Comment on Anon gives a former president some feedback

TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s never been about defeating those things, it’s about expanding power using them as an excuse.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Exactly.

    1. War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government
    2. War on Terror - PATRIOT Act, or whatever its current incarnation is
    3. War on Woke - probably government access to medical records and/or privacy generally, but I guess we’ll see

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      War on Drugs - reduce minority voice in government

      And increase incarceration of certain people to expand legal slavery under the 13th amendment.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        expand legal slavery

        Maybe in some states, but in many (most?), they just become a burden on taxpayers.

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• madcaesar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  War on poverty 😬

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  War on drugs - excuse to kill blacks and mexicans

  War on terror - excuse to expand influence in the middles east

  War on woke - 😟

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    • War on Woke - war on privacy and access to undesirable information

    As RATM says:

    Who controls the past now, controls the future.

    Who controls the present now, controls the past.

    It’s just Big Brother.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      that makes sense. to start utilizing their surveillance network more aggressively to their interests. trying to censor out “woke”, as in socialism and anticapitalism in general, activism etc…

      yeah this doesn’t look good does it.

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I mean they literally came out and said that they hate empathy.

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    • easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      What’s ratm

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Rage Against The Machine - Testify.

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      • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Rage Against the Machine

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They are this clean cut folksy little musical group that had to start getting all political one day just to ruin Paul Ryan’s workout.

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• AllHailZorglub@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Considering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  interesting

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