i am predicting a small civil war during/after the november elections
schwim@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Now that the corpos and billionaires know that they can be openly and brazenly corrupt and greatly accelerate their schemes, we will never see a return to the politics of old where hiding it minimized profit regardless of who the next puppet figurehead is. You cannot un-ring the bell.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 days ago
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Wanna bet? That’s the new thing I hear.
leftascenter@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Somehow this already happened between the gilded age and the mid-20th century.
fizzle@quokk.au 3 days ago
It’s basically this.
With the US’ bonkers electoral system, and abysmal education levels, you’re pretty much cooked.
You have an oligarchy, a captured state, a corporatocracy. Oligarchs tell voters to vote for the leader who will benefit them most.
Research suggests that it doesn’t actually take that many people to convince those oligarchs that another leader will be in their best interests. For example, if 3% of people who regularly buy things from Amazon and visit facebook and use ChatGPT, stopped doing those three things indefinitely by switching to alternatives, that would likely be enough.
However, I just don’t believe that’s achievable.
felixwhynot@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Fingers crossed…