I don’t think you need 2016 for this. All you need is to be remotely awkward in grade school and this side human nature is abundantly clear.

I hated this but still laughed. Sorry other respectable adults.

I could do a trump day celebration. I’ll paint my face orange and cuss out my family. Win win win.

I find with edibles you have no control. I don’t like it. Hardly ever, these days, I feel comfortable enough to be completely blitz with no turning back.

Lol. Good job.

The stuff coming from r normaldayinrussia was concerning and this was pre election.

Like the emperors new cloths was suppose to be a stop gaurd against someone like trump. Nope. The only fairy tales we subscribe to are bible^tm and they need to be predigested by a guy who touches little boys.

Sad thing is, the person who read me the emperors new clothes is the one gobbling his knob.

Wisdom is probably a very real feature of society we need and depend on. I think with the suddenness of all the technological advancement the wisdom we needed to have in place just wasn’t there.

It’s almost like the reason there isn’t any visitors in a universe filled with life is knowledge cannot advance as fast as intelligence.

Welcome to America. I watched my dad get indoctrinated from ages 14 to 30. It started after a bad divorce and I often wonder if there was ever a real, living, thinking, adventurous, person under there. He has so many story’s of his extraordinary past but I look at him today and he’s just a cog collecting garbage. If I had the financial freedom he managed to weasle out through inheritance and disability I would break down walls.

Sorry, got distracted, my point is it doesn’t take a rabbit hole through some reddit link to fall into conservative media. They literally pump it out into the airwaves for anyone with a am radio to consume endlessly.

If there is any hope for future generations it will be the tradition of Americans to flip the table and fuck shit up. Unfortunately the GOP co-opted those types and are winning on that front too.

Will be interesting to watch their fall from grace. The ones who make it out. No more interesting then watching the fuck ups that escape the Mormon church, or anything of the sort, though.

Meh, it’s also usually useless. Much less useful then it had been in the past. I honestly have more luck with gpt then scrolling through dead posts with 1 response that I have to load twice because anything other than old reddit is a psychic attack that will wound me.

Tankies are pretty crazy. Will be hard to keep things from becoming a fight between tankies and fascists.

Just remember, end of the day, these are archetypes that always end in oppression. You should lend your support to people who don’t fit a mold. It might not be successful in its first iteration but through the iterative process it becomes the answer to an unsolved problem. It will have its own problems too. So remember to fend off bad faith actors best you can. A system designed to defeat authoritarianism will be weak to one emerging from inside.

I think seeing anything protrump hit the front page would be so triggering for anyone on there they would leave or have words. This is not a political environment where these two side can exist in the same space because one side is ok with authoritarian and xenophobic rhetoric.

I’m sure of nothing.

Be specific, right wing, authoritarian run, society.

They make women wear burqas in the middle east. The gnashing of teeth around here will be very unsettling.

The status quo has changed before. Civil rights did happen. The problem now is progress has reached the upper echelons of power and the scared white boys don’t want to give it up. It won’t be long before most realize power won’t being given without force.

I’m familiar with t_d. They have always been there but they would sequester themselves to right wing spaces. Election time they’d come out their hidey holes but were very easy to spot.

No, I was only browsing and only because the lag between lemmy and reddit is kinda substantial. They will get breaking stuff faster.

Reddit needs to switch because the right wing propaganda machine doesn’t like competition and wants reddit for itself. They aren’t going to Twitter it because it fragile enough, being mod run, to fall apart. Instead they will flip it.

Some of us never quit. It’s just annoying that everytime you bring up legit concerns its met with people defending the status quo. 2016 the status quo was drug to the town square and hung. I don’t care if you pulled it down marionette it around, it’s 2024 and a knife was stabbed through the heart of this country. Democrats still have the helm and they will do nothing, they will let it bleed out. All the power of the american government and they cannot weird it despite a lifetime working in it.

If democrats were even going to consider change they would spend their political capital, NOW. Since it is all gone come January.

Say I’m wrong and they can keep playing political footsy with NAZIs till the end of time, why, why, why, would anyone want that???

Working class people can also suck, tho. Remember all those stickers they put on the gas pumps blaming biden for the price of gas. Like, common you fucking fools, that’s ridiculous and you would never let your bitch boy trump take the credit for that.

It’s not their platform was weak. It’s that they are weak. They hold their tongue while their opponents are jerking off in their face. They mind their Ps & Qs while someone holds a gun to a child’s head somewhere in America. They govern “responsibly” while half the government is on fire. There is no sense of urgency, there is no sense of reality, there is no sense they actually give a fuck.

It’s easy to stand up there at the podium and wane intellectual about filling the sky with stars and ask us all to “keep fighting” but where was your fight? How did you lose to this with everything on the line?

Why would we fight for a bunch of fish to be thrown on land so we can sit there and watch them flop around drowning in a political environment that is killing them?