Allonzee @ Allonzee @lemmy.world

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Voted for Harris out of usual attempted harm reduction because this place is irreparably destroyed since Reagan, but let's not kid ourselves, Donald Trump represents the United States as it is perfectly.

Proudly ignorant, proudly greedy, proudly gluttonous, obese, egotistical, explicitly judges others on net worth, perpetually drunk on cruelty and schaudenfreude, obsessed with image and his own ego score, demands loyalty and servitude while providing none aka a devout capitalist, obsessed with economic metastasis at literally any human and societal cost, proudly racist while still insisting he's not, the embodiment of what Americans disgustingly praise: a hyperindividualist who revels in blaming people not born to wealth for their suffering and insists this is a meritocracy after a lifetime of spending daddy's money.

Donald Trump is like the zeitgeist of the modern United States somehow took tangible human form. You can try to argue we don't deserve him, or that we have the potential to be a better society than one that would elect him, but you can't argue he represents who and what a loathsome society we are. A monument of all our sins.

He's more American as apple pie or baseball ever was, and he's at least as American as our current national pastimes of mass shootings and of course disgusting hyper-consumption.

That's why he illicits such a strong response in both directions. Whether you are repulsed or see your own necrotic heart in him, He is an accurate mirror of the practiced culture of The United States of America.

I hear what you're saying, and yeah all communities have a narrative, I've been reprimanded on L/climate for the exact opposite, questioning where all the unearned optimism was coming from.

But the format is topics, and you do need to fit the topics, so I get it based on the community. That said, what I cannot stand is someone's opinion being elevated on the basis of them being a celebrity, or an influencer. I prefer not to consume content through the prism of knowing of the person who said it. If Kim Kardashian has something she thinks is clever to say, let her say it without her name behind it to see if it sinks or swims on whether people read the comment and found it clever/relevant/worth propagating with an upvote or not.

I explained it to my friends about why I only used Reddit and now Lemmy:

I think social media attached directly to Ego is toxic and harmful. On more anonymous social media, ideas(content) at least tends to rise or fall on their own merits, rather than on the prior popularity of the individual saying them.

I'm here for cool ideas, concepts, and discussions, not popularity contests which most social media platforms are.

I voted for Harris in yet another attempt at harm reduction, not hope, but the Neoliberals and Republicans have just been playing good cop/bad cop since Reagan, intentionally stoking and magnifying social wedges to keep Americans divided and at each other's throats while they serve the same masters on protecting the shape and fucked up priorities of our sociopath owned economy we don't get a vote on from either major party.

Voting for Trump just makes our collapse sound like fart noises. We've been in freefall since the 1980s, our society strip mined for private profit. IMHO the United States under the current Constitution was irrevocably captured destroyed half a century ago. That's when America died. The last 50 years or so has just been a combination of leftover momentum and denial.

In a dark way, it's almost refreshing to someone like me to finally see everyone else waking up to the grim reality there's literally no longer any way to squint hard enough to play pretend the country isn't irreparably fucked. Better than all the willful self-delusion many enjoyed as education crumbled, healthcare became a murderous con-job, retirement became a decadent luxury for the few, etc.

We haven't been a society for a long time. We're an oligarch piggy bank/military platform. We wage war on the world, both through hard warfare and strong arm diplomacy, to open up new exploitation markets for our capitalists by trying to make other nations turn on their own people for private profit in exchange for a cut for their respective elites.

We are the primary vector of the world's greed disease destroying societies, civilization, and even the very air we all breathe.

As an American, let me just say, 🎶 Oh Canada... 🎶

Capitalists are more efficient than both.

They don't see almost anyone as human.

Entropy will not be denied.

Rome always falls to the corruption of its elite run amuck.

Agreed on all counts my friend, and best of luck to you as well.

From my perspective, being disloyal to my country's attempts to monopolize the information I imbibe, and being counted as part of that mass movement directly is again more important than also rejecting receiving the social media of another evil empire that, again, would simply be seen as patriotism/nationalism/nothing at all. It doesn't actually meaningfully benefit China, but it does very publicly, as a movement of people not just me, work as a demonstration of undermining the authority of the evil empire I do have some tiny insignificant influence in.

They'll ban it of course, and there will be another one. And that continuous "We don't respect you or your authority because you arent on our side" does over time diminish the misplaced faith some still have in our captured institutions. Unfortunately signing up for Lemmy over reddit's greed or some scandanavian social media doesn't send the same message.

It has to be an enemy evil empire for the powerful of our evil empire to take notice and be concerned at all. Otherwise, it's akin to "protesting" with a permit at a designated protest zone out of the eyeline and profit operations of those you're protesting, aka masturbation.

China is and has committed genocide.

The US is and has committed genocide.

That's not a point in either's favor. That's a moral wash.

I'd rather both nations failed, so something more humane can potentially take its place (and revolution over and over until that happens) but as an American, rejecting China means nothing, just as a Chinese citizen rejecting America means nothing.

Rejecting evil empires begins with undermining the one that you're expected to support and be a loyal cog of. A Russian openly hating America or a Chinese person openly hating Russia is indistinguishable from patriotism/nationalism.

I can only hurt one empire materially, the one I materially live within. The Chinese have to reign in China, and the Russians Russia. The best I can do is my part not to strengthen or support the evil empire I was born under to the best of my ability.

Not with a ten meter cattle prod for me, anyone willing to indulge Zuck's midlife Nazi crisis deserves him.

Why should I care about who the US sees as the enemy? I was born here and I'm seen as nothing more than livestock for our capitalists, when they aren't funding and supplying a genocide against poors halfway around the world.

No way I'm going to rejoin Metabook after 10 years now that they've gone full Nazi.

Downloaded Rednote. Cool app. Fuck the hometeam that chose to be the opposite of a society. It's only the home team if it's a team, it's been made clear to most Americans that we're just a bunch of rugged individuals at each other's throats for oligarch scraps and we can get fucked and die to profit healthcare scammers.

I'd rather have my clicks profit our supposed enemy than us at this point with "friends" like my country.

I could totally see Gandalf still being in middle Earth. He cared about his mission because he fell in love with middle Earth. Had he not been elevated to Gandalf the White explicitly to compete his task reminding him he doesn't belong there, I could very much see him having gone the way of Radagast, being a force for good in middle Earth for a long time.

Saruman, for all his faults, was correct, Gandalf's love of the haflings and the good of middle earth was making him complacent.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vwdw7zn2o

That is fucked up. Multimillionaires and billionaires, in this case a nepo heiress, losing their third and fourth vanity properties is an inconvenience they will underpay people to suffer for them.

We have Americans dying of exposure in the streets every day by choice for the crime of being defective capital batteries for the people that live in Malibu. Go cry a river for people who have massive blood drenched investment portfolios in the exploitation casino, you're less than human to them.

Would goblins/orcs still have endured without the lingering evil of Sauron?

They weren't naturally occurring (yes they bred but they were made to be a breeding army for evil and I'm pretty sure Tolkien alluded them to dying out quickly after the ring was destroyed) in Tolkien's lore I'm pretty sure and were interchangable terms for the same species in his lore even though they're different in others.

Boring movie series then.

...and Gandalf the Grey spent 3 weeks drinking and smoking and setting off fireworks with the Hobbits, remembering his old friend Bilbo who died some years earlier after an average hobbit lifespan with his nephew Frodo...

THE END

That's hot 🔥

As an American trapped inside with these proudly ignorant fuckwits, can confirm.

Good luck when climate change makes us desperate though. There's literally only one thing we are genuinely very, very good at, to my shame; mass production of the means of mass murder. It's pathetic how many of my fellow Americans take a perverse pride in this.

I genuinely fear for the rest of the world when the water wars start. We're idiocracy with a cartoonishly big stick we're absolutely dumb and petty enough to use.