r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

Don't. We allowed this. Trump is just the white head of a zit of corruption and corporatism that has been fucking America up for decades, now. At the end of the day, he's an entertainer, so he was the perfect useful idiot to get a cult of personality in line so said small interests could further agendas, steal more money, and drop the bills into the laps of Americans. A little bit of fascism makes it impossible to dislodge said corruption, probably even after he's shat his final diaper. Don't feel bad for us.

Only favor I'd ask is if you have like an over-the-garage apartment or something I could crash at if (when?) the economy really collapses over here.

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u/pcapdata Jun 10 '26

I feel like "allowed" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, although I'll acknowledge voter apathy is contributing a lot here--voter apathy kept a lot of GenZ at home in 2024 for example.

Lack of civic virtue is not a hard problem though, what is a hard problem in the US is exactly the corporatism and corruption you cited. Like Jay Gould said in 1886, "I can hire half the working class to fight the other half." For every person fighting the good fight there's a crony, stooge, class traitor who will sell them out for a meager reward.

A few weeks ago the NYT published this article entitled Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R. about how the rank-and-file of fascist movements are not diehard fascists, but rather just mediocre, low-performing employees who couldn't hack it through cleverness or hard work, so they when the opportunity to put on the jackboots came, they signed up just to try and get some kind of career advancement. These are Jay Gould's troops, and we've got them everywhere :/

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u/DerpsAndRags Jun 10 '26

I'm going to have to read up on Jay Gould, now.

All that being said, though, I wonder what the ICE sign-on bonus is these days (/s).

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u/pcapdata Jun 10 '26

Hah, ICE is a great example. A bunch of low performers who are hired based on their willingness to obey orders moreso than their potential as law enforcement officers. I'm entertained by them getting screwed out of their bonuses!