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[–] [email protected] 134 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A man with 34 felony convictions can’t win the presidency in a nation where trust in institutions is high. It’s only in a culture where the justice system has long since lost its legitimacy that a man with such a thick criminal record as Trump glides by relatively unremarked. That one man can so effortlessly game American institutions to his own benefit says as much about the decrepit state of America’s institutions as it does about the moral decrepitude of the crook.

Well, no shit. It's the same shit that sane people have been saying for a long time. If only the media wasn't completely dominated by the billionaire class, we might actually be able to organize around collective outrage, but most people seem content to just consume whatever Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump tell them to consume and not think beyond that.

[–] _bcron_ 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Their media is dominated by whispers in an echo chamber and at some point we're gonna have to acknowledge the profound impacts. Someone makes a joke about kitty litter boxes for the furries in the school on telgram, next thing you know it's on discord, then people are talking about it. Wildfire. That literally happened in Minnesota. These guys think they're the counterculture and don't watch news

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

This has been the major talking point in our house today. Rewinding the time, how did first-time 18 year old voters spend their very formative teenage years? What media did they consume at the time, and how?

Also, a question to the open because I can’t remember exactly: When did yall learn about the holocaust in american high school? For me it was maybe sophomore year? Weren’t these kids either social distancing, “attending” virtual school, being nutrient-deficient all the while, and also possibly running for their lives from a school shooter?

It’s possible these kids don’t even know what the holocaust is, and a large portion of eligible youth that only hears news from the Joe Rogan podcast just voted to repeat hell because “orange man funny, woman didn’t go on my favorite show”?

[–] _bcron_ 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That's a really good point about distance learning, but the most troubling thing is that this is a gigantic insidious thing that is affecting a billion people around the globe with no regard for demographics, and in our breadth of knowledge, we don't even have any frame of reference. We have a good understanding of what happens when someone's put in solitary confinement for a long time, or blasting a group with propaganda for a long time, or small groups that decide to turn away from society, but nothing in the world has ever happened on this kind of scale, not remotely close, as if a billion people are just turning feral, for lack of better word to describe it. We don't know how to guide them back or anything. At some point it'll have a name, it'll be a syndrome. Is it gonna get worse and worse? We'll find out

Edit: I think I should elaborate just a teeny little bit further. The crux is that this group spurns any Socratic dialogue because it's too obvious, and Occam's Razor is so simple that they choose to believe it's what 'they' want 'you' to think, and opt for Occam's Space Laser every single time. That's what I meant by 'feral'. When the majority behave like that nobody knows what'll happen because you can no longer bother to integrate them, they're the society now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m glad someone else sees it. Honestly I’m completely uncertain this will be reversible sans dire, dire consequences. We could agree that a syndrome exists, to the tune of generating masses of cultist followers, but even if we did, said followers would call it fake news and think nothing more. What combats that??

[–] hohoho 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Call them out. Call their weird cognitive dissonance exactly what it is. Throw it back in their little snowflake faces

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t have hope that we can defibrillate america back to life 😭

[–] hohoho 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All you can do is try. One conversation at a time, one step at a time. Don’t give into despair, that’s what the fascists want you to do.

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[–] hohoho 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At some point it'll have a name, it'll be a syndrome.

If history repeats itself then it almost looks like we could be entering the modern dark ages. So how do we fast track to a New Age of Enlightenment? A new age of reason. How do we excise ourselves of the scourge of christofascism?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

almost looks like we could be entering the modern dark ages

It was never guaranteed that society post-industrial revolution will eventually progress into a utopia. The past 150-200 years of relative decency and attempts at a democratic and fair civilization may have been an anomaly in human development. It may have been as short and fleeting as democratic Athens...followed by a couple thousand years of tyranny.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Even if you learn about the holocaust, nobody really learns about the rise of Hitler and how a sympathetic judiciary and law enforcement gave him the lightest possible sentence for trying to do a coup. You get the impression that Hitler was a bad man who just showed up and singlehandedly invented anti-Semitism and somehow got the whole country on board with the holocaust.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yep. I said it then and it's only become more true that Jan 6th was Trump's Beer Hall Putsch and we're set to repeat history.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It's almost as if the GOP has been systematically dismantling our education system for 40+ years.

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[–] kescusay 68 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Not yet. Not for a little while. First, a few things have to happen:

  • When the Department of Education is obliterated and schools nationwide collapse, it will also cause economic turmoil, because a lot of MAGA idiots work for federally-funded school systems in red states. They just voted to have themselves fired.
  • The inevitable nationwide ban on abortion will kill a lot of women who believed it wouldn't happen and voted for him - despite how much he bragged about killing Roe.
  • Measles, mumps, and rubella will all make startling comebacks as vaccination plummets. Seriously guys, get vaccinated while you can. Oh, and COVID-19 is going to have a massive resurgence once RNA-based vaccines are banned in the United States.
  • With the purging of civil servants from the FBI, the IRS, and various other letter agencies, we're going to have a giant, stupid government staffed primarily by incompetent sycophants. Expect actual, productive work associated with any of them to grind to a halt. Expect the FBI to expend resources needlessly investigating whoever Trump hates at the moment. Expect the IRS to make mistakes that aren't in your favor, and you can't do anything about.
  • Infrastructure week will forever be in the future, while actual infrastructure will be falling apart due to lack of funding. This problem will be felt the most in red areas, despite efforts to punish blue ones for voting for Harris.
  • If you receive health care through the Affordable Care Act and you're MAGA, you'll be very surprised to learn that "Obamacare" was another name for it, and that you've just lost your health care. [insert "congratulations, you played yourself" meme here]
  • You think things are expensive now? The inevitable flood of tariffs, with no adults in the room to tell Trump it's a stupid idea, will jack your prices up enormously. If you thought COVID-19 inflation was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet.
  • The deeply, deeply stupid MAGA people who believed that Trump would leave their LGBTQ+ friends - well, former friends - alone will find out the hard way that voting to remove people's rights is a good way to make them disown you.

After things are going really, really badly, and there are only Republicans in government to blame, a few will begin waking up and realizing they've been had.

And by then, it will be too late.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You didn't even mention that the FTC will greenlight any merger and stop anti trust enforcement. Lina Khan did an amazing job, and that's a long term, sustainable way to keep inflation at bay. After consolidation across industries combined with tariffs, inflation will go through the roof.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Saving this for future discussions because it's absolutely spot on.

Also, for any Republicans complaining about Obamacare, kindly remind them that it was started by Republican Mitt Romney.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

At this point, Romney would have been expelled and disowned by the modern-GOP; that’s how far right the Overton window has shifted over the past decade.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Also:

  • When NOAA is dismantled, the National Weather Service gutted and privatised, the National Flood Insurance Program abolished, and FEMA ‘overhauled’, the government’s ability to predict and respond to increasing climate disasters will be severely hampered. Private insurance companies have already been fleeing at-risk areas, so the impact of future hurricane seasons will be devastating.
[–] beebarfbadger 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry, Trump will be there to throw some paper towels into a crowd. Problem solved.

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[–] Tyfud 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We know. Most of us already do at least. The others will follow later. But it'll be much, much too late.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They'll deny they ever voted for the guy, same as all the Republicans that suddenly realise Bush and Cheney are the worst after cheerleading for them for 8 years.

[–] FuglyDuck 12 points 1 week ago

I’ll stop saying mean things about Dick Cheney if he takes trump on a hunting trip. Just saying.

[–] GraniteM 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Kamala Harris voters, 2024: 70,356,521

People who claim to have been Kamala Harris voters, 2030: 100,000,000+

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[–] BottleOfAlkahest 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unfortunately I'm not sure it's "most" hence the way the popular vote went.

[–] Boddhisatva 6 points 1 week ago

Correct. Slightly more than one third of the population are still celebrating and slightly less than one third are already regretting it. Those are the two thirds who actually voted. The final third haven't actually noticed we had an election yet because they never bother to participate. If any of them pull their heads out of their asses at some point, they will likely regret it too, but I wouldn't put money on it.

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[–] Treczoks 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Just like the UK and Brexit. Both foreseeable political disasters.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Boomers have unironically marched the world off a cliff in a fit of petulance, for our grave sin of refusing to consider that the universe itself may not revolve around each of them, individually.

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

I don't know how much the UK collectively regrets Brexit yet. I come from a heavily Leave voting area and it was depressing as hell being a part of the vote count. Leave, Leave, Leave, Remain, Leave, Leave, Remain. Now in the most recent election, Farage's Reform party got a concerningly high vote share, especially in areas like where I come from.

I was glad to see the Tories go, but I can't be too happy about the UK election when I consider Reform. I think back to how UKIP were like at local government level. They'd campaign on absurd promises like "we'll slash council tax and increase public services funding. Lots of things are possible if we get rid of those fat-cat Labour councillors". Then they'd get enough councillors that they could cause real harm to their constituents by obstructing progress; it helped their cause to make the Labour majority council look bad. They could promise the world because they knew that they were never going to get enough councillors to change much, so they could blame their utter failure to do anything useful once elected on Labour (in my area at least. Apparently the same playbook works in Conservative majority areas too)

Brexit was unambiguously a political disaster. Many of the people who voted Leave have been actively harmed and I can't even feel any schadenfreude at them because they haven't connected the dots there. Like, I see people having their faces eaten off by the leopards they voted for, and they're going "this is really hurting. See, this is why we needed the leopards eating faces party". It's honestly heartbreaking to witness.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, they’ll just blame it on minorities

[–] inclementimmigrant 19 points 1 week ago

They'll blame it on the Democrats, progressives, liberals, gays, trans, atheists. They blame anyone but themselves.

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[–] dhork 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Narrator: They were not allowed to

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I don't mind the whole "our president is a felon" thing, I mind that he was able to use the smallest loophole imaginable to escape any consequences of being labeled a felon. Well, I guess the smallest loophole would have been leaving the planet, and I'm just as pissed that wasn't his exit strategy.

[–] blazera 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There was no loophole, all of it was made up and Biden refused to call their bluff.

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[–] Resand 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please, none of the problems from Trumps presidency will be his fault. It will all be blamed on Democrats/Jews

[–] Hazor 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And immigrants. And occasionally black people.

[–] AngryRobot 12 points 1 week ago

And queer people of every variety.

[–] eran_morad 19 points 1 week ago

We're all gonna get what MAGAts deserve.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe, or maybe all their problems will be the Democrats fault and if it is Trump’s fault then at least his heart was in the right place

[–] Hazor 5 points 1 week ago

Or if it is Trump's fault, it's actually a 4D chess move that will make things better in the end, we're just too dumb and educated to understand.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (4 children)

*** WELCOME PAUPERS, TO THE BEGINNING OF THE NEO-MEDIEVAL ERA ***

You may now kiss the unwashed feet of your uhhh… king.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The bosses at my 3 part time jobs and my landlord are gonna get so jealous.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I wonder how much of my family will die in the upcoming Holocaust. I wonder how many of them will look back at voting for Trump and realize where they went wrong. When Trump's accelerationist cohorts start trying to get Israel to burn, I wonder how many of my Israeli family members will say, "oh well, at least we got to kill lots of Palestinians. I was worried Harris might have slowed us down."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I actually don't think it will, because I believe America will have stopped being the "united" states by then and it will no longer be called America.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It will be called the Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony according to the history books.

[–] uebquauntbez 10 points 1 week ago

America first

to go down.

[–] hark 7 points 1 week ago

Turns out the strategy of talking down to people with "this election is too important to listen to voters" didn't work. Too bad regular Americans will be saddled with the consequences while the incompetent politicians whose job is to get votes will still be sitting pretty. Looking forward to the next time I get spammed to donate to millionaires to "save democracy" while they continue ignoring voters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

They'll regret it so much that they're not gonna elect him a second time

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