Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban sparked a firestorm online this week after warning that a wave of federal cuts under President Donald Trump could soon
“They will cheer for the naked emperor as they suffer,” one commenter wrote on Bluesky. “Because they will be told that the cities are hellscapes with out-of-control migrant crime.”
Time for today’s reminder that financial hardship will not discourage loyalty to trump, rather hardships will fuel fascist agendas.
This. I’ve worked in rural areas with people who only went to a larger city once every three months or so. The only news they consumed was fox news and whatever shit on FB. They were absolutely 100% convinced that the cities were lawless hellscapes and any decent person would be immediately flagged and destroyed 0.3 seconds after entering the city limits. I mean, Modesto sucks, but come on. Deadass, some of them would talk about a time someone walked too close to them like they were retelling the events of Black Hawk Down. In fairness, I think it’s more to do with the fact that they’ve been so filled with propaganda that the only part of their brain that hasn’t been scooped out to make room for more propaganda is the limbic system.
A lot of those places are too far gone. We need to take away their economic power so that they can’t hurt the rest of them as much. 1/3 of this country is just gone and we need to realize we need to leave them behind and save the people who live next to them aren’t total pieces of shit
Time for today’s reminder that financial hardship will not discourage loyalty to trump, rather hardships will fuel fascist agendas.
This. I’ve worked in rural areas with people who only went to a larger city once every three months or so. The only news they consumed was fox news and whatever shit on FB. They were absolutely 100% convinced that the cities were lawless hellscapes and any decent person would be immediately flagged and destroyed 0.3 seconds after entering the city limits. I mean, Modesto sucks, but come on. Deadass, some of them would talk about a time someone walked too close to them like they were retelling the events of Black Hawk Down. In fairness, I think it’s more to do with the fact that they’ve been so filled with propaganda that the only part of their brain that hasn’t been scooped out to make room for more propaganda is the limbic system.
Case in point: Trump was why covid was so bad.
A lot of those places are too far gone. We need to take away their economic power so that they can’t hurt the rest of them as much. 1/3 of this country is just gone and we need to realize we need to leave them behind and save the people who live next to them aren’t total pieces of shit