• chitak166@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Bernie showed the next generation that American politics is a play put on by the ruling class to give the workers hope so they don’t rebel.

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      9 months ago

      Bread & Circuses is a phrase that originated in Ancient Rome. It has always been a play on the most ridiculous stage.

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        9 months ago

        They’ve really nailed the coffin on the circuses the last decade. But I’m wondering if their greed’s strain on the bread will backfire before whatever their endgame strategy is.

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          9 months ago

          I think the endgame strategy is “live like kings until the wells run dry.”

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            9 months ago

            Impossible. At a minimum some narcissistic ego “good guy” wants to preserve “humanity’s achievements” like art and culture. Most likely some worse than Musk oligarchy club we don’t know about is on some Elysium shit somewhere somehow. They’re too evil and smart … lmao reading your comment imagining somethin like end of space Odyssey… billionaire cowboys on rockets waving hats and lassos around shooting off into the sunset…

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              9 months ago

              Too smart? The people who are burning every conceivable corner of the Earth to scrape the ashes into the shape of a dollar? I don’t think so. Greed is at the reigns, and it needs more.

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                9 months ago

                You believe in your heart of hearts that the powers that be are in denial/ignorant that we’re going off a cliff?

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                  9 months ago

                  I believe in my heart of hearts that they’re going to live it up until nobody can. What great plan do you see? I see a million fiefdoms clawing for the same resources. Nobody is in charge of this. It is teeth gnashing, bodies pulling in a thousand directions, each of the million King’s attempting to rearrange the world until he is on top. The sociopaths are in charge. They’ll eat each other just as fast as they do us. That is why the madness won’t stop. Like a hydra, each head taken down reveals two more. We have this egregore with us, and even if they wanted to I highly doubt they could stop the system they made, not without critical mistakes that send us hurdling through the windshield.

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                    9 months ago

                    I totally get what you’re saying. I just can’t agree bc I see a pretty well oiled structure in place that is successfully achieving unfathomable scale of creating this status quo. We didn’t get here by accident. I also don’t think the stonecutters got together 50 years ago to plan the apocalypse. (I guess I shouldn’t rule it out… looking at you, Christian far right) But I see lots of successful oligarchs in their fiefdoms. And those individuals didn’t stumble into it. Ffs I’m a fan of Bill Gates’ so gooding, but then I see him acquiring more US arable land far from coasts, than any other American.