They don’t give a shit about voters, they do care about optics though which is exactly what this is.

Riiight, then you would only need like a dumb display panel that could receive the signal. Someone should patent this quick!

Like a glove

I remember spending a lot of time on the Holocaust in history and almost zero time on the Native American Genocide.

No doubt about this.

That is not really accurate for the great depression as the infrastructure definitely collapsed, but I get your point.

I think there is a profound disconnect here about the power of the people. That is my bigger point that humans will suffer through far far far worse than what we are dealing with now without any sort of pushback.

In some ways it feels like this is almost a mythology when you compare people protesting to getting what they want. The only times this seems to happen is when the wealthy and the common man’s goals align and increasingly in our modern world this is dictated by the persuasive propaganda of corporations. Basically people are convinced to go along with what the wealthy want.

The burn is that the wealthy can and will ignore the people regardless of their desires. The most recent riots and protests in France about raising the retirement age are a great example of this. The people protested violently and in the end the age was raised as the wealthy dictated.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying we can’t do anything. Simply put protesting isn’t the power people think it is and civilization isn’t going to revolt just because things get bad.

I have heard many variations to this point but I would like to point out a counter example. The great depression in the US that lasted for a decade. The average income level for families fell by 40%. People regularly starved to death and even by WWII almost 50% of men were turned away from recruitment because they were malnourished.

Guess what? No revolution, no collapse just massive suffering.

The only way to stop them is give them more money.

Nice try OpenAI

That means missing even part of a shift or doing anything other than smiling and licking your bosses boot would result in immediate dismissal. You expect those pompass jackasses to hold themselves to those standards!?

Yeah that would be pretty nice.

I think you meant what Platner would have done. Stop acting like an insufferable militant Nazi.

“The world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, the BOHR CubeSat, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on July 7, 2026.”

I think this one used a betavoltaic battery which may be safer but I haven’t spent a lot of time researching it.

Found another person acting like a blue magtard!

Oh darn, you mean this ex military mercenary with a covered up Nazi tattoo and a history of abusing women isn’t going to make it!?

Even after all these people on Lemmy poured their little hearts out for him and accused anyone of being MAGA or a Neoliberal if they pointed out he was a garbage candidate.

middle finger to Platner supporters

You are just fine, I just feel compelled to point this out when it is brought up. Mainly because I hate the narrative the US was the good guy during WWII.

I get that, it is just not correct as the Nazi were emulating the US from the start.

Not only did the US provide massive support, it also did a lot of political work. You see before the final solution Hitler just wanted the Jews out.

He sent delegates to talk with other nations about taking them in. When the wealthy Nazi lovers of the US found out about this they assisted in helping revive anti-jewish sentiment around the world. They went around lobbying every nation including the US to not take the Jews in and it worked.

This is what brought about the final solution, but before that the Nazi had a problem with tracking Jews. Que IBM who used their computing power at the time to generate a census system. Those numbers tattooed on Jewish prisoners arms came from IBM.

If that was not enough the Nazi also had a problem with the logistics during the final solution. IBM once again came to the rescue figuring out how many trains of Jews could be executed without backing up their newly designed death camps.

So the US played an intricate role in making the Holocaust feasible. One of the many genocides the US has been a part of.

The first one doesn’t make any sense.

US industrialists like Ford helped fund the Nazi and Nazism was extremely popular in the US.

Hitler himself modeled the Holocaust after how the US genocided the Native Americans.

There has been only one truly revolutionary movement and that was Haiti. We see how that turned out. The rest of the revolutions are just money fighting wealth.

If by rolling the dice you mean never in history getting the results you want in the end, then yes. Totally rolling those dice to crap out again.

I am one of the few people that recognize we have lost around a billion people to premature death from environmental degredation in the last fifty years.

If you think we need more death and destruction I guess you can bear that responsibility.

I think there has already been enough death, it is time to reflect and change but the entrenched wealthy keep fighting back.

I don’t think ecoterrorism is the way forward.