• PastafARRian
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    126 hours ago

    Third term? I’d be glad if we came to terms with it by his 6th term.

    • @ameancow@lemmy.world
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      124 hours ago

      I am fully prepared for writing off this entire fucking generation.

      We’re going to enter dictatorship, tyranny, wars without end, mass waves of poverty, degradation of all our comforts and rights, and techno-feudalism and the average American literally- Does. Not. Care.

      This is the way the pendulum swings sometimes. A massive group of people have to literally fucking rot in misery for no reason before their kids grow up and start anew with renewed energy and drive. I know this generation certainly doesn’t have it. Let’s not be fooled by millions of people turning out for celebratory marches on a single weekend. We all know that won’t do anything and it will be a miracle if we can muster up enough group momentum to even get that again.

      • @witten@lemmy.world
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        73 hours ago

        You may be prepared to give up, but the rest of us aren’t. I hope you find your hope before it’s too late.

        • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
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          217 minutes ago

          Who’s the rest of us? As far as I can tell, there isn’t anybody actually doing shit. Well, maybe one or two people. And a misguided and toothless protest isn’t going to achieve anything, no matter how many people show up. I hope you find your rest of us before it’s too late.

        • @ameancow@lemmy.world
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          93 hours ago

          going on a half-century and seeing everyone make the same stupid mistakes over and over, seeing generations not only not pass down wisdom but actively abandon the next generation over and over, it makes it hard to have hope.

          I respect and support anyone trying to make change, I will continue to do what I can in my situation, but I don’t have expectations anymore. At a point I’ll be retreating to the woods with my loved ones to close out the world and spend more time gardening than scrolling.

          • @plyth@feddit.org
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            42 hours ago

            and seeing everyone make the same stupid mistakes over and over

            Propaganda has improved. People don’t have communities. It’s worse. People have to be more clever than before to compensate.

    • @jacksilver@lemmy.world
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      74 hours ago

      The guys so old, I’m not sure hell make it through this term. He’s clearly not well, but that’s what makes this all crazier. Dems at least knew to kick out their senile old man, how the Republicans are okay with this is wild.

      • @FearMeAndDecay@literature.cafe
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        43 hours ago

        They’re okay with it bc Trump has a cult and many of his cult members are the ones voting the other republicans into office. If they kick out trump, they kick out a bunch of their voter base. Because unfortunately there’s a larger amount of non-cultist republicans that will still vote republican but just not for trump bc “there’s a difference” between the guy doing the bad things and all his best friends “begrudging” helping him do the bad things apparently. Basically they’re delusional about how politics actually work