my bad joke was that this reads "non-white AND non-cis AND non-straight" rather than "non-white OR non-cis OR non-straight" even though we all know the latter is how it typically comes across in practice.
Who needs housing, medicare, tourism, foreign relations, chips, rare earths, democracy, independent media, uncensored internet, demilitarized police, social security, general education, affordable higher education, a clean environment, worker's rights, women's rights, sexual freedom, separations of powers, separation of church and state and probably a couple dozen other things anyway?
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you're scared of a black person. Don't forget take them to school to get revenge.
The people with the guns feel like discrimination is when people ostracize them for being bigoted as fuck.
The people without the guns have been baked mentally into not only thinking violence is not the answer, but strikes, civil disobedience, or even mentioning politics """at the wrong time""" are not answers as well.
This will go to its logical conclusion of trump having absolute control, no one fighting back, people ending up in death camps, and all that will matter to the rest of us at that point is whether or not we can convince the US to keep it within their borders (they won't, and Im not sure what happens there, but I am afraid).
Fascism requires an out group, and once they've killed or subjugated all their black and brown people (a huuuge chunk of their population), they'll find some other group to attack.
I think a huge part of the problem is that us, marginalized groups, we can't fucking agree to band together. LGBTQ2S+ will have crazy things like ostracizing bisexuals, or like being prejudice towards black people. Black people return the favour as they have Latino people who are prejudiced against them and other latino people. Heck there are various groups of black people who are prejudiced against other groups of black people (Though I'd do black people a disservice to leave out that they are by far the group who voted most strongly against trump).
When you look at crazy shit like the numbers of Cubans who support trump, its because just like all of his other voters, their single voter issue is that they hate some other demographic of people more than they care about any other subject. That is how they were able to ignore the red flags.
Until marginalized people realize that the strength they have in numbers can indeed not find some magical compromise that excludes the specific group of people they hate, there is no way they'll have any noteworthy resistance, and this is as the regime consolidates more power and removes more and more of them from their ranks such that they won't be sabotaged from within.
The people threatening the revolution with their gun in hand for government overreach have collectively decided that they like this, actually. Go figure.
Yeah turns out they always only really meant if the Democrats did it for some reason, even though y’know, far less likely an outcome over the right wing lunatics.
I mean there are literally people getting disappeared off the streets, and they think standing up to them means recording the person getting brutalized and hauled off to who knows where to have who knows what done to them.
Every news USA! Why bother reading your local news, when everything is America stubbing itself?
Join us on CNN, fox news, ABC News and the internet!!!!
You might as well buy a gun and move to USA!
It scares the shit out of me. Until mass adoption of the Internet started showing me behind the curtain, America seemed good. Like it felt like the capital city of the world.
I know thats purely because they had Hollywood and exported culture, and like people on social media they only show the good parts, but still. Seeing what it is now either means it was never really good, or the good times are now over. Either way its taken a massive toll on my overall optimism levels.
As an American, since I was a teenager, I always thought Canada or the Scandinavian countries would be better places to live (mostly due to cannabis laws and healthcare). I grew up in rural US, so was aware of high levels of bigotry and poverty, but yeah, it seems to be getting worse. Rights have been getting eroded since W (except LGBT rights, until MAGA). The economy, for the working class, has been in decline since I've been alive. We seem to be going through a corpo-fascist self-coup now, so it's definitely worse. In terms of foreign meddling, I don't think much has changed since I've been alive until this Trump term. Disregarding LBGT acceptance, I think the late 90s were peak. Regarding WASP men, I think the 50s may have been the peak. The country was built on genocide and slavery in many uniquely brutal ways, so don't think it was really "great" until the mid 1900s, but not even sure it was comparatively great to other peer countries back then, in anything other than having a large economy and plentiful resources to be exploited.
I traveled to every state in the US save Alaska, multiple times. I lived in the forests and public lands, sometimes going days or weeks without seeing civilization.
America, the land, is a beautiful and majestic place. It is full of magic and incredible, ancient power.
America, the people occupying the land, is a lie. Most of it is dusty, decrepit, and feels awful. The cities are the epicenter of this horrible feeling.
Some parts of some cities feels pretty good. Large dog parks, for instance, are almost universally good feeling. From New Mexico to Oregon, to Florida and to Pennsylvania, the Dog Parks were where I went to grab some good vibes in larger places. But besides that, I always had a timer before the cities got too awful feeling before I had to retreat back into the public lands.
My recommendation to you is this: connect with those lands. They were there before you and will remain after. They are a gift nearly no American properly taps in to, and it shows. That is where the spirit lives. You have an incredible treasure all around you, connect with it, it is waiting for you. The good times have just begun if you learn to connect with it.
Don't give in to the manufactured fear. The world is much bigger than this, and the universe is so much larger than it, it becomes a joke. You are part of that larger universe.
You speak from privilege to think there were good times in America. If you're a minority, you knew that was bullshit. If you knew US History, then everything is a facade.
What you see online/in news now is a caricature of the worst of America. Normal people here aren't chronically online, or worse, professional influencers, and algorithmic scams/busted parties largely made them delusional voters.
That being said, I'm a U.S. southerner and I have seen some shit you wouldn't believe. Like shit too dramatic for television. Some is finally out in the open.
Germans were normal people who turned a blind eye to concentration camps as they continued on with their lives.
Just like how the majority of Americans turn a blind eye to the modern Gestapo rounding up anyone who is brown, and sending them off without due process.
I mean, Americans have turned blind eyes to roiling problems for decades.
What feels different is the curtain is pulled back now, at least for the rest of the world and many folks here, because everything turned into Idiocracy.
Americans may not be doing anything about it, but I also have a lot of family that’s sorta realizing “Oh… Reconstruction failed really hard, didn’t it?” Or “Oh… we’re a surveillance state.” And are looking back on lives and seeing some nasty shit (like bigoted aunts/uncles and worse) for what it was.
Even if living so far away, and ever since January nearly everyone is seeing how everyday that chudfucker and his cult are wrecking that country from the inside out, and really a few are very happy about it, awaiting for that country to implode.
It makes me so sad man. I’m so poor and have no healthcare and I have no idea what to do. I can’t even walk most days because of my crippling disability and I still go to protests but it’s not enough. I live in a car — truly the American dream.
I was fortunate enough to travel outside the country recently.
Someone local asked us WTF is going on in America, and got... silence from our group, which was divided between Fox News boomers and millennials like me.
I think that's quite emblematic. We can't even talk about this shit in person without blowing up.
And being "treated" to one of the ugliest grossest faces known to humanity every time we get a notification that the Pedo in Chief has done a new atrocity...
Since November, that's when the electorate decided to stab itself in the chest with a rusty knife, these are the spasms of non-vaccinated tetanus, also with signs of gangrene.
72 Comments
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 113 pts · 307d
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 307d
It's always 'they' isn't it? Someone should stop this they...
msage@programming.dev · 6 pts · 306d
Yeah, fuck that pronoun!
/s
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
Andre should be labeled republicans, because they fuck shit up every single time they get power.
GorGor@startrek.website · 83 pts · 307d
how it feels
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 80 pts · 307d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 307d
"Damn non-white non-cis non-straights!"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
well at least the white transbians aren't catching it for this
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 306d
If they're transbian, they're non-cis, so they're still included.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
my bad joke was that this reads "non-white AND non-cis AND non-straight" rather than "non-white OR non-cis OR non-straight" even though we all know the latter is how it typically comes across in practice.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 307d
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 307d
Who needs housing, medicare, tourism, foreign relations, chips, rare earths, democracy, independent media, uncensored internet, demilitarized police, social security, general education, affordable higher education, a clean environment, worker's rights, women's rights, sexual freedom, separations of powers, separation of church and state and probably a couple dozen other things anyway?
BurgerBaron@piefed.social · 18 pts · 306d
Who needs civilisation?
Basically.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 306d
A small price to pay for a big ridiculous golden ballroom.
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
A ballroom fit for a queen.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 307d
When's the revolution you all needed guns for?
khaleer@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 306d
They need them to yap about freedom
tempest@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 306d
That, and to pull them out during road rage incidents. Also pull them out when you're scared of a black person. Don't forget take them to school to get revenge.
They need them for a lot of reasons.
Karjalan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
Except for stopping tyranny or having a justified revolution
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
And for killing kids who accidentally ring the wrong doorbell.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 306d
Never.
The people with the guns feel like discrimination is when people ostracize them for being bigoted as fuck.
The people without the guns have been baked mentally into not only thinking violence is not the answer, but strikes, civil disobedience, or even mentioning politics """at the wrong time""" are not answers as well.
This will go to its logical conclusion of trump having absolute control, no one fighting back, people ending up in death camps, and all that will matter to the rest of us at that point is whether or not we can convince the US to keep it within their borders (they won't, and Im not sure what happens there, but I am afraid).
Fascism requires an out group, and once they've killed or subjugated all their black and brown people (a huuuge chunk of their population), they'll find some other group to attack.
I think a huge part of the problem is that us, marginalized groups, we can't fucking agree to band together. LGBTQ2S+ will have crazy things like ostracizing bisexuals, or like being prejudice towards black people. Black people return the favour as they have Latino people who are prejudiced against them and other latino people. Heck there are various groups of black people who are prejudiced against other groups of black people (Though I'd do black people a disservice to leave out that they are by far the group who voted most strongly against trump).
When you look at crazy shit like the numbers of Cubans who support trump, its because just like all of his other voters, their single voter issue is that they hate some other demographic of people more than they care about any other subject. That is how they were able to ignore the red flags.
Until marginalized people realize that the strength they have in numbers can indeed not find some magical compromise that excludes the specific group of people they hate, there is no way they'll have any noteworthy resistance, and this is as the regime consolidates more power and removes more and more of them from their ranks such that they won't be sabotaged from within.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 306d
So no revolution then?
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
The people threatening the revolution with their gun in hand for government overreach have collectively decided that they like this, actually. Go figure.
Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 306d
Yeah turns out they always only really meant if the Democrats did it for some reason, even though y’know, far less likely an outcome over the right wing lunatics.
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
75% of Americans are overweight or obese. Over 40% are obese. They will never revolt.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d
Turns out stupid fat Americans was a more poignant criticism than anyone expected.
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
The Germans went along with fascism without a fight, I have zero faith in Americans.
Credibly_Human@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
Oh absolutely. No hope at all.
I mean there are literally people getting disappeared off the streets, and they think standing up to them means recording the person getting brutalized and hauled off to who knows where to have who knows what done to them.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
"I'm doing my part!" They say with a smile as somebody gets got by the gestapo.
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
They think the nazis were defeated with peaceful protests.
WALLACE@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 305d
Hey that's not all they do!
About once a month on a Saturday afternoon they spend an hour or two holding up protest signs before going home for a self-congratulatory wank.
zd9@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 307d
also from the inside looking in
fartographer@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 307d
I'll show me!!!
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 305d
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 306d
Right....who used the monkey's paw to wish that politics should not be boring anymore?
WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 306d
The 24-hour news cycle so they could have a reason to have 24-hour "news."
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
Ugh
roserose56@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 306d
Every news USA! Why bother reading your local news, when everything is America stubbing itself? Join us on CNN, fox news, ABC News and the internet!!!! You might as well buy a gun and move to USA!
yakko@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 306d
Honestly if you're sane enough to find that funny, asterisk, for the right reasons, they could use more like you
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 305d
It scares the shit out of me. Until mass adoption of the Internet started showing me behind the curtain, America seemed good. Like it felt like the capital city of the world.
I know thats purely because they had Hollywood and exported culture, and like people on social media they only show the good parts, but still. Seeing what it is now either means it was never really good, or the good times are now over. Either way its taken a massive toll on my overall optimism levels.
sobchak@programming.dev · 7 pts · 305d
As an American, since I was a teenager, I always thought Canada or the Scandinavian countries would be better places to live (mostly due to cannabis laws and healthcare). I grew up in rural US, so was aware of high levels of bigotry and poverty, but yeah, it seems to be getting worse. Rights have been getting eroded since W (except LGBT rights, until MAGA). The economy, for the working class, has been in decline since I've been alive. We seem to be going through a corpo-fascist self-coup now, so it's definitely worse. In terms of foreign meddling, I don't think much has changed since I've been alive until this Trump term. Disregarding LBGT acceptance, I think the late 90s were peak. Regarding WASP men, I think the 50s may have been the peak. The country was built on genocide and slavery in many uniquely brutal ways, so don't think it was really "great" until the mid 1900s, but not even sure it was comparatively great to other peer countries back then, in anything other than having a large economy and plentiful resources to be exploited.
survirtual@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
I traveled to every state in the US save Alaska, multiple times. I lived in the forests and public lands, sometimes going days or weeks without seeing civilization.
America, the land, is a beautiful and majestic place. It is full of magic and incredible, ancient power.
America, the people occupying the land, is a lie. Most of it is dusty, decrepit, and feels awful. The cities are the epicenter of this horrible feeling.
Some parts of some cities feels pretty good. Large dog parks, for instance, are almost universally good feeling. From New Mexico to Oregon, to Florida and to Pennsylvania, the Dog Parks were where I went to grab some good vibes in larger places. But besides that, I always had a timer before the cities got too awful feeling before I had to retreat back into the public lands.
My recommendation to you is this: connect with those lands. They were there before you and will remain after. They are a gift nearly no American properly taps in to, and it shows. That is where the spirit lives. You have an incredible treasure all around you, connect with it, it is waiting for you. The good times have just begun if you learn to connect with it.
Don't give in to the manufactured fear. The world is much bigger than this, and the universe is so much larger than it, it becomes a joke. You are part of that larger universe.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 304d
Into the Wild meets Captain Fantastic?
survirtual@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 304d
Just another life among many.
DNS@discuss.online · 3 pts · 305d
You speak from privilege to think there were good times in America. If you're a minority, you knew that was bullshit. If you knew US History, then everything is a facade.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 305d
What you see online/in news now is a caricature of the worst of America. Normal people here aren't chronically online, or worse, professional influencers, and algorithmic scams/busted parties largely made them delusional voters.
That being said, I'm a U.S. southerner and I have seen some shit you wouldn't believe. Like shit too dramatic for television. Some is finally out in the open.
DNS@discuss.online · 5 pts · 305d
Germans were normal people who turned a blind eye to concentration camps as they continued on with their lives.
Just like how the majority of Americans turn a blind eye to the modern Gestapo rounding up anyone who is brown, and sending them off without due process.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
I mean, Americans have turned blind eyes to roiling problems for decades.
What feels different is the curtain is pulled back now, at least for the rest of the world and many folks here, because everything turned into Idiocracy.
Americans may not be doing anything about it, but I also have a lot of family that’s sorta realizing “Oh… Reconstruction failed really hard, didn’t it?” Or “Oh… we’re a surveillance state.” And are looking back on lives and seeing some nasty shit (like bigoted aunts/uncles and worse) for what it was.
0x0@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 304d
Yes.
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 305d
🤪 I’ve read opium level the first time
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 306d
Even if living so far away, and ever since January nearly everyone is seeing how everyday that chudfucker and his cult are wrecking that country from the inside out, and really a few are very happy about it, awaiting for that country to implode.
CanadiaDry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 305d
It makes me so sad man. I’m so poor and have no healthcare and I have no idea what to do. I can’t even walk most days because of my crippling disability and I still go to protests but it’s not enough. I live in a car — truly the American dream.
Objection@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 306d
Makes more sense when you look at it from the perspective of class.
mad_lentil@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 306d
Yeah, it's a mistake to write it off as recklessness. Some very few people will materially benefit from this chaos.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
Please send help.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 305d
I was fortunate enough to travel outside the country recently.
Someone local asked us WTF is going on in America, and got... silence from our group, which was divided between Fox News boomers and millennials like me.
I think that's quite emblematic. We can't even talk about this shit in person without blowing up.
floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 307d
Accurate on many levels
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 306d
And being "treated" to one of the ugliest grossest faces known to humanity every time we get a notification that the Pedo in Chief has done a new atrocity...
iamdisappoint@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 306d
Double seppuku! Go big or go home! Murica!
Emerald@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
I thought that was America jorkin' it at first glance.
It was stabbing
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 307d
Where will the madness end?
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
...and a massive fucking dumpster fire.
niktemadur@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
Since November, that's when the electorate decided to stab itself in the chest with a rusty knife, these are the spasms of non-vaccinated tetanus, also with signs of gangrene.
salty_chief@lemmy.world · -15 pts · 307d
Well there is the problem “news”.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 28 pts · 307d
The problem is events being reported on?
marcos@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 307d
The GP is living in a more normal time when the media amplified disasters to fill the available time.
They'll eventually come to 2025, then the media summarizes disasters to fill the available time.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 306d
I read it as, the media helped get Trump elected in 2016 because it benefitted them financially. Maybe i'm wrong.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 306d
They definitely did do that. You're not wrong there.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 306d
I meant maybe i'm wrong in my understanding of your writing. My bad.
reddifuge@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 306d
Lots of democrats helped trump get elected too. Look at how rich some of them got. Some even got elected democratic then switched parties.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 306d
Lol
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 307d
Ignorance is bliss, eh?