Comment on Anon gives a former president some feedback

TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  War on poverty 😬

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• umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • easily3667@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s ratm

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Rage Against The Machine - Testify.

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      • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Rage Against the Machine

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      • Zink@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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• nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  interesting

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