ameancow @ ameancow @lemmy.world

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Yah but what use is it for kids to say weird things if we can't have 3000+ comment-deep debates about every possible angle of it online? This is what the internet is best for! Completely dismantling every benign situation until nobody even knows why everyone hates each other now.

I love reading this pedantic bullshit while my nation and modern civilization is being rolled back to the dark ages.

go to a lab and get evidence

They're here to dismantle our society, they don't care.

They don't believe in things they don't understand, and they don't understand things they can't see with their own caveman senses.

We crawled out of 30,000 years of trying and failing to start a civilization, we almost went extinct, we lost countless billions of lives to war, murder, famine, disease and hardships of a natural world that doesn't want us to live. Just to get to this point where a handful of coked-up, mentally handicapped rich fucks can decide all those countless sacrifices were for nothing.

It genuinely boggles me that Americans are at all accepting of this. Where the FUCK are my countrymen who see how stupid and dangerous this is? We should all be storming HHS and dragging RFK and his unqualified goon squad out to the lawn. Seriously. I am not kidding. Modern medical knowledge is too valuable to let some unelected clown who has zero knowledge or training to just decide to roll the entire thing back because his other clowns sowed distrust among our stupidest.

If we don't rise up and do something, I strongly feel you all deserve what the consequences will be.

It's not that they don't think the diseases exist, it's just that they're invisible so are undoubtedly evil spirits, and thus all tactics you would use against evil spirits are equally effective.

I'm not saying don't try, I just think it's naive to expect it to do anything and screams a population who hasn't grown up seeing their nation taken over by authoritarians and fascism, something that happened many times in other places that Americans don't think could possibly impact them here because "those people were brown and dumb."

That average people still expect their "representatives" to fix things is the naive part.

Nobody is coming. If we want democracy we have to make it happen, as individuals, as people on the ground.

He's not getting removed.

I don't get why people aren't understanding what's happening. They are setting a precedent that they never want used back against them and are setting it up so they don't have to worry about it, and there is no real opposition party anyway. This is it, the turning point where control by the people and representation has been effectively taken away.

Surely this time we will all get the satisfaction we pray for. Surely.

We need a motherfucking army of Mr Rogers and we need to airdrop them into every neighborhood in America.

In case they meet resistance, I strongly feel they should also have lightsabers.

I just keep repeating to myself and others, "Nobody is coming." Even if people made better choices last November, it would have only been delaying the inevitable consumption of the nation that we're seeing in full mouthful right now.

Even if we got the biggest, boldest grass-roots movement started, it would immediately be swallowed by the existing political Machine & Spectacle, which would either digest it (Remembering that time Tim Waltz was forbidden from calling Republicans "weird" anymore) or they would destroy it with the same old "amplify both sides to the point which reasonable followers tune out" tactic that the KGB pioneered.

Somehow all arrows point to a future where the constitution has become a nifty relic somewhere, everything is privatized, climate change is in full-swing and people are really feeling the shift, while America is suffering through a catastrophic but slow, steady decline to the point that President/CEO Baron has to install a firewall around the US so the citizens don't see news from Europe or China and how their quality of life is. This could be in 10 - 15 years.

Put away gold I guess, I dunno man, I'm tired.

Honestly I like knowing that I CAN use it if needed

I love how reddit's social section is now regarded the same way as a product like condoms or guns or narcan.

At this point, I think the better alternative is to just say NO! to content aggregators and like... take walks instead.

Seriously, I changed my daily hour-long lunch break from browsing the internet to walking outside and it's done so much good, and I miss being connected to the world less and less. I am using all the sites less, even Lemmy and Youtube get less enjoyable when you get your brain focused on other goals.

That's good to know, if I ever really, really need to throw shade at some comment I see on Reddit i'll give that a shot... but honestly, I'm also mostly clean and free from "using" and probably will avoid it so I don't backslide into that fetid mess. I find I don't miss it that much anymore and have become a LOT more productive without having those comment sections to scroll every day and every lunch break.

I'm exactly where you are, assessments included.

I was never an accelerationist and thought at one time it was the laziest of ideals, but now I'm seeing my whole nation dissolve into the investment portfolios of a small handful of people and wondering exactly what kind of consequences my countrymen actually need to experience before they realize how incredibly important it is to take part in, and be aware of, how motherfucking democracy works worked. Our people here have the memory of goldfish, and either didn't remember the last time they got screwed by republicans broadly, or were so distressed by the contention and gravitas of the election cycle that they tuned out and stayed home... with the rest of the 45% of eligible, registered voters who stayed home.

To say nothing of the weakest, flimsiest excuses people gave for being lazy about taking part in democracy. You saw tons of it right here on Lemmy. "I cannot in good conscious vote for anyone who won't take a stand against Israel." Uh huh, sure buddy, your post history is entirely video games, I am having a hard time believing you're regularly out there on the Gaza strip handing out aid and food.

Our country really needs a hard slap across the face, and sadly I don't even think this current situation is doing the trick. The slap that will be hard enough to get people out of their couches will be a real bad one that I don't wish on anyone, but I feel like it's inevitable either way. One way is boiling to death slowly, the other is jumping into the fire. I can't decide which is worse, but the outcome will be the same.

It impacts different people differently. I've seen people blow hundreds of thousands of dollars up their nose. It was known as a massively addictive and expensive substance for a reason.

I was never impressed by the shit, but stimulants aren't my thing either.

I've seen entire families torn apart by cocaine though, for some people it's so completely overwhelming in their life it becomes all they think about.

I saw cocaine destroy a lot of lives, including my own parents and family and connected people.

It is not a "safe" drug in the same way that caffeine or cannabis are.

I agree that it's "as safe as alcohol" because the people who's lives were destroyed by cocaine were also deeply addicted to alcohol and alcohol alone kills more people than "regular" drug overdoses every year and climbing.

As a species we're not capable of handling responsibility in the face of addictive substances. We're just not. We can't handle marketing and politics, how are we supposed to make better decisions about substances that make us feel pleasure?

I don't think that means prohibition and drug wars are the better alternative, but we can't just give everyone whatever they want without some kind of barrier or they will literally destroy themselves.

If you don't combine this with massive efforts to set up mandatory education on addiction and health, and create the same resources that other countries have who have decriminalized drugs, such as rehab centers and single-payer healthcare so people can get treatment immediately and without question, we're just going to see them used as another addictive tool to acquire and consolidate capital, and with lethal impact.

In the US particularly, people are too dumb, numb and tuned-out to handle pretty much anything responsibly. We already have tens to hundreds of thousands of overdose deaths a year, (not counting alcohol) so I could easily see that spiraling out of control if people had access to even more ways to harm themselves while feeling pleasure.

The entire criminal justice system needs a revolutionary overhaul, drugs are just one part of it. If we remove one thing without checking all the other things, we tend to just make pocket-vacuums that other horrible things fill.

While I don't care about people who want to do drugs, I don't believe for a moment that if cocaine didn't become legalized for recreational use that it wouldn't cause massive amounts of harm.

Speaking as someone who saw his father snort millions of dollars up his nose so he could appear functional while drinking like a fish all day, every day, and the damage it did on his family and future and prospects.

Our species isn't ready for responsibility. When left to their own choices, people do not make good choices for themselves or others. We absolutely need shepherding by organized institutions and groups of thinking people who can make plans for our continued function and growth.

I don't know if prohibition at all works for saving people from themselves, but I think we need a much larger effort broadly to get people to understand how their own minds and bodies work if nothing else. People still broadly have no clue how addiction works because they have no idea how their own brain works and the difference between feelings and facts. We're dumber than ever as a species, and getting dumber. We are too easily compromised by outside influence to make good decisions for ourselves or our communities. It's not going to get better. Nobody is coming.

Watch his messaging when he tours FOX and other right-wing podcasts and youtube channels. He talks to the right without without resistance or pushback from the hosts because he's advocating preservation of existing systems instead of actual overhaul to our nation's policies and financial systems.

He is likely going to be our next Obama. Charming and beloved by many, but secretly propped up by the billionaire class who want to keep feasting from the table of status-quo. Obama was a great leader, but as a president, he passed on very real opportunities to make lasting change over and over. He didn't exercise his power in any remotely overreaching way even when he had house and senate. He didn't pack the Supreme Court and didn't enshrine rights in any way that would protect people. He could have rammed single-payer healthcare through and been hated and loved by many, probably impeached, but we would have had something great from it.

We really need to do better as a nation understanding the different between leadership and management. And we need to pick people for our local and community elections that have these qualities. They are the ones who prop up the larger system and the ones who largely run unopposed because people are far more fascinated with Buttigieg's dazzling blue eyes than what their local comptroller believes.

Buttigieg is establishment democrat. Actually listen to him instead of doing what most people do, which is stare at him and wait for him to "say something gay" and then be impressed that he's such a great orator. He's never advocated for the social and financial overhaul that the US needs. He's argued that the system is sufficient for our best outcomes, the same system that is currently on fire.

This reminds me of Obama so much. On one hand it would be nice to have another leader who unites the country, but Obama wasn't necessarily good for our nation's long-term future. He was not a leftist or advocate for the poor, he was also establishment Dem/Liberal who passed every opportunity to create real and lasting change in the country.

Buttigieg is currently touring the right-wing spaces and dropping his messages there without resistance because he's advocating for preserving the wealth in the country. He's tacitly being endorsed by the billionaire class. They want a return to normalcy, and Buttigieg may have exactly what the country needs to get there, which is clear messaging, hypnotic blue eyes and an appeal to many men's latent curiosity about what what a strong homosexual male even looks like... or if nothing else, an avenue for libs and neo-libs to feel performatively progressive by dropping his name. It's enthralling to the masses and we should all be terrified.

He is going to be a strong candidate if we have elections again, and I would take him over Trump, but we need to understand what he is. He is NOT our leftist savior, he's barely more progressive than a liberal savior.

I want to make it clear, if he's the final candidate against like, Mecha Trump or Don JR or Vance or someone equally absurd, we all better push Buttigieg's booty up that hill and I will wave that rainbow flag along with everyone else. But we have to understand that it's a band-aid on a massive infected wound that's bleeding out.