Thank you for letting me know that you can be safely blocked without me ever missing anything important. Have a good one!

Yah they already have inherited wealth and privilege, will it make ANY difference for the rest of us if their kids don’t get the diseases that they can afford to treat anyway?

Lets say they do make ubermensch super-babies and create peak physical perfection… it will take generations before that creates enough of a class-divide that it will be noticable and by then, enough of them will have fucked around and bred with the common-folk that the edges of that divide are also going to get fuzzier and fuzzier. The world is full of rich people who mingle everywhere and are allowed to impregnate who they want and nobody cares.

The only way you get the science-fiction dystopia with beautiful rich monsters with super powers versus the plucky gang of resistance fighters who are rough around the edges but have hearts of gold, is if you separate the wealthy elite out and make them live on Mars or something.

Everyone getting a Russian paycheck is becoming visible right now.

Trump had a falling-out with Russia, Russia wants the US out of Israel, so you will notice that every single right-wing pundit who is suddenly screaming about government overreach are also the same ones who have been saying that the US shouldn’t get involved in Israel.

Seriously, it’s like a line-item list. Owens, Shapiro, Carlson, MTG and whatever other assorted midwits who have spoken out against US involvement in the middle-east, same ones who have had the most glowing praise for Russia or Putin.

Russia wants the middle-east via Iran and they don’t like Trump anymore because he’s too hard to manage and will likely die soon, so the window for shaping policy is rapidly running out.

(It’s not going to get better when Trump dies.)

edit: save your insane replies, I don’t care if it hurts your mental health to learn that the world might be more complicated than you think and there is no real binary of “good guys and bad guys” and absolutely everyone is a bad guy.

Not the world, don’t get sucked into the same media black-hole that made people think they needed to vote for Trump twice.

There are many, many places who would welcome you and protect you no matter your identity or ethnicity or background, but those places are certainly not going to be advertised. Might be a good time to start looking into expatriation.

Nobody cares, there is no law and people don’t listen to rhetoric anymore.

What American middle-class wants versus what they’re willing to actually DO about it might as well be on opposite sides of the solar system.

Sites like this have the most informed people with the most thought-out positions and understand what’s at stake and most people here still aren’t willing to organize or mobilize or even ally with people slightly less left of themselves.

Most people are still too comfortable, too poor, too scared, struggling too hard or too caught up in their own lives to want to break anything or rock the boat. Until it’s too late.

Literally exactly it.

But don’t worry, we have people ALL over Lemmy still shouting about the Epstein files, so I’m sure we’ll all be just fine.

I guess this solves the lack of immigrant workers for the fields.

See you all out on the cornfields fellow terrorists.

You are completely wrong. Antifa always exists.

IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER.

This is not about ideology or group structure, this is a political tool so that they can label any person, group, website (like this one) who opposes the administration as “antifa” and then lock everyone up and either ship them off to Guantanamo or put them to work as slave-labor to replace the migrants.

There is no law, there is no check or balance system anymore. We are going to lose everything including our freedoms just by talking about it if we don’t mobilize as a whole country, even if it means doing uncomfortable things and uniting with people who don’t share our every ideal… and this is where I know we’re already lost.

You’re all too entitled, too comfortable, to scared. Every negative, child-like emotion is what led us to this point without opposition.

Are they tired of all the winning yet?

They are fucking celebrating in the streets. I am getting so sick of leftists feeling smug about any of this. There is no justice, we are not uniting for any actual resistance movement, we can’t even agree on what issues are important to fight and the average liberal is too comfortable still to do anything.

The farmers will get yet another bailout/bribe to keep quiet, it won’t impact people broadly, it will fall off the news cycle as they go on to strip away more rights from people and continue to build a fascist empire before leaving the nation a dying husk after all wealth is extracted.

By then, most people will have grown up in that world or forgotten what our country could have been and it will be normal life, as the handful of other nations who resisted fascism soar ahead. The experiment is over, it had a good run.

I mean, there’s like thirty kids on Lemmy every post who keep spamming about the Epstein files, so surely we’ll be fine 🙄

Don’t be ignorant, they can label any opposition groups they don’t like as “antifa” and then send them all to Guantanamo, PLEASE I BEG OF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING.

They have bred a nation of children and adults with child-minds who think that by having one single moral position, that it protects them and shields them from danger or that it just takes sticking to one issue and then you’re “doing your part.”

We’re cooked. We have no opposition, we have a million splinter groups of so-called leftists who can’t figure out how to prioritize problems and still think there’s such thing as “law.”

Getting people to cry about Epstein is the distraction from the much bigger issue we’re facing right now.

It’s deliberate. They want us to bicker about it, they want you to reply to me about injustice and evidence and how we can’t let pedophiles get away with this and that, etc. and the rule of law.

So that I will argue with you about what the bigger problem is, and we go back and forth until nuance is lost and we end up with hardline positions against each other.

DON’T YOU GET WHAT THEY’RE DOING JESUS FUCK IT’S RIGHT INF RONTY OF YOIUREPSIUTYPRIEHGROPIGHRGHIO I HAVE NEVER WANTED TO SLAP SO MANY PEOPLE SO HARD

What’s coming next is going to make whatever injustice we felt about Epstein feel forgotten, we are LOSING THE COUNTRY. It’s a bigger deal, if there’s anyone left out there who cares in a non-performative way, it’s probably time to start thinking about actual movement and action.

Username checks out. Say hi to your FBI agent, mine says “sup.”

The groyper narrative might have actually prevented retaliation and saved lives.

I seriously doubt it, you are doing what most users of these platforms do, which is not looking at the right-wing sites and forums and seeing what their narratives looked like. (Hint: it was very focused and only wavered in the details and it’s STILL solid as fuck because they have strict controls over narratives.)

The only segment of their side who both knew what a groyper was and heard the rumor are not threats to anyone, they’re as chronically online as anyone here and not part of any real movement or action.

I have a lot of hate in my inbox for telling people that latching onto the groyper narrative was the equivalent of the right claiming the shooter is trans. They sure are quiet lately.

You dumbasses out there just want distance from someone you don’t want representing you.

BE INTELLECTUALLY HONEST YOU FUCKING CHILDREN.

We don’t win by being as deluded as the WWE spectacle chuds who don’t think and just want sides and teams and fighting for territory.

The situation is so, so much worse than a relatively easy-to-define divide between “smart people and stupid people.” If it was just a segment of the population who are stupid on some quantifiable level, we could work with that, we could work on outreach and education and compensation by making issues easier to understand and so on.

But it’s not just stupidity, there is a larger, society-wide phenomenon that is plaguing the world right now, which is the systemic suppression of thought.

This is a very unpopular fact when I post it, but it remains true: the last three federal elections we held in the US had the highest voter turnout in American history. It wasn’t a matter of people not caring or staying home, the issue shown in exit polling is that most voters had no idea what the candidates represented and felt basically like it was a coin-flip, and mostly went with their “gut” and said they had concerns about grocery prices that seemed to go up under Biden and Harris didn’t make them feel confident enough that she would do things different from Biden, and that Trump seemed to at least promise things. Many Americans haven’t paid solid attention to politics since.

So the picture is this: people who work 6 days a week, have no time or energy to read forums or browse for facts are just pulled along by facebook posts and ignore politics broadly to stay submerged in a lifestyle that simultaneously overworks us, and provides us with so many comforts that we’re not incentivized to exercise thinking skills or be curious about anything broadly. Work, scroll, work, scroll… how many of you right now are on Lemmy on work-hours looking for things to keep your brain distracted? Imagine that but across hundreds of millions of people on their phones endlessly scrolling through youtube shorts, ads, clickbait headlines, bad science stories, drama and hype around insignificant bullshit and so on.

Even if you’re not leaning one direction or another politically, you’re going to scroll past a thousand memes of both political parties saying absurd things about each other that you don’t feel connected with at all, because at the end of the day, no matter what they read about Epstein or Palestine or tariffs or “HE SAID WHAT” headlines, people are still just trying to not feel anything while they grind through the day so they can order a cab for their burrito later, and only really care about what that burrito is going to cost tomorrow… and I promise, Big Burrito has worked out exactly how high they can raise prices and how slowly they can do it before people start to feel uncomfortable.

It’s not an accident you always have only just enough money to make your ends meet. This is all by design. They made a population of cattle and they milk us daily and keep us drugged and placated.

The way Reddit does is abusive.

Yes, but counterpoint: it was also petty and satisfying as fuuuuck hammering someone with your last point and then blocking them so that after they write up their long-ass reply outlining why eugenics is the true path to a glorious white future, they end up getting an error message.

Yah, it was very bad for actual discourse, but that ship has sailed. people don’t care about debate and discourse anymore, on almost every social media site people post things as stand-alone displays to viewers for points, never engaging with each other unless there’s a contentious point that can be leveraged for up-arrows and thumbs.

We have to get back to talking to each other in real life and stop pretending having introversion or social anxiety is anything but an obstacle to community and a better world