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 😅
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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?
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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.
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?
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.... it's.... satirical. The headline is sarcastic, along with the hamburger meat bit.
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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 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.
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.
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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 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
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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!
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.”
"Lost." Wait till the next election they'll come round again.
I like that even here is not Trump's fault, it's some vague evil spirit controlling him lol
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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.
dammit
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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.
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.
I think you might be right. I say we blame Seinfeld for Trump, it was the start of making assholes the star on TV.
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Here’s the thing - we’re at the beginning stages of the war affecting things beyond “it costs more to drive”. Europe have been meeting about how to reopen the strait without the US
I think the strait will open again soon, and whether that happens without the US’s involvement or the US is forced into it in some way, the end result will be the same - there is will be less powerful globally than it was before, and Iran will be much more powerful globally than it was before
Yeah, except neither Europe or any of the other countries are going to open the strait by joining an unjust and illegal war with Iran. Instead, we’ll negotiate with Iran and simply accept the new status quo in the region. One in which Iran controls the strait and the US has effectively backed out the region.
What's this "we", white man?
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.
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I guess you shouldn't have elected the Dynamite Monkey for president. Twice. But man, think how much it will pw3n the libs!
Oh, and you guys who decided to stay home on election day? Fuck YOU, too. You had a clear choice between boring corporatists and 100% Concentrated Evil and you thought it was more important to have your adorable little protest non-vote.
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Small? Theres a small chance you've been peeking out your basement window.
Nah, you elected him twice, that's not a coincidence
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, I'm probably an idiot.
EDIT for clarity.
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I'm reminded of David Cross on the first failed term of PEDOnald...
We shouldn't have been doing half the shit we've done.
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