djsoren19 @ djsoren19 @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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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.

I mean, the American Constitution is dogshit. The people who wrote it didn't even mean half of it, and the other half became out of date about when globalisation took off. It's not surprising nobody wants to defend it, the U.S. Republic has been desperately, desperately overdue for a revision.

Oh you don't even want to get started on that rabbit hole. You wanna hear something real wild, it differs by the socioeconomic power held by women. In cultures where women have very little power, they care less about looks and more about personality and socioeconomic status of their partner. In cultures where women are empowered, they want to date somebody hot.

Anyway, if you want the full deep dive on all the ways your unconscious biases affect your conscious thinking, you should start with heuristics and follow further.

We've officially gotten to the point where videogame layoff news has become so oversaturated that incredibly simple firings are reported with outrage.

Pfft, this is almost hilariously naive. Unless you think Kamala Harris seriously had a chance of winning an 80%+ landslide victory, Trump's election was determined when our Supreme Court made a clearly partisan ruling declaring Trump was an untouchable king. At that moment, it became clear that any contested election would be resolved by the SC in Trump's favor, ala Bush v Gore in 2000.

I'm as disappointed as anyone else that he won cleanly, but Trump was inevitable. He's been inevitable for decades. No country becomes fascist overnight, the American people have been voting towards this outcome since before I was born.

Seriously, the consequences are extremely dire. If you wanna see what happens when you let oligarchs consolidate control over your media, just look south right now.

Their plan is to do nothing, then. They could have been forcing Republicans to vote against popular things for decades now, including during the entire Trump presidency. Without even going into how ineffective this kinda performative bullshit is, why should I expect them to seriously start calling for these votes now?

People are gonna keep beating the dead horse but you're right. 50% of Americans are reading at or below a sixth grade level. 30% are functionally illiterate. Trying to rely on those people knowing what fascism is was a losing move. Expecting any of these people to think critically about the media they consume is a non-starter.

Y'know the interesting thing is, I've never had a poor old person talk condescendingly to me about economic prospects. The elderly widow taking public transit, counting their coupons, and desperately trying to stretch their dead husband's pension check has never lectured me about pulling myself up by my boot-straps. Similarly, I've never called any of these people a Boomer pejoratively. To me, the stereotype of a Boomer has very little to do with age, and everything to do with socioeconomic status, and I absolutely will keep insulting the Boomer fucks that pulled the ladder up behind them.

People have been saying this is all the fault of the American people because they just didn't vote against Trump. They're right that it's the fault of the American people, but it's the fault of everyone who ignored the warnings people have been pushing about our corrupt government for generations. Alarm bells should have been sounded when the govt started rounding up pro-worker union leaders by calling them suspected communists. Riots in the streets should have started when George W Bush stole an election through the Supreme Court. Citizen's United was the deathblow to any hope of democracy, and most Americans weren't even aware it died. People have been sitting on the sidelines and letting the rich get away with whatever they want since before I was born in this country, it's laughable to think anything will change.

Yeah unfortunately the gun crazies fully support what's happening, and it's a PITA to get a registered firearm if you aren't already a gun nut.

Hey if anyone has a line on unregistered Kalashnikovs, hit me up. I just want it for "display purposes."

Yes, I'd say that's a pretty extreme view. I'm also not sure what you mean by controllable? I'd argue most of the uniqueness of humans comes as a product of the environment they were raised in, which isn't really something we have control over.

Also I have real bad news if you're worried about things you're not conscious of affecting your behaviors.

There's nothing wrong with having preferences. Discrimination gets a bad rap because of it's association with racism, homophobia, etc, but everybody discriminates all the time, every day, typically about incredibly simple stuff. At the end of the day, it's just recognizing differences in people and making decisions based on those differences. Yeah, you shouldn't let something like race or gender impact a decision to hire someone, but you're already discriminating against one gender when selecting romantic partners. (unless you're bisexual and have exactly a 50/50 preference) If you're only attracted to people with athletic builds, you'll be discriminating against tons of people with health conditions. If you're looking for a goth partner, you're discriminating against all the people with happy families. I don't really think discriminating over pheremones is any different.

I'm a male bottom and also can occasionally go crazy for musk.

in 4 years, the Heritage Foundation put together a plan to dismantle the U.S. government.

In those same 4 years, the Democrats sat on their hands with the expectation that the 2024 election was in the bag.

I'm not even sure if Dems can prepare for what's coming. Certainly not to the level the Republicans have prepared for this moment.

Yes, and we knew this would be the outcome the second he won the election. I'm staying in the U.S. because my life is worthless anyway and I'd prefer death in glorious revolution than survival, but anyone who values their life should have started their plans to leave in August 2024 when it became obvious he was going to sieze control.

Also, a non-insignificant amount of the conflict has to do with Ariel having royal responsibilities, which absolutely still works with 18 yr olds.

Now this is science I can get behind! Let's get someone behind me!

Oh like 0%, IMO a civil war and the collapse of the United States is the best case scenario. A third of Americans are blackshirts, a third have been yelling about the blackshirts for decades, and the other third are asking people to keep their voices down. That just isn't a recipe for a legal reversal of what's happening. Either a civil war happens and the fascists lose, or we'll become like Russia without any serious opposition.

Of course they saw this coming, and genuinely fuck the Democratic Party for being controlled opposition, but a pretty large chunk of the blame falls on the United States public who just watched as civics education in this country collapsed. An unqualified electorate electing unqualified leaders isn't a surprise, and we spent most of the last 50 years trying to make sure the average American was as dumb and misinformed as possible. Hell, maybe if Americans were actually taught how fragile the U.S. system of government is, we'd have made serious reforms of it before now.