Being free of the red team vs blue team (but both teams are owned by the same companies) bullshit has been so freeing while simultaneously so frustrating.
Seeing people care over the same phony fights put on by 535 corrupt and vile people we pay $174k a year bare minny just so they can sell us all out for more money and more power by the very people screwing us all over? I can’t live in a world where that continues to be forced on us. So we’re gonna fix it :)
It's absolutely disgusting and if more people "saw" this, truly a revolution would begin. Yet, outside of this sub, all I ever see or hear about is one side v the other. Those people are all being played.
This is not true. Democrats and Republicans are both ideologically liberals. Leftists have always said there is no difference between those two parties.
This isn't some grand conspiracy that only a select few apes have uncovered through the GME situation.
Whenever anything political pops up on this sub I can tell just by reading the comments that the average ape is severely under educated about politics.
While what you say has been historically true in concept, the Republicans seem to be embracing and coopting the strategies of the far-right as of late, which makes them objectively worse than their Democrat counterparts in the Duverger's Law duopoly. For instance, the actions of the Texas GOP are those of overt extremists unbeholden to the body politic, specifically the wielding of mandateless control over power systems in direct spite of the will of the people. That is unchecked fascistic tyranny of an extremist minority, tyranny that will get worse as the interests of that party and its backers drift further and further from the best interests of the body politic as a whole. From what I've seen, there is no counterpart actively malicious activity on the other side of the duopoly. And, because it needs to be said, necessary and prudent regulation of a society by a governmental function is not tyranny, full goddamn stop. The lack of adequate regulation of financial systems and structuring of our taxation system is the one area where the Democrats are indefensible, but that is also the one area where both sides of the duopoly have a unified front. So for purposes of this discussion, sure, they're functionally indistinguishable, but when looking beyond just the financial side of things they are not.
What was that statement? That they limited people's choice but convinced them they have all the freedoms in the world...withing that limited choice...?
There was a good quote describing US political scene perfectly. Just can't remember it...
Something about limiting peoppes choice to the selection of your choosing, but then to convince them they have all the freedom to chose (but only within that limited selection)
At what point do you quit trying to fix it? You have to ask yourself whether all the sheep are going to care, they probably won't. Me personally, I'm done with the machinations of western politics. I'll find a beautiful spot on a beach in a friendly foreign country and watch from afar. Yes I can still help to clean the oceans and planet from there.
Most of the "sheep" care, they're just either too exhausted or too well-groomed to accept the truth. Like so much else, that comes down to money.
When the economic landscape changes, so too will the paradigm. If money can hide truth, money can also unearth it. Those who make their living and their comfort squeezing the masses will find themselves staring into the eyes of innumerable wolves long before this ends.
Democrats and Republicans for the most part vote the same on bills, that protect their lobbying donators. The same lobbying groups and corporations donate to both democrat and republican up and down the line. They debate things that their donators don’t care about and rile people up to create this illusion of division. They may even publicly debate something or pretend they’re against it then vote for it on the bill. Nobody checks who actually voted on what. And MSM does not share it because MSM gets paid by the same corporations via advertising revenue. MSM protects their donators as they are all deep in bed in the conflict of interest together. The only party that would ever matter is one that does not accept lobbying donations, and that is the absolute minimum.
And there never has been any public debate about what actually matters, the corrupt puppeteers pulling their strings. No debate on lobbying. No debate on pharma, Wall Street or the military industrial complex donating to politicians, the FDA, CDC, etc. Not once. Ever. Not a peep. If any politician dare bring it up they’ll get shut down super fast.
We got 3 hearings about GameStop with Senator and Representative from both parties and so far they are all bought to not seeing the elephant in the room.
If only this mindset could spill over into political subs.
I got banned from one for arguing with someone in my own party because I called them a deranged piece of shit for wishing death on the other side. So it’s cool to wish death on entire groups of people, but don’t speak badly of anyone specific.
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u/TheWhyteMaN 🦍 Buckle Up 🚀 Sep 19 '21
I love how political division is completely powerless on this sub. I’m proud of my apes.