cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/44474394
Truly dystopic, Jesus christ
The US in one image
Submitted 21 hours ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Epzillon@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
His name must be Mike Wazowski. Seriously though its not like anyone up there cares about anyone down here.
odelik@lemmy.today 1 hour ago
Looks like his name is Dow Jones to me.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
To paraphrase a great man
They’re not war heroes. They were a war heroes because they was killed. I like people who weren’t killed.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
To be fair, the stock prices are the biggest casualty for them.
ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Iranians are dying for their country, Americans are dying for their bankers.
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 36 minutes ago
Wait until you figure out those bankers are INTERNATIONAL, and the cash pipeline for war across the globe.
Their capital used to be the UK, now it is the USA; the same banks have been around since the 1800s and financing every war through DEBT; they control the FED and the US dollar, which is used in over 50% of all international trade.
It’s not hidden, check out JP Morgan, Deutsch Bank, Goldman Sachs, and so on.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Our country is run by bankers. There is no stretch of the imagination in which someone who works for us would vote to bail out the banks and not bail out the people.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I mean, a very similar story was told when George W. Bush was in office. Someone had some oil that needed some American Freedom… I mean, WMDs! They had WMDs…
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The us GOVERNMENT. The us is the rest of us who disagree with that GOVERNMENT.
FatVegan@leminal.space 6 hours ago
Thank god you disagree. Otherwise they would bomb schools and terrorize the whole world.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
There’s no pleasing some people…
Soup@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That really makes the rest of us in the world happy to hear that the country bombing everyone and trying to intimidate allies is full of citizens who are utterly fucking useless.
Ya’ll would do well to remember that, unless you actually do something, we don’t give a shit about how upset you are. You are a citizen of the US and I have some sympathy for that but when try to deflect like this that sympathy quickly evaporates. It reads loud and clear like you care more for your personal reputation than anything else.
backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Well, we do murder and assault each other at rates about 5x that of our European allies, and our cops kill us sometimes 20x the rate of our allies. We don’t just export violence, we have a thriving domestic trade in it as well. And it’s becoming increasingly politically motivated. My neighborhood has a squad of paramilitary Proud Boy wannabes that goes jogging every morning in their tactical gear and ARs. They’re not cops, not military, not ICE, just dudes drilling for the war. While the left didn’t ever not own guns, it’s surging. We’ve got LGBTQ gun groups, women only gun groups, socialist gun groups, and mutual aid networks on both sides kicking into high gear for the hunker down. I get that it’s frustrating to watch American leadership sow chaos globally, but internally our fight isn’t just with them, it’s with every one of our neighbors that supports it. Remove Trump and they’ll just move on to the next strong man. It’s the legacy of letting the Confederacy stew in its loss generation after generation and failure to prevent them from seeking power. There’s still a sliver of hope we can vote our way out of this when elections come, though I doubt that will work. It’ll be interesting to see what goes down when that fails and the regime declares itself dictator for life. You’ll either see the US decline into Russian style authoritarianism or a bloody shitshow as the most heavily armed populace in world history revenges itself on itself.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Unfortunately a majority of Americans voted for this. The “rest of us” is actually a minority group. Maybe we are the majority now with this war, but a little over a year ago we were not.
Soulg@ani.social 7 hours ago
The majority absolutely did not vote for this. Not only did a massive chunk of the population not even vote, but among those who did vote, Trump got less than 50% of those votes
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 hours ago
The left: war is bad, because it hurts people. The right: we died enough for foreign issues. The rulling parties: did you say…more war?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
His name is yankee imperialist scumbag, like all of them
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
More like Can’t Afford College 😭😭😭
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Ah how many times I’ve heard that lame excuse.
“yea, so we Germans had a terrible economic crisis and the only way out for me was to go into the army and gas some jews, had no other choice really.”RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
True for a lot of people. It’s called a “poverty draft.” The military uses poorer people for its forever wars. Enlisting is no guarantee of escaping poverty or getting full GI bill benefits.
FatVegan@leminal.space 6 hours ago
Better go bomb some kids then
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Wait. It’s below 50k?
TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
vikingtons@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
why are you laughing?!
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
DOW isn’t even at 50k either. Perfect storm
paranoid@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
His name is Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Clearly his name is Dow Jones.
Horsecook@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
His name is Maj. Sucker.
paranoid@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Maybe let’s make fun of the administration instead of its victims
kingofras@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
May they rest in 46,495
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
There’s like 2 groups in this country that are generally treated as sacred: “Little white GURHLS” and soldiers.
Literally not that hard to fuck it up. Is it a little white girl that died or disappeared? Then treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face. Did a soldier just die in war? Then also treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face.
This is clearly a violation of the “treat it like the baby Jesus literally just got run over by a truck in front of your face” criteria but obviously we know that the media is focused on preserving power for the ownership class over the working class, so not terribly surprising.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
A correction, dead soldiers are only sacred for about 30 seconds of the broadcast, after that it’s the “idea” of soldiers and not the messy reality. Always phased as “our brave men and women”.
Anything more than that and people might start questioning why those soldiers were there in the first place.
Bloefz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
And children are only sacred until they’re born.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
“The troops” is a nebulous idea you always wholeheartedly support, but any particular vet who goes to the VA becomes a drain on the system to be discarded asap.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Our soldiers are only sacred until they need healthcare or protest something, then fuck 'em.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 20 hours ago
Lol, may they all rest in piss.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
TBF most people and politicians can’t name the dead no matter the war.
I got my Combat Infantry Badge in the spring of 2002, my division commander was there, HRC was there, neither could name any of us let alone the casualties.
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Slaughterers at abbatoirs don’t name and get to know their meat before the slaughter.
mouseirl@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
extremely fitting
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Better luck next time!
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Welcome to conservative America.
Who knew giving a group of people with a notably low IQ and an absence of morality would lead to what we’re seeing?
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 43 minutes ago
Who knew, right?
Meanwhile, Presidents have been ignoring the Constitution since at least Reagan, they’ve repeatedly murdered people around the world and bombed half of Africa, the Middle East, and South America… and not one of them ever declared war.
Democrats won’t save you, they are sitting at the table with Nazis so they are Nazis and so on