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Fox News removes their Dow ticker as stocks crater from Trump's new tariffs
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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Somehow this is the most dystopian thing I've witnessed recently. Just straight up disappearing reality once it doesn't fit the regime's narrative. Chilling.
War is peace. Truth is lies.
I feel like the original quote applies here pretty well, no real need to change it…
Should be updated to include "empathy is sin".
Racism is virtue.
Empathy is weakness
I don't think these freaks view it as a sin, just as a weakness... which is maybe worse.
I feel like, as a non American, ignorance is bliss.
But I'd realize all of this is insane shit even if I didn't hear about it daily.
It is so much easier and comfortable to just close your eyes to the troubles of the world, but it also means that you won’t see what’s coming and will not be able to act. So this sort of sensory overload with negativity and craziness is kinda the point. The more people are tuned out and overwhelmed, the easier it is for assholes like Musk and Trump to push their agenda through. It’s also talked about in 1984, where the quote comes from
Well feigned ignorance can totally be a strength, but actual ignorance is only worth your luck or others’ protective instinct
Let's add: Poverty is wealth
Gave a book club with elderly. Chose 1984 for January.
A woman literally said after we had discussed this that the salute wasn't the salute.
The Jewish woman next to hers fingernails were about to grip through her own wrist.
Shocking to see the dissonance in real time like this and then.
and now Wealth is Poverty
Beans are eggs
France is bacon
Knowledge is power
Next, 1984 will be banned in US
The worst part? There is no need for it. 1984 can only happen in places other than america, after all. America is a shining beacon of beautiful democracy that is #1 in everything, ever. Anyone saying otherwise is just a whiny bitch social communist.
The maga idiots are not in their position from logic, but from following the cult, and the cult is the current president.
I think the other famous one applies even more:
---George Orwell, 1984.
The US is what Americans think China is.
... and they're not wrong. Now we have two authoritarian world powers, yay!
Trump and Xi both want unlimited terms. Xi got his and Trump is jealous.
Yes thank the nearest Republican to you.
"If we stopped testing we wouldn't have so many positive cases"
This is hardly new.