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People's minds are growing numb to the madness. This is very similar to what happened in Soviet Russia in the five years leading up to the collapse of the government.
It does seem rather similar to the collapse of Soviet Russia. Increasingly little confidence in the government by citizens all across the country. States that increasingly aren't seeing any benefit in existing as part of the union. Its quite uncanny actually.
There are differences of course bcz there isn't as big of different ethnic groups concentrated throughout the country ready to start their own countries bcz they never wanted to be part of the country in the first place.
I really dont want to find out whats on the other side of that scenario for us, but it doesn't seem completely unlikely.
Some voted to destroy the United States. Others were failed by the educational system and the media. Irrespective of cause, there's no going back. We're now in a place where "fuck you I've got mine" and "make me" is the basis of our formal society that only recognizes power in all its forms. I do not know what the future holds. I can only say that if this year were a taro card, it's Death, as what was changes into something new an unrecognizable.
I figure we'll see smaller inter-state alliances forming into regional powers. Most likely all of the states that have larger populations will gain a lot of power relative to those with smaller populations. In all likelihood the stratification of wealth will accelerate even further into an absolutely obscene spectacle. The oligarchs will win, in the short term at least, if the federal government falls.
California, Oregon, and Washington kinda do already. All three states often tie legislation to the other two states also passing it. Like locking daylight savings in place if Washington hadn't dropped the ball.
The documentary, HyperNormalisation, was made nearly a decade ago, in 2016.
Just a fun tid bit I thought I'd share.
Edit: spelling. Thanks, u/A_norny_mousse
Yep. It's been a while. Already contained Trump.
If you (anybody) haven't watched it yet, please do.
BTW - and I don't say this to nitpick, just to make it easier to find - the documentary is named Hypernormalisation.
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.
It’s literally called “flooding the zone” and they’ve talked openly about the fact they’re doing it
Texas quietly defunded the border wall. 8% has been built and it's not even connected sections.
But Mexico was going to pay for the wall...
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.
For full explanation please read: Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine.
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.
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.
Just like when tRump became the oldest candidate and suddenly no one was talking about age anymore.
🤔 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
"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.
Another descriptive term is wagging the dog (referring to the tail having disproportionate leverage over the beast) which is a (not uncommon) presidential tactic of taking a serious military action in order to distract from other scandals.
News media, including classic liberal media will allow other stories to die to report on attacks or invasions (or when you can get it, attacks on the US by foreign units).
George W.Bush used this method, but also blitzing the public with countless scandals. (George H. W. Bush did too) So Trump's kitchen cabinet was likely informed by history when considering becoming Bibi's personal B.
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.
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.
USA would much rather support genocide in palestine than resist genocide in ukraine.
"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.
The news has been captured by monied interests for decades now. Stop expecting it to televise the revolution.
War, what is it good for?
Apparently it's good for taking the public mind of a politicians wrongdoings.
Oh yes we are. The news has a short memory but we don't. F that guy.
Classic authorian playbook. Either stage a domestic terror attack or start a war.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Mario's Brother also. Although he might resurface in the news in a month or so.
We are used having a crisis per quarter not crazy Orange Chicken spamming the controls and creating 4 crises per day
Why do you think fascists create wars?
As a distraction for internal problems they caused
Yeah, man, let's get back to talking about it. Like we were doing. Just sittin around, talking about it, while more and more of this list happened. And then we just kept on talkin. That's what we need to get back to, suddenly, no one's talking about it. That's the problem.
You think "nobody" is talking about it?
What a tiny world you live in
suicides, school shootings, spree shootings, and political assassinations
the three pillars of american education
And that's only the last couple of weeks. That list could be a hundred times longer.
I remember seeing some post of reddit while lurking of a bunch of election letters being dumped in a drain
I wonder what came of that
We have limited ram in our biological CPUs.
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.
Hypernormalisation
Idk I saw news and discussion for all these things and when I brought them up with people I know they also heard of them. We all have a somewhat wide diversity on how we learn about current events too.
I dont think the disinformation/distraction machine is working as well as it thinks
Strap in because the next one will distract us from war with Iran.
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