bashbeerbash

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[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

'speech' is just what modern king wannabes use to claim they are above anyone else, including a sovereign state's laws. People like Elon, Trump, Putin all want to be above any law or form of responsibility.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 141 points 1 week ago (15 children)

25 years of organized propaganda (fox news, talk radio, etc.). I live amongst Trump supporters, they truly believe prices will come down and they will make more money.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I don't know exactly what to call it and I don't want to sound like my agenda is just anti-capitalism. For a brief, 250yr period, humanity (not all, but enough of) valued science and reasoned law as the highest, most advanced expressions of our civilization. The enlightenment age brought about modernity as we know it based on science and liberal law (no kings above the law). Now we've devolved back to every nation basically establishing new oligarchich aristocracies no law can touch (the historic normal), and it's definitely too late to correct course. No untouchable nobilities or kings will save this realm. So yeah, the great filter in my view is about letting elites be accountable to no one, with no interest other than accretion, rule things into the ground. And yeah that's the broad gist of my point about a pretty broad theory. Most think the great filter as an asteroid or nuke. For me it's runaway elitism that probably ends most civilizations which is why there's no one out there.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I believe a mix of runaway elitism + ecological devastation is the Great Filter. We're at our great filter and definitely will not overcome considering the galactic evidence.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

So much for the middle class. Almost like it was dismantled to favor the rich and surprisingly, "american greatness" started suffering.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

you mean the wars started by Trump allies once he had helped them? why are Putin and Netanyahu so close to Trump?

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's easier said than done: make the untouchables pay.

Grim reality is the untouchables will continue to rule with absolute greed while climate change drives us into pockets of extremism where we kill each other.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

All this shit is literally straight out of the Putin playbook. Take control of the courts, take control of what is legal, take control of elections. Republicans were always too dumb and incompetent to be anything but pawns of a better organized evil.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

The Christian Caliphate was birthed today, and Trump will be supreme Ayatollah

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Welp. The Supreme Clergy that now rules what used to be the US has established King Trump as the leader of the Christian Caliphate that's coming. Conservatives are gonma love living in the white version of Iran.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

for reference this same move of getting immunity from a fixed court was also huge for cementing the Chavez and Putin regimes in Venezuela and Russia.

[–] bashbeerbash@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

All you need to know about this subject is that Putin passed full immunity for himself. It was one of the nails on the coffin for modern russia.

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