• lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    “We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims.”

    Are you a business owner who does international commerce? Guess what, shit-for-brains: you better get interested in politics really fast. Your fucking president is violating treaties, threatening allies, breaking international law, and arming and publicly supporting a genocide.

    For Christ’s sake, your country is actively threatening your customers. Why the ever-loving fuck would your customers sit still for that? Not everyone is American-stupid.

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      3 days ago

      You use the word stupid which is fair but more specifically there is a profound level of ignorance and disconnection from reality. So many live as if their heads are perpetually in the sand, making it hard to decipher how much of it is intentional because they don’t want to answer for their government vs how much is being spanked so hard by capitalism-daddy that they don’t have time to look up and see whats happening.

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        3 days ago

        I think stupid is fitting here. Stupid is willful ignorance.

        Americans are willfully ignorant of what they voted for with Trump.

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        3 days ago

        I agree with you. I shouldn’t resort to name calling but this kind of tone-deaf article gets to me. A lot of the ‘stupidity’ i am referring to is behavioural - like you say, it is actually a mixture of ignorance and apathy. The wealthy want people to be so poor that they can’t pay attention to anything other than their next paycheque or so busy that they don’t have time to be well-informed. In case that isn’t enough, they throw literal disinformation at people through corporate mass-media.