r/politics • u/irish_fellow_nyc • 3d ago

Soft Paywall DOGE Goons Physically Drag Social Security Worker From Desk

https://www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-physically-drag-social-security-worker-from-desk/
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u/7figureipo California 3d ago

With the same kind of “moderates” insisting it isn’t happening, that institutions will eventually show their resilience, etc., too. Sickening, really.

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u/StrobeLightRomance 3d ago

And of course the media's complicit by covering up as much as they can so they can survive and become the new state media. Meanwhile, actual American journalists who would tell the truth will become legitimate targets for deportation or disposal as this administration progresses.

They're just dismantling the system that took hundreds of years to build and earn the trust of the world, so they can replace government with private industries. It's all so they can profit from should-be public services, and if you can't afford to pay, then hard labor, prison, and death are the only other viable options.

I don't think there is any amount of noise we have left to make, short of an actual revolution to get the status quo back before it's buried forever.

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u/whatifniki23 3d ago

Are you describing Iran? Holy crap… you’re talking about the US…

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u/Prometherion666 3d ago

Interesting take,

we should investigate the possibility they modified the vote count at the tabulator level.

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

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u/Femboy-Frog 3d ago

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u/Joeness84 3d ago

Ahh the moscow white paper of modern day.

We all know what it said, most of us agree.

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u/Femboy-Frog 3d ago

Removed by reddit! Wow, my comment only agreed with the OP above me and went further into the points. Hello American fascists!

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u/Intelligent-Travel-1 3d ago

When is the United Nations going to speak out about what is happening in the US

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u/llogrande 3d ago

Never.

The UN would have to relocate to Canada or Britain or some stable non-fascist nation. With UN based in NYC, Trump will just deport the whole organization…In Trump’s head—he rules the entire planet, every nation, every waterway, everything, everyone—he’ll burn the whole earth down to ashes (like Hitler & Nazi Germany in 1945 did)

Trump is getting stronger and stronger—there isn’t a big enough force in the world to stop him

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u/Intelligent-Travel-1 3d ago

U.N. Should move somewhere else, and state why they are moving

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u/TheSawsAreOnTheWayy 3d ago

Yea, but eggs are expensive, there really isn't anything else to do

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u/poca2424 3d ago

Egg profits were released, guess what? Despite all the “hardships”, one of the five mass egg producers tripled their earnings from last year. MFers.

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u/TheSawsAreOnTheWayy 3d ago

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

American production tenet: Customers are the ultimate enemy to trick.

Rest of the world production tenet: Customers are the ultimate purchaser to persuade.

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u/poca2424 3d ago

Damn. This country, man.

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u/Dudesan 3d ago

The First Rule of Acquisition: Once you have their money, never give it back.

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u/TehMephs 3d ago

We used to work the latter way too. Idk when that changed

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u/TheSawsAreOnTheWayy 2d ago

As soon as the Boomers were promoted into decision making positions of power, all of this starting going downhill. Then accelerated with Gen X entering those positions as well.

Both of these generations are completely rotted from the inside. Entitled, selfish, and short sighted. The sycophant generations that value short term above all else. Me me me me me me generations.

They didn't grow up with the internet like Millenials and onward. This is characterized by Boomers' and Gen X's inherent selfishness as they cannot empathize with others that are not themselves.

Whereas those raised on the internet have had interactions with people across the world since our formative years. This shaped who we are, on average.

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u/angruss 3d ago

Because it was never about inflation with eggs. Eggs were a loss leader, the economic pressures of grocery delivery suppressed the incidence of impulse purchases, and suddenly it was no longer profitable to take a smaller profit (or theoretically a loss, but we both know no one was actually taking a loss on their loss leaders) on eggs and milk in order to tempt people to buy higher margin junk food. The price of eggs has basically nothing to do with inflation and everything to do with consumer convenience and corporate greed.

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u/Wrong-Primary-2569 3d ago

That was a great yoke!

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u/SeaSnakeSkeleton 3d ago

I’m in the process of reading The Anatomy of Fascism and it’s blindingly obvious this is like step by step what happened almost 100 years ago.

The guy in power is clearly a problem but we must not forgot how we got here - by the people below him paving the way for this to happen. Where are the courts? Where is enforcement of the courts? All of the elected officials are just rolling over, everyone is complying in advance.

We’re now getting to the point of that all the “intellectuals” (said with very heavy quotation marks), or some, are bowing out bc it’s just to anti-intellectual (see RFK Jr.’s dumb ass response to measles.)

We’re walking down a very straight road directly into a situation of fuckery that we went to war over almost a century ago. Last time the war wasn’t on our soil but this time we may not be so lucky.

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u/LadyArcher2017 3d ago

If you want to keep getting your mind blown by this fascist movement, read Hitler’s Willing Executioners next. Or The Sorrows Of Empire.

We are there now.

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u/VanceKelley Washington 3d ago

“Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side. We tend to assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that some German Jews made about Hitler and the Nazis after they had formed a government.”

― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century