I feel awful for the genuinely good people living there. But to all of the people that either voted for this or sat back and did nothing to prevent this: I genuinely, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart hope that you fucking suffer like never before.
Oh I'm so glad to hear that Americans are starting to lose faith in Trump. What a pity that they were all tricked into thinking that the ex reality TV star who thinks Hannibal Lecter is a fine man and that offshore wind farms are killing whales in record numbers would make a good leader. If only there were signs that Trump and his posse are a bunch of lunatic psychopaths. If only Project 2025 had been released before Trump was elected for everyone to read, things might've been different.
Those poor rural folk who voted for their financial and medical assistance to be gutted and are now seeing their financial and medical assistance get gutted, how awful for them. And all the manly men with hero and protector fantasies that willingly voted for the wives to be stripped of rights and to get their families deported, how awful that they were tricked so badly into being absolute fucking losers and failures as husbands and into voting for the villains of the story.
If only there were signs and people to try and talk Americans out of it before the elections. Oh well.
I think that you guys need to get over your fear of introducing another political party, so that the Democrats can be made to fear the consequences of being a bunch of animated fucking corpses that are too busy maintaining the status quo to listen to their voters or show any signs of actual life.
Let me guess, by "freedom of expression" you mean allowing people to be openly racist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic completely free of any social consequences for their actions. While gay people, trans people and anyone else that doesn't conform to white christian culture get vilified, victimized and their rights stripped away. What you mean is that you would really like to be able to say the n word on the internet without the mean moderator banning you but you don't really care about freedom of expression in the real world, or things like all of the media being bought up and controlled by a handful of fascist billionaires.
I'm just asking because usually when people make free speech and freedom of expression their personalities, they're solely in it because they want to be able to insult and degrade groups of people without consequences and don't really care about anything else.
It can also work the other way around, unfortunately. Like no longer being able to listen to a certain band or whatever because it just reminds you too much of someone that you used to know.
The way I see it, free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences for what you say. You're free to walk up to the friend group and act like a jackass and personally insult everyone. And they're free to tell you to fk off and stop being friends with you and talking to you. That's not an infringement on your right to free speech, that's consequences for your actions.
These 'free speech' people act like the real world is this place where you can just approach and interrupt any conversation and enter any club without following the rules. They act like groups of like minded people getting together to share interests and ideas without wanting to constantly defend themselves and 'debate' their interests and beliefs is some new thing brought to us by the woke agenda.
And so they think social media should be this place where you can say whatever to whoever, wherever you want and if anyone has a problem with that, they're just anti 'free speech' woke libs or some shit.
Nowhere does it say fucking anything about oppression in the picture that she's losing her shit about here. It's something that she could've literally just scrolled past and gone on with her day. I'm so fucking sick of these people.
As an outside observer, one of the funniest things about Trump (and this whole crowd actually) is the amount of just denying things that they do. There is never a single time that they admit fault or the capability to learn and improve. Drunkard clowns like Hesgeth have to be dragged out kicking and screaming for something to be rectified, at which point they'll just go "Uh, well anyway, here's the next guy, he's going to be great! Tremendously bigly!"
Elon didn't do that famous hand gesture that we all saw him do twice in a row. Fox News guy didn't use a 3rd party app for a top secret war chat and didn't include a journalist in the group. Trump didn't apply those tariffs or throw unhinged temper tantrums on social media. It's all just the fake news librul agenda trying to discredit these fine upstanding members of society as usual. And if it's true - onto the next thing. How about that woke agenda amirite?
Haha yeah I hadn't considered that. I guess there's always the various lines of work that involve doing something in front of the camera, if you're that kind of person for that job (I have actually honestly considered trying something like onlyfans in the past lol, but lurking in certain creator spaces on Reddit definitely dispelled the myth of easy money in that for me, seems like giving a lot of yourself for not a lot of reward unless you're one of the lucky few that blow up in popularity).
I had thought of this area of work. Not averse to learning something tech related (although you wouldn't be able to tell going by the 3 times I've started and abandoned a programming course in my life), I just worry that being both a noob and almost 40 would count against me finding actual work. Plus, going by the other commenter, seems like a tough market right now.
On a side note, programming is something I would love to do in my downtime, to be able to finally make my game(s) lol.
Yeah, I've started switching between Active and Top 6 hours myself. Sometimes might use Top 12 hours instead. It's still lacking in enough content to satisfy absolutely everyone's niches or tastes all the time, and it's not loaded with new posts every time you refresh but there's enough to at least keep entertained through the day.
Although I hope it doesn't stay like this forever, I want to see it grow. I feel like it's already a little busier since I first signed up here, so hopefully it's getting there.
This kind of question always immediately makes me think of something a friend said years ago when I was still a teen. We were talking about school and education and shit and it was on the subject of asking questions when you don't fully understand something and he said "rather ask a stupid question and be a fool for five minutes, then keep your mouth shut and be a fool for the rest of your life." I think it was something that his mother had told him, in their language, so I'm constructing that statement from memory but it was something close to that.
I remember a couple of years ago, there were bad storms and flooding or something like that in parts of the USA. And one (1) church made the news for being the only church that provided shelter for the homeless while this was going on. Plenty others made the news for turning the homeless away.
So if they're not going to be loving their neighbours and caring for the poor, what value is this religion actually bringing to the world, other than teaching children that anyone who doesn't conform to their culture deserves to burn and suffer for eternity?
Always. It's always projection. Complain about their 'free speech' being violated, then start deporting people for speaking freely, first chance they get. Act like you care too much about the kids to allow drag queens to read books to them in a public library, then support politicians that want to legalise child marriage and send children to work in the mines. Complain about the 'feminazis' acting like all men are rapey, then become the number one fan of Andrew Tate.
At this point, don't believe a fucking word that any of these mouth breathers have to say. And consider any accusation to be a confession.
What is this woke liberal commie trash. Are you trying to summon a demon? Speak American!