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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 42 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

How are people surprised?

Humans are animals, we're not innately good, we need to be taught.

For like 20-30 years we've stripped all of that out of public education. If you have shit parents, no one is teaching you how to be a good person, or even what the benefits of being a good person are.

Steve Bannon got his finger on gaming culture like 30 years ago with WoW gold farms in China just for the money, but he immediately realized that was the in road to the youth.

Streaming incentives the worst personality traits and kids follow them religiously. They were the role models for lots of Gen Z, and a significant amount had the algorithm taken them to full blown al right bullshit.

None of this is new, we've been bitching about it for literal decades.

It's just the fascists are putting the fucking work in and plan long term, and neo liberals only care about short term donations they can grift from the wealthy.

Shit is too fucking important to keep letting them be the only other option. Shit is too fucking serious to intentionally half ass politics these days.

The "moderate" experiment started in 92 needs to be over

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 weeks ago

The “moderate” experiment started in 92 needs to be over

It is over, one way or the other. Europe is also seeing neoliberal politics collapsing, since Pax Americana is over, and being a slow and steady parasite and passing all the hardship to the working class does not work when "other people's money", meaning the capacity of the public, runs out.

The question is whether our dear oligarchs realize that the only way to keep the current system where they are safe is to give power away and transition to something of a social democracy, like in the 50-60s West, otherwise it will be torn from them by a violent dictatorship where they might not even keep their lives.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

Good thing they're not known for being greedy and overconfident....

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 weeks ago

Well, in most authoritarian countries they are also very well known to be bad around high windows, or liable to get lost for at least a few years after trying to go up against the ones with real power. When norms go out the window, shit gets real for everyone, not just us poors.

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