• Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Fascism is just step one to returning to feudalism.

    After leaving the hunter gatherer societies, most of humanities time has been spent not being “free”

  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    4 days ago

    “What up you guys! It’s your girl Macie K here with another makeup tutorial that I have SO MUCH more time for lately, thanks to not owning my home or any of my possessions,” exclaimed beauty influencer Macie Kellerman to her 55.2k followers.

    “Ever since I sold my land to a local noble, in this case Blackstone Private Equity, I can focus on bringing you this Easy Beginner Glow Up Makeup Tutorial,” Kellerman enthused, demonstrating a 3-in-1 Corrector, Concealer & Illuminator manufactured by a subsidiary of the same private equity firm.

    Sounds like Idiocracy. But compared to what we’re experiencing in the here & now, that film is utopian.

  • HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world
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    Satire aside, I think Ethan Klien is the best example of an influencer that had a very sudden hard right shift.

    Went from being someone who dunked on the right so much that he started a podcast with Hasan Piker, to a Zionist freak who spreads pro-Israel propaganda, defends billionaires, demonizes socialism and appears to only cry about political violence when its rich white fascists getting killed.

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    They had more days off under feudalism than we do. The techbro libertarians would never stand for that