be stronger than they anticipated.
Almost like America has been through this song and dance before.
I can’t quite put an Afghanistan finger on it though… Or an Iraqi… Or a Vietnamese… Or a…
No miscalculation. The military industrial complex loves war. It doesn’t matter who wins so long as their products are used.
They like winning wars. They don’t like being made to look like fools.
The Iranian people were getting gunned down in the streets by the Iranian government just a few months before Trump attacked.
It’s the Iranian government and military that managed to hold on. Trumps attack only made them stronger.
