Same here. I was honestly worried when I left Reddit. Which worried me even more. Once I moved to lemmy, I still use it, obviously, but I often go a few days between opening it. I’ve found I take my phone out less when I’m sitting, my overall screen time went down to like an hour and change a day, and I don’t miss it.
Some people don’t jibe with certain ways of thinking. End of.
You think with trump and his sycophants and handlers would be willingly parading around their younger, hopeful replacement? “Strongmen” will lie and obfuscate the truth because the lie works. Look how long they’ve managed to get his followers to believe he’s just a virile and Uber healthy, fearless leader. They won’t shove the wet mop with eyes that is JD Vance into the role until they absolutely have no other options. Look all throughout history, these types of fascists have to project strength even when it’s clear they’re old, decrepit and on the edge of death.
It’s the most powerful tool in our arsenal. And it’s just sitting right at our feet. But we just won’t pick it up. I don’t get it.
General strike now.
How much of that is because every single time it’s brought up, without fail, the immediate reaction is “it’ll never happen.”
How much are we self defeating by being convinced by conditioning that collective action just isn’t feasible?
It’s only not feasible because so many people firmly believe it’s not. This is the most powerful tool in the system’s arsenal: our own surety that we will never act.
It’s literally the one and only thing that holds us back
lol “face prison”
I wouldn’t bank on it
Tony Blair?? Why is that asshat’s name back in the zeitgeist?
Lol the day Schumer calls for a general strike I’ll donate all my existing money to his campaign.
Read: never
Listen to the voice, look at the videos, it’s clearly AI
This is all true. But my point is, we have to start somewhere. And politicians are an okay place to start. But they can’t be where we end. They are a small piece of the puzzle. But when we bring defeatism to every single part of the equation, before we try anything in earnest, then no one will ever get anywhere and things will continue to get worse and worse. We need our generations stepping up, and as much as it pains me to say, that includes politicians. We can’t trust them any further than they can be thrown, but they are still a part of the solution that we need.
Have you ever tried suggesting other parts of the solution? Strikes, collective action, mutual aid, etc? Because any time anything more than a weekend march gets suggested, people always, always, always sound a lot like your first comment where they just start listing reasons they can’t work or will be foiled. Why is that? We are conditioned by a lifetime of the system telling us it’s inevitable and everlasting. But it’s not the only way, and we need to start moving toward a different way. That starts somewhere, and if wherever it starts is poo-poo’ed at the first suggestion, then we are beyond fucked. We need momentum, and once it starts, it will seem like it was always going to go that way. So let’s let it start naturally, without the defeatism literally before we even get started righting the ship.
“We have to climb this mountain.”
“But look at that rock, and that stumbling block, and imagine how tired you will get before you can get up there! And look at your shoes, you’re not going to make it in those shoes. You’ll get blisters, and you’ll be sooo thirsty!”
Etc. etc. See my point?
But why is there such this defeatist attitude any time someone remotely not terrible tries to do something? It’s like we’re doing the fascists work for them with talk like this. I get that fuckery happens any time someone kinda different or kinda maybe good (for a politician) steps up, but that can be overcome with more support. When the margins are thin, it’s easy for them to cheat. When they aren’t, it’s fucking not. So let’s stop making the margins tighter with this kind of talk
Oh Jesus. I mean, I’m with you that the Democratic Party is rotten. And I agree no politician will save us. But even a progressive dem is better than anything else we have on offer.
I get it, voting itself is tainted, politics are completely off the rails, dems are nothing but pink republicans…but Jesus. Let us at least get someone who doesn’t have their head so far up corpo’s ass that might be able to put a dent in the way the game is played. I bet you have something to say about mamdani too?
With the right tools, yes. I could vape you.
Fuentes is known for his white supremacist, misogynistic, homophobic and antisemitic views that he promotes on his podcast. Despite those views, he was famously invited, alongside controversial rapper Kanye West, to dinner with President Donald Trump in 2022.
There is no reported evidence that Fuentes was involved in Kirk’s death. Fuentes did ask his followers to pray for Kirk’s soul on Wednesday following his death.
It’s an abdication of duty to not have the added context, when mentioning his homophobia, of that time he accidentally streamed gay porn and then blamed…Hezbollah? If I’m remembering that part correctly? Hilarious, but should also be permanently part of the description of who he is, along with the whole invited to the White House thing.
He also said “liking girls is gay.” Dudes def gay. Didn’t he have a little boyfriend/pet with him everywhere for a while?
Read: I didn’t read the article
I think “NatCons” is a great name for the fascist American right. It’s like they just handed it to us.
“Like, real slow. In a whisper, in a really up close and personal interview. Mmhmm.”
Because simple majority would swing back the other way in no time and there would be little the current majority party could do. Every two years it’s likely to change these days