• DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    It’s a week since election day.

    You don’t understand. We ALREADY tried the Trump thing and it failed miserably. We aren’t even done living with the negative effects of that experience. We have one of the most poignant examples in history of what creeping fascism/authoritarianism can lead to. There are people still alive today that can tell us about it.

    We don’t listen. We don’t learn.

    This was the most blatant decision we’re ever likely to make as a society in our lifetimes so far.

    We’re doubtful to ever experience a more black and white election than what we just experienced. And we still managed to fail.

    • ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      You don’t understand. We ALREADY tried the Trump thing and it failed miserably.

      I was there. I’m from the 20th century. I remember the videos of college students on our campus running around late at night like chickens with their heads cut off.

      We don’t listen. We don’t learn.

      We don’t with that attitude.

      We’re doubtful to ever experience a more black and white election than what we just experienced. And we still managed to fail.

      I would love to see the encounter table you’re referencing. Rather than assuming things are as bad as they could possibly be, they aren’t, I recommend using humor as a coping mechanism. The former, assuming things, plays into accelerationism which falsely, without evidence, claims there is some bottom to how bad things can get. The latter, humor, is enjoyable.