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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

good luck finding any

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

This leftist doesn't want capitalism or government.

[–] dustyvagina@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Almost like they intentionally keep us divided

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 points 5 days ago

When does the right think corrupt government is the problem?

They're too busy blaming everything on whatever that corrupt government tells them to.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Keep the masses busy with UFCs fights and fighting each other while getting away with raping babies. A playbook as old as history can remember.

[–] BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Where shitpost?

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 234 points 1 week ago (10 children)

This is in fact incorrect: the right doesn't say corrupt government is the problem The right says trans kids and brown people are the problem. Because the right is dumb as a fucking brick, and the billionaires managed to brainwash the dumb right into hating someone other than themselves.

They actually say it all the time. Trumps people have been called out in interviews for saying it while occupying their positions.

[–] poopsmith@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The most terrifying words from in the English language are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.

-- Senile retired actor mouthpiece for the ultra-wealthy

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Senile retired actor mouthpiece for the ultra-wealthy

...who was voted in based on a single issue campaign. The anti-abortion-access movement convinced their flock that abortions were literally as bad as killing babies, and Falwell successfully created a voting block based on that one issue. That base didn't realize it came with massive deregulation, and they weren't smart or knowledgeable enough to care.

Reagan was the beginning of the end. I was fourteen when he was elected.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's an issue with definitions. When the right says the government is corrupt, they mean socially corrupt. When the left talks about the corrupt, they mean fiscally corrupt.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, the right is also morally and legally corrupt.

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favourite logical fallacy is this: big, democratic government having control is bad, there's too little oversight and too much corruption. Therefore, it is better if a billionaire, who rules autocratically without any oversight, is better.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The right thinks that people are socially corrupt. Not the government. They think the government shouldn't enable that corruption. But when it comes down to it, they hate people. They don't hate institutions.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

The right wanting to eradicate minorities has nothing to do with fiscal corruption. It's just pure evil.

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 87 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
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[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I know this is a shitpost, but I've seen people legitimately give this argument like it's a gotcha. It's like, okay? So if we get rid of the corrupt billionaires running the corrupt government, then the other corrupt billionaires will use their vast wealth to seize power for the billionaires again, so the problem is indeed the corrupt billionaires - we need to get rid of them all. It's like taking antibiotics - you can't stop when you start feeling better, you can only stop when you've gotten rid of the whole infection, or it'll just come back stronger.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Turn it around. Who are the good billionaires? Get their help, their resources, and make politics sane again.

How can we figure out who they are?

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

A system designed deliberately to incentivize greed will inevitably reproduce these exact circumstances, the greediest and least scrupulous always rise to the top

[–] bequirtle@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The left also thinks corrupt government is a problem

Meanwhile the right proudly advertises their love for corrupt billionaires

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Why does everyone always miss the point that Tyler Durden is a fucking fascist.

Really changes what this meme means.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wait what

What fascist wants to destroy all the debt records

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[–] marcos@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's not a good person's identity, by any means. But he's not fascist.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

He wants to return to a glorified past that never existed by tearing down the current system, a return to where everyone is living off the land like early humans ("climbing the vines growing along the Sears tower"). He promotes the idea that men must return to being warriors, and something about the modern world has made them "weak." He promotes that such strength must be used to dominate, and claims it can be used to improve people's lives, as he claims with Raymond K. Hessel (whom Tyler threatens to murder if Hessel does not follow his dreams), despite the fact that Hessel is most likely left devastated with trauma and unable to move forward due to fear of being murdered. We never see Hessel's outcome, so Tyler gets to pretend he "helped" by completely traumatizing a person (reminds me of Trump bragging about "lifting people off of food stamps" when he actually kicked them off and made them more hungry, his followers don't see the outcome so they just believe the lie). Tyler captures the attention of disaffected, alienated young men and brings them under his wing to become part of their in-group, making them more likely to go along with extreme demands because now they have found family in Project Mayhem. He literally beats the living shit out of one of his men, destroying his pretty face, and yet still commands the respect of his men while disfiguring one of them potentially permanently. With Project Mayhem he intends to bring about his ideal world by force.

So we have numbers 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of Umberto Eco's 14 features of Ur-Fascism in Tyler and Project Mayhem, in my opinion.

But sure, he's not a fascist.

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[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Tyler Durden is not the good guy holy shit

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[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its not like that at all.

The left is saying billionaire are the problem. Their existence is a sign of corrupt system.

The right is saying all the left is corrupt. They don't mind their corrupt politicians.

Also everyone should go check how this left meme started. The lady in the picture was actually very calm and reasonable. Perfect metaphor for how the right manipulates the media into creating stories out of nothing.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

Corrupt billionaires is redundant. You cannot have billionaires without a corrupting influence on government. Even if there were such a thing as a "good billionaire", it wouldn't justify the risks posed by all the bad ones.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was curious about what the site attached to the watermark was like: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-mind-unleashed/

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

/r/im14andthisisdeep

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