To support the Republican party in the 21st Century is to be either completely ignorant of, and uneducated about, the history of regulations, education, labor laws, geopolitics, etc… or to be too racist, narcissistic, authoritarian or fascist to care about any of that… or to be just plain stupid.

Most Americans fall into the ignorant/uneducated camp, and are being actively brainwashed by the narcissists/fascists. They’re “shocked” to learn the consequences because they’re ignorant/uneducated.

Under Trump, he said, America could no longer be relied on.

This should be “with a population that supports and enables a kleptocratic dictatorship, America could no longer be relied on.”

This isn’t just Trump. It’s American conservatives, the whole political class, corporations, and civilian population that are ultimately to blame for this mess (in that order). Anything less than a civil war won’t result in the threat being neutralised for decades, and will define the rest of 21st Century geopolitics.

If even a relatively small number — say 10-20% — just refused to buy anything other than the bare essentials (like food, energy, utils) until action was taken, you’d probably see more action than if those people got out in the streets and protested.

That would be unusual. Most sports stadiums in most major cities are heavily subsidized by the city/state (e.g. tax payers), especially in public transportation. I’d be surprised if even a small % were 100% privately funded.

Elon’s gonna get murdered in the next year or two. I’d be willing to bet. Right now he’s swinging his dick around all over the world like he’s invincible, but everyone’s forgetting he made the decision to get involved after Trump had 2 assassination attempts in a few months.

There are probably dozens of people plotting Elons death right now, and when it happens I will laugh.

How many of these soccer stadiums have been build with tax payer money?

Evidence of systemic bootlicking right here

The USA is a corporate dictatorship masquerading as a democracy — in plain sight, as clear as day — and liberals are still debating why the 90% corporate owned D’s are ineffectual at stopping the 100% corporate owned R’s from implementing a totalitarian fascist regime.

It’d be fucking comically hilarious if I knew it wouldn’t result in civil and global wars, mass murder, climate and ecological collapse, etc, etc.

They’re preemptively pulling out, because they’ve deemed it better PR than being publicly refused for siding with fascism.

It’s like people still just do not understand that a corporations purpose is to make money. They quite literally can not be trusted to do anything but choose what they believe to be most profitable.

Narcissist, who has no virtue, pleads for others to have virtue in areas that benefit him personally.

The corrupt media, like the R “strategist” who wrote this op-ed!

“What is my purpose?”

“To monitor your battery”

“Oh my god”

Because they’re all run by narcissists and psychopaths, because capitalism directly rewards narcissists and criminals…

They’ve had decades to finely tune the propaganda machine — utilizing surveillance capitalism, big data, and analytics — A/B testing their PsyOps campaigns in real-time.

The whole Cambridge Analytica debacle occurred almost a decade ago, and every criminal involved went on to bigger and better criminal enterprises. Major political parties across western “democracies” were directly involved in treasonous disinformation campaigns against their own citizens — a multinational corporate oligarchy were directly involved — that’s why there were zero consequences…

We’ve already been living in corporate dictatorships for a long time. We just didn’t know it yet.

Not only will there be dramatic inflation, but capitalism will use every manufactured crisis to price gouge the fuck out of everyone, for everything.

A man of culture

Wait a minute … THIS IS THE BAD PLACE!

Yeah but you can’t say that with words, ya dingus. You can only say it with capital.

This is the propaganda we are sold, yes.