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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

They are scared. But more than anything else, they feel betrayed.

These are Americans who play by the rules, pay their taxes and respect authority. Every single day they keep their compact with our nation. And every single day they feel cast aside or ignored by the system they have supported their entire lives.

They now look out their windows at a nation that has been purposefully divided by political elites, activists and anarchists looking to consolidate power, increase their control over the masses, cash in or (usually) all three.

I remember being negative on a previous piece by this author but this piece is quite good.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Ugh, that article almost perfectly embodies why the Nazi party in Germany called themselves “socialist”.

Taking the obvious failure of capitalism and blaming it on “elites” and “identity politics” is almost verbatim Goebbles propaganda, just that he used the terms “Jews” and “degenerates” as stand-ins for the same ideas.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"...anarchists looking to consolidate power...", they don't even know what anarchism means. Was this a dumb AI drivel content? Reads like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is the piece of shit opinion piece I referred to by him that I made a negative post about:

https://lemmy.world/post/14270898

I don’t agree with everything in the post’s story, but as an opinion piece worth posting on Lemmy for discussion it is miles above the linked piece.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That first comment really lays it out pretty well.

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