• adarza@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    well, he ain’t coming up with this stuff on his own, he’s too stupid to know all this shit.

    someone is reading it to him and telling him wut to do.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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      1 year ago

      Have you seen any of the videos of him signing executive orders? He literally doesn’t have a goddamn clue. He’s just rubber stamping everything they put in front of his face.

      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Exactly. I’ve been saying it since 2016. Trump is just the face of the global corporate plutocracy seizing the means of democracy. Numerous corporations and oligarchs worked together to create the pseudo-libertarian conservative propaganda machine decades ago, and they are now leading this fascist revolution.

        Fascism is a fusion of the corporation and the state, and multinationals look at Chinas state capitalist monopolies with envy. That’s why every single one led them are bending the knee instantly. This is what they’ve been working towards for years. A democratic “will of the people” is the greatest threat to their wealth and power, and nation states are only thing with enough power to hold them accountable.

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    1 year ago

    Trump’s Early Actions Mirror Project 2025 Plan He Once Dismissed pretended he didn’t know anything about due to his knowing how horrifying and unpopular it is

    FTFY

    • charisma_ken@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      https://archive.today/ is your friend. Someone already beat me to archiving that news story. https://archive.is/KOYsQ

      On desktop, right-click plus Inspect is another friend to get past some of these overlays which block the visible content. Pick a location on a page overlay which might seem like the top left of the overlay.

      On Chromium-based browsers you will be brought to the Elements area of Developer Tools. On Firefox-based browsers you will be brought to the Inspector area of Developer Tools.

      While the Elements or Inspector area has focus, you can delete a selected HTML element by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. If you delete the wrong thing, if that Elements or Inspector area still has focus, press Ctrl + z to undo the deletion.

      Sometimes you have to Inspect, Delete, find a new area on the page, Inspect, Delete, and do so a few times until you find the correct HTML element to delete or because there may be multiple modal overlays to delete.

      If you really mess up the page, just reload the webpage.

      When you are done, press the X at the top right of the unnamed Developer Tools area to close Developer Tools or press F12 on your keyboard to close Developer Tools.

      I also feel summaries could be useful, but since some original posts on Lemmy just consist of a link with sometimes only a very brief summary, you now have some additional ways to get past some of the junk.

      I think it is worth noting Bloomberg says “By accepting, you agree to our updated Terms of Service, including… sharing information about your use of Bloomberg com with third parties.” The archive website can help with reducing this tracking. If a website decides to block archiving in the future, you can probably already assume the tracking on that website could end up being quite intrusive.

    • dudeami0@lemmy.dudeami.win
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      1 year ago

      Hopefully we stop relying on these corporate journalist cause “journalism” is bought and sold at this point. Where are the independent journalist? I think we need to start looking towards a platform to fund people who seek the truth, cause every established modern outlet seems to be selling the same shit.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’m just shocked that people are shocked that they’re following the playbook they said they’d follow that for some reason nobody believed they’d actually follow.

    Like, they published the plan, in detail, in entirety. They said the were gonna do it. Then all the “adults in the room” said “nah that’s crazy they wouldn’t do that”. Then they did it, and the “adults” were shocked.

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Television and movies have conditioned people to believe that things have a way of just working out. I’m not kidding, I’m serious. This is a huge problem. People believe that nothing truly terrible can happen to them, and that when danger presents some force, god, America, luck, whatever, is going to swoop in and save them.

      I truly believe the American people believe this. Imo step 1 in saving America is convincing Americans that nobody is coming to save us, WE have to do the work and save ourselves. Until they put to rest the childish idea of an outside savior, they’re trapped.