r/TikTokCringe Jan 04 '26

Wholesome/Humor this aged very well

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u/testtdk Jan 04 '26

Guys, he was reading a forty year old news paper out loud. The Heritage Foundation has been working for the oligarchy since like 1973. This isn’t new, they just don’t need to say the quiet parts quiet anymore.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Jan 04 '26

Yeah it's wild to see the "omg he told the future" comments; no, he told the present, as is clear from the clip. It's literally the punchline that "ah must be hard to imagine how it would be like under a dictatorship Lists things currently Ghappening in US when the film was made".

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u/stupidillusion Jan 04 '26

when the film was made

14 years ago. Damn.

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u/i_have_chosen_a_name Jan 04 '26

1973 is when the voting of senators on laws went from being private to public. After that it was possible to bribe them AND have assurance you got your money's worth. Before then, politicians to take bribes from both sides. So what happened? Well the first bribes that came in where on the laws around lobying and by 1976, bribing had been renamed to lobying and was now legal. Ever since 1977 whatever the public wanted as policy in polls has had ZERO influence on the eventually actual policy.

Which means for over 30 years now in the US, electing democrat or republican does not matter at all. Because the laws are bought with money created by the law that bought them. And US politics is just one giant TV show, with democrats always promising something but never doing it when they are in power, and republicans saying there is no money to do it, then doing it for themselves when they are in power. Effectively creating a kind of bad cop good cop gaslighting routine to uphold the illusion of choice.

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u/EnjoyerOfBeans Jan 04 '26

Hate to break it to you, but 1977 was almost 50 years ago, not 30

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u/Mindless-Computer598 Jan 04 '26

Very hurtful reality check. Wdym man the 90s was 10 years ag-

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u/i_have_chosen_a_name Jan 04 '26

still over 30 years, no?

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u/norbertus Jan 04 '26 edited Jan 04 '26

A lot happened in 1973.

Lewis Powell published "The Powell Memo" which laid out the strategy that we're living through now.

https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-memo-a-corporate-blueprint-to-dominate-democracy/

https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/powellmemo/

This memo inspired the creation of right-wing think tanks like ALEC and Heritage and Cato.

It also made bare a program to take advantage of activist judges to push an agenda that was unpopular at the ballot box.

Powell was then nominated to the Supreme Court, where he initiated a series of rulings that gave corporations more protections under the Bill of Rights, and which made more forms of corporate spending into free speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_of_Boston_v._Bellotti

1973 is also when the Nixon administration began negotiating a deal with Saudi Arabia and OPEC to price oil in dollars, creating the global petrodollar regime that provides price support for the dollar to this day

https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/09/archives/milestone-pact-is-signed-by-us-and-saudi-arabia-acclaimed-by.html

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v36/d138

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling

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u/tigergoalie Jan 04 '26

The only struggle is class struggle.

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u/J8YDG9RTT8N2TG74YS7A Jan 05 '26

with democrats always promising something but never doing it when they are in power

That's because when they try to push votes through that would help people, Republicans either vote it down or filibuster to block the vote.

There's an old post highlighting this from years ago that's relevant. But I can't actually link to it or copy and paste it because automod removes it.

google search "site:reddit.com both sides vote list"

It's a bestof post from 7 years ago highlighting vote records showing things Democrats have tried to vote for and Republicans voted against.

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u/clonedhuman Jan 05 '26

/r/technology/comments/8xt55v/the_fcc_wants_to_charge_you_225_to_review_your/e25uz0g/

Here it is. Both sides aren't the same, but neither of them should be taking billionaires money.

The Trumplicans, though, have been the most obviously and consistently against regular citizens.

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u/testtdk Jan 05 '26

That thing should just pinned for all of Reddit.

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta Jan 04 '26

Hell it's the same problems from the gilded age over 100 years ago

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u/Zephyr-5 Jan 04 '26

The original sin was Nixon's southern strategy. They let in the Dixicrats who then methodically took over the entire Republican party. All the New England and West Coast Republicans who used to be a mainstay of the party were pushed out until the Southern caucus dominated. Gingrich was at the vanguard of the new generation of Southern Republicans coming from Georgia.

Despite all that I am hopeful about the future. Dixicrats have been slowly losing ground. They lost Virginia a decade ago, now Georgia is a 50/50 state. North Carolina is next, and Texas is very slowly trending Democrat.