Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"

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• cyborganism@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Hahaha right? They sold the lie so well. But it's so easy to do when you control the majority of the world's media, whether it's news, radio, television, cinema, or online streaming.

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sorry, you think it’s any one nation that’s controlling all that? Oh, my sweet summer child…

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    • virku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      So uh. Are you trying to infer that it is a tiny set of people/corporations, or that there are other Nations in on it?

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      • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They italicized nation and not one so I believe they’re pointing to folks like murdoch

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• Ptsf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To be honest, this shift in our politics has been brutally quick and more federally far reaching than anything that happened while I was growing up. People used to be able to just exist. Camp in parks, sleep on benches, etc. This authoritarianism is… Somewhat new.

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  • 418_im_a_teapot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It started in earnest under Regan. It’s just been difficult to see where all those changes would lead until all at once it smacked us in the face.

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    • stringere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It was slow and incremental. You can’t boil a frog by tossing it in a fryer.

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      • lemonmelon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True. That would result in frying it.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s only been quick if you just started paying attention. This is the end result of decades of work by the GOP.

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    • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Legitimately 70 years, their fight started just after FDRs New Deal. The entire modern Republican party exists to work towards this. They want a return to the guided age with themselves as the robber barons and everyone else as a permanently toiling underclass.

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  • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I mean tresspass laws designed to prevent newly freed black people from “just existing” go back to 1865.

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    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I was going to say something similar. The “it’s now illegal to [x] while black” memes are because the BIPOC community has known this for a long time now. Standing while black, walking while black, jogging while black, eating while black, listening to music while black, sleeping while black, etc… All of these are things that people have been attacked by cops for doing, for literal generations.

      It’s not new; it’s just more visible. And it has finally become so overt that non-BIPOC people have started to feel the same pressure that BIPOC people have dealt with since the country was founded.

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      • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        since the country was founded.

        that was the biggest mistake ever.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Sundown towns aren't that far behind us, either.

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not really. People are just less ashamed than they used to be.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Those were different times. I remember how people who travelled there talked about how friendly everybody was. And everything was cheap, service was great and life was easy. Obviously those were skewed perceptions by tourists, but still. Nobody says things like that any more.

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