r/dankmemes ☣️ 1d ago

How the US System really works

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u/Kinesquared 1d ago

Hurr durr both sides the same both sides equally bad

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u/Illustrious-Roll7737 23h ago

I think it is saying both sides are controlled by corporations...and therefore we are ruled by corporations. I don't think they are equating the tactics and policies of either party. Most people that lean left, and most likely people in the middle, that actually appreciate what freedoms we do have, do not want to see this country slip into a fascist Republican dictatorship.

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u/grubas Article 69 🏅 20h ago

Nah, that's the issue.  The right is ruled by techno fascists and religious extremists who want us all to die.  

The Dems suck ass but it's more of the status quo sucking ass. 

Issue is the GOP doesn't care about businesses anymore, they've gone full cult. It's why some of this shit, like the tanking dollar, doesn't even get a mention.  

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u/B0r3dGamer ☣️ 19h ago

Just fascists. Corporations do well in authoritarian systems but no one talks about that side of WW2 History. We got here because both sides fundamentally became linked by corporate interests not the people after Clinton & citizens United.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SURFBOARD 18h ago

Citizens United reeeeeeally fucked us over. “Restricting corporate lobbying is restricting freedom of speech” my ass.

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u/Whatsapokemon 14h ago

Corporations do well in authoritarian systems

They only do "well" in comparison to the average person.

In absolute terms, corporations also suffer under authoritarian systems because authoritarian systems undermine the free movement of capital and investment. Authoritarian nations also harm trade relations, and tend to harm investor and consumer confidence because of how they can just institute random, sweeping laws at any random time.

That's why all the biggest, strongest corporations exist in relatively free nations, and not in nations like Russia or North Korea.

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u/Kublai_Khat 5h ago

And you are a Russian agent spreading disinformation in an effort to normalize Trump and the Republicans.