War, what is it good for?
Apparently it’s good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.
waging the dog, Reichstag Fire, whatever you want to call it that’s all this is. We can’t have the plebs focusing no us assassinating the opposition, lets go bomb Iran saying we took out their nuclear capabilities meanwhile we actually didn’t.
We’re drinking from a firehose of bullshit and you want me to talk about the turd I swallowed three days ago? Buddy, I won’t forget that turd, but there’s literally newer and more horrifying shit coming down the tube. It’s amalgamating into a giant shit mountain and crushing us underneath it. C’mon, my dude. Redirect your angst somewhere else.
Firehose of falsehood also is Russian thing
We have limited ram in our biological CPUs.
Why do you think fascists create wars?
As a distraction for internal problems they caused
To create a ladder?
A ladder of what?
Corpses!
Meat ladder
People’s minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.
It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren’t seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.
There are differences of course bcz there isn’t as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn’t seem completely unlikely.
I figure we’ll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.
Balkanization comes to mind
California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn’t dropped the ball.
Those are called interstate compacts, and they tend to be specific to individual laws. I was thinking more along the lines of military alliances, so kind of a more advanced form of this type of political alliance-making
There was the Western States pact from the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_States_Pact
dropped the ball
Saved the ball you mean. Daylight-saving time is a curse which should be abolished not set in stone.
Spring/Summer/Autumn time should be made permanent; Winter time should be abolished. Stop stealing the only unallocated hour of winter daylight we get for ourselves.
Buy Little Johnny a PT Belt and a flashlight for the three weeks a year he has to walk to school in the dark, and give him an hour after school to play outside with his friends.
At this point I’m down for either daylight time or standard time as long as we stop changing back and forth!
I’ll grudgingly accept that as less awful than our current arrangement.
Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there’s no going back. We’re now in a place where “fuck you I’ve got mine” and “make me” is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it’s Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.
There are differences of course bcz there isn’t as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
You sure? Black separatism was big in the 60s and 70s, and once the dissolution of the Union filters into the wider public consciousness, you’ll probably see Latinos want to do their own thing.
I know this narrative is wide spread, and I have no chance to fight it, but it’s not fucking not.
USSR has collapsed because of a lot of factors, but the most important of them was that the political elite was willing to change (not to be mistaken with to go away). USSR had an infinite space for doubling down deeper and deeper
The documentary, HyperNormalization, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.
Just a fun tid bit I thought I’d share.
Yep. It’s been a while. Already contained Trump.
If you (anybody) haven’t watched it yet, please do.
BTW - and I don’t say this to nitpick, just to make it easier to find - the documentary is named Hypernormalisation.
I experience the opposite, at least here on Lemmy. It all leads me to conserve my attention for the things that are actually happening.
I mean sure, it’s still draining and hard to keep up with, but I think we all learned to filter out some of the nonsense, and see behind the clown show. Except for those who thrive on the outrage, and not actual concern.
Here’s hoping it’s leading up to a collapse this time too.
There are so many things that should make the headlines that nothing makes the headlines anymore.
It’s called desensitization.
And honestly, if you think some cazy dude killing two people is what should be on page one these days, you got your priorities wrong.
Hypernormalisation
I already see way to much news from the USA while the war in Ukrain is a day driving away. We see almost nothing from that.
USA would much rather support genocide in palestine than resist genocide in ukraine.
mush used “a.i.” to rebrand himself as an autistic mother-loving manic-techboi whose father recounted, suddenly at the height of misdiagnosis crisis, he was called “retard” in grade school. and just like that, a white african repackaged himself using every grief he could mine from american grit and soul.
he channeled the white negro and sold it back to american men after jeff bezos reduced their morale with the API Mandate (why anyone celebrated this draconian move, will remain a mystery of capitalism).
Spread spread spread! Cowardly press will give the people what we want when they see us doing it first. Spread spread spread.
I remember seeing some post of reddit while lurking of a bunch of election letters being dumped in a drain
I wonder what came of that
The news has been captured by monied interests for decades now. Stop expecting it to televise the revolution.
The news around Donald changes faster than the weather in the mid-west. He’s done more or been involved in more in a few months than most presidents could accomplish in 2 full terms.
Throwing a brick into a dryer is less chaotic.
No a real act or terror is burning empty cybertrucks.
/s
Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it’s not even connected sections.
But Mexico was going to pay for the wall…
8% is honestly impressive. The Mexico / Texas border is 2000 km. If they actually built 160 km of wall that’s a real achievement.
But, it shows how unrealistic the project is. 160,000 metres of wall is a massive undertaking. There aren’t many other human projects that involve building something that big. And it was only a tiny fraction of the distance they needed to cover. They would have left the hard parts for the end. The hard parts are both hard to construct and hard to legally acquire.
Some sections of the wall would have been hard to construct because of the type of soil/rock, and because of how remote they are from everything. The costs there would probably have easily been 10x the costs to construct in easier places. Good thing Mexico was going to pay for the project… right?
Then, there’s the issue of expropriating private land to build the wall. A lot of the land along the border is privately owned, and even when the owners are die-hard Texan republicans, they’re not want to give the government their land so the government can build a huge wall. The stuff that was easy legally would have been the first to get done. The stuff where they needed to claim eminent domain and defend lawsuits in court is another matter. The really tricky stuff would have have been put off as long as possible.
So, it’s 8%, but it’s not the hard 8%, it’s the easiest 8% of what was frankly an impossible project.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/17/texas-border-wall-funding-ends-abbott-trump/
It’s a decent article explaining where money didn’t go, how much of the wall isn’t really connected l.
🤔 is this accurate? I don’t even follow political stuff and I’ve heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things
“People” meaning major news stations which are controlled by billionaires and are the only source of news for the boomer generation. This has lead to the brainwashing that allowed our current president to get into office.
It’s hardly better for the Facebook generation, or the Twitter generation, or the TikTok generation, or the Roblox generation. Everybody is living in their information silos in the US.
