Theocrats are rarely true believers. We’re headed towards the mammonite theocracy

It’s those but so bad it’s a disability. Like how just because most people don’t hear something from time to time doesn’t mean they’re all hard of hearing

I’m reminded of that ex Soviet joke about how they always knew the government was lying about their own countries but were shocked to learn it was telling the truth about america

What else would we do? Like it’s not ok and we’re obviously not ok. But any effort to improve things is met with state violence and further propaganda to convince half the country that we’re the problem with America. I’m white, that makes me lucky when it comes to this.

You try explaining to your fellow Americans that it’s horrifying that cops do this they’ll say “everyone knows you need to do what the cops say and they were just a criminal anyways, and we need the cops to keep us safe.” They also love to say “maybe you should experience violent crime and see how you feel about cops then.” And let me say, I’ve experienced violent crime in the past year and my opinion of cops worsened.

But yeah huge swathes of Americans have problems with it. We marched over it in 2020, we’ve marched over it before and we’ll do it again too. But this country is barely a democracy, we’re bound between two parties, one that’s pro cop but thinks they need slaps on the wrist and more training when they murder people and the other that thinks that doing that is an unacceptable level of punishment. Oh and the deck is stacked in the latter’s favor.

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if our nation collapses in the upcoming administration.

Most people on lemmy should be more afraid of a social credit system. Get arrested at food not bombs? That’s a penalty. Get raided at a gay bar? That’s a ding. Protest against deng? Ding. (Couldn’t help myself).

Financial credit score is more of a “we don’t give half a fuck what you do so long as you’re good with money”

We tried banning it but failed. My girlfriend was a teenager married to a marine when she was 17

Yeah that’s the thing that a lot of Americans seem to gloss over the horror of. We’ve accepted the legality of execution without trial for running from the cops or looking threatening in their eyes. Doesn’t matter if the cop thinks all black people look threatening. Failure to comply with verbal instructions? Death penalty, its not the cop’s job to confirm that you’re not deaf…

I just assumed everywhere was

I’m afraid Christianity is sweeping across America and turning us into yeehawdists

Fuckers, the lot of em

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Because they don’t want the freedom to say what they want, they want to force everyone to listen. Lemmy is terrible for that as we’ll defederate them real fast. I forget who they were but I chose my instance over willingness to defederate from a bigot instance and if I have to I’ll change instances over it

And they’ll cry freedom the entire time

Because there’s an underlying implication that allowing teenagers to seek out sexual content on their own is the same as an adult presenting it to them. They want you to feel like they’ll call you a pedo if you disagree with their framing

They’re godsdamned freaks is what they are. Their religion says sex is disgusting and evil. Mine says it’s holy and pleasure is sacred. But neither of us should get to decide the law based on what gods we got. I know that. Jewish Americans know that. Hindu Americans know that. Muslim Americans know it too. And I ain’t seen Buddhists trying to ban alcohol in any city in America, nor shinto folks trying to divert public school money to preaching about amaterasu. Turns out it’s just the Christians round here who don’t get that when your religion says you can’t do something it means you don’t get to do it, but the rest of us are more than free to.

Ain’t the point of a right that it’s protected from the government?

I think dengist policy introduced a capital holding class to China and that the workers don’t have democratic control of the workplace.

Exactly. When workers start talking to each other across borders (national and otherwise) and as equals that’s like one of the crucial steps for positive change. No worker in China ever denied me medicine or raised my rent.

I don’t like it either, but these fuckers clearly do, so at least they’re doing it in a way that isn’t basically a bunch of governments spoon feeding what they want Americans to think to them

Everything that comes from this should be interesting.