Sounds like you’re thinking of a way future. I’m not entirely sure we make it that far.

The GI Bill allowed soldiers that fought Hitler the opportunity to obtain the same level of education previously reserved for generations of the ruling class.

That was the first real instance of DEI in America, and the ruling class has been doing everything in their power to take back their exclusive club ever since by dividing and conquering.

I know people think Russia is trying to infiltrate the U.S. because the cold war never really ended, but I’m pretty sure we’ve been thinking about it backwards. I’m starting to believe that our elite knew they couldn’t topple American democracy to regain power from within without making it too obvious, so they purchased/privatized post Soviet Russia so they wouldn’t have to say the quiet parts out loud.

The Trump administration past: just about everybody in this administration has a college degree from an ivy league university, but it’s ok because we’re the ruling elite. It’s time we took those academic “elitists” down a peg or 2

The Trump administration present: You can wipe your ass with that degree and get a job working in a factory, like many of your parents did.

The Trump administration near future: The economy is still shit because we wrecked it, automated or outsourced everything we could, and put all our eggs into one shitty AI basket that didn’t pan out. Now there are way too many people with degrees competing for the few remaining jobs, most of which don’t require a degree.

Resources are becoming scarce, disease is rampant, American children are dying at an unprecedented rate, disasters can’t be prepared for because we fired all the people that did that, and we keep pushing policies that increase unplanned pregnancies. In short, shit sucks but is mostly just going according to the original plan.

All the immigrants have been rounded up and trafficked to El Salvador, so, who is left to act as the scapegoat for the ruling elite?

You know why things are so bad in the very near future, America?

“It’s because the educated elite were rewarded for so long for being fiscally irresponsible and went into debt over useless college degrees. Now they’re taking all the American jobs, they’re eating the cats and the dogs, and they are milking this once great country for all its worth.”

Idk, you’ve been at this for a while, writing your own essay like a man on a mission.

If I said something offensive to you I’m sorry, but normally if people don’t like content they just keep scrolling to find something else they want to see instead of zeroing in on the one thing they don’t like.

Also, why this post and not any of the other trump posts that were posted before or since?

This whole interaction is kinda funny to me

It’s a microblog screen shot of an observation that might elicit a sensible chuckle from some individuals who are not oddly offended by what it says.

Not sure how you wound up here, but this community is

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Why would anybody post a screenshot of a Microblog in a community that doesn’t even allow images? That’s crazy 🤣

I don’t know what you’re talking about

Ceci n’est pas une meme

Wtf are you talking about? You’re spam.

You can just look at the picture of a picture, but then you miss the full story.

Don’t blame me though, I’m not the one that started a several decades long betrayal of the U.S., desecrated the constitution, and flooded the zone with chaos.

Or just scan the bold print to get the most important details.

A monorail to hell 🚝

This is a state government, and as far as I’m aware there’s been no declaration of war.

In fact, everything is perfectly normal. Absolutely nothing strange about any of this.

For 50 miles?!

I am also full expecting the term foreign adversaries to be applied to anyone who doesn’t support their immigration policy… Which would be New Orleans… Which has a National Guard base that is the headquarters for the Louisiana National Guard…

I honestly don’t know much about property tax, mostly bc I can’t afford to own a home.

One of the arguments about why voting yes was a bad idea is bc it would keep home ownership less affordable, which I definitely feel on a deep level, especially after trying several times unsuccessfully to find a home in New Orleans, I could actually *afford. (Affordability also considering not taking on a fixerupper project I know I couldn’t realistically handle while working full time and raising a child.)

I really did put a lot of thought into my decision. Realistically, I didn’t feel like the reduction of ~2.03% of the total current overall rate would have made much of a difference in the chances of me actually being able to afford a home.

Given that there is already a housing crisis in this city, and resources for mental health care, which were already not great, have recently and very suddenly been made way worse thanks to Federal DOGE cuts which unexplainably removed money that had already been granted and planned into the Louisiana Department of Health fiscal year budget, I believe that the number of vulnerable and at risk people in this city ending up in police custody will only be increasing in the near future. There literally seemed to be no benefit to me voting no, but potentially a big risk of harm to others if I did. Whereas continuing with the current rate could potentially decrease that risk.

I’m not sure why the disinformation campaign was trying to convince people that this would raise taxes, but I do have to wonder if people involved in the disinformation were hoping that a slight reduction in property tax would at least distract from or lessen the blow so many small business owners and homeowners are facing because of Trump’s tariff’s.

Even as a renter, I did consider that I very well might see my rent go up because of this, and maybe it wouldn’t happen if slightly lower property taxes eased the burden of tariffs on my landlord.

But who is really at fault for the tariffs that are screwing over small businesses and homeowners? Definitely not the people that will be relying on those services if they end up in police custody.

When I say I morally couldn’t justify voting No or sitting out the election, I’m not trying to virtue signal. I mean I gave a lot of thought to the evidence available, and combined that with my own existing knowledge, then voted for what I believed was best for the city.

Thank you ♥️

Is this shitty?

Idk my kitchen doubles as my “dining room” and isn’t even fully seperated from my living room, so maybe I’m biased.

I know what you mean. Just try to embrace the anger when you can, and keep people informed about what is actually going on. It’s a war of WASPY Passive Aggression. It’s ok to get exhausted and take a break, but don’t get complacent and accept it as normal.

That’s just a good rule of thumb for life in general, even outside of the context of an authoritarian government trying to use double speak to maintain and gain control instead of just saying the quiet part out loud.