Without a doubt this is the worst part. It was an immediate and irreversible swing from being an optimist who believes in the good of people to the complete opposite. I now believe humanity is fundamentally flawed and will destroy itself.

Watched too much Star Trek as a kid I guess.

We have two corporate parties, the status quo and the controlled opposition. They occasionally switch labels but until we get the corporate out, we will never have a real choice.

Let me help you then..

how blind they all are to the worlds most naked, open and obvious grift is beyond me. if we end up reelecting this fucking clown, we deserve everything that’s coming.

Nah, talking about the chimp guy. 2nd term could have had a talking sandwich and have the same results. Having had relatives who went through the same though, I have zero belief that he was in control of his faculties for the entire first term.

So the fix is in huh?

Agreed, 100%. Why it’s still real and immediate, feels like there is some hope. We gotta work for it though.

I used to live on reddit basically. I left due to the API shit they were pulling but did eventually get curious after closing my account but when I took a look, it was hot garbage. I unsigned from many of the big traffic subreddits and engaged in a lot of smaller and technical forums. Those users seem lately gone, or the ones who remained aren’t as knowledgeable or maybe there’s just been enough site changes that discussions aren’t happening like they used to.

In the meantime I’ve found fallbacks that I enjoy more, this place feels like early day Reddit which is super fun.

~~Don’t be evil.~~