• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Given that their distractions have increasingly become as destructive if not even moreso than the thing they’re distracting from, it’s possible.

      More likely that’s it’s just culture war bombast designed to reinforce the whole “everyone except us are evil and dangerous” groupthink that they’re using for cohesion, though, IMO.

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        It’s amazing how much damage Bin Laden did to America by killing what traffic does in a few weeks (or toddlers with guns in a decade). Trillions in debt, scared shitless and divided like never before.

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        Brits have been using it that way for centuries. Go dig through papers from the 1800s, you’ll find them describing anyone resisting their colonialism as “terrorists”. Legally, the US is working from the exact same definition that British common law uses.

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          That makes sense, since, as far as i can tell, the U.S. seems to be a modern hybrid of the British empire which spawned it and the German war machine it assimilated into itself about 80 years ago.

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    I remember growing up that everyone knew what Marxism is and had a thoroughly developed class consciousness. Everyone was capable of developing a critique of capital. He might be onto something. It explains why America has such strong labor, free universal healthcare, and no bourgeoisie.

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    Steve Bannon need his throat chakra realigned. No more talking from him will be just fine. If I can smell him from wherever I am, I will make some soup later on. Again, I say If I can smell him from wherever I am, I am making some soup. It is getting near sweater & soup season.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    Tbf, schools are sort of indoctrination camps.

    That said, getting rid of school so that kids would end up learning 0%, instead of the currently 50% useful stuff* isn’t exactly gonna solve problems.

    (*since the other 50% is indoctrination)

    The far right doesn’t really want to get rid of school, they just want to control more of it so that instead of the 50% center-right indoctrination, it’d become 100% far right nationalist indoctrination with their agenda instead.

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      I suspect that this time, they want to get rid of the children too.

      These “people” want to snuff out humanity itself. They have AI now and each other.

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        That’s not a problem. Without trained and qualified engineers, architects and construction workers, soon the ‘prisons’ will just be a shoddily fenced easily escapable dirt arena.

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          I could not fucking believe what I was seeing, some months back, when somebody posted either a link to, or a green text clip talking about a tiktok video where…

          … Some young adult, thought it would be cool to ‘pretend’ (?) to off himself by holding a loaded gun to his head and pull the trigger.

          A semi auto pistol.

          This guy… not only did he not even check to make sure there was no rounds in the magazine, muchless drop out or empty the mag, he didn’t check to make sure no round in the chamber…

          He manually flipped the safety off before doing this.

          Yeah, he died, in the middle of an otherwise bragadocious display of being hard and not giving a fuck.

          … The whole thing was so stupid and absurd that I still cannot actually tell whether or not he intentionally, or accidentally, offed himself.

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    Private and public? So just schools in general? Or is home schooling ok? Oh, but I’m sure you want some books burned first.

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    Sure. Let’s also designate grocery stores as terrorist organizations. Gyms. Maker spaces. Libraries. Gas stations. ‘Terrorist organization’ is a useless term now.

    And remember: