WhatAmLemmy

Because the entire western world are essentially corporate owned plutocracies masquerading as "democracies".

In capitalism you vote with your wallet. The individuals with the greatest wealth, and those who control the wealthiest corporations, get the most votes. It's as simple as that. Sure intelligence, social dynamics, and psychology play a part, but nothing plays as bigger part as capital. Democracy can't exist with massive wealth inequality or individuals/orgs able to buy politicians, parties, or elections (e.g. billionaires).

US politics is a reflection of the US public. Apparently a failed state is the best the US can do in the 21st C...

This is the kind of bold leadership I expect from a corporate owned plutocracy...

America reforming its corporate dictatorship is about as likely as it reforming the British Empire or Confederacy.

So slavey never ended! Cool cool. Totally not a corporate dictatorship masquerading as a democracy...

The sites age restriction popup seems to break Voyager and Firefox. Just redirects back. Try a different browser.

Sometimes VPN DNS blockers can cause similar issues too. Welcome to the modern internet where nothing "just works" and shit "just breaks" because of a dozen layers of corporate fuckery.

Don't worry. The corporate plutocracy guarantees these funds would've never benefited the American people either way.

Witch hunts are known for finding witches 100% of the time.

Organized religion is, fundamentally — at its very core — based on rejecting critical thought; to "just have faith" in the unknown/unknowable.

It is in no way surprising that it's incompatible with advanced science/evidence-based civilization.

The first time I traveled to America, my first thought after a day meeting southerners was "man, these people are dumb as rocks". It was a major tourist destination so I met many Americans of normal intelligence from elsewhere, and the southerners were friendly, but man... the things they chose to talk about, and questions they chose to ask, really solidified how dangerous promoting religion over education is. A democracy can only survive when the average is informed, and conservatisms overall anti-intellectualism — its multi-decade attacks on education — is the #2 predictive variable destroying western democracies (the #1 being religion itself).

Let's just say I've been expecting fascist dictatorship for America for over 2 decades, so Trump/MAGA was expected... Though, even with that expectation, I didn't expect it to be this fucking stupid.

Or perhaps the psychological warfare and disinformation peddled by Musk, AFD, and co actually induces a mental illness in a subset of the population.

Do you mean for crawling I2P sites? I2P clients can't access non-I2P sites...