• IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    It’s weird to me how everyone basically assumes the Epstein files are not getting released because Donald Diddler and friends do not want to be outed as pedophiles, when additionally Epstein managed investment accounts for the private globally wealthy and world leaders…so there are like hordes of financial crimes being covered up as well.

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      10 days ago

      Reminds me of hearing ‘soon’ or ‘we’ll see’ as a kid. Didn’t take long to realize these meant ‘no’.

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        Growing up, I realized at a very young age that all the adults in my life were full of shit.

        I still haven’t fully recovered. I tend to view the world as being full of lying assholes who don’t know what they’re talking about, and I have zero trust in any figures of authority, refuse to do anything anyone ever tells me to do simply because they told me to do it (even if I was going to do it anyway), and won’t ever take anyone’s word for it on anything. The combination makes me quite dysfunctional as an adult.

        Unfortunately, people like the adults from my childhood are now running the government of arguably the most powerful nation of the world. Their toxicity is all too familiar to me, and it makes me sick to watch.

        Like whenever tRump puts words in someone’s mouth that they didn’t say, to try to appeal to their authority and credibility while spewing his own inane drivel (such as “I was with the President of Finland, and he says they’re a forest nation, and that they don’t have wildfires because they rake the leaves on their forest floors”).

        That’s exactly the sort of shit my dad would do. Sometimes I wonder how many people think I’m a stupid ass because all they’ve ever heard about me is from my dad telling people I said shit that I didn’t, as a way to avoid ridicule while fielding his own thoughts. I’m not sure if he ever learned that I’m not his property to be used however seems most convenient to him at a given moment…

        Anyway, seeing all these stupid magabrains in power is really nauseating on a very personal level. I left home as soon as I turner 18 so that I wouldn’t have to tolerate ignorant conservatives acting like they’re superior (“this is MY roof!” yeah, yeah, that’s a real fucked up thing to say to a child who has no other choice but to live under it), and now a literal fascist is sitting in the Oval Office thinking it means he owns the entire country, the government, and its coffers.

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          Wow, reading your response felt like reading my exact experience growing up and now, except for me the abuser was my mother. I am sorry that you too went through a childhood that left you with so much mistrust, so much pain, and so much resistance and now feel yourself under the thumb again of an all too familiar oppressor (except on a much larger scale). I feel it too, internet stranger. You didn’t deserve that and still don’t, and that also goes for myself and anyone else.

          Your comment gave words to feelings I’ve attempted to express but in a much more articulate manner, and I appreciate you for that.

          The gaslighting and manipulation we experienced growing up, while horrible and unfair, are the very things that gave us the capacity to recognize the mass psychosis that is a direct result of the oppression and systematic violence that we and our fellow countrymen are experiencing. Under this type of abuse it is hard to understand what is real, what is true, and even what we see and hear. This is by design. We must always hold our truth, and trust it above all else.

          I wish you the very best, wonderingwanderer. Thank you for sharing your story.

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
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    More occupation of cities. More invasions and threats of invasions. Anything but releasing the Epstein files.

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    Everything bad for Trump happens at a fucking glacier’s pace, but whenever Trump wants to ruin immigrants or poor people’s lives it happens immediately.

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      Easier to destroy things overall. That and the American people gave all the power to Republicans knowing they’d be complicit every step of the way. Not really working out.

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    Still waiting on Ro Khanna to “draft” those charges against her.

    At this point I think he just likes to hear the sound of his own voice.

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    Once this is over, and it will be over one day, what is going to happen with all these enablers that supported and protected trump, allowed him to continue his daily crimes and spread of hatred and violence, and just generally fucking up the world…?

    Are we going to allow a “person” like this to just walk freely after being co-responsible for all the death and destruction that they caused?

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      Presidential pardon ofc. Unless he has no further use of them, then the right will use it as grand example how there’s no corruption because SOME didn’t get away!

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        Presidential pardons is what trump does. I’m talking about whoever, whatever follows whatever the hell this is

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    If there’s no punishment, Congress is de facto saying that they do not consider it a crime - nor, implicitly, do they consider the events that the to-be-delivered documents detail to be crimes either.

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    They don’t need a release date in the first place. They already released some of the files in small batches. And then they completely stopped without any explanation.

    So we can see what they do when they are releasing the files. They just release batches as they finish them.

    The fact that they aren’t doing that means that they intend to obstruct further progress on the release of the files.

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      and then had all these distractions to hopefully make people forget about. VENEZUELA, greenland, minnesota, more tariffs. trump falling asleep, hiding his hand.

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    This is why a general strike, while difficult to pull off, is the only way to fight back.

    Try to escalate with violence, insurrection act, more dead innocent people.

    You’ve got to fuck with the money. Money is the lifeblood of capitalism, and capitalism has stolen too much from the common person.

    They can either fix capitalism and make sure we all benefit, or we have to burn it down and find something better.

    Also,. Bitcoin is financial sovereignty. Make sure you’re not one of the last ones to figure that out. And no I’m not interested in arguing about that with anyone.

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        Thank you. This means more for me, and genuinely makes me happy.

        Edit: In the interest of trying to be a good guy, I’d like to suggest that if you agreed with me right up until the end, you might want to consider why someone with very similar feelings and beliefs has this kind of conviction about Bitcoin. If you’re just an “all crypto is trash” person because of vibes, you’re no different than MAGA believing the things they do without bothering to learn.

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          If you can’t help but flash your bitcoin-shaped dick during a completely irrelevant conversation, I’m not the one who has a problem.

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            Ok, I don’t feel like being a good guy anymore.

            If all you have to say about a demonstrably relevant topic is that you’re too fucking stupid to even try to understand it, then I sincerely hope you don’t bother to.

            One of my favorite quotes I like to lean on when dealing with the aggressively ignorant is “Bitcoin is everything people don’t understand about computers combined with everything people don’t understand about money.” That’s you pal, good luck!

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    Seems like she’s unfit to do her job too. Get her out of there like Kristi Noem.

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      Seems like she’s broken the law, and has not indicated when, if ever she will comply. Time for some consequences.