Canada and australia are also genocidal right-wing dystopias.
Gotta be uber privileged to celebrate this anywhere.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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Fundamentally the problem is that the US is just too rich. That creates incentives, like:
- A strong incentive to use media to control the abundance of resources for personal benefit
- Valuable advertising, leading to corporate propaganda that exploits our emotions, and hyperemotional, fluffy news coverage designed to grab our attention rather than inform
- A near-monopoly on extremely wealthy people, which leads those people to spend directly on promoting pro-stratification candidates
This creates a catch-22. To fix the media and government, we need to spread out wealth to dilute financial power. But to do that would require policy changes that require fixing the media and government.
It's funny. Years ago Reddit had a trend "Ameristraulia" and it was riddled with "did we just become best friends?" comments. As a Canadian I felt like squidward. Stay steady fellow colonists.
If only more people were willing to throw hammers at the big screen.
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It's hardly all sunshine and lollipops in Australia, but the USA has kindly shown us that it could be way worse.