I still can’t get over the amount of open public support he gets from people in the US. It’s like we are so fucking lazy that we just absorb whatever propaganda is blinking in front of us at the time.

Or maybe that’s what I’m hoping is the case for most people rather than being well-informed true believers.

Yeah exactly. It’s all part of the known existing machinations of the system that the candidate is trying to be a part of. The media will sideline you for corrupt reasons and millions of voters who agree with you will blow you off for dumb reasons.

I expect that US politicians who actually want to serve the public find themselves in the same predicament as voters who want to support good things for humanity.

The two-party situation is not only an emergent property of our voting system, but it is entrenched culturally as well.

So if you want to do good things in a government position, do you take up the label of a coalition that has plenty of shitty members and bad policies, or do you wear your independent badge with honor in obscurity?

Oh and the other party is WAY WAY FUCKING WORSE in every conceivable way and is not an option. Even the worst aspects of your potential party pale in comparison to what those other guys do on those same policies.

And the best part is that those way way fucking worse evil guys consistently get half the votes!

It’s really great to see one of our politicians answer questions as if they were actually a public servant concerned with the good of the country. I mean, obviously.

But it’s equally tragic how unique it is for a politician to answer like that, and how many people in her own party (in addition to 99% of Republicans) will assume it is BS political talking points to suggest that somebody is serving a high profile political position for any reason other than blind personal ambition.

Absolutely.

It’s almost funny, like they are going through a checklist to retcon everything they ever said about their opponents to be projection.

Of course, a lot of it was genuine projection because that’s how they think.

Plus obviously it’s not funny to watch a cult of personality take hold so easily and wreck so much for so many.

When I did my taxes this year it asked if I wanted to open a Trump Account for my kid, so that it would receive any future deposits the government gave out.

It was so disturbing and disgusting to see something that gross in writing in a real-world context.

No fucking thanks.

I could imagine us mounting a huge effort to get the fediverse jet and even have an instance based on the thing. We would always have a bird in the air, so that the fediverse would belong to no nation and would survive any conflicts.

But then somebody would mention how bad flying the plane is for the environment, and calculate that it breaks down to multiple kg of CO2 per post, and we’d all be like “shit, you’re right” and shut it down.

I think there is a real, deep seated conditioned response in a lot of Americans to just assume things will work out and it will be OK in the long run. Basically a form of privilege to not worry about the problems of the world because somebody else will definitely fix it.

I’m a white male american born into conservative culture who grew up in the 80s and 90s , and I definitely had that feeling instilled in my head along the way. For gen x and boomers who spent more of their early years in more of the post-ww2 US dominance, it’s probably worse.

They need to be the victim, but they also believe they (and other white males) are the smartest and best.

That also explains why they are so susceptible to fascist propaganda, as in the enemy is both strong and weak.

Generally speaking, that is often not the reality of it, but that is the perception that conservatives have.

Right wing propaganda media has been projecting the greed and desire for totalitarian control onto their opposition for decades.

One step at a time, man. It’s not exactly a guarantee that prices get back under FOUR dollars a gallon in 2026 first.

Another day, another action by the Trumpstein administration who somehow seems to be reveling in their own untouchable corruption while also plausibly being forced to do so by foreign actors with their kompromat.

Probably just offered to share some cocaine with the hot CO in order to get laid. We’ve all been there.

I have nothing to say in her defense, but I thought “damn that is a high bar to set.”

¿Por qué no los dos?

I heard some of those puppeteers might also have kompromat involving a different appendage of a different person going into a different orifice of puppet trump!

Maybe there should be some amount of accountability for these goons BEFORE their boss has consumed their usefulness and tossed them aside?

The meme got me thinking of what modern “eco-terrorism” could look like. Assuming data centers were involved, we would be following along in the exact opposite of terrified.

But your version seems to fit this timeline better. It feels more uniquely American to imagine armed militias assaulting and razing facilities out of desperation rather than conservation.

Oh shit. This is how we get private corpo-militaries isn’t it?

Maybe this could finally help some people learn how sick you must be to be a billionaire, and how bad of an idea it is to give even more power to such people.

Probably not. But maybe!

What you say is totally rational, which is why many of the people supporting these monsters are doing it for irrational reasons. Things like hate, anger, and bigotry seem to be very effective right now!