• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    I have a prediction:

    Iran will send agents to America, who will act as ICE members. Through this guise, they will antagonize the Trump Regime - blackbagging supporters, assassinating politicians, and generally performing domestic terrorism on the ‘behalf’ of the Regime in a very showy and flashy way. They don’t need ID, license plates, nor uniforms, can mask, and bear weapons. Any time they need plausible deniability or to cause some form of riot, they can also attack the general populous, and earn a $1,500 paycheck for each colored head they bring to the Regime.

    The Trump Regime has destroyed America’s intelligence apparatus, too. Iran has a blank check for destabilizing America, and Trump signed the fucker.

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    I have seen articles and discussions about all of those items multiple times. We’ve known trump was an associate of Epstein for how many years? 20? 30? The problem is that there’s literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything unless the person being held accountable is just a regular person living paycheck to paycheck.

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      there’s literally no system in place to hold anyone accountable for anything

      There is, it’s voting.

      The problem is that democracy relies on voters being informed. Aside from being racist, sexist and classist, one reason that the US founding fathers initially limited voting to white male land-owners is that they thought they would be educated and knowledgeable. In 2025 we’re in a situation where any US citizen over 18 gets to vote, regardless of knowledge or education. At least half the country is buried under an avalanche of disinformation and propaganda, so the system that should hold people accountable for things is broken because nobody can agree on even the most basic facts.

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          His big “bombshell” was just

          “Trump is in the Epstien files!!”

          Yeah. No shit bud. We’ve had photos of them together for decades, that’s obviously the reason he hasn’t released the file.

          Musk seriously thinks everyone in the entire world except for him has the intelligence of a washed up ketamine addict.

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        I don’t believe so. Looking at the released evidence, it doesn’t seem to really say more than what everyone has known for years. That Epstein had contact information for a lot of people and a lot of people flew on his plane.

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    Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it’s not even connected sections.

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      8% is honestly impressive. The Mexico / Texas border is 2000 km. If they actually built 160 km of wall that’s a real achievement.

      But, it shows how unrealistic the project is. 160,000 metres of wall is a massive undertaking. There aren’t many other human projects that involve building something that big. And it was only a tiny fraction of the distance they needed to cover. They would have left the hard parts for the end. The hard parts are both hard to construct and hard to legally acquire.

      Some sections of the wall would have been hard to construct because of the type of soil/rock, and because of how remote they are from everything. The costs there would probably have easily been 10x the costs to construct in easier places. Good thing Mexico was going to pay for the project… right?

      Then, there’s the issue of expropriating private land to build the wall. A lot of the land along the border is privately owned, and even when the owners are die-hard Texan republicans, they’re not want to give the government their land so the government can build a huge wall. The stuff that was easy legally would have been the first to get done. The stuff where they needed to claim eminent domain and defend lawsuits in court is another matter. The really tricky stuff would have have been put off as long as possible.

      So, it’s 8%, but it’s not the hard 8%, it’s the easiest 8% of what was frankly an impossible project.

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    The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.

    It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.

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        so which elements in the list are you ok with ignoring? political assassination, corrupt elections, insane spending that isnt supported by budget/taxes?

        none of these impact your life?

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          Have you ever worked on a campaign before? Im not talking about phone banking for a few hours, I am actually asking if you have worked at a campaign for a stretch if time?

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            I have not, but I have considered it. My Dad worked the polls every year for decades, and he was really proud of that service.

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              Ask him how many people would need to work together in secrecy to pull off fixing a federal election. You’ll be surprised how unlikely it is.

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    🤔 is this accurate? I don’t even follow political stuff and I’ve heard about everything in that list. Seems like people have been talking about these things

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      “People” meaning major news stations which are controlled by billionaires and are the only source of news for the boomer generation. This has lead to the brainwashing that allowed our current president to get into office.

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        It’s hardly better for the Facebook generation, or the Twitter generation, or the TikTok generation, or the Roblox generation. Everybody is living in their information silos in the US.

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    suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations

    the three pillars of american education

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      That’s four pillars… I’ll start again…

      “Amongst the pillars of American education are such diverse elements as…”

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    Honestly, I feel like Trump and the GOP’s strategy for a while now has been to do so much illegal, evil and heinous shit that the media and public just move onto the next thing.

    Any other administration would have been brought to its knees by Signalgate. A few months later and the fucking Secretary of Defense is getting congratulated for not leaking military plans ahead of time.

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      It’s literally called “flooding the zone” and they’ve talked openly about the fact they’re doing it

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    There are so many things that should make the headlines that nothing makes the headlines anymore.

    It’s called desensitization.

    And honestly, if you think some cazy dude killing two people is what should be on page one these days, you got your priorities wrong.

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      Like you said, I think it’s more prioritization than desensitization. It really isn’t the most important story out there now, and it’s not a conspiracy that it’s not being mentioned.

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    “Flood the zone with shit” is working as intended. It‘s chilling to see how quickly push comes to shove and we‘re in a world war once again.

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    War, what is it good for?

    Apparently it’s good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.

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      waging the dog, Reichstag Fire, whatever you want to call it that’s all this is. We can’t have the plebs focusing no us assassinating the opposition, lets go bomb Iran saying we took out their nuclear capabilities meanwhile we actually didn’t.

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    Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.

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    The news has been captured by monied interests for decades now. Stop expecting it to televise the revolution.

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    I already see way to much news from the USA while the war in Ukrain is a day driving away. We see almost nothing from that.