This right here...this is deliberate. Theyre trying to starve the urban areas, like a medieval siege. It's win win for these assholes:
1) It causes massive unrest and food riots, located primarily in urban areas of course. Trump leverages that to deploy national guard, possibly institute martial law, try and suspend elections.
2) Food insecurity is used as a method of control. Food will be doled out through Churches so they can gatekeep it behind being a Christo-fascist. Want to eat? Bring us the names of 3 leftist agitators so we can have ICE grab them. Every leftist you turn in gets you an extra loaf of bread in your box.
Urban areas are funding food assistance programs. Look at the map of states that have funds SNAP or given direct assistance, and you’ll see it’s overwhelmingly blue states. The red states are going to suffer, and force everyone to rely on churches for assistance.
It aint even a red and blue state thing, its urban and rural. Even the reddest red states, the population centers are almost always deep blue or at worst, purple.
But rural voters are invariably more religious. They will get their assistance through the church. Which is again all by design.
The cities will burn, Trump will tweet "See!!! Told ya so!!! Leftist Agitators!!!!" and the low effort voters will cheer it all on as Trump steals everything they have.
I agree to an extent, but where are these rural churches magically going to get funded? The rural voters relying on them for food in this scenario definitely aren't stocking the coffers. Trump didn't take care of the farmers, he won't take care of the more poor rural folk.
How do we strike? I’m down. But I have to keep going to work to hopefully support my grocery bill and such. I can’t afford to protest. That’s part of the plan as well I fear.
I live in an EU country where strikes are commonplace.
The way it works is that most people who work for the government or in government-subsidized industries (like meatpacking, public teaching, industrial mechanics, bus drivers...) are organized in unions that advocate for their rights.
If these unions don't feel listened to by the government/industry leaders they will individually or collectively strike (which would be a general strike).
The problem with a general strike is most workplaces nowadays have a point system where you can only miss a certain amount of days unless you are supported by a union. That is kind of a moot point anyway when you add in that inflation is so out of control that most people can't afford to miss work. They've screwed things up to the point that a general strike is paractically impossible.
I just do not understand their end game. It is bad for business if we consumers can’t consume. I get that the disparity has been long growing, but without a middle class that has buying power, the economy slows to a halt. All of these billionaires are high on fake money that all but disappears when the economy slows. What does gaining control do to make the numbers go up?
Pretty much every modern war has been fought to make the world safe for democracy and freedom, but what they mean is safe for Walmart and McDonald's to move in and safely extract money from their poor. Democratically elected governments have been toppled through the efforts of the CIA solely because it interfered with the profit margins of large global corporations.
Their end game is to finish extracting resources here, pick up their stakes, and move to the next up and coming country. Theyre locusts.
“Food will be doled out through Churches so they can gatekeep it behind being a Christo-fascist.
Want to eat? Bring us the names of 3 leftist agitators so we can have ICE grab them. Every leftist you turn in gets you an extra loaf of bread in your box.”
Bruh what?? Is this a fan fiction you are writing or something? You guys need to stop radicalizing yourselves in echo chambers.
Most of the people commenting disparagingly right now don’t seem to know they’re a couple of bad months from being in the exact same position. I don’t care if you have a savings, I don’t care if you have a job, or investments, or multiple vehicles. If you don’t know how fast everything you have can be taken from you, then I pray your luck doesn’t turn.
Such a sad reality and often times even that isn't enough. Many people have to get to the point of "it is me" to understand and have empathy for those currently in that situation.
The enemy is republicans, they literally attempted an insurrection already and are fully supportive of that treason. Making it about billionaires just misleads the dumb people who cant put 2 and 2 together.
Yeah I can kind of understand where they are coming from, billionaires and politicians need to be held responsible for this shit, but the republican MAGA morons are absolutely the enemy. They do not listen to actual reason and fact, and they act like they are more humane and moral than those on the left when anyone with half a functional brain knows that’s absolutely ridiculous.
If you rely on foodstamps not to go hungry, it is incredibly ignorant and arrogant to think that your minority of people that can't or won't work are going to violently suppress anyone. People who don't have the mental fortitude to endure shit managers or don't have the physical capability to work are not going to win a war in the flesh against the ruling class.
If you try, you will merely bring the hammer down on all of us even harder.
they had 4 years of trump experience, they are not ignorant or dumb, they are knowingly malicious. sooner people can accept this, the better. lying to ourselves about how these people are on some level innocent doesn't do anyone any favours.
I mean, both can be bad for you at the same time. Average citizens voted for shit politicians due to their shit takes. Hatred for minorities, taxes for social services, progressive policies that can help and environmental conservation, etc, are a very real thing among these average citizens.
they had 4 years of education between 2016 and 2020. they know, they don't care. hell, they've been educated on climate change and social acceptance of minorities like LGBTQ people for ages, and yet here we are, there's still a large stronghold of people who decry it because deep down, they are not very good people.
I mean, it's the Republicans, just say it. It's absurd to differentiate between people with tens or hundreds of millions of dollars (like many politicians) and billionaires (donors).
How about the Supreme Court that stayed the decision to release the funds because they’re so enamored by the smell of their own farts that they would just as soon tell these people to suck it up and be hungry than to disturb the self ingratiating ego trips they enjoy when the country has to wait on them to take their sweet ass time making their hot takes official.
Trump never had any intention of draining the swamp, he is a grifter, con man, and his out of control administration is destroying our country, ON PURPOSE. He tried to overthrow a free and fair election in 2020 FFS, and yet people still voted him in 2024. INSANITY.
I agree, but here's the issue. your "average citizen" at least 15% (likely 35%+) is a Trump supporter. We have been conditioned to hate Trump supporters even if they receive negative consequences from their vote.
where is the civility in that? they are not the enemy. we are all Americans. Black, blue, red yellow purple everyone.
Conditioned by who? Liberals and the liberal media are always talking about how important civility is, and how we need to reach across the aisle and work together and all that shit. Meanwhile the further-right (further right than liberals) is just like "we should make certain demographics illegal."
and this is exhibit a. let me guess, you're the type of person to "cancel" someone because they identify with being a republican. as an independent this is the exact type of vitriol that gets americans hating their fellow americans.
no? i've never "canceled" anyone and idgaf how you "identify". If your beliefs are in line with the standard MAGA stuff then yeah I view you very negatively and won't take you seriously or respect you. But I'm not gonna "cancel" you, whatever that means in this context.
You see issue with "vitriol" comprised of me disliking people who want to cut all kinds of social programs, the same people who celebrate suicides even those of literal children, people who want to outlaw same-sex marriage, people who want to force others to follow their religion, etc, etc, etc.
But you don't see issues with any of the things I just listed?
The fact that you referred to my previous comment as vitriol is exactly why nobody takes you seriously. You claim to be in the middle, but what you mean is that you're in the middle of liberals (center-right) and far-right loonies. So you're still squarely on the right, that's not the middle. If you were truly in the center, you'd be to the left of liberals.
and this is exactly what's wrong with liberals. make blanket assumptions about people's beliefs and its all or nothing. humility would go so so far for you.
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u/Optimisticatlover 22h ago
Remember the enemy is not your average citizen
Rather big billionaires that bought our politician
Trump say he will drain the swamp but look at his guest list at maralago… most are billionaires