Good lord… the is a typo in my critique!! Ugh.

I meant: It’s AN opinion.

And… that’s what I get for being smart alecky

When you post a comment and it gets downvotes: it AN opinion. Jeez.

Can’t wait.

And it wasn’t a coincidence.

Want to see the collapse of mainstream media. I’m thinking globally and acting locally.

I believe that the perfect internet is 1999 but with Wikipedia.

That’s it.

All tech: 1999 and before. Flip phones. MP3 players. DVD. Etc.

It was perfect and corporations did not suck our souls out through our assholes.

Yeah… I always find it funny how when a cool group that’s to form… that extremely cool, everyone likes them, “ex” intelligence officer shows up… weird… isn’t it? I have seen this movie before.

It is hard to get those labs just right.

So… I have been friends in a writing group with a guy who voted for Bush2… and I have conscientiously tried to be human and humane to him because we go on hikes and movies together and he shares some of that co service ugliness in ways that help me understand the “other” better.

We had a blow out 2016… and we came back from it 2019… and now we know how not to have blowouts.

Recently I shared with him Gloria Anzadua’s HOW TO TAME A WILD TONGUE.

To my amazement he read it. We just had a discussion on empathy. No one died.

Everything about your response here is why Lemmy is my first click in the morning: sober, clear thinking. What I keep wondering is can the rich be held accountable for the damage that they have done? They participated in this fiasco-coronation… they funded it. My head still spins about the loss of integrity in our entire system.

Last night I started reading Against The Machine by Paul Kingsforth… I always wanted to read Decline and Fall of the West by Spengler but this guy actually did — and a lot of other great thinkers that are making this transition feel much less tragic for me and more natural… and reminding me that empires fall but individuals can thrive. Do thrive — with acts of decency.

No one really believes that the vacancies from the deaths won’t be filled by yet another asshole, do they?

I’m done.

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.

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?