Why Dubai?

Yeah, let’s nationalize that shit.

The fact that we even have billionaires (and they should not be a thing. The notion of a trillionaire is even more fucking atrocious) is probably why donvict and elon are assuming power right now.

Without the broligarchs and their thumb heavily on media, both “legacy” and not, do you think there would be so very many stupid people willing to vote for the convicted felon?

All of the “liberal media” (lol, that phrase was always silly and now it’s beyond farcical) was already obeying in advance. This is just more of it.

Yeah. So weird, this Nazi salute. From the actual President of a fascist admin. Odd. Odd looking, even.

…And that’s not the Onion? Looks like she is laughing so hard at the idiot peasants getting rug-pulled already in that pic.

And also: “you can buy Melania”? Um, phrasing?

Short term capital gains already are taxed as income. I doubt anyone is holding these rug pull coins for more than a year.

This is the Rug Pull Administration, after all. Might as well kick it off with really, really big and obvious grift.

Hm, behind “not a paywall”, but I wonder if being a cop is any sort of predictor, as well.

Why not 4chan?

This seems like it already happened before? Didn’t M$ have some bot that started parroting pro-Hitler things?

Ihhhht wuz ah fulse flaggggg.

He might do it just to own the libs, TBH.

I agree with all of that. It is fairly obvious to me that a lot of qons just generally hate humans that are not their immediate family (and in some cases, they hate even them). See how they treat the notion of ANY public spaces, unless they are of the xtian kind. I mean, the notion of making benches impossible to sleep on, so that the homeless have nowhere to go. The way they treat libraries. And public schools.

I think some of this hatred of public services/goods even underlies some of their hatred of USPS, since it is something that benefits nearly everyone.

One one level, I kind of understand how some uppercrust qon douches like Elon might have an aversion to public goods because they have accrued such obscene wealth that they don’t need them. But when the person that is barely scraping by, but glued to Faux and waving their silly donvict flags? I just don’t understand how these people are dragged into the same mindset. I get that a few whites/men get annoyed at seeing anyone else benefit from government services in any way whatsoever, so I guess that is at least part of it.

It’s quite a bummer to not have anything planned to take its place as a more healthy alternative, not to mention how it will impact the livelihood of some people.

If you compare it to coal, which may have employed about the same set of people (?), at least talk of retraining was being made…

As problematic as religion is, at least a lot of it was completely outside the sphere of commerce. I could see the broligarchs thinking this kind of thing being a good thing for them, since if people have fewer and fewer options outside of commerce, they’ll be forced to engage more and more with commerce, or else just be hermits.

Oh, of course, but I’d say that holds true for so many institutions. Just try to truly be yourself on the job, for example… LOL.

But yeah. This is probably why I don’t go to church.

This fact (and I see this in the Denver area, too - the libraries here have always just blown me away in their excellence, although maybe some areas have even better ones) is why I think the libraries are under assault by the right. They seem to just fundamentally hate the idea of building healthy community as an alternative to the only public interaction that seems to compute for them, and that is commerce.

The first murmurings I heard of this was right after 9/11 - there seemed to be this concern about terrorists using the Internet w/o monitoring or something. Also, they were worried about “porn”. And “freeloaders” reading books/watching movies without paying Amazon! In any case, it seemed rather piecemeal, but you could tell that the qons probably never really loved libraries (just like their hatred of the USPS) but were trying to formulate something to put an end to it.

Then, in more recent years, they seemed to have arrived at the trans thing and this narrative of librarians being “groomers” and they have really cranked up the assault on librarians and libraries…

I cannot speak for the South, but I do see that quite a few churches in Colorado seem to have prominent signs outside saying “EVERYONE is welcome” etc.

I imagine like Scouts of America, many churches have to adapt or die. But Colorado is definitely not the South…

Hm, community co-ops? Do tell more.

Yeah, I think the experiences vary. I rejected xtianity as dogma very early on, so I would have noticed people trying to push narratives. Yes, there were the kooks and the zealots, but I remember some of those types of churches the other poster mentioned where they’d put on things that were teen and/or family-focused and I’m not sure I remember hearing any god-talk when you’d walk in. Some of them were my friends’ church, some of them were friends of my parents who invited the family over for a potluck in the basement kind of thing…it could be parents would get the pitch, but I was not getting any of that as a kid/teen…

Then there are the cases where you’d go to some VBS (Vacation Bible School) - I don’t think it went craaaaazy into the pitch, but the religion was definitely there and are projects would involve something with the name of Jesus in it…