• nosuchanon@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    There is so much horrible shit going on that people don’t have the bandwidth absorb all of it. Also, until it directly affects them, they don’t give a fuck. Besides the fact that many southern republicans are propagandized into racism, Christian white nationalism, and various forms of fascism and isolationism.

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      5 hours ago

      “The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it… and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”