Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.
Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.
Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.
Sigh...Are we great yet?
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in reply to Qasim Rashid, Esq. • • •A socialist governor is bad, but this isn't somehow...
#fascism
#Nazis
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •Almost every Democrat has spoken in favor of Mamdani. Don’t believe hype to the contrary.
The media is doing a terrible job amplifying one or two ancient out-of-touch quasi-Democrats, which is why people seem to believe this terrible narrative.
And tech bros / Venture capitalists have ALWAYS been greedy misogynistic racists.
The media and the tech bros are pushing anti-Democratic narratives manufactured to turn Democrats against each other and make MAGA stronger.
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in reply to Neil E. Hodges • • •@tk The billionaires that cut MAGAs paychecks also cut the Dems' paychecks. The door was opened with the general acceptance of legal bribery (aka "lobbying") and the doorstop was wedged in with Citizens United. All of this was made possible by Reagan-era policies that allowed the unmitigated accumulation and concentration of wealth in the hands of the elite.
MAGA only exists because, among the everyday people who were impacted by the ever burgeoning wealth and power inequality in this country, a significant fraction were either already bigoted or susceptible to bigoted messaging. This let the wealthy and powerful turn them against their fellow citizens as a distraction from the real culprits of everyone's misfortune: the 1%. Trump, being a narcissistic con artist, saw the opportunity and seized it for his own purposes, but if it weren't him, it would have been another. The opportunity was created intentionally. Divide and conquer.
We were all being played.
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Thanks for that link! I knew it was bad here. I didn't realize it was even worse in so many places. We are only in the top ~40!
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2013/12/05/u-s-income-inequality-on-rise-for-decades-is-now-highest-since-1928/
The Great Depression can be seen as a sort of (very painful) correction to wealth inequality. 2008 can be seen as an aborted correction of the same type. Without that correction, we have now reached the point where the wealthy are so far ahead that they can be blatant about their ownership of the government, and there is mass unrest. They turn us against each other instead of against them. And so fascism is born.
U.S. income inequality, on rise for decades, is now highest since 1928
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