• blakenong@lemmings.world
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    2 months ago

    You should be more worried about foreign influence doing a really good job taking down this country from the inside. Cops are just a side effect of this corruption. The Cold War is spicy hot these days.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Dude as much as there is an amount of foreign interference, I have lived in the USA for over forty years and the people who live here have genuinely always been this fucking dumb so blaming it on the “spicy hot cold war” sounds to me like not being willing to take responsibility for the massive amount of absolutely dumbfuck motherfuckers in the USA.

      No, sorry, they’re real, and we don’t get to pretend that they’ve just been subject to a foreign influence campaign.

      Further, what about the non-foreign influence campaigns like FOX News, One America News Network, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Xitter? Those are totally okay because they’re not foreign? Our own influence campaigns are fine?

      And yes, I’m way more worried about people who have the State backing them when it comes to owning guns and being able to violently assault citizens than a fucking foreign influence campaign. Because they’re actually here and have actually already been causing massive damage to US social cohesion for fucking decades. Just look up Killology. A foreign influence campaign didn’t create Killology, a fucking psychopath ex-military American created it.

      So let’s go over once again:

      1. Americans are genuinely that fucking dumb.
      2. Our corporations do the same fucking shit to us and they don’t even come from a foreign country, they’re just worried about money.
      3. The cops have been a violent occupying force who abuse the citizenry and have been for a long fucking time, arguably always.

      This just sounds too much like blaming it on everything but our own fucking real homegrown problems.