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- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 9 hours ago:
Doesn’t feel like you’re paying attention
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 9 hours ago:
We won’t be fine, this is meaningfully different
- Comment on The more you know 16 hours ago:
It’s complicated…
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
If you want to play that game, it was likely Nixon and the southern strategy.
But neither of those were point of no return. They were just foundational groundwork to set up this moment that likely is.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
Just feels life another goal post moved… He literally worked to overthrow the American government and have his VP killed on live TV and was then clinched of dozens of felonies. . There can’t always be a *“yeah, but if THIS next thing happens…”*I
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
What color paint? And did it have a distinct flavor?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
I’m 14 and this is deep?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
Hope you’re okay and this is a move to another country being discussed?
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
Some very profound points.
I think we were fucked once we had a window to all the world’s knowledge in our pockets. The line was immediately blurred between having access to that knowledge and the capacity to truly know and process, to possess, that knowledge.
That used to be the casual dividing line between the adults that considered politics and the people puking up shrimp and strawberry wine at the jersey shore. Now the shrimp and strawberry people count fox-scented infotainment as “news” and really just as their sports team of choice - and they line the paths to polling stations holding automatic rifles. They feel emboldened by knowledge they don’t actually possess but feel confidence in the fact that they “could look up whenever, just don’t want to right now”.
All the “Good Liars” clips are a front row seat on American democracy bleeding out.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 19 hours ago:
👊
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
As others have stated, this is an entirely new depth to that thought.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
Appreciate your measured response. I’m wondering how long it will take folks to stop coping out of self preservation and say out loud that this isn’t anything we’ve seen before - it’s brand new and can go as far as has been threatened.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
People do see it, it’s not easy to see it and act, but they did. I know directly of people that gave up ownership of multiple factories and a very comfortable life in Germany in about this phase of the fascist uprising there. They left to America and Australia, split family, with what they could carry, and started back over from a very modest place. Not too long after, the worst gained momentum in Germany, nazis took over the factories and a horrible fate befell many in their community who didn’t acct when they could have.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
Would you ever allow yourself to accept that truth if so, or will you need to see actual bodies in the streets before you believe it’s over?
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- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 1 day ago:
In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? Would you ever allow yourself to accept that truth if so, or will you need to see actually bodies in the streets before you believe it’s over?
- Comment on Tweety. I like stretching 1 week ago:
I might get flagged for spamming this same response everywhere, but snow cone backwards all day, Alex.
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
This is literally how we’ll get to “but brawndo gots what plants crave?”
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
“I’m done voting against my own interests” [votes republican]
Showing your ass there, bud.
And you haven’t had an “entire adult life”. Judging by the way you speak, you’re either a 14 year old boy or you’re not even in America.
“I was totally gonna not be a piece of shit, too. You blew it everyone! You could have had ME on your side.”
- Comment on Realistically... How fucked is the US? 2 weeks ago:
One of the biggest things is that the “deep state”, an innocuous thing turned into a convenient boogeyman by trump, will be quietly destroyed. This is the thing that actually keep your mail arriving, your food edible and your children’s toys not coated in lead. The “deep state”, meaning actual subject matter experts doing their jobs throughout entire government for years, regardless of current administration, are all going to be replaced by kid rock and vaping young republicans fresh from dropping out of their second semester in at The University of Southern Alabama State.
That’s who’s going to be the dude inspecting your meat for e.coli and signing off on the clinical trials for your perception meds - Gunner, Hunter and Ryder.
Really don’t think anyone is considering the reality of how deeply fucked we’re going to be as we’re all fixed fully on the front door for obvious signs of trouble (immediate societal decay), while this broken people fill the crawlspace with fertilizer and gasoline and kick in the backdoor with flamethrowers in hand.
We’re fucked, and we’re going to be focused on monitoring the wrong indicators of how fucked, until it is just beyond any repair within any of our lifetimes. You’re going to have FIVE fundamentally broken petite on the Supreme Court for the rest of your life. It’s over.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
“Look what you made me do!” just dripping…
Maybe work on having some established personal principles and some backbone? Maybe less wielding your vote as a little golden cudgel over people’s heads? Why the fuck does your vote for a complex full administration of people including court appointees that will serve long terms as they all pursue at least four years worth of basic, roll up the sleeves and work day to day policy, all hinge on one targeted ad that hurts your feefees?
And studies have shown that people who casually drop the word “misandrist” have videos from matt walsh and nick fuentes in their YouTube watch history arguing that the age of consent is too high.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
“People have been saying…” - oh fuck you, dude.
First sentence is just beyond stupid. Ignores so many nuanced changes, recovery of the economy from COVID not the least of it and just oblivious to the overall balance of power along the way with an unreasonable, obstructionist gop opposing progress at every turn, even to spite themselves on things like the border bill and the infrastructure bill more recently.
“Enough” is never done, but that’s a problem with overall politics, mixed with subjective perception. But your ignorant oversimplification here just has no place in a conversation among adults. Maybe go play with the dirt outside or go point at the pictures in that puffy book you love about firetrucks while you shit yourself?
Your statement is just hollow. It’s defiantly ignorant, smug, selfish, cowardly and just overall, you seem to (without further qualification) fucking suck. To have failed you this poorly, can also confidently assume that your family is just generations of disappointment in front of and behind you. You’re useless lumps, impotently screaming at the sun… At least that’s what “People have been saying…”
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Give me instructions to make vanilla cupcakes
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Internalized means no showy uppy on video, ding dong
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Actually says a lot about you if you can say that in this moment. Thanks for that clarity.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
You just completely miss the point.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Fellow Americans, Daddy. Keep up.
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
And the “deep state”, meaning actual subject matter experts doing their jobs throughout government for years, regardless of current administration, are all going to be replaced by kid rock and vaping young republicans fresh from dropping out of their second semester in at The University of Southern Alabama State.
That’s who’s going to be the dude inspecting your meat for e.coli and signing off on the clinical trials for you’ve perception meds - Gunner, Hunter and Ryder.
Really don’t think anyone is considering the reality of how deeply fucked we’re going to be looking at the front door for obvious signs of trouble, while they leaf the crawlspace with fertilizer and gasoline and kick in the backdoor with flamethrowers in hand.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
It’s not “just” the fact that she has a vagina, its that that was always going to be the deciding factor. There’s nuance in understanding the distinction there.
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
I used to respond to people like you carefully and in some depth, with the hope that others who needed the words could read mine and feel indirectly supported.
I’m not doing that today. My original statement stands, you’re statement is the way you are personally trying to accept the guilt, shame or disappointment in this reality, I’ll leave it at that.