I strongly worry about the short term for everyone. Listening to the fear and anger of both the people around me in rage and the people celebrating violence online, this feels like the first domino falling. Tensions will be high for awhile. Please learn to love your neighbors no matter how ignorant or disgusting their beliefs and convictions may be.

I am always about seeing the proof, but this is one link I won’t click.

Could we also dress like ICE and show up to their invasions? It’s not impersonating an officer because there isn’t a real uniform.

I just went through the transcript and the part that stood out as the worst was the dangerously divisive “America doesn’t belong to them. It belongs to us.”

This guy should not be allowed to hold office.

Perhaps we could save twice that if we got universal healthcare. Investing in infrastructure to move away from car culture would do even better. Where is the active Futurist lemmy group?

You explained this well. You should copy and paste it into every post about Dems vs lefts vs liberals.

And the approved voters just happened to be from the 50 people who controlled the testing.

I object that you oversimplify to gross misrepresentation.

Just one of the things they say they’ll do for popularity but their ‘big’ donors don’t support, so they compromise or fail heartlessly. Sabotage would require opposition. The two parties have been playing the extortion game far too long.

Was this responding to my comment because I don’t see any logical connection?

The only thing I can think of that improved socially is federal recognition of same sex marriage, but that was actually set in motion by state level judicial rulings. I can’t think of any economic improvements.

The analogy does not hold up when change can be affected by the individual.

If the Democrat Party continues the way it has, they will look exactly like the current Republican party in the next decade. Republicans will be full puritanical. Supporters of the DNC will still be supporting the lesser evil. The only solution is for intelligent voters to take the stick of fear out of their asses and go full support for better candidates in primaries or other parties. The people who continue to run our two party system will not give up their power.

Pro-abortion? Like you go around getting getting impregnated just to visit the doctor?

Hot take here: Protecting children starts at birth.

I keep trying to find the standup that talks about America raising ignorant stupid people. Or was it proud ignorant people. Either way, I think it was Jim Jefferies but can’t find it.

She reminds me of an ex and many people like her. They’d say “how can you be happy if ypu don’t know sadness.” Fuck that idea and everything that comes with it.

Bullshit! I found evidence of their proliferation in my cupboard and behind the bed.

That sounds like a wonderful journey of reflection.

My personal view is that hope as a foundation is complete bullshit. My foundation is, in the most positive version of nihilism, “ultimately, nothing matters.” I look at it as a clean slate. You get to decide what is important to you and persue it! I study all of nature to find purpose or meaning. I take joy in human ingenuity. I take sorrow in callousness. I appreciate what I have and want better for everyone.

Hope is a fine outlook but not something to lean on. It can kill motivation when expecting some ‘other’ to fix things. That can reward the callous and hamper ingenuity. It does not drive people to be better but can drive them to follow depraved systems of belief when they are promised post mortem reward or punishment.

That’s a good point. I haven’t used drafting software in a long time, but that shows this imagery is a practiced skill rather than an innate ability.