He did tell us not to let the days go by.

Civil lawsuit is the easiest and most cowardly way to turn Americans against each other and unleash the weaponized paranoia of the reactionary right.

Typically things that are exploded can not go back together.

What they want is to destroy everything they don’t need to create a totalitarian technocracy.

Is that the one that says “give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”?

Yeah we’re not using it.

When you misjudge the Thwomp timing

They do have jobs, and they probably add more value at theirs than you do at yours. You could be asking yourself why they’d take time away from those jobs to be there giving you the middle finger instead, if you could pull yourself away from your couch or… whatever it is you do all day.

Takes a special kind of dipshit asshole to fail to recognize the entire reason they are as wealthy and powerful and beyond consequence is that they operate out of a runaway, uncontrolled, corrupt capitalist society and if they Fuck Around outside that box, they may rapidly and dramatically Find Out.

Burned at the stake, hanged, crushed, or drowned. Plenty of options.

They want to draw a new one in brown.

Jocks all the way. Can’t stand all the material grabbing and creeping and all that. Just need to protect and support the sensitive bits.

They relate to him. They feel put upon by the burdens of a world that left them behind. They’re struggling financially while those “liberal elites” laugh at their misfortune. They grind 40 or 60 hours for a pittance that barely keeps food on the table these days. They watch TV and are bombarded by a culture that embraces sexual deviancy and vices that demonstrate the rot at the heart of their once fine upstanding country.

From their perspective, of course. Forged by propaganda and misinformation that they are too furious to examine. This idiot man-baby we see? They see a fucking savior. A man who like them knows how things ought to be. A man with the willpower and knowhow to “save America.”

Where we see petulance, they see righteousness, and they sympathize. These people are furious. He’s got them completely weaponized.

🙋 Coffee?

Casper, twice, Queen and King. Most comfortable mattress we’ve ever owned.

I don’t think the victim here is a leftist. Trucker hat, rolled up sleeves; he’s a working class conservative who’s getting hammered by Trumps policies. He is still blaming Biden against all evidence.

Nothing ever got better by simply waiting.

Topic is about Lemmy as a whole, and I’m responding with my impression of that. Your re-interpretation of my impression doesn’t really make sense to me. I’m sure others have different experiences with their own usage of Lemmy but mine does not revolve around my instance enough for me to even form an impression of it. It certainly doesn’t dominate my user experience.

I do appreciate the responses here hinting that I’m wrong about my experience on Lemmy but I had a 13 year old Reddit account that I nuked after the API debacle and I remember the monoculture that developed. Lemmy is not Reddit even if a few instances have their own subcultures. Doesn’t invalidate my impression.

Thanks for pointing out how my opinion is wrong though.

That it doesn’t feel like a culture at all, that you have to adopt. There’s genuine discussion, not just a few top meme-comments and a sea of ignored participation.

Instant Win American Bingo Card:

B. Loaded handgun in the car. I. Total disregard for road safety. N. Convicted criminal pardoned by convicted criminal president. G. Mental health crisis resolved by cop shooting. O. Legally justified homicide.

We’re doing great. Good job all around, no notes.

I have noticed in my daily life and work a drastic and rapid reduction in visible support markers from the minority of radicalized Trump supporters in my area since the election. I have often wondered if this is the result of shame or actual regret.

Doesn’t really matter in the end. They’re just as likely to find a new target to blame for his failures. These people don’t do introspection very well.

He looks like he’s giggling stupidly, while rocking excitedly and watching the school bully pull the neighbor girl’s pigtails.