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Jcampuzano2 ◴[] No.45379665[source]
Our president won't condemn violence and Politicians on the right all fan the flames while holding everyone to higher standards than the president himself when it comes to violent rhetoric.

Gun violence regardless of position is still always in the news, and the party in power has no intention of doing anything about it.

The political elite actively shun science.

Tech billionaires are all licking the boot - so the hopes some had that those with money and large corporate entities would keep the government in check are long gone.

Politicians actively endanger our international relationships with the entire world. Everybody in the world looks at us like a laughing stock.

The elite actively welcome and cheer for AI taking peoples jobs.

The economy is shit meanwhile our leaders lie to our faces about how tariffs and their own economic policies work and pointing at wall street gains meanwhile the majority of Americans don't invest in the first place.

Our rights are being stripped. Military/National Guard is actively deployed in the streets in places, and there is threat of deployment in other places (hint left leaning places). Any speech not aligned with the presidents values is criticized and threatened at a national scale.

Politics is just a reality TV show made for clicks and our current leaders are basically the equivalent if children bickering. "Transparency" is completely gone - they ran on transparency and then immediately flipped, who coulda seen that coming.

There is literally nothing to be happy about here unless you're already rich.

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hermitcrab ◴[] No.45379896[source]
>Tech billionaires are all licking the boot

I never understood that. What is the point of amassing all that money and power if you have to grovel to terrible people?

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1. the_gastropod ◴[] No.45380543[source]
Are you familiar of the parable of the Monk and the Minister? It goes something like this:

Two close friends grow up and part ways. One becomes a monk, the other one becomes a minister to the king.

Many years later they meet again.

As they catch up, the minister, wearing fancy clothes, pities on the homely monk. Trying to help, he says: "You know, if you could learn to cater to the king you wouldn't have to live on rice and beans."

To which the monk replies: "If you could learn to live on rice and beans you wouldn't have to cater to the king!"