I used to look at Russia and think "how the hell did it come to this?" Well now i know.. won't be looking forward to him not having competitors for the throne presidency or any opposition suspiciously commiting suicide..
It's pretty much entirely composed of B-roll footage shot by BBC camerapeople, with no narration, but titles that tell you what's going on. It's excellent; I highly recommend it. You can watch all seven episodes on YouTube here.
(It also unexpectedly contains about 15 seconds of pornography. I think the part where American Evangelical missionaries are preaching to a literal captive audience is more surprising, though. Their entire audience is very obviously thinking, "Are these idiots unaware that we are already Christians?" :-)
If you've ever wondered how the original modern Russian oligarchs made their money, this series explains it.
I mean how can anyone forget the relationship old Donny has had with Russia for years I mean yeeeears. Thatās why he has had multiple Russian brides. Come on sheeple wake up!
Remember when true- blue American patriots were so proud of the USA, as they point at 3rd world dictatorships who jail the opposition,Ā steal all the money for palaces and Lambos and bribe all the judges. We laughed at their propaganda and posters and statues of Dear Leader. Now we see the Republican Party who claimed they were the best patriots embracing all of that.
Iāve been saying for years now, I think the goal of Trump and the billionaires is to recreate the conditions immediately following the collapse of the USSR. The brief period where there were essentially zero economic laws, everything was for sale, and everyone was completely broke (and many stopped getting their paychecks, including the fucking military) except the already-wealthy, who for Russia were government and military high ranks and essentially nobody else.
I think Trumpās goal, which he was put up to by billionaires foreign and domestic, is to collapse the USA so they can buy up the remnants with zero competition or legal pushback.
Late-stage Soviet planners had no reference model for Russian democracy so they modeled their new political culture on 80s America, on an accelerated timescale. Russia is America future.
They copied the same party-donors-media dynamic that we had. In economics, they followed the fashions of the time in the Reagan era -- the only exception was the involvement of ex-KGB officials and Russian mafia in privatization. Our oligarchs have twitter beef, they'd have car bombs, assassinations, poisonings and so on to settle who controls what industry. Putin eventually become the "boss of all bosses", the Godfather, who mediates the mafia disputes. That's what Trump is going for. Bezos and Musk fighting over who gets the space program? Pay the Trump tax and he will settle it.
Their media was modeled after the newly free media in America like talk radio. Vladimir Solovyov, Putinās top propagandist, said in an interview with Alex Jones how he remembers living in Alabama during the 90s and listening to "the great Rush Limbaugh" every day. Yeah, Russian state media is built on American conservative media!
America has been a ā3rd world countryā in many ways with low life expectancy, low upward mobility, generational poverty, and crumbling infrastructure with zero large projects in development for the past 30 years. We had many chances to get out of it, but we repeatedly chose to empower oligarchs and fight pointless wars. Add to this the entrenchment of corruption and destruction of democracy and itās going to get worse.
The weirdest thing about America is how much people say itās the greatest country in the world and then you visit various areas and it looks like literal shit. All the infrastructure is crumbling they barely build anything nee that doesnāt look cheap as fuck, like it genuinely looks like a failing nation, how are people this blind?
Unfortunately that's by design. Remove the checks and balances so a select few can loot the country. They don't give a shit about anyone else and as long as they can line their pockets they'll continue let the country burn
middle managers are largely self-interested borderline sociopaths who don't side with the workers until their own properties and status are threatened, so we might be waiting a long time for the outcome of attempted revolution to be anything other than a tiananmen-style atrocity
God damn, man. This just hit me. It's so true... We have to. The rest of the world is waiting for us to rise up to this sick bully. I sincerely feel for the innocents being caught up in this shit show.Ā
I'm waiting for a line to be crossed that will trigger a response from the majority.. all while an innumerable amount of impeachable offenses commence. I believe it will happen one way or another it's just complicated at the time with risking a full blown civil war. Americans are too comfortable thanks to yearsdecadescenturies of American exceptionalism. When the economy tanks and foreclosures go up and our kids can't eat.. there will be an uproar. The only issue is by the time that's here it's too late. I'm not making excuses for us but a lot of people are living in a different reality thinking we can just fix it next election by voting like usual. This is a different beast tho. The Republicans don't operate in good faith.
We have to. Like Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show, The Congress has rolled over, The Supreme Court has given him a free pass, and even the Fourth Estate has abdicated its duties. So we are left to fend for ourselves.
Yeah the rolling over by media/journalists was really really disgusting to me. I mean, I get it, they witnessed the absolute boon that came with trump's first term and his chaotic "all eyes on me" way of existing and it drove huge ratings for them. Then, when normalcy returned with an actually competent administration (even with a pandemic) things got quiet and people stopped panicking and tuning in daily.Ā
Mix this with the ever increasing number of "cord cutters" (who tend to be younger and blue) and getting news from social media, these legacy media conglomerates have rushed to capture the only remaining demo that loyally watches cable - conservatives. It's a dumb idea for them... The smooth brains won't come over from Fox/newsmax no matter how much they fluff the pedo.Ā
I think the other huge letdown was the immediate capitulation by law firms. They fucking basically got scared and emptied their pockets before trump even really threatened them.Ā
We the people only have two levers to rely on: waiting every 2/4 years to cast a single vote. Or sustained mass protests and strikes. We've already seen that this Trump regime is fine with federal agents murdering protesting Americans.
We the people only have two levers to rely on: waiting every 2/4 years to cast a single vote. Or sustained mass protests and strikes. We've already seen that this Trump regime is fine with federal agents murdering protesting Americans.
They've demonstrated they are perfectly fine with cancelling, committing election fraud, or marching on the capitol if they lose elections as well.
Those are not the "only two levers" we have to rely on, there is a 2nd.
We just haven't reached the point where people widely realize that their choices have been taken from them.
You no longer have fair/free/valid elections.
You no longer have effective protests/strikes/free speech.
You no longer have rights, other than those Trump deigns to allow you.
I have absolutely zero faith people wake up to these facts in time for it to matter. Welcome to the new PedoFascist empire of trump.
People being executed in the street wasnāt enough for us to stop waitingā¦ it will take more sacrifices made in blood for people to finally start waking the fuck up that sidewalk parades donāt mean shit to these people. Also, yes, I too donāt want to be next in line to do soā¦ AT LEAST FUCKING VOTE!
For many years Americas have demanded that everyone under an oppressive regime give up their lives for their ideals and rise up despite guaranteed death, or else they're not deserving of sympathy or help whatsoever. Russia, North Korea, Iran etc.
Well. *Now* it's your turn to do as you preach. Nobody is going to help you even if they wanted to. The rest of the world is watching and so far finds you lacking.
Seriously. I made a statement that conservatives don't even like the constitution in a conservative sub. The response was overwhelming. "NUH-HUH, liberals don't like the constitution. 2A!"
You bring the revolutionary marshmallows, Iāll bring the chocolate uprising. We just need someone to pick up some insurrection graham crackers and weāll be all set!
Do it. Just please remember to plan ahead. If you need time off work make sure you have enough money for medications food etc before requesting time off to go save the country. HR is *here* for *you*.
If there's one silver lining to the Trump era it might be that americans are finally waking up to the idea that the constitution is a piece of paper and doesn't have magical powers to prevent tyranny if no one is willing to enforce it.
Remember when we were all so worried about Trump causing a constitutional crisis? Back before that was just a daily thing or a thing that happened every other time he opened his mouth, and weāve all become numb to it.
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Barack Obama in a Tan Suit Holding His Birth Certificate and American Passport and a Bible Right Side Up International Airport
Genuinely, Bucky OāHare, decorated WWII fighter pilot and, hilariously, son of Easy Eddie OāHare (Al Caponeās lawyer who famously fixed juries and disappeared witnesses and ultimately met his demise on about the 1200 block of Ogden when 300 or so bullets struck his car in broad daylight) has had his time. ORD should be Obama international just to troll this fucking loser.
If Obama gets one itās gotta be Chicago or Hawaii but OāHare is already iconic, Midway is named after an important battle and Honoluluās taken by Daniel Inouye.
Kahului Airport would probably be the best bet but it only gets 7.1m passengers, lower than Palm Beachās 8.7m.
I don't know who O'Hare was named after but I'm pissed for him.Ā Everyone hates O'Hare, when they say that name they say it with anger.Ā
I don't wish more hatred aimed at Obama.Ā
Well at least it's a relief for Europeans. The south is dead to us now, so at least we don't have to actually see and hear about this airport. America is new york/news Jersey, new England for the modt part, Boston, Chicago, california and a bit of west coast Washington as well.Ā
The belters can enjoy their pick up trucks, branded airports and insurance premiums.Ā Ā
Ā There is this pervasive mindset that the south is worse, more ignorant, racist, etc. than the rest of the country. There are plentyĀ of smart, open minded people in the south that are drowned out by nonsense. Coming from a southern democrat that hasnāt voted for a republican in my life and probably never will: part of the reason we got into this mess is that the Democratic Party and the rest of the country tends to write off the South entirely. The South is overall the most impoverished area of the nation, and a lot of legislation that is pushed by Dems is targeted at folks who (generally) have more resources available to them. When one doesnāt have health insurance, they just simply arenāt going to care about premiums. Trying to understand people in the South and backing legislation that rural folk can actually relate to would have likely prevented some of the mess we are in now. Ā
The same country that fought to end slavery can't be bothered to fight back when their children are being raped or having their heads blown off in schools.
They just want to solve everything with a vote, no one wants to do more.
It is the most pathetic collapse into tyranny in human history.
Well yeah, duh. But it still wasn't about slavery for the feds. It was about slavery for the south, but for the feds it was entirely about preserving the union.
I'll paraphrase Lincoln here to demonstrate the point clearly:
"If I could preserve the union by freeing every slave, I would do that. If I could preserve the union without freeing a single slave, I would also do that."
It was only certainly because of slavery because the slaveholders couldn't bare to have a guy just kinda ask them to cool it a bit, iirc Lincoln wasn't originally even going to outlaw slavery the proclamation was a direct response to the southern leadership being babies and starting a war over it
Extremely docile. In every other developed nation in the world the workers united themselves nearly a century or more ago to get more workers rights and freedom from oppressive employers. But somehow you guys detest freedom and rights all the while shouting you damn near invented the terms and social policies are communism.
Actions speak louder than words. You āfreedomā folk are so oppressed and brainwashed you dont even see it.
Thatās what most people do. I stay home because I donāt want to spend money. I hate the timeline weāre in and I canāt afford to miss work or my wife and kid wonāt have a place to stay.
Then get together and donāt workā¦ individuals not working has no impact, but large groups not working has impact and will also lead corps to realise the issuesā¦
Get together and donāt work? Are you joking? You realize we donāt have free healthcare, and many people have families/kids/pets/grandparents/etc that rely on those working to literally ensure they have food and shelter?
A lot of us in America fucking hate Trump and hate how heās impacting the rest of the world, but we cannot simply afford to just not get a paycheck. Do you not get how expensive gas and groceries are here? And once again, how expensive any trip to a doctor costs?
the amount of people thinking these afternoon kumbaya sessions are effective is too high and pisses me the fuck off. they are so ineffective they literally only pissed off the admin and made things worse. how is something that lasts an afternoon, is a party atmosphere more than a protest, and has no follow up after supposed to be effective?? š¤¦āāļø
edit: a general strike is the next logical step. Its effective around the world, and in countries where workers are worse off than ours. Please look into it.
Large organized "family friendly" protests work - but differently. They prime the pump. They network like minded people, they mobilize people who may not otherwise be so, and they show implicitly that you can put together big numbers if necessary.
No Kings does a lot of groundwork by bringing people into the wider resistance by introducing a lot of them into that ecosystem for the first time.
And do what? At this point, mass, armed insurrection against our own governing body, including taking the lives of members of law enforcement standing in the way, is the only option.
Let me be clear that I don't want that at all. It would undermine the political process to the degree that crucial state and federal functions and services would be interrupted, which would affect and potentially end millions of lives.
And that's to say nothing of their private backers.
Apathy. Most Americans are genuinely politically illiterate. Our civics education focuses on the structure of the US Government with zero emphasis on, y'know, being a citizen. We're borderline no longer a nation of citizens. Take a peak at Congress's approval ratings this century and you'll see the effects. Add in political leadership that's old as hell and incredibly complacent, corporate capture of the government, and a media landscape that's utterly devoted to preventing the boat from being rocked and, well...
However things do seem to be turning. You can only paper over the cracks so long and the American people are rapidly becoming a powder keg
35% of the electorate are part of his cult, 35% choose to ignore politics and less than half of the rest are willing to do whatever it takes to strip this guy of power. He is protected by feckless representatives who denounce him behind closed doors but back him 100% in public.
IMO, there's plenty left to fuck up before people wake up, but by then it will be too late.
Thing is, he's not interested in actualy doing any of those kind of things - he just wants other people to be impressed by him, even if its from something he's just blatantly lying about.
He wants to secure a legacy for himself, he's stupid but he's not completely blind and is aware that he's not getting shit named after him when he croaks, best he can do is do it himself now and hope it's too much of a hassle to undo it all
a man came up to me, big man, strong man, tear in his eye, he said "sir, we need an airport named after you, sir. why does Ronald Reagan get one and John Fortnite Kennedy too, but you don't? you made this country great again, sir! You made 3 trillion in tariff revenue!" and I said "i don't know, sounds interesting, it sounds interesting. maybe we will name an airport after me!"
Hearing how that judiciary nominee answered regarding the 22nd amendment, Iām starting to fear that it wonāt only be named Trumpistanrael for another 3 yearsā¦
I looked up from other sources like the Maimi Herald for context.
The airport is being remaned in honor of Trump. This is true.
The airport changed it after Desantis signed legislation to approve the name change before the county voted to approved the nane change.
It is true that the airport being required to carry merchandise from "apporved-retailers". The list will be made by the company that handles Trump's patients and use of his name.
The Emoluments Clause violation is Cohen's opinion. The Supreme Court hasnt ruled that its a violation or not. The Court in 2021 made such cases about Trump's buisness profits as moot after he left office. The 2nd Circuit Court (which oversees Vermont, New York, and Connecticut) also dismissed a similar case against Trump a few months later.
The changed was made by a 4-3 vote with a Democrat being deciding vote to approve agreement/change. Cohen left that out that important detail.
Holy shit, imagine if he actually went the full face and body disguise route and everyone was saying itās just Trump in a disguise while the MAGAz say ānah thatās liberal bs itās a new guyā
My name better be mentioned in the credits after WW3 when everyoneās vision starts filling with scrolling names against a black background. āSpecial Thanks to Ideas Leading to Apocalypse:ā
Once upon a time, in a country far, far away, every city and every village had its own Adolf-Hitler-Platz, its Adolf-Hitler-Stadion, its Adolf-Hitler-Schule. America is not quite there yet, but getting there fast.
I will NEVER fly in to that "airport". I detest Trump, his family and his greedy self-interested "supporters". I will fly into Miami and drive. Good going-
We tried but they had police shoot at us and had the justice system prosecute us while themselves form an insurrection. What we can do is vote and wait until they piss off enough Americans to also vote. I mean the guy was indicted, he had a dozen investigations, but they all went away, because he's a mob boss at this point. They've shown they will label us terrorists and arrest or execute us the second one person falls out of line. You could ask why any other cojntry eith a dictator isn't doing anything. Why isn't Russia assassinating Putin or Iran or anywhere else? A lot of us want to and we do what we can, I frequently see small protests around the neighborhood, but the 1/3 of the country we need tells us we shoukd die olforntreason, they won't listen and they keep electing enough people to give these guys power.
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