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Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says
(www.theguardian.com)
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Voted for Harris out of usual attempted harm reduction because this place is irreparably destroyed since Reagan, but let's not kid ourselves, Donald Trump represents the United States as it is perfectly.
Proudly ignorant, proudly greedy, proudly gluttonous, obese, egotistical, explicitly judges others on net worth, perpetually drunk on cruelty and schaudenfreude, obsessed with image and his own ego score, demands loyalty and servitude while providing none aka a devout capitalist, obsessed with economic metastasis at literally any human and societal cost, proudly racist while still insisting he's not, the embodiment of what Americans disgustingly praise: a hyperindividualist who revels in blaming people not born to wealth for their suffering and insists this is a meritocracy after a lifetime of spending daddy's money.
Donald Trump is like the zeitgeist of the modern United States somehow took tangible human form. You can try to argue we don't deserve him, or that we have the potential to be a better society than one that would elect him, but you can't argue he represents who and what a loathsome society we are. A monument of all our sins.
He's more American as apple pie or baseball ever was, and he's at least as American as our current national pastimes of mass shootings and of course disgusting hyper-consumption.
That's why he illicits such a strong response in both directions. Whether you are repulsed or see your own necrotic heart in him, He is an accurate mirror of the practiced culture of The United States of America.
One of the all time greatest comments on Lemmy. Bravo.
Killed it really. Bless us with the rest of your wisdom, I can never hope to word shit this well
Love him or hate him, he's the best clown in the circus. He has some mystical power to always have everyone's attention and never face consequences. It's the same reason fuckin Elon musk will be president one day.
"Schadenfreude" and "elicits." Otherwise, I agree with you 100%.
(I'm just a pedant when it comes to spelling, grammar and punctuation.)
Always appreciated, FS. It helps me to improve!
Perfectly said, and I’ve been reaching the same conclusion lately.
I too attempted harm reduction while being disappointed in the democrats. And we all know plenty of people stayed home or went third party for some of those reasons.
But damn it, this country turned out to vote FOR Trump. The democrats didn’t just miss the mark and Trump got lucky or whatever. Trump won decisively because he’s the kind of asshole that a huge part of our culture loves.
I'm not happy about it but you're right 😡👍
I'm not either. But I find peace in understanding, even if the answers suck, as this one does.
If I had an in anywhere in Europe, I'd leave and never look back.
I phone banked for Sanders twice, but have finally accepted this place would take generations of concerted effort to be anything less than cruel and inhuman. It's too proud of the core causes of its rot (worshipped sociopathic "free to die in the streets market" economy, pride in individualism over community or society, social resentment of paying into Commons like public Ed, greed seen as virtue rather than character deficit and social ill, etc) to want to change.
Ask any therapist, if someone isn't seeking change, you won't get anywhere with them. We want things to get better, but we still want to dream of being millionaires and billionaires, and to remain addicted to harmful social opiates like social media, fast food, extreme consumerism, literal opiates, etc.
I need this on a t-shirt.
Trump is America Personified, that is not a condemnation of him, but of the systems that created him.