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johnehummel@diasp.org

Beavis and Butt-Head. Uncanny.

Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump Jr. think they know what's wrong with America

One hilarious line FTA completes the analogy: It was unclear what he [Gaetz] was talking about, but Trump Jr. agreed.

The MAGA crowd is guaranteed to agree with nonsensical bullshit. (In this case, the nonsensical bullshit was Gate's statement, "Like, defining how much everything costs based on who you are. I mean, wa — what was it like a privilege of the past for things to cost the same regardless of your politics." WTF are you talking about, Matt?)

#TrumpJr #MattGaetz #DangerousIdiocy #Fascism #CultureWar

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-cancel-culture-rant/

johnehummel@diasp.org

True or not, the following won't matter:

Pence, his aides, and staff were locked out of their offices in the capitol complex during the insurrection because their access badges had been DEACTIVATED the morning of the attack, according to sources familiar with the incident

Thanks to @Rod Mesa for the original post.

This, if true, is yet more evidence of Trump's attempted coup on Jan 6, 2021.

But it won't matter because the truth doesn't matter. What matters is what's good for the rich. Everything we believe about "equal justice under the law" in the US a is fiction crafted to keep us happy, malleable, and vulnerable.

The American fiction: There's a bad guy and there's a good guy. The good guy stands up to the bad guy, the good guy wins, and the bad guy ends up dead or in prison. (This is the plot of most American movies.)

This fiction is carefully crafted to instill in us a sense that justice prevails. And more importantly, that some abstract hero makes it prevail: "Yes, there is evil in the world," the narrative goes, "but some hero will always rise to protect the innocent."

The dual fictions of justice and a hero make us complacent and compliant. "I don't need to do anything because Superman or Batman (or whoever; AOC, maybe?) will do it for me."

This belief on our part is extremely useful to those who would victimize us because it makes us passive: "Someone else will take care of this."

The American reality: There's a rich guy. He wants to get richer. He victimizes everyone around him (where "around him" increasingly means "occupying the same planet"). He gets away with it, in part because he and the other rich guys have a quiet "gentleman's" agreement. (I use the pronoun "he" here because it's mostly true, although admittedly not universally true. Some of the rich evil assholes are women.)

The people we have elected to protect us from the rich guys are, themselves, all rich guys.

The reality is No one is looking out for us, the 99.99%. If anyone is going to take care of us, it is going to have to be us.

To wit: Look at how the Jan. 6th insurrectionists are being treated. Look at how Trump (a traitor and fascist who attempted a coup) is being treated. Look at how Bannon is being treated. Look at how all these rich co-conspirators are being treated. They are treated with kid gloves, and not a single one of them will serve a nanosecond in jail, much less prison. There is no justice in the US, only the fiction of justice. And that fiction is used more often than not to oppress and enslave people who are already victimized by our society.

I don't know what we should do about this (and if I did, I sure as hell wouldn't say it on social media), but Americans need to wake up to the reality that their "representative government" does not represent them. Increasingly, it doesn't even pretend to.

#CultureWar #USA #Culture #Fiction #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #Propaganda #BrainWashing

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1458139441151705091.html

bellisarius1@pubpod.alqualonde.org

CancelNetflix

Tulsi Gabbard joins #CancelNetflix campaign, calls 'Cuties' child porn as GOP lawmakers ask DOJ to charge streaming service

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has joined calls to “cancel” Netflix over its new film ‘Cuties,’ dubbing it “child porn” for its sexualized depictions of young girls after two GOP lawmakers urged the DOJ to sue the platform.

The former Democratic presidential hopeful took aim at Netflix in a Friday tweet, arguing the controversial film would only “whet the appetite for pedophiles” and “help fuel the child sex trafficking trade” while slamming the streaming service as “complicit.”

@netflix child porn "Cuties" will certainly whet the appetite of pedophiles & help fuel the child sex trafficking trade. 1 in 4 victims of trafficking are children. It happened to my friend's 13 year old daughter. Netflix, you are now complicit. #CancelNetflix

#tulsigabbard #Q #cuties #netflix #us #politics

#boycott the #jewish #culturewar

starry_gordon@diasp.org

I haven't seen anything about Natalie Wynn / ContraPoints on diaspora*, so here is the URL to her Patreon page which contains as good an intro as any. No use describing it, you've just got to see it. If 'overview' doesn't come up first, click on it above the frame.
[https://www.patreon.com/contrapoints](//https://www.patreon.com/contrapoints)

#anarchism #communism #liberalism #alt-right #art #video #trans #culturewar