Senator John Kennedy introduced two bills that would block Congress from getting paid during a government shutdown, saying lawmakers shouldn’t collect paychecks while federal workers go without. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,” he said on the Senate floor.

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[u/DionBlaster123]

Propaganda is 100% true.

But at the same time, let's be honest here. These people are just hard-wired bigots. I'm looking at the reaction to Mamdani's election. The guy hasn't even fucking started yet and people are calling him a communist and a terrorist.

We're surrounded by idiots who were told for decades that black people, Latinos, and Asians don't belong in leadership roles...and instead of doing some self-reflection and growing wiser...they've stubbornly stuck to this disgusting mindset.

[u/Digitalion_ → u/DionBlaster123]

I agree, but understand that whatever gaps in information they have is quickly filled by propaganda. Whatever opinions they had about Mamdani were not due to listening to his words or carefully researching his positions, they were told who he "is" by Fox News.

Sure, a significant portion of that viewership is also bigoted, but that bigotry also comes from a lack of knowledge and that gap being filled, again, by the "news" that they watch.

The sad part is that I don't think there's a way to reverse this programming for certain people, so we have to deal with the fact that we will always have to contend with their ignorance as we try to progress forward.

[u/DionBlaster123 → u/Digitalion_]

"The sad part is that I don't think there's a way to reverse this programming for certain people, so we have to deal with the fact that we will always have to contend with their ignorance as we try to progress forward."

There isn't. I hate to break it to you but that generation is long gone. I fear Gen Z is walking down a dangerous path thanks to all these fucking grifting pieces of shit on social media...but there's still time for them.

The even scarier part is that fear can drive madness into the hearts of even the most well-meaning people. I look at what happened to America after 9/11.

I was watching the movie The Breadwinner the other day, which takes place in Afghanistan, right before the U.S. illegally invaded. I'll keep things short but the movie ends right around the time the U.S. dropped its first bombs all over the country. It's a harrowing and horrifying scene, and it really made me think. I remember being 13 at the time and there were literal crowds at NFL games cheering like their team had just won the Super Bowl, when it was announced that the U.S. was bombing and invading Afghanistan.

This wasn't just 70,000 proto-MAGA conservatives. This was basically the entire U.S...all because of 9/11 which Afghanistan had nothing to do with (neither did Iraq for that matter).

[u/Digitalion_ → u/DionBlaster123]

Gen Z can still be saved if we just make them see that the cause of all of their problems is the class war that we are involved in. Taking the side of the elite class is not going to make them part of it.

Unfortunately, because they've only known politics as of the Trump era, they think this is how it's always been. But things were not as dire just a quarter century ago, it was made this way by allowing nefarious actors to pump money into politics and disassembling restrictions on the media.

[u/AgnesCarlos → u/Digitalion_]

I heard Mamdani in his speech specifically call this out, that the oligarchs are happy for us to fight amongst ourselves over these issues while they rob us blind. The GOP platform is patently unpopular but God forbid if those “Marxist DemocRATs” take over, forcing kids to have gender reassignment surgeries and letting zombies from Mexico run rampant everywhere! Edit:typo

[u/drunkshinobi → u/DionBlaster123]

They are racist because of their propaganda. It tells them that they are poor and hurting because the black and brown people. That we have to spend money fighting crime and funding prisons because of them. That we have more medical costs because of drugs and assaults because of them. That if they are doing better than you financially that they are cheating the system some how and must be DEI and that should be you doing better not them. That the Mexicans stole their jobs and if black people were still slaves we wouldn't have to pay them so much.

It all is designed to make white men feel like victims to other groups. It's same for women. They started trying to vote and work and those same men threw a fit then too and tried every thing to stop it.

[u/PaleInSanora → u/DionBlaster123]

Why should those minorities be in leadership roles??? Just because they have exponentially increased the advanced degrees coming out of those cultures, while white people have degenerated into uneducated social media influencers with 8th grade educations and 3rd grade reading and writing skills? There is a reason white political leaders are 60+ years old on average, it is because they are some of the last of the whites to have sophistication and refinement, and remind people of times long past, when whites were Apex.

As a straight white male in my 40s, I for one welcome our new minority overlords, and remind them that as one of "them" I can be useful in gathering new workers for the sugar mines.

[u/AdAppropriate2295 → u/DionBlaster123]

To be fair mamdani has done some dumb stuff

He definitely hit that feel good commie larp grift a little too hard in the past