djsoren19 @ djsoren19 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Good thing it's a child asking the question? Great job dunking on a 19 year old, really shows your maturity to attack the validity of a question on a forum called NoStupidQuestions.

There's some interesting theories in this thread, but I want to bring up one that I don't see talked about much; American democracy has been so dysfunctional for so long, the average American citizen absolutely assumes they're being lied to on the campaign trail. Nobody ever believes a politician is going to accomplish even a quarter of the things they campaign on here. This is a big part of what made Trump so popular, with the line of thinking being "he's an outsider, so he'll be different." The problem then becomes one of cognitive dissonance. On the one hand, Trump being an outsider should be a reason to always take what he says at its face value. On the other, Trump is a politician now, and as established, politicians always lie on the campaign trail, so why would you expect him to keep his promises?

I'm not going to pretend to understand how the average American is able to do the mental gymnastics necessary to maintain these two contradictory ideals, but I think it's important to point out that a lot of his supporters grew up with zero faith in the democratic process ever helping them.

Uh-huh, and how is constantly voting for the lesser evil going for you? What did you seriously expect to happen? We'd just keep slipping towards fascism but never actually reach it?

I think at this point, organization efforts should be focused on evacuation and relocation of people from red states to blue states. Let the people who voted for this shit face all the inevitable consequences, and get the people who will most be in danger when Balkanization happens somewhere safe. They're already killing trans people, it's just gonna get worse.

Probably the part where I didn't receive over a billion dollars in donations to actually get media attention. A lot of people have been campaigning to get people to ditch the Democrats because they're controlled corporate stooges for the last few decades, I think you were shouting at them for supporting third parties at the time.

I honestly don't know if we can. The last decade has really killed a lot of my hope for humanity. I think we're destined to wipe ourselves out, because so many of us will sit by idly while the rich and powerful destroy our planet for short-term gain.

Oh wow, the predictable thing is happening? But I was told the Republican voters just needed to get angry and call their representatives! Don't worry guys, I'm sure the next plan to electorally save ourselves from fascism will work!

A lot of people are decrying this number as being too low because it's been common knowledge for a while that about 10% of the general population is LGBTQ. I think that's a really negative way to look at the poll. Instead, realize that we're finally at a point where nearly every LGBTQ American is comfortable enough with their sexual identity to report it on a poll. That's a huge milestone for de-stigmatizing the LGBTQ community! Shame it's happening at such a scary time, and I hope these rates don't decrease as things become worse.

Please, Reagan would be fucking thrilled. After the Republicans installed their dream government style in Russia after the Soviet Union collapse, it's been their goal to bring it to America. The only thing that would make Reagan disappointed is that he didn't get to be king.

As much as it pains me, same. Lots of Americans are going to die, but at this point we deserve it. We've been sleepwalking into fascism for over 40 years, and have ignored every single warning we were given. I used to care about us being united, because I know what the fate of red states will be if Balkanization happens, but now? Fuck 'em. Let's just split apart so we no longer have to support all these MAGA welfare queens in Alabama and Mississippi. Let corporate interests swoop in and go full classical colonialism on their weak economies. If they really want to work in sweatshops for nickels, fuckin let them. My blue state is strong enough to stand alone, I know most other blue states are, so what's the point in defending the people a collapse will hurt the most when they voted for it?

Penis inspection day is real and it is coming for you.

Hell yeah dude, bisexuals doing our part to get those numbers up.

You should have had that nervous eye twitch for the last 40 years, the U.S. was doing plenty of fucked up shit even when we were projecting calm security. The first Trump presidency was the wake-up call to the rest of the world to start cutting ties with us, it actually blows my mind how little there was in place internationally for when he won again. Sanctions should have been placed on us, trade agreements dissolved, we should be getting isolated right now. I'm sure we'll get there eventually, but it might be too late by then.

It someone creates a program for Windows, that program will likely still work 10 years from now

I was with you all the way until here. This statement is absolutely laughable to anyone who has messed around with older videogames. Sometimes, if you're lucky, running it in compatibility mode with the version of Windows the game was made for will work, but oftentimes you're reliant on fan patches or long installation guides showing you the exact configuration of settings necessary to stop the game from constantly crashing. At that point, getting the older game to run on Windows is just as tedious as getting it to run on Linux, potentially less.

You still are getting more of a guarantee from Microsoft, because Windows versions have typically had long lifecycles and were pretty averse to risky-changes within an OS release, but even that doesn't seem to be the case anymore with Windows 11.

Yes, absolutely. The Russian military is still a piece of shit using scared conscripts and outdated equipment. As long as the EU remains willing to fund the Ukrainian defense, they'll keep fighting.

The real question is whether the EU will still be around. This weekend's election in Germany is going to be of critical importance.

Nah, he's been a lying piece of shit snake who will say whatever makes him the most money. The problem is that you were listening to his words, instead of listening to his actions.

It's really weird to strike at my job, because I work at a non-profit who genuinely does great work to help students go to college and university. Probably the worst part about our program is that some of the companies we take money from are shitty, but it's hard to be mad spending evil money on educating students. They also give me an incredibly generous PTO program, meaning even if I don't come into work for a day to strike, I'll still get paid for the day, which seems antithetical to the purpose.

I'm still not gonna come into work on March 14th, and maybe if I can get all my coworkers to do the same it'll still feel like a strike, but it's just a weird situation.

The U.S. especially has built up this myth that they came to liberate Germany to save the Jewish people from concentration camps. Considering the Americans were anti-semitic as hell at the time, to the point they were denying Jews entry to the U.S., it's a pretty fucking wild bit of historical revision.

I really, honestly cannot see Republicans listening to their constituents. By all means, it'd be great if we could get Republicans receiving all the same calls the Dems have been getting, but I think the Republicans will tell anyone who calls to pound sand. They're in the endgame now, why would they listen to the peasantry?

This kinda shit is going to be what ultimately collapses the United States. Once funding starts getting withheld to blue states, they're going to start wondering why they're paying the feds so much money.