it doesnt need to be effective, the whole goal of our entire MIC is shifting tax $'s into the pockets of contractors, and the officers (and members of congress) they have paid off, just like damn near every other facet of our economy/government.

idk about that, made them more confident…sure. but look at all these local/state elections, flipping seats that have been solidly/establishment-D for decades to independents/progressives.

people are turning out in record numbers to vote for independents/progs would suggest that the “Left” in america isnt dead…maybe they’ve just been demoralized from decades of disappointment and Trump and Co. was the wakeup call they needed

not trying to dismiss your concern, things are bad and they are probably only going to get worse for the forseeable furure…but…giving up is exactly is the first/biggest move these psychopaths have, it’s a truly insidious system we’ve managed to imprison ourselves in…

idk, Trump has done more to mobilize the left these last couple cycles than the last…30 years.

good business just backs both sides, hence why media like Time will release editions with “conservative”/democrat leaning cover-arts, for specific parts of the country.

anything and everything to keep people inside their bubbles

…because “he had a D by his name” was good enough for NYC, at one point.

it’s not anymore

if the DNC losed NYC, they can lose anywhere…it’s a message noone should be able to ignore

even bootlickers want to feel like they’re talking to other real bootlickers, in their online spaces, not just bot/LLM spam

(imo)…because the AI/bot deluge is slowly but surely becoming more obvious by the day.

even bootlickers want to feel like they’re talking to real other bootlickers

because “we’re better than republicans” was good enough for 2-3 prior generations but the latest arent having it. the (lack of) response to trump and co. and Israel’s genocide makes it very hard to keep up the illusion that both sides arent haven’t been the same for a long time (Cheney endorsement at DNC last year made that more obvious than ever, i hope…).

neolibs and the GOP have been ratfucking this country clean without stopping a beat for the last…30 years (and a lot longer than that, neolibs just made it less sustainable) and they still think they can go back to that when trump dies

no, algos and day traders are just exit liquidity

there are very specific rule-differences between the US and EU stock markets, if you look up and really think about those differences and who benefits most from them…and what it’d look like (on the tape) when/if someone who understands those rules uses them against someone who doesn’t…

there’s a reason they say the stock market isnt the economy, the stock market originally started as a way to seperate “smart” gamblers from their $.

Bull markets, when there’s infinite liquidity, is when degenerate gamblers are running the price of everything up up up because they can, because ultimately the current spot-price is set by whoever is willing to risk the most $ at any given point.

But the more spot-price goes up beyond actual value…the more power and room the real $, whoever has the most capital and lowest cost-basis, has to rugpull those degenerate gamblers.

that is what market crashes are, the dukes clearing the degenerates off their table

the master stroke with the US is how expertly establishment politicians have tied the average US workers own wealth to that casino, 401k’s? a dem super-majority under Carter and Rockefeller set that up…enabled a constant stream of bagholding liquidity pumps.

all forms of debt (like say…insanely expensive college, guaranteed by the government)? more liquidity, and eventually somebody can just buys those and package them off as some ahitty security to be sold. doesn’t matter if they ever actually collect…

Uncle Sam paying farmers to grow specific amounts of specific crops, then just…destroying them? that insures the farmers are reliant on them, enables the banks give them loans, and lets insiders control the Futures market to make a killing. then when it’s time to rug the farmers to steal their land (cause they can’t pay their loans) and sell it off to corporate interests…just switch the party-in-power and manufacture an economic crisis that cuts those subsidies (long history of doing that, all the way back to the great depression)

and when the whole house of cards crashes down? just have the government step and add it to sovereign debt crisis, there’s no plan to pay that off anyway afterall…the idea is inflate it away, and what does inflation (read liquidity…) feed into…the stock market, make those lines start going up again to reel in a new generation of suckers

it’s a big fucking club, and your not in it

nobody actually cares about shareholders, the entire foundational idea around stock-markets was to essentially act as a liquidity trap, to seperate the new-rich from their $. and it was a resounding success.

as with many other things, most of the rest of the world regulated out the most glaring flaws in this setup so that it’s atleast somewhat functional, but certain rules/exceptions to rules exist within the american system that act as obscene advantages to insiders a/o old-money.

every single “crash” is by design, and the next rugpull won’t be too much longer now…

not talking about palestine, that is just a(n ever more obvious) distraction from problems closer to home

americans are stupid, a side-effect of decades of neglecting their primary and secondary education systems, they will only learn through direct personal pain…and now that pain is coming.

the best move to support/protect those effected, and to make sure they know whose helping them and whose out to get them

those concepts arent the ones americans at-large are being blinded to, nor the ones the establishment american government is worried about

if it’s any consolation, even more americans than that are just too apathetic (or too damn tired, overworked, and overstressed) to pay attention to politics at all unless it immediately effects them on a day-to-day basis

oh wait, that just makes it even worse