• Libra00@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Yeah, if you aren’t aware of the hypocrisy on the right and the ‘rules for thee but not for me’ mentality you really haven’t been paying attention.

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      5 days ago

      Nobody cares. Not on either side.

      They love to scream and cry and whine when they’ve been disrespected, but nobody cares about inconsistency in our leadership. Nobody cares what’s true or not unless it affects them personally and immediately. Nobody cares when a politician lies, they don’t care when they’re inconsistent, pointing out hypocrisy is just more free-advertisement for them.

      The only way you can get people to actually care about what’s real is when you impact their comfort and routine. As soon as that happens, people mobilize and vote and form coalitions. To this end, we should all be a little accelerationist about what’s happening, because if they boil the water slowly enough, people broadly will adapt to the new normal and will go on with their day, even if they have to like, go through checkpoints to get to work. They don’t fucking care and they have memories of goldfish, so the only way we end this mess is get enough people fed up at the same time before the administration can pull some stunt like giving everyone stimulus checks.

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        5 days ago

        That’s their last resort, when the people rally and are about to take down the government. They will promise monthly checks of something like $1500. That will cut about half of the protestors out.

        Money is the root of all evil. It’s also the greatest human weakness.