Only if you read things into it that aren’t actually there.

Woah, rare Putin reference.

I have already spoken to three US Presidents. They come and go, but politics stay the same at all times. Do you know why? Because of the powerful bureaucracy. When a person is elected, they may have some ideas. Then people with briefcases arrive, well dressed, wearing dark suits, just like mine, except for the red tie, since they wear black or dark blue ones. These people start explaining how things are done. And instantly, everything changes. This is what happens with every administration.

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The purpose of a system is what it does. The US government doesn’t serve us. It serves the wealthy, and it does it fairly competently.

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There is quite a lot of good news, but you will never see it if you only get your news from imperial core sources, because the imperial core works to manufacture your consent for regime change.

the meaning of “bucket list” has been watered down to homeopathic levels smdh

Hmm… Pepperidge Farms remembers when “low-information voter“ was considered to be a dog whistle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_information_voter#Meaning

Linguist George Lakoff has written that the term is a pejorative mainly used by American liberals to refer to people who vote conservative against what liberals assume to be their own interests and assumes they do it because they lack sufficient information. Liberals, he said, attribute the problem in part to deliberate Republican efforts at misinforming voters.

Iran’s government has its problems, but its human rights abuses have been exaggerated by Western imperialist states & media for nearly 50 years, ever since their puppet regime was overthrown.

Not a lot of boomers on Lemmy, but plenty of BlueAnoners anyway.

I prefer the term “progressive liberal” to avoid perpetuating the misconception that liberals are left.

They’re the top producer of dirty energy because they’re the top manufacturer in the world and they’re roughly tied with India for the largest population in the world. They’re the top producer of battery byproducts because they produce 80% of the world’s batteries.