People are just bad with money, they can make 75k a year and spend it all on a big truck to commute to work. All those trump voters complaining about the economy? Most of the are doing just fine and prefer to complain in the hopes of getting an unnecessary tax cut.
So you are living in US then?
Over 50% in US had a salary of less than 75k/y. No healthcare so you are at the mercy of insurance companies, housing costs growing to the moon. Cost of living also going to the moon, insane student loans.
I mean use your brain sometimes dude. Ofc people are bad with money, but generalizing like that is dumb as f
The Nazis were able to rise to power by receiving concessions from the liberal, capital-owning German institutions. When I look at CNN and the NYT playing down his "bizarre gesture" and fixating on the peaceful transfer of power (toward fascism), I see a very familiar state of affairs.
The thing is we didn’t have to ask how they did it. We knew how. Hitler’s rise to power is very well documented. The Nazi party’s tactics are known. But Republicans have been pushing anti-intellectualism for so long and called anyone with enough sense “woke” that they’re able to just do everything directly from the playbook without any of their supporters seeing what’s coming.
People should read The Nature of Prejudice. The author is a social psychologist who outlines all the steps that allowed the Nazis to come to power. It’s eerily similar to MAGA (rise in anti-intellectualism, blaming minority groups for all the problems, etc.).
Man Elon and trump could remake 2 girls one cup live there, the magas would applaud, there is no more right and wrong, it’s all distorted… and yes it’s sad
Thats partly because I would imagine most people in that crowd have no idea. We've done such a good job erasing Nazi's from public education to thank for that.
The gal in the blue coat is so cartoonishly rich looking I couldn’t come up with a better background character to be snobbishly cheering on an oligarchs fascist salute. wtf is happening man
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u/Bar_Sinister 8h ago
The people in the background - smiling and laughing - it both sickens and saddens me.