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  • MGMT sued the DHS for using their song Little Dark Age in their propaganda, interesting there’s no stories about that.

    Edit for context: The DHS Instagram account used their song in a propaganda video for ICE. MGMT nearly immediately publicly responded, and actually successfully got the video taken down. They then sued.

    And you can’t make this shit up, those running the account are either sociopaths with a dark sense of humor or utterly clueless, because a) The song is called Little Dark Age, written during and about Hitler-lite’s first term, and they titled their video “The End of a Dark Age” and b) the section of the song they used goes: “Policemen swear to God, love seeping from their guns. I know my friends and would probably turn and run. If you get out of bed, come find us heading For the bridge, bring a stone, all the rage, my little dark age” and they are playing that over footage of masked, armed agents forcibly kidnapping citizens. And it’s to make the agents and agency look good? It’s fucking lunacy. How is that anything but a call to other psychos out there that if they sign up they get to kill hippies and wetbacks? Damn, I got too mad, I’m out.


  • Substantive? That’s a bit of a stretch. One reply that cites any sources and not a single one would get past a community college level RA.

    It is laughable to me that you think we’re on different sides. There are two sides, manipulators and manipulatees, and none of us here are the manipulators, though you may have created an echo chamber to increase the volume of certain manipulations.

    ‘Sides’ aside, do I have anything to say for myself? Of course. Would the time spent add any value to my life or fulfil any purpose? Maybe, but the ROI is too slim. You can’t reason a person out of an opinion they didn’t reason themselves into. It’s the same reason I don’t waste time arguing with MAGA these days. Even on the off chance you’re talking to a real person, presenting them with any kind of evidence is just going to make them double down on their opinion. That’s just human psychology, The Backfire Effect in action. I made the mistake of not checking where I was before commenting at all. Coming back here to reply to you was probably a mistake in and of itself, but this whole ‘sides’ thing just irks me. I hope you don’t really feel that way. If we both want to move the country to the left, then disagreements like this only serve to benefit those who want to move the country further to the right. There’s this book that outlines exactly how to create these ideological disagreements that drive wedges into opposition to the right, and who it benefits, but for some reason y’all have completely discounted it even though everything written in it has come to pass since. If y’all want to outright reject reality then more power to you, but I don’t have to involve myself.













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    Considering these people are in charge of the only systems capable of regulating them, yeah probably not. And if you won’t sell them they’ll force you into foreclosure and buy you up even cheaper like JD Vance’s Acretrader has been doing to farms.


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    Vulture capitalism. These VCs come in and take out a huge loan to buy these established companies, then the company becomes responsible for paying the loan, and the company also pays the VC “management fees” then when the company is a hollow husk of what it used to be they start selling off assets and closing stores. Kmart, Sears, Toys R’ Us, Circuit City, Party City, Payless, etc etc etc. This is how Thiel made his Billions and what Vance did before pretending to be a politician. Lately they’ve been going after the funeral home industry and veterinary clinics.