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They will all be rich and in positions of power. This kind of shit gets celebrated in this country. Once things die down the outrage machine will kick in and they will say that private, out of context conversations don’t matter, that is unless the can come up with a barely plausible story that it was all fabricated (they are already trying to say it was AI).

It won’t matter that it’s transparent and obvious to everyone. Most people don’t pay enough attention and will forget all about it. It will seem like a distant memory and the “reasonable” people will lecture us about the necessity of forgiveness.

Then they will be caught with an underaged intern or some shit and nothing will come of it since they are just public people with pressures on them that we just can’t understand.

Yeah, I’m a little cynical.

Honestly don’t know, I was making a very timely covid related joke.

Have you ever tried getting certain folks to wear a mask?

Oh man am I ever with you. I’m absolutely an idealist, I agree with the OP’s sentiment. But I will absolutely support anyone with any ideology that gets us closer. Small steps are easier to take, this bullshit that everyone thinks we need the perfect candidate with the one weird trick.

See what that got us. I have no goddamned idea where to go from here. I’ll support any ham sandwich that drags us in the right direction.

I’m in the same boat. I love that it makes self hosting easier for me. It does what I need and even gives me a small extra measure of security. I admit, I use it because I’m lazy, I could do it without Cloudflare and do for some services. So, I figure if it truly becomes urgent or intolerable I can drop it from the stack.

I’m with you. I mean, its probably the bubble I live in, but I’m so tired of trying to talk to my friends and family about all of this but I’m dismissed as being paranoid or they tell me that Biden was just as bad or frankly most often just some dismissive joke in response.

I’m guessing about as many people care about this as there are who support all of it. The remaining 40-50% is just checked out and thinks this is just politics as usual. That’s my impression anyway.

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you underestime just how much they hate. I think their hate will overcome anything that fuck does.

people are incredibly stupid, incredibly lazy and america is chock full of authoritarians just craving to be told what to do.

I like ‘sloppers’ as a term for the morons distrubing and consuming the shit that the clankers are excreting.

I’ve felt the same way since his first election. I don’t know what the other side looks like, but we all will soon.

doing everything you can to combat the unhinged, gun-toting, lunatic stereotype, huh?

mortality is the only thing that will get him out of office at this point. sadly he has the best medical care this country has to offer. thankfully he has the best medical care this country has to offer.

Oh come on, it’s shorthand for their inaction and garbage words in the aftermath of every one of these.

Seeing articles like these nearly every single week in the United States is, well, not boring and I don’t see anyone doing anything about these other than discussion.

Because they are part of the problem. A corporate, for-profit media system is antithetical to truth and freedom.

The slope is vertical. We might catch ourselves before we crater, but I don’t have much hope.

Both congress and the Supreme Court handed ceded all their power to the executive branch. We have a dictator now, full stop. This country is run by the whims of a pedophile protecting (at best), rapist, criminal (convicted, not punished - REWARDED).

I wonder if America will finally see what’s happening when he once again is handed a victory by the courts.

Who am I kidding.

So glad someone else feels this way. I’ve been pretty certain we’ve been headed for balkanization since the first election. This districting fight feels like a logical step on the way.

This country is too big and diverse to accept a turnip dictatorship much longer.

The fact that he’s gotten away with every single one tells me we need to redefine the “worst” in history. He’s extremely fucking good at lying, it’s his only reliable metric.

Is MAGA buying this?

Yes, completely. He’s going to walk and people in power will use the legal system to put down any pushback.

All of this was obvious from the get-go. He was running to keep himself out of prison and to enrich himself. The country fell for it, and we have no idea how bad it’s going to get.

As always, I hope I am completely insane and a stark raving conspiracist.