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I don't think I would say non-voters support this.

But they sure as fuck are complicit in not stopping an OBVIOUS threat to democracy by failing to do the absolute bare minimum civic duty of voting.

Edit: fixed grammar

I don't think Trump won quite as decisively as it first seemed.

But shit, it's still like... a third of our country that looked at Trump and went, "yeah sure".

How the fuck do we fix this? I straight up have no clue. And that means it very likely will devolve into violence. And that is legitimately terrifying.

I think it's fair to say Russia exacerbated our existing issues. That doesn't absolve us, as you point out, but it's not unreasonable to say "Russia won", either.

We had every opportunity to fix our issues. But nope, we just never really dealt with our history of racism and all the other bigotries (and capitalism, let's be real). When we tried to make things better, the reactionaries pushed back. First with war, and when that was lost, with law, and when that was lost, with rewriting history. That is a strategy that keeps working. Turns out if you don't care for your citizens, they'll eat up all that fake history looking for someone to blame. And that makes us weak to fascism.

So yeah, Russia may have sped up the process, but the roots of our downfall were here all along.

The "respect" and "you should be thankful" comments reminded me of that old (I think Tumblr) post:

Sometimes people use "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person" and sometimes they use "respect" to mean "treating someone like an authority".

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say "if you won't respect me, I won't respect you" and they mean "if you won't treat me like an authority, I won't treat you like a person."

and they think they're being fair, but they aren't, and it's not okay.

I like this idea, but I don't know how you build a site to facilitate that without also being super appealing to children and pedos at the same time.

Do you think "frank" means "without nuance or care for how what I'm saying could be misconstrued as bigotry"?

Like, literally the only change I know I'd like to see is "there are some women who" and like... that's hardly an imposition, y'know? Definitely not a "40 page essay" either.

Weirdos end up on Lemmy. Many of us are a splendidly wonderful, if pedantic, sort.

And then there's the weirdos that... aren't that. The ones who never built social skills or the ability to look at the world from beyond their own limited experiences. The ones who extrapolate with reckless abandon, usually in the traditional directions of punching down.

I'm sorry if they or someone they know got baby-trapped, but that is DEFINITELY not the usual nor should it be phrased like it is.

Oof. Yeah they'll get ya like that. I'm certainly not immune.

So, I gave this a cursory read.

The discussion of essentialism mostly makes sense, if a few weird red flags scattered throughout. But I was curious at what point it would be turned into, as promised in the intro, that essentialism is a fundamental flaw of "wokeism", and apparently specifically Critical Race Theory.

And uh. That connection was poorly made, in my humble opinion. It's a lot of philosophical history and bluster to then just sort of... miss the point and mischaracterize the quotes being put on the table.

My apologies, I would be more specific and pointed in my critique here, but I'm on mobile and I usually need a better setup (e.g. on PC) to lay out these thoughts with more precision.

Oh yeah I first saw that on a miniminuteman YouTube short. At first I thought, no way, then he played the clip in context. And uh. Yeah. Woof. That's a Nazi salute alright.

As an aging anime fan... I tend to agree with Miyazaki's take that anime is made by weird people for weird people.

Sometimes being a bit of an outcast gives you perspective and you take that and make someone great.

Sometimes it turns you into an incel who creates characters that totally aren't pedophile bait, no sir, they're 2000 years old! They just so happen to have the body of an 8 yr old.

The conservative anti-woke scum of the Internet who love anime can't tell the difference between the two. It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.

I think I'd put it this way - I like adventuring, exploring, and finding my way through an immersive world. I don't like when I can't seem to stumble into the exact right clue or secret passage or interactable and waste up to possibly hours scouring the same locations over and over.

That said, metroidvanias are my favorite videogame genre. I just had to accept that it's okay to look up a guide or wiki before I get fully tilted.

You misunderstand. This IS Trump's chosen stooge. FTC Chairman Carr.

He's complaining about tech companies "censoring" conservatives for "speaking their minds", aka being hateful bigots and spreading misinformation during a public health crisis.

I'm unfamiliar with the context for most of these. Plenty don't look like Nazi salutes. To me, anyway.

But literally every word that has slithered out of that moldy potato's mouth for the last two decades is all you need to know he's a white supremacist.

While I get the sentiment, these are the opinions of economists. I don't think they have any idea what to do to actually stop fascists.

I think at best, reporters would be able to interview anti-fascists for what we should do. I just doubt they have a stable of anti-fascists to call on for interviews.

I'm not entirely sure who they would call upon. So I can't make any real recommendations, either.

Honestly, same. Mastodon is fine if you like the Twitter format, but I never did. Lemmy works for me, largely cuz Reddit also worked for me, until the API debacle.

At that point, wouldn't making an OnlyFans be easier and more likely to attract paying customers?

Well, I think this is twice in the same thread where my intuition was considerably off base. Lesson learned, I suppose.

Just read that, and it says they've only issued 453 million numbers so far. Huh. I really thought it would've been a lot more than that.

We have 335 million people in this country literally right now. I don't think "350 million born since 1933" makes sense. There gotta be a lot of churn just from early deaths alone.

Edit: number fixin