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There's a (small) possibility we shouldn't have elected Trump
(www.usatoday.com)
Turns out the government actually does stuff, and if we want it to continue to do stuff competently, we might need people in charge who AREN’T lunatics. I had the whole thing backward.
Okay, I got got by the headline 😅
And I thought they were only talking about his ^hands^.
I heard they are very small. Microscopic even. So small that special small normal objects were built so that they seemed bigger. Some people would say that they were the smallest hands they have ever seen. They say that Trump has hand prosthetics so his hands appear larger. They say that, don’t you know?
I only loaded the USA today link assuming it was on 4/1. The url was clipped at 4/… in my phone
Now that I can't afford hamburger meat or gasoline and America is stuck in another war in the Middle East, I'm starting to think putting some of the worst people in politics in charge was a mistake.
So the Cheeto threatening everyone in the world didn't do it?
The Cheeto alienating all US allies didn't do it?
How about people disappearing from the streets with due process?
Didn't do it either?
How about "grab em by the pussy"?
Neither?
The support for and outright cocksucking of dictators like putin?
Trump stealing tip secret government documents to sell them for his own gains?
All the fraud?
The support for the Gaza genocide?
All the extrajudicial executions of innocent fishermen?
All the people that have died due to Trump's actions?
Nothing?
The fascism?
Nada?
Okay, okay, I got it...
EPSTEIN, PEDOPHILE, RAPING UNDERAGED GIRLS! THAT WILL DO IT, RIGHT?
Wut?
Still nothing?
My hamburger got expensive, and NOW I AM PISSED!
so this is literally the epitome of USA culture and values. Most Americans don't give a shit about anything or anyone, Americans don't care about the environment, they don't care about poverty or suffering
Americans care about me, myself, and I
THAT is America in a nutshell.
If you feel personally attacked on this, as an American, then I'm so sorry, not sorry, this behavior is what I see all day, every day from Americans. When they finally start caring, it's because finally they were affected themselves.
.... it's.... satirical. The headline is sarcastic, along with the hamburger meat bit.
But we had to elect him: he’s good for business. He said so many times on that stupid “reality” show he funded about himself. Never mind the long history of bankruptcies, tax evasion, and contract breaking
I mean, I'm here for the anger at Americans who support Trump, but did the article need a "/s"? It's pretty obvious this article is a sarcastic take completely aligned with what you're saying already, but you seem to be taking it at face value?
Still, I get the sentiment, because for the first time it feels like his support is slipping among the core supporters too.
It's just the gas prices. Conservatives generally lack the ability to appreciate anything that isn't obviously and directly affecting them.
It's why they are up their ass about taxes and get upset about social programs. They can't see the results of the social programs directly effecting them but they can see the taxes come off their pay checks.
Anyway they are upset because filing an f150 just doubled in price and they feel it at the pump.
Still, if Trump can get gas prices down by the election I'm sure they will vote Republican again.
Most people in the middle deciding this stuff don't follow the news at all so random headlines or sound bites are the entirety of what they get, so chances that directly affect them or are big enough to be noticed like Iran bombing.
I think statistically it's something like 60-75 percent of the whole country hate trump. of that only like 1/3 are chronically following things enough to always BE upset and have pretty much the daily collection of all the things he's done. Then of that group, maybe half actually protest about it while the rest kind of just do this, chat online and look around at people that agree with them to blow off steam. It sucks but yeah.
Numbers will change as gen alpha and gent z get brought up in an internet that distracts them and brainwashes them to the right but yeah. That's kind of the picture. A small group of activists are out there doing stuff trying to put out the house fire and the rest of us are online complaining that it's getting hot.
It's never been about what's right or even what's popular. It's always been about what the people in power think they can get away with. Right now the people in power are increasingly seeing that they can get away with anything and they seem to have learned from recent history how to make sure they always will.
I completely agree with what you're saying here as someone in the US. To add onto it, a large majority of the problem is due to the complete lack of quality public education, and the option for private schooling / home schooling mostly revolving around Christo-Fascist propaganda and not actual facts. As someone who experienced the public school system, I had no idea MLK JR was a socialist. We were only told about the amazing effects of peaceful protests. The media we consume reenforces individualism, and not community. I've been trying to make an effort in my own life to try and be more involved with the community around me, and to participate in local politics, volunteer work, and helping your neighbors. I'm hoping there are others like me who are doing the same, and with any luck, the culture you're describing will see a slow, painful death as people start realizing the harmfulness of this way of living.
Most Americans don't give a shit about anything or anyone, Americans don't care about the environment, they don't care about poverty or suffering
well, nothing new here, that great american. philosopher, Lou Reed, wrote about this back in the '90s.
Well, Americans don't care for much of anything Land and water the least And animal life is low on the totem pole With human life not worth more than infected yeast
Americans don't care too much for beauty They'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach Complain if they can't swim
Don't apologize, Americans as a whole are uncaring and arrogant in their relations to others. They expect us to fix their problems, like a toddler or a noble who has shat their pants.
brutal take. I'm guessing you felt that way about...Russia's fall to fascism, Hong Kong's protest failures, Iran's protesters a few years ago, NK in general, Chinese espionage and destruction of their native minority populations, The Hungarians not saving their democracy etc etc. All those citizens are babies too right? asking for help from the global community in some cases, and being ignored. woah. such toddlers. Not being able to resist the systems of power in their nation states and fixing their problems. All they had to do was rise up! such babies.
I guess my point is...unless your French. stfu.
If you are French, you rock I'm sorry to be a dick.
A deserved take. As for the rest of what you said, I'm not interested in the past, I'm interested in the present.
It has been a truism throughout history that most people just want live their lives in peace. Equally true is that there is always a small group of assholes that can't be happy for one stupid reason or another and find a way to make it everyone else's problem.
As a USian, 100% this right here.
Has he been seen at all this weekend?
To add to the oddity, reddit for me is only showing things from 4 days ago in /all, as if trying to cover up what the news looks like today, which is a tweet from the demented president that seems written by a bad impersonator along with an eerie silence.
/r/all is gone if you’re on New Reddit. It redirects to your personal feed now.
/r/all is apparently still available on Old Reddit — at least for now. Who knows how long any of that will still be around.
Such an odd decision, as far as I can tell.
It’s to make censoring the front page easier, as /popular is sorted by sub popularity, not post popularity. /all was sorted by post popularity, weighted by how many users were in a sub vs how many interacted with the post. For instance, on /all, a post with 1k/1k active users upvoting it (a 100% upvote rate in the sub, but posted in a small niche sub) would get sorted above a post with 5k/25k (a sub with literally 25x as many active users and 5x as many upvotes, but only a 20% upvote rate).
/all has pretty consistently been a thorn in the admins’ sides, because wide scale censorship is really difficult when a tiny niche sub can hit the front page of /all. In fact, /all was fantastic for new subs trying to get off the ground, for this exact reason. If you were trying to start a new subreddit, one of your biggest sources of new users was likely going to be /all users. But it also means that wide scale censorship was difficult for the admins, because any splinter movement could start a small sub and start hitting the front page. Admins delete the sub? Users just make a new sub and repeat.
Removing /all (and forcing users to /popular instead) allows the admins to direct their focus to only the big subs. Because /popular is sorted by subreddit popularity, not weighted popularity. So small subs have basically no chance of appearing there. By pushing users to /popular, they can focus their attention on the large subs (which largely have mods who are cozied up with the admins already) instead of having to moderate a thousand tiny ones.
It’s no mistake that they removed /all right before the midterms, as they can more easily push a certain narrative if they only have to focus on a few subs. It’s also an advertiser thing, as /all doesn’t filter out NSFW or controversial subs by default, but /popular does. Advertisers tend to complain when their ads are shown alongside NSFW or controversial posts, so directing users to /popular allows them to tell advertisers that they’re not accidentally showing their ads next to porn or political posts.
dammit
I think the curated front page is a death knell. It certainly was for Digg.
Holy shit, I didn't even realize he'd lost Alex Jones (quote in the article):
“Trump needs an intervention,” Jones said on March 31. “He needs to take some time off. We need to pray for Trump, that the Holy Spirit touch his heart and loose him from whatever evil control he’s under. I’m serious.”
I like that even here is not Trump's fault, it's some vague evil spirit controlling him lol
Yeah, I think it's been long enough that removing the evil control would kill the host.
It's so weird: the article/opinion is genuinely hilarious, but the whole concept of satire has been dragged into the mud by people that unironically say things that sound satirical.
I thought the same, when I read the headline. Satire is dead as long as Trump and his spawn are alive.
My pet sociological theory is that irony has poisoned society in such a pervasive way that it opened the doors to our current cultural and political climate.
I think it started in the early 90s. But it’s a progressive thing, so it has seeds earlier than that, for sure. But it really took off in the 90s.
When people grow up in a society filled with irony and people holding things at a distance with irony, it really fucks up social development.
And now here we are. Post satire and post irony.
What's this "we", white man?
I'm reminded of David Cross on the first failed term of PEDOnald...
We need to pray for Trump, that the Holy Spirit touch his heart and loose him from whatever evil control he’s under. I’m serious. -- Alex Jones
Why do I have the feeling he's not referring to something spiritual, but rather someone or something specific?
With Alex those can be the same thing. He calls those anywhere to the left of him (which is almost everyone) literal demons. He also thinks aliens are demons. So he could mean either or all of the above.
just what America needs to shake things up
That part worked! Not for the better, and they are paying a high price for deccades to come, but ......... They shook things up!
Yeah, shook them to pieces.
To shreds, you say?
Wrecked’em? Damn near killed them.
Eh, he represents the American people well
30% of the adult population voted for him.
We're not even a democracy, there's literally no way he could represent anyone but the rich.
And 30% said "whatever the rest of you want is fine by us."
I wouldn't say all of that 30% thought that. There is a lot of purposeful and tactical decisions made by the GOP to prevent democratic votes. States where mail in and early voting are not allowed is an example, another is the polling places that do not allow you to give water to the people waiting in line. Then theres the ad campaigns that targeted black people saying of they voted they were going to be jailed by the IRS for some vague tax fraud reason. Some people are terrorized out of being able to vote.
Thats not to discount that there are definitely stupid privileged fucks who simply chose not to vote and let Trump happen.
The apathy of many us citizens to the idea that their government could possibly matter to them is a direct result of a massive legal, and influence campaign by far right elites, their representatives in government and their allies overseas. A functional state is supposed to have institutions to combat that.
The effectiveness of the current far right coup is a failure of our institutions, and the low participation of many in the US is a symptom of that failure, not a cause.
Also what happens qhen we allow foreign agencies to impact our election.
This isn't foreign agencies, that's where the confusion lies with Americans, trump is the poster child for the rot that is the US government which has existed for generations. This is who the US has always been to marginalized communities, most people are only seeing it now because the rot is bleeding over onto white people.
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