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.

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.

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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There is a small part of me that is amused. Yes, they may eventually flatten the entire country, but for generations everyone has known that Iran is the kind of country that will make it hurt out of spite. Iran is laughing through a blood-filled mouth at everything you do because they know that, even in their fall, they are taking America down with them. Trump, you stupid, stupid child. This is not about money. This is ideological.

She would have been predictable at least.

Since the last election, I’ve increased my advocacy for third parties. It would be difficult, but not impossible, to achieve. The current issue I see goes beyond any single candidate: the digital town squares have been compromised.

The things that need to be discussed beyond that need to be done privately with people you trust and translated into real world action. That’s my current opinion. Posted for others to read and consider. My DMs are not open and I’m not looking for a community. Build your network in person first. with people you know.

Change happens when we organize and come together. We are well beyond gatekeeping. This is enemy of my enemy time

I edited my impulsive comment. I’m only pinging you as a courtesy so it doesn’t look like I’m trying to rewrite myself into someone more moderate. Be cool. Do crimes. Aim that anger at someone who actually hates you.

Your opinion means little to me beyond suggesting that we likely share similar morals. I’m not interested in engaging in infighting with people I probably agree with 70 percent of the time.

That’s the thing: that sounds reasonable until you take 5 minutes to research and find that there are already a fuck ton of roadblocks and checks in place to make sure it’s what they want and the best option. That statement is either made in bad faith or in ignorance. A trans person trying to get access to surgery and a woman trying to have her uterus removed have similar, but unique, levels of difficulty.

Pretending anyone can make that choice on a Tuesday and undergo serious surgery on a Wednesday is either super ignorant or a bad actor. You can’t even do that shit for normal healthcare procedures.

But the viral right found its token examples, and those examples became the face of an entire problem that didn’t exist.

As a leftist, I can tell you there was a fuck of a lot more than one issue that I didn’t agree with Biden or Harris on. I still voted for her, but I can tell you I won’t hold my nose again.

What happened, in general terms, is that Gen Z kept the previous elections from slipping too hard to Republicans, and Harris went viral for calling them dumb. And she was pro-genocide, and she was a cop-loving prosecutor out of California. She basically screamed “DINO.” Then, when the Democratic primaries happened, Biden lied and said he was going to run again, which basically killed any other chance for a popular candidate to emerge to challenge Trump. So when Biden finally changed his mind, we were forced to vote for Harris or Trump.

If you want to blame something, blame the Democratic Party playing games with their internal processes to keep the people from having a candidate they actually wanted. Nobody even wanted Harris as VP. She got it, much like Biden under Obama, because she was a “safe” moderate.

And I can tell you, as a regular voter. I had people at my door for her 12 different times asking me to vote.

We shouldn’t have even allowed Biden to say he was going to run a second term, but the entire establishment went along with it as political theater to put her on the ballot.

Why did Trump win? Because American elections are fucked and never favor the popular vote and because enough people were fucking pissed. The Liberal idealists were pissed because dispite popular opinion our leaders ignored them most of the time, and the Conservative minded were pissed because they had 4 years of “Fuck Joe Biden” propaganda.

The bluesky rise kinda pissed me off. More so because all my artist friends that were on twitter went to bluesky instead of Mastodon when I told them about it as an alternative. everyone collectively decided to ignore a system that already existed and to the centralized thing again. Big suprise.