You are likely scanning my profile and history because I said something in a tone that made you feel funny or angry. This is called being reactionary. You can overcome it.
I know deeply how infuriating this was to watch, and I’m pretty sure that as bad as it feels now… things will get worse before they get better, and then when they get better a lot of serious shit is going to happen to every masked asshole in that video.
Either the system will rebound and we will have justice, or the system will NOT rebound and we will go get our justice.
I’d hate to die alone bleeding out on my steering wheel because of a fat, stupid, mentally deficient ICE agent who hates women decided I would be a stand-in for his mother that day.
It’s going to start any minute, at least in terms of ads and stunts and attention-seeking social media things. But as we get closer to mid-year we’ll see a lot more chaos and carnival stunts, culminating in November when it will be full on “raw dogging a warp jump with no navigator” level of chaos and bullshit to wade through every day.
I don’t know who’s running, but I know how i’m voting. With a few exceptions, all incumbents must go. Every last rotten piece of ancient, withering meat who hasn’t made any attempt at reform or pushback is out on my ballot, and this should be our goddamn ANTHEM.
We do have a better choice, and that’s more grassroots, state and local involvement. The Democrat party is just a container, we can pour out the contents and refill it with something that hasn’t gone bad.
But in order to do so, we need to destroy what’s holding the contents inside, which is years of state power and representation absolutely tuning the fuck out of anything that isn’t the 4-year WWE spectacle and circus. Imagine if we got involved enough that we could repeat what happened in New York in every major city, every governor seat, every state congressperson or senator.
We would kick the goddamn legs out from under this entire rotten system without having to throw a single molotov cocktail. But this approach requires getting a lot of people with the attention-spans of retriever puppies to learn some boring shit and actually leave the computer and socialize.
It’s time to dismantle the Democrat party.
I would love to live in such a simple universe. Like, where people are desperately trying to get the prize itself, like it’s some kind of Duck Tales mcguffin that you have to get in a wacky race with a dozen other competitors to acquire physically.
Picturing chemists and researchers climbing over each other to be the last one holding the sacred golden disc.
I am probably part of the 0.001% of people who actually had interest in and read exit polling from 2024, because it contains data that makes a lot of people very uncomfortable, particularly on the left who have blamed repeated losses on voter turnout.
The problem is not turnout, the problem in American democracy is the subversion of the broadest swath of people, the tuned-out, overworked, misinformed liberal majority in America.
The last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout in American history.
What they didn’t have though was people who had any involvement in the issues or understanding how the political system works, and apparently no attention spans at all. Many millions of the people who voted for Trump were people who voted for Obama or supported Bernie Sanders, and that should spark a massive conversation about leftist/democrat messaging, but is largely glossed over. And a massive swath of the voting was literally hinged on the price of eggs at the time, and the well-known effect of voters making their decisions based on current economics and the party currently in power.
A lot of this came from forces foreign and domestic doing everything they can to salt the discourse, poison all the wells and boost all the weirdest, worst nonsense on both sides so that average people who only get their news and information from two hours of facebook or twitter scrolling every week had no idea what was going on.
So yes, “just vote harder” didn’t and won’t work going forward. Our chance at turning this around though is that people right now are a LOT more unhappy with our politics than they were in 2024, everyone in 2024 were far more comfortable and didn’t actually believe the stories about Trump being a fascist dictator, and tuned out his previous administration because attention spans broadly are melted. Right now if elections were held, or canceled, Trump will get wiped out one way or another.
The GOP’s only hope of retaining power is literally a fascist takeover, they know it, they’re just too dumb broadly to pull it off so I have a good feeling midterms are going to be a violent spank in the ass, and Trump will likely not finish his term. This country has actually survived many similar periods. If enough people can get their brains disengaged from the slop then we have a chance.
it will give cover for gerrymandered red-states to reduce their efforts to make voting available and visible to their citizen.
I think you’re absolutely right, as it draws near we will get a steadily increasing narrative how elections are rigged, there’s massive corruption in voting systems (the paper is chinese!) and many other distracting nonsense claims.
But what they have overreached on over and over again is they are broadly very stupid people, and they can’t grasp the scale of this country and the people. I’m sure there will be election shenanigans but I doubt it will be enough to turn the tide. If they try to cancel any elections outright, while people are this tense and ready to riot, there will be widescale violence. Which the administration may want, but no town mayors or state governors want. The states still hold the cards here.
Advanced tactic for people who aren’t afraid of dumb people and are social enough to make friends: get to know your right-leaning or centrist neighbors anyway, make them like you even if you’re a different race or culture. It’s far easier than most people think. Run to them for help. Make them confront the situation they would normally feel removed from. It’s amazing how often these people flip when they’re in the middle of it.
This is fantastic, part of the reason the right has been so emboldened in being anti-society and anti-humanity for a while now is because they have a tight-knight community who take care of each other. This is what we need to do to cancel that effect out.
For every right-wing piece of shit who screams racist epitaths out their car window and gets fired for it and ends up making a half million dollars, we have to make sure we’re taking care of people who get fired for posting videos of ICE murdering innocent people or quoting Trump’s own words without editorial.
The challenge: not digging into these people’s past and history and finding “problematic” things that make other users hesitate before donating to pushing the needle back where it should be.
Ah, the Nothing Ever Happens community not knowing how to look for all the things that are happening.
If you actually tried, you could find a rich tapestry of events, stories, discoveries, and people doing interesting things, it’s that you’ve let large political stories overshadow all of that and are expecting the same level of “Let’s get a streamer reacting to another streamer reacting to a debate between four influencers while subway surfers runs in the corner” level of spectacle.
Make your own spectacle in your head, stop expecting the internet to deliver you dopamine on demand.
Genuinely, this post makes me pissed. I hope OP is a kid or this was an attempt at irony, because adults who feel this way about the world are worthless.
The algorithm may only feed us rage-bait and the worst news because it gets the most engagement, but it needs to be repeated that Trump’s efforts have been shot down or blocked over and over, almost every day, by judges and the existing institutions. He can abuse the powers he has, but he can’t bend the entire judicial system or he would stop burning through thousands of lawyers.
You can’t pardon impeachment proceedings, only federal crimes. Not sure if anything will come from impeachment, but we need to understand the system even a little.
You can’t pardon an impeachment, it’s not a criminal charge, it’s about misconduct that can lead to removal from office.
That said, I’m split if this will lead to anything. The administration is suffering massive public outcry and pushback, they need to hang someone. But they’re also prideful and dumb and might shoot themselves in the dick and let her stay in office.
Look at the source, MS.now? “Maddowblog”? this is liberal slop meant to make tuned out median Americans who oppose Trump say “Well, looks like it’s falling apart, I can just sit back and wait.”
It’s a tranquilizer. It’s meant to dull your mind and digest an atomized view of the world. I would challenge the average Lemmy browser who is about to say something positive here to go look at some conservative forums and subreddits, they are getting the exact opposite messaging.
Mainstream media is trying to divide us and feed us opposing narratives so we don’t unite and organize. Or at least so we don’t bother doing anything or getting involved in our politics.
He doesn’t just command the ear of conservative males, he commands the attention of America’s largest and most valuable asset and resource, the very thing Trump’s administration is farming and fleecing right now, and hoping they don’t piss off, Liberal Americans.
Most people don’t care about politics. Most people don’t care about social issues. If we really internalized this sad fact, we could make a lot better strategies for actually getting better politics and social systems. We keep trying to beat our heads against the same wall thinking “Americans SHOULD care about this!” and lecturing and “educating” people and trying to reinforce our very best politics and values, and ending up losing more and more ground to fascists with dumb, simple messaging and easy-to-digest emotional validation.
Because he commands America’s most powerful asset and our last remaining check-and-balance system, which is tuned-out American liberals who get their news from AM radio or starlink while driving to work a couple times a week. This demographic is MOST Americans, and I would absolutely love if more leftists and progressives with a few brain cells actually read the 2024 exit polling to understand how bad our problem is.
We should care DEEPLY about what Rogan is telling his audience, not Rogan himself. He’s a mouthpiece for a capital system that wants stability, and if that’s what it takes to end or even slow down this plunge into North Korean-style geopolitics, we need to fucking support it and stop lecturing and hand-wringing about who’s saying it.
Seriously, we have to support good things. Good things are good.
I had a small stack of his books of Dilbert from when my siblings and I were younger, it was a silly and entertaining strip.
I couldn’t give those things away a few years back, not even used bookstores wanted them. I put them outside on a table with a sign “free” for days and eventually had to throw them away.
The man really cemented his legacy.
Republicans likely have funded putting him away and out of sight in some nice hotel while they figure out what to do about the situation.
They have no idea what to do about the situation. I just watched Kristi Noem basically set herself on fire on Jake Tapper. The emperor demanded she fall on her blade and she’s so weak and pathetic that she did it.
Honestly, it may even be longer. But the tide will shift.
America has had some dark periods in the past that historians can speak to with more authority, but this might be the biggest one that every single citizen is witness to and involved with, so the stakes are a lot higher, whatever happens here can lead to widescale public instability. It’s not sustainable, so one way or another it will break.
But there are enough clowns desperately clinging to their circus right now that even after the big orange one kicks it, which could happen any moment, it’s going to a shit-show of power-struggling and back-stabbing and maligned plans. It could take a decade to see the US start to stabilize.
(This is best case of course, it’s also possible that this is it, and the US is going to be the Russia of the Americas, a rusting, closed-down, run-down hermit nation run by organized crime, embargoed and sanctioned and only able to sell its own dwindling natural resources, and old weapons stockpile to rogue nations and rebel groups who can afford antique F23’s and ancient M1 tanks.)