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We need to ensure that we maintain the notion that an administration saying things like “suck it up” is never accepted as normal.
The memes are funny, yes- but the more this becomes a joke, the more we begin to allow for it because that’s “just what they do.”
That may be just what they do, but accepting it as commonplace doesn’t have to be just what we do.
Use THIS to speak your voice and don’t accept this administration’s attempts distract us by dumbing our politics down to memes.
They're so tone-deaf and under-educated, they have no clue that the things they say are not only lacking in humor, but lacking in any connection to reality, humanity, and they don't even understand the concept of empathy.
That administration and their remaining followers have no value for life of any kind.
We can't forget that.
they don’t even understand the concept of empathy.
That's all you need to know.
It can be both. Let's flood them with memes.
It has been proven over the past decade that memes have real political power.
That was a serious statement and not a joke.
You had the brevity to say what I tried to say in a news article-level word barf. Kudos.
Oh, flood them with everything. Find a way to firehose noise at them constantly. It would honestly be the best thing anyone could do. I was just adding to @Wren@lemmy.world 's post, that we all sharing memes for internal humor is pointless. Mango Mussolini only sees something if it's on FOX or CNN, written on the underside of a Big Mac, or some poor sexually abused intern has to hand him a note. Muskrat doesn't see messages carved onto his cars, he just sees his stock dropping and how he's too impotent to love his children.
The meme has to actually be in their face all the time. Inescapable. Billboards, sky writing, blimps, snail mail, post-it notes on their car, a Tetris of Teslas on an interchange that spells out TWAT that then catches on fire, a subscription to Anus of the Month club with newsletters, whatever. It has to be something that makes them realize they can't hide from being a shitty person anywhere. That's what their brains do to justify being evil, hide. They have their quiet happy place thanks to rich privilege. Take that away, make them feel the same discomfort the entire planet feels because they're assholes, they'll get scared like they already should be.
It's more difficult now, really, as we can't be some 1950s movie where bags of mail are delivered to Congress showing pissed-offed-ness. There are too many filters in place. You gotta figure out how to send them WEA messages on every phone in DC using the cellular networks, you gotta get road signs around where they ride hacked to say terrible things, you gotta get their Uber Eats order to somehow have a bowl of soup that spells out "you are a shadow of a human being" in soup letters when they pull the lid off. (Might be a stretch, that last one.)
(This is a bad reference but it's the best I can think of in the moment.) Think of the spirit of what 4chan always was (mixed topic, right?) 20 years ago, it was claimed to be a far left site while just being random, now it's claimed a far right site, but it was always just a far weird site, chaos, bedlam. When Balloon Boy was live TV with allegedly a kid trapped in a balloon that turned out to be fake, 4chan ordered a pizza to the house of the weird criminal parents. Pizza delivery seen on live TV across America. A harmless prank that actually was also food and made as much sense as the whole scam balloon thing.
TL;DR: The point is, make them SEE and FEEL they aren't as invulnerable as they think they are. No violence has to happen. The discomfort alone is all they need. It's insanely simple. Remember Muskrat and the already public information jet tracking he freaked out over? So simple.
JD Vance was justifiably bullied in school
The first president of Estonia after regaining our independence, was once quoted saying "The situation is shit, but it's the fertilizer of our future."
The meaning is very similar, in that he was saying that the hard times need to be suffered for things to get better, but what's different between him and the current American administration? Well, for one, the situation wasn't shit because of his personal ego trade war, it was shit because the economy was shit in every ex-soviet nation for a time. It took time to accustom to independence and free markets. But most of all, he spoke from a place of respect, not one of disrespect. Him saying that was his honesty to the Estonian people. He didn't lie and say everything would get good quickly. This was also a man you could simply approach publicly and he'd answer your questions. Didn't need to be a press release and you didn't need to be a journalist or a celebrity.
What I'm saying is that dear Americans, your current president and vice president simply don't respect you.
I am so fucking glad this dipshit can not command the cult of MAGA they way Trump can.
Seriously he has the charisma of a burnt chicken nugget at the back of the oven.
That’s why the pope died.
JD Vance sucked his last will to live right from his body.
The D stands for Dementor.
"Let them eat cake."
Dated reference.
Today, it's "Let them eat Cheetos and Mountain Dew."
No wonder the pope had a stroke after talking to this guy
I hope Pope willfully took an exit to talk to The Guy about this couchlover.
Has he actually explained a plan to even "cut our taxes" because if I recall every tax proposal that's come up raises the taxes on people living paycheck to paycheck.
gotta pay for the tax cuts for the wealthy some how--it all can't come from cuts to essential social services, or by increasing the national debt, ya know.
The tariffs are going to pay for the tax cuts, duh.
And the tax cuts are going to pay for the tarrifs!
[if] we pursue those energy cost reducing policies...
I see only energy cost increasing policies, the recent forced shutdown of that 800 MW offshore wind farm, no more land leasing for renewables, policies to increase water pressure (=more energy required for pumps and for treating the water), and so on
"God, I wish that I didn't have to meet with this Vance person."
Yahweh's finger curls.
Welp, time for him to suffer similarly. As a public employee, his salary should be $7.25/hr, and have $10 in his checking account.
Screw that! He should be put on SSI! $2k cap on assets & forced to spend a third of his income on rent or forfeit it. See how fun this economy really is!
Wait, you guys have $10? /s
Due to inflation, it's now only worth three fiddy.
Please tell me more about how deregulation will save American workers money and not lose them more limbs, jd
Fuck you, JD
imagine if biden said that
So what is the actual strategy at this point? They are being way too bold about this. Like I'm worried they have an escape pod that they're planning to hop on/fly away while they flip us all off and leave us stranded on a smoldering earth.
The goal is to cause civil unrest, to declare martial law and violently put down the unrest. To fragment the US into micro nations, tech cities governed by oligarchs, as well as Christofascist Gileads.
It’s accelerationism, it’s been accelerationism, the weirdos on /pol/ and Mencius Moldbug have been pretty clear on that.
Well I know that, but how does a statement which actually serves to in-group most of America against the administration actually achieve that?
Dividing left and right and instigating a civil war fits with the plan. Splintering factions within the left, white collar vs blue collar, college educated vs non college educated, all of that seems to fit with the accelerationist plan. If you don't keep your base and or military happy though, who fights on behalf of the elite?
That’s fine because if musk is involved I’m sure it will explode
Republicans and Trump Admin Will Garnish Struggling Borrowers' Wages as Student Loan Payments Resume
The Trump administration on Monday announced that it will resume involuntary collection measures against defaulted federal student loan recipients, including garnishing wages, tax refunds, and Social Security benefits and "other actions to help borrowers get back into repayment," as the U.S. Department of Education euphemistically said.
"Resuming collections protects taxpayers from shouldering the cost of federal student loans that borrowers willingly undertook to finance their postsecondary education," DOE said in a statement notifying the public that collections will resume May 5. "This initiative will be paired with a comprehensive communications and outreach campaign to ensure borrowers understand how to return to repayment or get out of default."
Taxpayers wouldn’t have to shoulder that debt if it were simply canceled.
I know republicans would never dare make it easier on students to learn, but, this argument is bs.
It will be worth it when they fucking rebel. We are three missed meals away from revolution.
three missed meals
I thought it was 9, but I guess with intermittent fasting, it could be the same time frame
funny, I'm sure they in return can think of a thing or two you can suck up yourself, you pope killing couchfucker weirdo.