Divide and Conquer - Primary Method of Governmental Control in the USA

Race & Identity Politics in the U.S.
                Play: Constantly elevate racial, gender, or cultural grievances as primary.
                Effect: Working-class people of all backgrounds stop uniting around shared material concerns (wages, housing, healthcare, corruption) because they’re too busy fighting each other over identity labels.
                Who benefits: Political parties and corporations who never have to address systemic wealth concentration. As long as people are screaming at each other about pronouns or statues, they’re not demanding tax reform or campaign finance changes.

Two-Party System Entrenchment
                Play: Lock discourse into “Red vs. Blue” so tightly that no one considers alternatives.
                Effect: Even when both parties support the same war, the same bailouts, or the same surveillance laws, the population still sees them as polar opposites.
                Who benefits: The political establishment—because dissent gets absorbed into the “lesser of two evils” trap instead of threatening the system itself.

Fortunately for us, Democrats are far too educated and intellectual to fall for any of it.

they're not trying to dismantle democracy

This! When Republicans tried to keep Trump off of the ballot in 2024, it was the most anti-Democratic thing we had yet to see. Especially given that Trump, for better or worse, was the choice of the working class. And how Republicans replaced the their Colorado voters choice of candidate with the choice of a bunch of wealthy elites. Or how Republicans held a bunch of unarmed protestors in prison calling them insurrectionists and impeached the Democratic president for saying fight which their own candidate said over 200 times, complete with fucking Soviet-style show trials. Or how Trump pardoned his family and staff for blanket crimes going back 10 years while people sit in prison for the exact same offenses. Yeah, real Democratic assholes!

Democrats do not do that shit! They are NOT trying to dismantle democracy.

That right there is a huge difference!

Wait

The FTC side it with consumers right up until Donald Trump became president and replaced a few of them.

Greetings:

You seem quite confident in your statement so I wonder if you can point to where the FTC stopped siding with consumers on this issue?

Do you think it's even possible for you to realize that these things happen because of your brainwashing and worship at the alter of divide-and-conquer? Or is the Trump thing your cognitive dissonance remedy of choice? After all, as long as it's his fault, it can't be yours. It just can't be. Right?

Land of the law prioritizing protection of businesses over protection of the people. Money is all that matters in “The best country on Earth”.

True, but look on the bright side. Now that we're circling the toilet bowl with increasing velocity, I find it at least mildly enjoyable to put both hands in the air and yell "wheeeeeee!"

If you stop following the law, it's a slippery slope until it all falls apart.

Except that it happens all the time, but only individuals are ever punished, while corporations go almost completely unpunished. For instance, Moss-Magnuson is raped on a daily basis, and many of the tactics used to deny cancellations are fraudulent.

Everyone talks about "the law" this and "the law" that, as the ignore it's complete and total selective prosecution.

That said, I wholeheartedly agree that YOU should be ripped off. If you are going to argue for own mistreatment, then I say give it to you. Unfortunately, WE all get the government that YOU deserve.

at the end of the Biden term we had full employment

You want to know what white privilege really is?

White privilege is thinking, genuinely, that we had "full employment" at the end of the Biden administration. Just 6 short months ago, happiness and prosperity for all reigned supreme throughout the land .... and then HE took over.

Now look at us.

I personally know white people who have lost their jobs. WHITE PEOPLE!

No longer are all affluent white people employed. No, now he's playing to his blue collar base, unlike Biden who played to us! The educated and affluent. Trump and his white trash followers are going to ruin everything. EVERYTHING. Just when we thought we'd rid this nation of the yucky blue collar industries, HE wants to bring them back. Well HE makes me sick.

HE is trying to bring non-white jobs back. Factory jobs. Immigrant jobs. Minority jobs. Do YOU want to work a minority job, shoulder to shoulder with actual minorities?

Do we really need to endure three more years of this? Do we have to watch HIM cater to the deplorables over and over again. We need to get our people back. The people who look like us, talk like us, smell like us .... not someone who thinks about the others.

Democrats fought a war once to preserve slavery, we birthed the KKK, we promoted eugenics, we ran the Jim Crow south, we formed the majority of opposition to the Civil Rights Act, hell we had an ex-KKK member in congress until 2010. We didn't come all this way just to watch WHITE TRASH and Negrottoes realize higher employment. Who does the president work for anyway?

He works for US! Not THEM! That's why he's so unpopular! That's why he lost the election (or erection as the Japanese call it).

I say we send this blue collar butt-kissin, nigra lovin, son of a one legged hermaphrodite back to New York City where he came from. They don't even know how to make good picante sauce there.

Come on, who's with me?

Did somebody say impeachment? Russian colluder? Pussy grabber? Insurrectionist? He insurrected against the government and against my beloved Democracy! In 3 years there will be no more Democracy, only a Stalinist dictatorship! Why oh why couldn't Biden have been president for life?!!! Why! Everything was perfect then!

I want you all to go to your windows, open them up, and scream "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" Go ahead, I'll wait! Go, go now! Hurry!

The only way Trump is going to be able to move manufacturing to the US is to destroy the middle class. To kill office jobs, and basically force people to find manual labor instead.

Oh yeah, all those unskilled workers in cushy office jobs, I forgot about them. The ones who were hired on as CEOs when Flint and Detroit went tits up with their jobs were offshored. Yeah, good point.

It remains interesting that Democratic positions in 2025 are not that different than they were in 1860.

"You want to work those damn cotton fields yourself for two cents per hour? You want your children to work the cotton fields for two cents per hours? Or do you want the nigras to work those fields for the cost of a bowl full of grits? If you want to actually PAY people to work the field, and pay people who will demand a living wage, and probably benefits too .... go ahead, be my guest, free the slaves. Or, keep everything like it is, keep your job in the big house, and shut your holes. We don't need no more instigating."

Hell, you guys did such a good job when you decimated the manufacturing industry, that's why most US inner-cities are, frankly, the best parts of US cities. Sll those people put out of manufacturing jobs are now working nice, cushy office jobs like you are. I mean, think about it, if god loved the unskilled, he'd have made them born to affluent parents.

For the few that do go hungry, let them eat cake.

The iPhone isn't made in China because of the cheapest labor.

Do you actually believe this or did you just get caught up in the moment?

TFS is missing an important pretext:

Excuse me, sir, but you are mistaken about the law. Apple loves the law and supports its use where appropriate, and you seem to have an incorrect view as wo what the law requires. This may not be entirely your own fault, if I may ask, what color was the Kool-Aid you were given to drink? Can you confirm that it was purple, with a slightly grape flavor?

Some people have some residual original thought, especially in the early days of Thinking Different. While unpleasant this is nothing to worry about, unless it continues, in which case, I assure you we will try to figure out what the problem is. By any chance are you poor? Less than upper-middle class? Do you use our products to do anything other than consume content sold by Apple? Has it be more than 30 days since you have offered someone your thoughts and prayers?

User error is another possibility, specifically attempting to bypass our thought protection measures, which is against the laws of the State of Delaware. With that being said, we here at Apple believe the most likely cause is that someone gave you an incorrect cup of our delicious and healthy beverage, in which case, please report to the nearest Apple Store, where a genius will be more than happy to give you a booster dose. We are confident that this will fix the problem. Please remember, our beverage has what humans crave. It has electrolytes.

Democrat presidents have real mandates, not little teeny-tiny hand size victories that trump barely won.

Remember, this is a party Meade of educated people who are NOT, I repeat NOT delusional.

Oh sure, they talk shit about how many votes their party gets after soundly losing an election, but they grew up never having experience disappointment before. They got a trophy just for showing up. Yes when your helicopter parents take pictures of your bowel movements and shriek with glee every time you make one, even a clear loss is a win for you.

It is one hell of a charmed life if you are lucky enough to get one.

You know, I do not want to be the one to explain to it that, no matter how few votes the orange satan got, their messiah of goodness got even fewer votes, and thus people who have experienced hardship would find it a very strange time to gloat. Almost batshit even,

Alas, it would not understand anyways as negativity was no doubt banned in its household, so what the hell, let us give it what it knows.

That is right, Democrats got so many votes in this past election that Republicans are jealeous. Oh sure they got more regular people votes, but they got NONE of the special people who live in your head votes. And let us face it, those are the votes that count.

Hey Republicans, loo hoo hoo hoo hoo sers! That is two wins in a row for Democrats, apparently the voters want nothing to do with the evil satan Trump. Nyah Nyah.

There you go, IHaveSexWithCollies, if that is your real name. We sure told them!

P.S. And do not let anyone criticize your sexuality, in 10 years bestiality will be as normal as trans. I admire your bravery for coming out so early! I get it too, Collies are an attractive breed.

Felons pardon other felons, you go to the head felon for a pardon.

Just ask Hunter a Biden.

Ole Joe saved both of their asses a conviction with that one. Joe hired more IRS enforcement against to go after you, and lock you in a cage if you fuck up. Then pardons his son so he does not have to worry bout getting the punishment that you will, you gigantic stack of floating deplorable peasant shit. Hell, if it turns out that Hunter buttfucked a hundred minority tans women against their will in the last 10 years, nobody can do a damn thing about it.

Oh well, what do you expect from a part that fought a war to preserve slavery, birthed the Ku Kux Klan, ran the Jim Crow south into the 1960s, had an ex-KKK member in congress into the 2010s, were the majority of opposition to the Civil Rights Act, opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, ran Tammany Hall, gave us the Daly family, and did some REALLY messed up stuff too.

The most bizarre Wikipedia article I have ever read, is the article on Climategate. Itâ(TM)s quite long, but they donâ(TM)t publish anything from the emails. They donâ(TM)t tell you what the emails said or anything. Instead itâ(TM)s quote after quote from editorials opining that nobody should be interested in the content of the Climategate emails; including a quote from a random women saying that she would never knowingly sleep with someone who read the Climategate emails.

They honestly think this is convincing.

The entire article tries to shame you for looking up the article in the first place, and provides zero information about what the emails contain.

This, we are told, is encyclopedic.

Seriously, read it yourself, I doubt you will believe it. I do not understand how it has persisted that way for years. The true believers really do see the world differently. They read that page and think, ah, perfect, this will convince them, nobody will find the information elsewhere, they will just no longer be interested. Especially if some random woman will not sleep with them.

  Then they will criticize them for reading elsewhere, saying the site is misinformation. It is such a disconnect from reality,

What they cannot accept, is that the crisis of credibility is not due to some right wing this or that. It is due to them, and their behavior that seeks solely to shame and foster in-group cohesion. There is no evidence that they care one bit about the issue.

Self-described progressives take more flights and fly more miles every year than self-described conservatives. Pointing this out is equivalent to a downmod, and that shows you the extent of their concern. If they cause it, they prefer not to know. They only care if climate change is the fault of conservatives.

Their hope springs eternal that someday, someway, do as I say, not as I do, will become the universally accepted strategy for dealing with the problem.

Talk about how the police in America are pirates, and they will steal your cash if they find you in possession of more than a very small amount. They say that a lawyer will cost more than the amount you can recover, so the police just steal and accuse you of selling drugs while never actually charging you with a crime, and they say the American courts uphold the practice. It is fairly common practice in Banana Republics.

We are supposedly these freedom-loving badasses who will put a boot in your ass because it is the American Way, but we have all laid down and accepted things we have reamed other nations for doing. Like the government preventing people from speaking to anyone when the government is abusing them. Gag orders are exactly what the Bill of Rights was written to prevent, yet we gave it away while wagging our finger at the unfree countries. We are a punch line across the globe, but we still do not realize it. Instead we strut around telling everyone what is wrong with their country. The world remains shocked by how little we have resisted it all. They are surprised to find that we are no less gullible, and no more likely to refuse to submit, than anyone else.

Itâ(TM)s funny, how over here we talk about how China has repressive laws, yada yada, and how everyone else is this evil and that backward.

In the end, every place else is similar. We are all brainwashed to think we are special free, and we know for a fact that everyplace is bad and not special free and we all have our favorite opiate stories to back it up.

Anyway, carry on, hey, I hear the Communist in China are really oppressive. Let us talk about it so that we may feel like less than cowards for another glorious 10 minutes. Come on, who is with me?!

So ... you believe the most qualified candidates are all straight? You bigots are WAY too transparent.

ROFLMAO!

No way! This was not serious, right?

Cause if it is, it is nine shades of FUCKING AWESOME!

You let that bad man have it, narcc! He is an anti-ist-phobe! You can just tell by looking at him. I heard he misgendered a bunch of trans-ams and hates women! Unlike you and me who respect bitches and shit!

OMG, this is why I love the Internet! You are the third indispensable super genius that I have met today! Except the last guy cock-slapped the DEI instructor until she pleaded with him to come back to work instead of making the company lose a lucrative $56 bajillion contract. You are almost just like that guy, well, except that you do not have a supermodel girlfriend, an 9 inch pecker, and a perfect credit score.

Or do you?

Oh my god, you do! You do! Do you not?

Small request, could you tell it again, only this time in a French accent? And could you make it a $50 billion hi tech dev program? I got new Energizers for the personal massager and I really wanna feel it this time!

The Internet fucking rocks. The hugely important awesome badass to normal person ratio is off the charts!