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this system seems to think that if it keeps creating new controversies, atrocities, and escalations, that i’ll forget about the old ones

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you’re not going to convince me that raping children on epstein island is bad but killing them in gaza is ok

i’m not trying to have my every moral standard annihilated by career politicians and corporate media

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if a politician rapes or kills children, that’s all i need to know about them

no way they can possibly represent me, or make laws for me to follow that aren’t a joke

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i’m not impressed if a lawmaker criticizes ice but doesn't lift a finger to stop it

i don't think that democrats helping republicans to triple ice's funding is going to reduce ice violence even if a puerto rican plays at the super bowl

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schumer, harris, newsom, jeffries, their whole corrupt party apparatus and media operatives want me to believe that certain genocides are ok

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isn’t it funny how the government offers so many gory details of their past violence and sex crimes on epstein island

but no gory details on their current violence and sex crimes in palestine

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i’m told it’s unrealistic to ask lawmakers and businesses to take actual action to stop genocide or ice

but it is realistic to give votes and money to lawmakers and businesses who support genocide and ice, and then expect them to turn around and change their minds once in power or wealth

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it’s not like democrats and republicans don’t realize how hellishly far to the right they are of most americans on all the major existential issues facing humanity, whether it’s ice, policing, war, genocide, fossil fuels, healthcare, minimum wage, wall st, a.i.

it’s not like they’re about to figure it out, if only we would just go easy on them

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human trafficking and genocide were basic to the country’s success and still are

money is king and life is disposable

meanwhile power wants you obsessed with a few paid actors playing “bad apples”

and totally ignorant of the depraved system they epitomize

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power is not afraid of public anger as long as it’s disorganized or channeled into the super bowl and the public thinks that this will have any affect on policy

obviously power knows how to monetize anger and is doing so very profitably

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this system can withstand tremendous amounts of hate

obsessing over every utterance of the attention whore in the white house did not make him less powerful

it gave him free publicity and got him elected

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each new scandal is a test to see how much this system can get away with

this system is designed to handle tremendous waves of anger and hate, as long as they don’t disrupt the operation of the system

keep scrolling, keep arguing amongst ourselves, keep buying from corporations and voting for duopoly

meanwhile policies keep moving to the right year after year

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one advantage of creating public anger, panic and confusion is it keeps the public perpetually glued to electronic screens, waiting in suspense for politicians and corporations to provide them with answers they never give

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another advantage of creating public anger, panic and confusion is that it makes public violence more likely, which helps create a pretext for profitable arrests or murders

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what power fears most is a public that’s savvy enough to see through their propaganda techniques, can remember things powerful people have done before the latest scandal, and can synthesize randomly shocking headlines into a logical narrative, and who takes matters into their own hands

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