Exactly.
In the late zeroes, the local recycle place got a bunch of full monitors as a local business transitioned to flat screens. I grabbed about twelve of them, thinking I would be able to build machines for kids without computers. I placed three full systems before we moved and I sadly had to dump a slew of them because we didn’t have space in the moving truck. Learned my lesson.
I came here to discover why this tactics gets the full clown… yes… we must renew machines and THEN GIVE THEM AWAY.
You’ve already done great work avoiding the medical supply scam. You deserve to know what the burnt plastic smell is for sure.
The cycle that the medical industrial complex has us on is insane! Don’t pay them.
So… the theocratic indoctrinated extremists” did NOT elect Trump.
Regular very arduously stupid people did.
Our neighbors.
They are the ones having picnics after church on the weekends.
Since you use the word extremist, allow me: we are the extremists.
At our peril.
We fostered and promoted a great deal of policy that normalized many situations that these relatively non-toxic strangers couldn’t stomach. Many pinched their noses while they voted for Trump and musk.
I’m not saying we progressives are entirely to blame, but I am saying that should our political system survive the present moment, we need to reach the reachable right, and if we don’t, we can suffer the boot and the gun.
We alienated all the Americans who voted for a fascist because we tried to rush programs and reforms faster than idiots can tolerate. We are surrounded by imbeciles. That was one key detail we absolutely failed to take into account. Our motto: we are the smug and the righteous, morons, you will evolve.
They said no.
Now we have fascism.
Obviously we are not entirely to blame as yes the foundational ground work was laid long ago. But there was a time when we might have worked harder to understand our opposition.
Any idea how to let possibly interested parties know about it?
I’m not rising to your extremely uncivil bait.
If you do not think that the extremist pressure of well intended progressives have made idiot MAGAs lose their effing minds, you are not paying attention. btw… I lived through each of the fascists you mention. We progressives created the climate in which the Trump poison might propagate and thrive.
Libraries and physical archives!
Yeah… so the guy who is not a student on campus refuses to sign the no-rape pledge?? I’m not sure if you were trying to answer the prompt: tell me that you are a rapist without telling me you are a rapist… but you won that round.
Sorry, rapist. I’m a self-hating progressive. I know we have done this to ourselves.
What kind of world do you want? One where bros can just do rape? Ugh.
Also: could some interesting Lemme create /c/slopornot ?
If you are holding the book in your hand and it was published before 2015, then that content is almost certainly the product of human action.
I have watched progressives create the perfect breeding ground for fascism in the USA.
Will you join us at slopornot when someone gets the time and energy to add it?
Yes — agreed. And I especially like these when the creator isn’t spreading disinformation or nonsense.
Entirely wrong as regards my feelings about Ukraine.
But that should not surprise that you cannot seem to understand that literally ignoring these fascists allowed their movement to strengthen under Biden to the point that all it took was Trump dog whistling just a few times to get them to fall in line.
I can’t understand why having some conscience about our role in this seems to reckless or wicked to you.
If I were a New Yorker I’d be team Mandani. I’m still smarting over Bernie.
My guess is that you and I have more in common than not.