• CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    I mean what the fuck are we supposed to do about it? All of our checks and balances have failed, the next thing is just committing to massive violence and loss of life. And any who thinks that’s just an easy decision is either a psycho path or an edge lord who thinks they would totally get some guns and start a revolution totally, cause they are totally badass bro

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      I just hope the effects of climate change will soon topple this corrupt system. Many underestimate how far along we really are and with the super El Nino on the horizon we are already looking at millions of deaths globally next year alone.
      Or to put it another way: the house of cards is starting to collapse.

    • If we don’t stop it here in the US, the rest of the developed world will follow. Our plutocrats are actually that rich.

      Heck, with the AfD gains in Germany and the LGBT+ raids in Turkey / Türkiye, it looks like the transformation is already happening.

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      Decades of pendulum swings between lesser and greater evil will do that. But looking around, capitalism is just going down the drain everywhere. So, don’t be too hard on yourself.

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    I don’t think that the Gilded age was “stopped”… The oligarchs just learned better marketing and how to better appease the masses. Their fear of the spread of socialism led to concessions that they’ve been vindictive about ever since.

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      and they’ve been trying to deny which things made them do it ever since. the union won those concessions in blood in West Virginia, Colorado, and Philadelphia

  • Yeah, very sore at Rob Bonta right now cracking like Republicans for the Todd Blanche confirmation.

    It almost seems like the people have no friends in government at all.

    The merger is still in process but is expected to be finalized October 5th. Because we need a megacorporation to control all our media. CNN to become a right-wing propaganda font in 5… 4… 3… 2…

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      CNN was pretty much already right wing.

      Which is why it’s so funny when MAGAs call it leftist media or liberal media. It’s just moving the window.

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    12 hours ago

    I’m excited to go back to piracy. I’m hoping things are easier in 2026 than even I last did it 20 years ago.

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      I’m annoyed when i decided to ditch pirating and go legit, only to find out legit cost more to do, limited in whatever i wanna watch, and will be taken down. Gaben is on to something when he said it’s a service problem.

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      11 hours ago

      Much easier. Stremio with the Torrentio and/or MediaFusion plugins. RealDebrid is like $3/mo, don’t even need a VPN. It works pretty much identically to one of the corpo streaming apps, and it has everything in one place!

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          Only that you pay the same in HDD costs as for a billio streaming services, these days, to feed another billionaires pockets 😢.

          But at least you decide when, where and the under which conditions you watch your media.

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    Silver lining is every one of them that’s taken advantage of the last decade to do so are essentially putting themselves on a list of co.paniea that can’t manage itself.

    Dividing them up into a bunch of pieces is the compromise.

    We need to start pushing for full on nationalization of corporations once trump is out of office.

    Just seize a couple health insurance agencies and use that blood money to fund u I ersal healthcare.

    Start doing shit like that, and suddenly all the corporations start falling in line.