Oh, that’s easy. It’s the immigrants’ fault. Or it’s Biden’s fault. Or it’s the Democrats’ fault.

When objective truths don’t hold any weight whatsoever, blame can be assigned freely without having to perform mental gymnastics to make it make sense.

“Every accusation is a confession.”

Fuel efficiency—the measurement for getting more mileage out of the same amount of gasoline. Congratulations, MAGA voters, you played yourself! When you pick up that new pile of trash made by Ford or Stellantis (and I know you will because they’re AMERICAN* cars), I hope you enjoy the higher gas expenses that you voted for.

* With the extra irony being that many of those “American” brands are owned by Stellantis, which isn’t even headquartered anywhere in North America.

they exist, in large part, because articles like this normalize it

This complaint is missing the forest for trees.

Special classes of people have existed for as long as civilization has exited. Leaders and followers, kings and peasants, the wealthy and the poor, etc. As animals, it’s in the nature of some of us to desire a greater share of resources and luxury at the cost of depriving others from having the same.

An article repeating the notion of people with specific skin tones are part of a privileged class isn’t the problem, it’s just a symptom of the problem. The problem is the bigots who put that into practice, singling out and causing problems for people with specific tones while providing benefits to those with other specific tones. Getting rid of public acknowledgement about class disparity isn’t going to get rid of class disparity, it’s just going to get rid of discussion about class disparity. The racists will still be there, being racist.

The only way that username would check out is either if it was owned by a pushy and holier-than-thou social progressive with zero self-awareness, a conservative with a small world view that feels “owning the libs” is a personality trait, or a troll.

Now, considering your account was created on this platform two days ago, just called the resident population of Lemmy stupid, and drink whatever kool-aid Musk is selling, it’s a toss-up between the last two.

Much like Musk himself, it seems.

After the posts were deleted, Musk responded in a statement, saying, “Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me. For the record, I am a fat retard.”

Derogatory use of the term aside, it looks like it’s time to reset the counter back to “[0] days since Elon Musk actually said something true”

If only it were that easy. A conversation with one of them would go something more like this:

“It’s not Trump.”

“Okay, prove it!”

“I don’t need to because THIS IS AMERICA, and it’s INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.”

“Like the people arrested by ICE?”

“THEY WERE CRIMINALS!”

“Even the 93% without criminal records?”

“THAT’S FAKE NEWS, LIBTARD”

Say what you will about medieval monarchies, but at least those had the good sense to permit a court jester to speak foolishly of the head of state.

It really makes you think: which rich assholes recently bought stock in grocery store corporations?

It’s not just flagrant; it’s fragrant, too. The hypocrisy stinks like shit to high heavens.

That sounds like a great way to end up being in Russia’s shoes with failing to win a war they started. The feudalist part of that technofedualist dystopia is undoubtedly going to have imperialistic ambitions, and—somehow—I don’t think Musk’s Optimus robots are going to be able to compensate for the fact that they’ll have less than half of the combined population of Mexico and Canada.

“I do say to [Foley], first of all, I love her, because she voted for me three times, and I think she’d vote for me again if I had that opportunity,” Trump said.

He completely dismisses her concerns, then says she would vote for him again if given the chance. He’s probably right, and that’s exactly the problem.

He doesn’t have to do anything to keep his sycophants and qultists, so why would he put any effort into doing something differently?

Nothing. It will have been a “presidential duty” immune from consequences, as ordained by the bootlickers in the SCrOTUS.

Even if it’s not telling the full story, as long as it makes MAGA voters regret their choices, right?

… wishful thinking, I know.

And the taxpayer money spent?

… To shreds you say …

The backup plan is A Weekend at Donnie’s.

Astonishingly, most of Twitter users commenting on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s instigating post are calling them full of shit in claiming the ad “misrepresents” the original clip.

https://xcancel.com/RonaldReagan/status/1981524620265046408

https://xcancel.com/shelcou/status/1981610518709186994

The unedited version even more supports his distaste for tariffs. He was a big fan of immigration too. Now the stewards of his legacy are bootlickers, something Reagan never was.

https://xcancel.com/Misanthropist_X/status/1981580610872479969

Did you listen to the link you posted? Reagan actually went even further criticizing tariffs than in the clip from the commercial.

I don’t think they actually think they’re smart. I think they’re just selfish assholes.

Time and time again, I come across the argument that “it will make the price of everything to up because now businesses have to pay workers more.”

Ok—so? Businesses are forced to pay workers to a standard that allows everybody to live without drowning in debt and inescapable poverty. Isn’t it a good thing that people won’t be suffering?

No, not to them. Their wages won’t increase equivalently, and now they have to pay more to maintain their standard of luxury. It’s wealth redistribution away from those who can afford excess towards the people who can’t afford basics. They actively choose not to support that because it’s a personal inconvenience to them.

It’s an amazing demonstration of “equality looks like oppression to the privileged” and “fuck you, I got mine” attitude.

remember when Trump pretended to care about this kinda thing?

Not really. He appointed a puppy-killer as the head of DHS and a brain-worm addled deer hunter as the head of the FDA. It’s been pretty clear that he supports armed thugs killing animals for leisure and gratification.

Now, unarmed immigrants not killing or eating pets, on the other hand…