Oooooo so we’re just going to act like millennials were mad for no reason all these years?
Were the oligarchs not a concern during occupy Wall Street? Or did everyone just fall for the propaganda?
I’m personally a fan of all the people who called us (and continue to call us) alarmists and who dismiss everything as overreacting
Somehow, Oligarchy has arrived in America
“Has arrived”?!? Motherfucker what have you been watching for 100+ years?
USA was made by oligarchs, for oligarchs. That’s the entire purpose of a Republic.
Oligarchy has existed in the US since its inception. Fascist oligarchy is what has arrived.
I feel like if we were serious about “doing something” then we would have before this point. Now the vast majority of people are just pretending nothing is happening and we’ll have a free and fair election in 3.5 years and all the prices will magically go down for the first time in history, and all our rights will be restored.
In before the doomers talk about how Americans are being soft and not doing anything about the problem.
In before the doomers talk about how we’re in so deep that this is the end of mankind as we know it.
Yes. We will confront it. Sometime between now and when it’s ego-fuel runs dry or fuels enough in-fighting to fracture their system to make that fight winnable.
Lemmy comment sections have been getting toxic AF lately.
