The only way I’m going to be able to deal with this bullshit is to tune out or numb myself to it in some way
Yup.
Ignorance is bliss.
The next 4 years minimum are going to be a non-stop onslaught of depressing and outright embarrassing headlines. I plan on cutting all news pipelines out of my feeds at the end of this calendar year.
Yup.
Fools think there’s a magical reset button ever 4-8 years if we regret our decisions.
I implore those fools to pick up a history book and find out why that isn’t a guarantee. But we know they never will.
By the end of whatever this is workers in America will have less power and our institutions will be weakened, if not destroyed.
Americans are about to find out what actual suffering is.
So what are you going to do about it America?
Nothing. We’re fucking pathetic.
They never came up with any other plan
The guy said he had concepts of plans in a debate designed as a platform for candidates to let America know what their plans are.
And then we elected him anyways.
Americans are fucking stupid.
Take politics and politicians out of the equation and you’re still left with stupid fucking Americans. And THAT is why we’re doomed in the long run.
Hope everyone is ready to suffer.
I’d say blame it on conservatives. But you can also blame it on the absolute idiots that voted 3rd party, were single issue voters, or abstained from voting. They’re just as much to blame and just as stupid as Trump supporters.
No one should be surprised.
Americans voted to not hold this criminal accountable.
We all knew this was coming if he won.
We’ve undeniably entered a new phase of lawlessness for the wealthy and powerful in our society. Even more so than before.
Only way to go from here is down. Buckle up.
The Thing. You come across a guy that’s infected but still alive. Clearly on the verge of turning. He gives you vital information then says
“If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”
And proceeds to blow his own brains out.
Boss move. Much respect.
“The House on the Rock is a tourist attraction located in the town of Wyoming, Iowa County, Wisconsin.”
Wait…what?
I mean I wholeheartedly agree with everything you’re saying except the fault not ultimately being on the average voter.
We don’t live in the dark ages. All information is freely available to all voters. That information is power. Power that we’re choosing not to wield or wielding irresponsibly.
Now, you can argue that in places like North Korea, that isn’t true. They’re under lock and key. Although I do believe they have some concept of an outside world and what’s available in that outside world. And regardless of whether you’re under a regime that’s limiting information, you can still determine if your life sucks. Even without any outside stimulus to act as a basis of comparison.
This isn’t a regime…yet. We have access to the data. We have the power to vote. It’s our fault for not using the tools provided to us responsibly.
If you read into it at all, you didn’t read far enough.
As shown above, the proof of Arrow’s theorem relies crucially on the assumption of ranked voting.
Not their fault. Don’t hate the non-wealthy ones, pity them.
Why? Why should I pity adults who make awful decisions that degrade the quality of all our lives? I didn’t receive some special education. I wasn’t privileged. But I didn’t end up stupid enough to do what they’ve done. They vote the way they do because they’re intellectually lazy and choose to prize emotion over facts. That’s not some rich person’s fault. That’s not the media’s fault. That’s THEIR fault. It’s wrong to try to excuse that for them.
We aren’t talking about children here. We’re talking about grown ass adults.
I understand people are desperate, but desperation doesn’t just make you a drone to be impressed upon by the wealthy and manipulative. Being lazy, or weak, or hateful does. You don’t need some higher education to understand right from wrong.
Lol.
Trump and Elon sat down a few weeks before the election and had a video recorded discussion where they jerked each other off talking about how anti-union and anti-worker they were.
Then working class Americans went out and gleefully voted for them to be in control.
Americans are stupid.
Try out the new America!!! Same shit taste, but now with even more racism!!!
Yeah, but us hairless chimps didn’t have the internet before. Our primate brains weren’t ready for weaponized misinformation in the palm of our hands.
It’s probably going to get worse.
Also the dismantling of government agencies begins!
That’s going to be the thing that really fucks us going forward. If our democracy survives at all, we’ll spend a significant amount of time and energy rebuilding what was dismantled. That means less time and energy on general progression.
When Trump won the first time I knew it really meant we were going to see less progress in our lifetimes. Now we’re going to see even less.
And it’s our own fault. Because we’re generally very stupid.
What did this person ever do to them?
Exist.
The Republican party has used hate and fear to make a significant portion of our society hate the IDEA of other people existing. None of these people know or interact with trans people, or they wouldn’t hate them. I know trans people. Spoiler Alert: they’re just people. That’s it. But the Republican party is brainwashing Americans to believe they aren’t.
Hate won in America a few weeks ago.
I hope someday he has to stand before his victims and a deity
He won’t.
The bad guys are winning. Simple as that.
Any repercussions will have to be earthly. Hope we can make that happen. But at this point I’m gonna go with “probably not”, since we just elected a felon and rapist who is now guaranteed to get away with his crimes.
Do something that matters
I challenge anyone reading this to point out a time Republicans did something that mattered (positively) at any point so far in the 21st century.
A society with a majority of voters who are petty, greedy, ruining everything.
“Genocide Joe” passed more meaningful legislation for average Americans then most presidents. But the conservative propaganda machine won and made him seem like the devil incarnate because stupid Americans can’t discern fact from fiction.