WhatAmLemmy, whatamlemmy@lemmy.world

Yes, there are certainly a portion who are brainwashed/indoctrinated through propaganda, but I consider it more likely that universal education, and what was deemed socially-acceptable by the majority/community, were suppressing the base instincts of those who are empathetically deficient.

Now that capitalism and technology have simultaneously isolated us from our local communities, destroyed the social contract, and can deliver us sociopath-curated-propaganda and misinformation algorithmically, those people no longer feel the need to hide their terrible beliefs or personalities.

Narcissism is being made socially desirable and acceptable. It is a largely-manufactured mental illness epidemic.

It’s not supposed to, but even the target interest rate of 2% per annum is ridiculous when you think about it. It means $1 = $1.20 after a decade, and after 50 years $1 = $2.70.

357(1.02)^7 = 410 M so we’re actually almost double the target.

They are the people who populate the bottom 3rd of the bell curve &/or the psychopaths and sociopaths of humanity.

They don’t understand how anything works, so they are the easiest to manipulate and con into eating dogshit.

You mean there are downsides to a one-party state-capitalist dictatorship?

My monocle lays shattered on the floor!

I expected more from the one-party state-capitalist dictatorship.

Like most crimes committed by business, there are already laws against this. They just aren’t enforced against businesses, because we live in capitalist dictatorships where our political class are for sale, and collude with business to extract wealth from the people.

This one in particular is called fraud; using misleading and deceptive (fake) images to convince people to buy products.

Again, this is a “civil” matter for a business, but a criminal matter if you do it as an individual, because our legal system is also structured to extract wealth from the people. Your level of representation in both government and law is proportional to your wealth.

They know they have a brainwashed cult that will believe whatever they’re programmed to believe.

They do not work for the people, so why would they feel the need to inform them about anything other than the propaganda they post, that got them their cult and the keys to the kingdom?

They should launch 100 drones at Russian military targets inside their border and say “we accidentally bombed those targets by mistake”. Repeat for every incursion.

This is why fascism is constructing the golden dome. The goal is to be able to conquer the world without the threat of MAD.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_system)

By the time that’s built they’ll be able to mass produce cheap kamikaze drones that can kill an entire cities inhabitants for less than a billion dollars, all controlled by AI.

They are Israeli terrorists committing genocide. Not settlers. Never were.

They need the data centers to operate the totalitarian surveillance state and killbots.

The proles aren’t gonna genocide themselves once their labor has been automated.

You mean a cover up like the 40’s where they protected nazi and Japanese war criminals, and gave them a new life after committing the worst crimes imaginable?

Or a cover up like the 50’s where they overthrew democratically elected governments in the middle east and South America?

Or a cover up like the 60’s where they mass murdered millions of south east asian peasants trying to regain control of Frances colonial empire?

Or a cover up like the 70’s where they trafficked drugs from South America to finance civil wars that killed hundreds of thousands?

Or a cover up like the 80’s where they supplied WMD’s to Iraq and Iran, also financed by trafficking drugs, and trained amateur Islamic terrorists to go professional like the CIA?

Or a cover up like the 90’s where they started middle eastern wars that killed millions for American oil companies and the MIC?

Or a cover up like 00’s, where they waged a war on terror to distract from the fact the Islamic terrorists they trained murdered their own civilians, and also killed millions for American oil companies and the MIC?

Or a cover up like the 10’s where they let a pedophile intelligence operative become president?

Or a cover up like the 20’s, where they covered up the pedophile ethnostate terrorist genocide until they’d brainwashed enough morons to complete the coup?

I am shocked and horrified! Remember when we were the goodies… almost a century ago… in that brief moment in the 1940’s between ignoring the Nazis genocide for over a decade, and protecting the Nazis worst war criminals?

No. The reward for greed and narcissism should not be the same as the reward for providing a valuable service. The only reward they deserve is financial ruin; financial death.

I refuse to pay for any streaming services ever again, because they chose to enshittify and price gouge at every turn. Now, they get nothing. They can pry my media from my cold dead hands. But really, the world would be a better place if this class of parasites just killed themselves.

That’s why they worship the antichrist

Those people who rejected science could always eat shit and die, though.

They want to eat their cake, and have it to. Will capitalism benefit the capitalists like it does 99.99% of the time? You bet your sweet ass it will!

99.99% of the time, it works every time!

Twice? Americans have been voting for the predatory healthcare system since the 20th century…

The entire American healthcare system is predicated on denying healthcare. That’s why it costs twice as much to deliver a crime against humanity.

Is Trump and the current crop of nazis the worst? Yes! Are 90% of all D’s and R’s over the last 30 years to blame for the current crime against humanity? Also, yes!

It turns out that a political class of criminally corrupt corporate whores, only involved for personal financial gain, devoid of all morals and ethics, are incapable of benefiting “the people”. Who woulda thought?