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2024 is going great, and I can't wait for things to get even better in October!

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Sure, today is worse than yesterday. But at least it's better than tomorrow!

[–] jaybone 26 points 8 months ago

Today is the best day of the rest of your life.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago (4 children)

2024 is going great, and I can't wait for things to get even better in October!

oh shit we're all going to die, aren't we

[–] Fyurion 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

On the plus side, we will all be spooky ghosts just in time for halloween!

[–] jaybone 4 points 8 months ago

These costumes aren’t going to sell themselves.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don’t worry, this is all a simulation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The comfort is also part of the simulation.

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[–] jaybone 9 points 8 months ago

That’s if we’re lucky.

[–] EdibleFriend 6 points 8 months ago
[–] Winged_Hussar 35 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Photo is from the movie: "In Bruges" - highly recommend.

[–] cmbabul 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I didn’t even know where fucking Bruges was

It’s in Belgium

[–] AquaTofana 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

SUCH an underrated city. I spent a day there back in 2022 and it's so pretty, calm, peaceful, fucking fantastic chocolatiers...

Actually, as an American, I found all of Belgium highly underrated. Everyone always talks about Paris, Berlin, and Munich as the crazy big tourist destinations in that region.

I went to Brussels for my birthday in spring 2022, and its easily one of my favorite birthdays to date. Unf. Big Belgium Fangirl here. 10/10 I want everyone I know to visit.

[–] cmbabul 7 points 8 months ago

Only been to Brussels but I do overall agree Belgium is slept on

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

GUNS GO OFF ..... several shots ring out

Dozens of dead immigrants, Europeans, Middle Easterners, Africans, Asians lie on the floor or are trying to crawl away with bloody gun shot wounds

Somehow the two Americans are still standing there holding their guns.

[–] TheControlled 7 points 8 months ago

Jesus man, chill out maybe? We don't murder Europeans.

[–] GraniteM 4 points 8 months ago

Hey don't forget the dead and bloodied Americans who are women, children, POC, any variety of queer, and most importantly poor or middle class.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Serious question, but like, does anyone think things are going to be OK? Like... Anyone?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Thing aren't ok now. We're actively funding people that kill civilians and children, all while the people back home living check to check are defaulting on payments, trying to afford ever increasing grocery prices and gas. But the stock market and billionaires are doing good so at least we have that.

We're the country of giving up your life and health for the rich.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't thought things will be ok since Bush Jr lol

It's been a slow but steady decline into absolute insanity that just recently got turned up to 11.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The George W. Bush administration (and the burgeoning WWW 2.0) allowed me to look back and realize that since Reagan the US has been on the express train to fascism, autocracy and genocide. Scholars point out the Southern Strategy and the Moral Majority were active responses to the end of segregation and the legalization of interracial marriage. And then Behind The Bastards dated it back to industrialists living the good live during the Great Depression being sore about the New Deal, and their plot to repurpose Christianity and patriotism to create an American order of feudalism and fascism.

And here we are with the Heritage Society's Project 2025 looking to seal the deal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah... As soon as you realize that slavery is a type of civil war because it's a war on people living in the country, you start to realize that there's never really been a time that the US wasn't in a civil war. And when you look at the Red Summer, you see that genocide that's being scheduled now is just part of the regular cycles of America... Like... Maybe a country built on genocide and slavery is a bad idea that can't ever be fixed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Maybe a country built on genocide and slavery is a bad idea that can't ever be fixed.

Agreed, but replacing the United States with a new state, one created with a Constitution 2.0 so to speak, would likely be sufficient if executed properly.

Fundamentally though, we need to remove the current ownership class from power and instead place power within the working class. Oligarchs cannot exist if a society is to be free from fascism

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[–] Gumbyyy 13 points 8 months ago

Currently, I don't think so. The problem is the WILDLY different views on what the actual problems even are, let alone what we should do to try to solve them.

[–] Bytemeister 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If we can actually charge trump criminally, I think we'll be okay. He is a self-serving squealer, on top of being and idiotic blabber that can't keep a secret. He will bury every one of his sycophants to get a single day off his prison sentence.

Also, nothing is scarier than a peaceful man resorting to violence. The non-MAGA majority are slow to violence, but if it happens, it would be swift and unstoppable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What do you think will measurably change in the average person's day to day life if Trump gets charged or not? Are taxes going down? Wages going up? Will housing or healthcare become more affordable? The whole fucking thing just seems like a clown show designed to keep people distracted from actual problems to me.

Don't get me wrong, he's a traitor and should be treated as such along with all his cronies but I just don't believe anything will get better for me afterwards.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I think there's a good chance things are going to be ok

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I see you have 0 up votes (and 0 down votes).

I like your style. Don't give up. You will be disappointed, but don't give up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's good. But like.... How?

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[–] General_Shenanigans 6 points 8 months ago

I hear that ominous music, too

[–] TheControlled 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How long of a timeline? 100 years from now? W/ global warming, no. 400 years from now? Yeah, they'll be fine. Maybe only 200.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, this is kind of like the meditation on death from the book of the five rings. Like, once you accept death as inevitable you can see that on a long enough time scale things will be fine.

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[–] TheControlled 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Y'all Americans on this post need to cheer up. You don't know what 'the end', the apocalypse, doom, or whatever sinister synonym for 'conclusion' even is, what a curropt government really is, and less still know what misery feels like (I don't either). Acting like it's the end of the fucking world and getting all nihilistic is the most shitty-American thought there is. Stop crying and help? Or just keep watching. It's not the end of things and nothing that can't be fixed.

The meme made laugh my ass off though

Edit: I'm American :P

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

History can tell us where things will go. But from here it looks like we're dealing with an attack on our democratic features by the transnational white power movement (or the Christian nationalist movement. There's lots of intersection.) in order to rework the US into a one-party autocracy, as per the Heritage Society's Project 2025.

And in the meantime, the climate crisis looms in the background like an army of frost zombies, one that won't be put down by simply killing the zombie king.

[–] TheControlled 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You mean GoT's fantastic metaphor that was ruined by killing the Big Bad was bullshit? Aw, man 😉

History can inform our choices and give us possible outcomes but it isn't a crystal ball.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That was after they got non-GRRM writers to finish up Season 8. One of the running themes Martin peppered throughout the SOIAF was to set up and then crush classic fantasy themes that didn't play out in history. Load-bearing Bosses and magic with no ontological inertia were right up there.

So I suspect there might actually be a zombie king, and he may even be hard to kill. And killing him will be about as effective in stopping the zombie army as killing an officer in a human army.

Some people still hope that Martin will finish Winds of Winter and Dreams of Spring and he won't feel obligated to mirror the TV series. It's a far reach, but a hope.

[–] cristo 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just because our corrupt government does it better than yours doesnt mean we dont know what it is. Btfo european

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (6 children)

the only colin farrell movie that was good was phone booth i said what i said

[–] GunValkyrie 12 points 8 months ago

Wild take. But it's your right.

[–] dessimbelackis 9 points 8 months ago

I don’t agree with what you say but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

You can say what you say, but congrats on being wrong?

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[–] orl0pl 9 points 8 months ago

Not only America

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"So Mr President what has your government done for young families and in particular childcare and parental leave on your 4 years that will rally up the democratic base come 2024?"

"Taxes? Isn't this the line for Metallica?"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean, there's this.

And this.

He's also the president: he can make proposals, he can sign executive orders, but he can't force funding for those things. He can't wave his hands and pass laws -- those are things congress does, and shockingly every single progressive or pro working class idea he or his party backs gets immediately shut down in congress by the GOP.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Oh boy I hope they make some sane and sensible rational decisions that we can all agree with on the whole ^help^

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