I feel this
I’m on mobile, could someone make this a square comic so I can share it? I don’t know how
Social media was probably the best thing to ever happen for fascists. Because everyone’s online and not out there actually doing something about it.
And right now we mostly have clowns (Zuck, Musk) at the helms of, let’s call them what they are, megapropagandamachines. Imagine what equally evil but much smarter players could do.
Like, say, Putin? I honestly have to wonder how much the rise of fascism over the last couple decades owes to him.
It’s almost like we’re watching a historical event where a large democratic nation is quickly turning into an oligarchal dictatorship. Almost like we’re dealing with the consequences of anti intellectualism.
Also just because you don’t live in America during all this doesn’t mean your country is immune to right wing influence.
Dude, here in Europe half the nations are already beholden to some extreme right faction, and the other half are flirting with it.
Our situation is honestly just a hair better and could deteriorate very rapidly.
Like, for example, if Putin makes his move against the Baltics. If that happens we’re equally megafucked.
It was oligarch for a while now.
I mean yeah but not to the point of openly ripping the govt apart.
Why can’t the president be boring? So he/she creates no big news. Trump just change his mind every day and lie…
The perma stun proceeds
We shall stop being anxious, and start to be outraged. Organize, fight back, even at small scale
seriously. if your answer is to jump off a building, then fuck you. you were never an ally. you shirked your duty as a human and would have been a liability anyway. cowards are just as bad as the sociopaths they enable.
Sure…well the rest of the world is cheering you on. Go you guys.
The US is so intertwined with global politics and economy (e.g. financial markets, digital services, …) that it’s not just THEIR problem. If they drift further into fashism, oligarchy and right authoritarianism, sooner than later there will be a point where most of the world will be fucked in the short and possibly in the long term.
We need to fight this fight from our side as well, otherwise we all will go down. Our countries need to start pushing back against it and WE need to push our countries to do so. Write letters, go on protests, vote! Otherwise we might miss our window of opportunity to bring this spiral of destruction to a halt.
Of course it’s not just their problem, I just find it a little weak sauce for American’s to start motioning slowly towards a thoughts and prays approach.
They were told what they were going to get plain and simple, voted for it and now sit and watch as their own governmental system falls into decay. It isn’t a question of the rest of the world in years to come but the reaction of a current petridish that could spill into other countries. I hope all the best to all who type on forums, write letters and make signs. Good luck but maybe the pens should be discarded.
The funny thing is, I have Lemmy filtering out all posts with the word Trump in it, but it failed to get this one, the one complaining about too many people talking about Trump!
I bet people said the same thing about Hitler both before and after he died. Awful people are typically quite often talked about.
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks. No more hard questions. No people planning positive rights legislation. Nothing but trump. The status quo is safe while he sucks all the air out of every public forum and media.
Trump is the best thing to ever happen to news networks
Or to single-letter social network sites.
Everything… EVERYTHING… related to the orange parasite or any of its’ bootlicking minions, I downvote without looking and move on.
Between November and now, I worked pretty diligently to create a wall around me to avoid these topics. Unfollowing, blocking, filtering.
Once the inauguration happened, I discovered that the concrete I used was faulty and full of holes. The black, fetid water of these lunatics seeped in from all directions.
Tech news, cultural news, arts, all possible other topics that I thought were safe within the walls I built are now covered with sludge.
I so tired of this shit. How did we let this happen?
Probably because the impact is bigger now and affecting a lot of the things you mentioned. That’s what happens when they get power I guess rather than just talk. I’ve been doing my best to avoid it as well though, it also makes me feel so negative. Good luck to you in this crazy world.
I’m in the same spot. Even made a Lemmy account just so I can block communities. Then I go to technology/linux/memes communities and guess what? It’s american politics all over. And don’t even get me started on Reddit, at that point subreddits don’t even matter anymore. Even on the subreddit related to my own country in eastern Europe, every day I see a ton of pointless “Trump news”. And mods justification is always “it’s TOTALLY related to our country because US politics impacts the entire world”. Like, what’s the point anymore? We might as well talk about Trump and Musk in the plants or lego community.
[Describes working very hard to ignore problem]
How did it happen?
It can’t be ignored forever.
Dude, I was up on the news and very diligent in many things.
You don’t know where I live, you don’t know what I’ve done up to November, nor where I’ve worked.
I spent literally the last few months of my entire fucking life trying to shut out this shit so it doesn’t tank my mental health to a degree that would likely kill me.
So please, spare me your fucking judgment.
No
I’ve been having this problem since 2016.
No matter how many filters you throw at it, there’s always images, videos, and people self-censoring to get around them.
It’s infected everyone and everything, like a virus.
Searching for a way out. I’m sure there’s somewhere safe out there…
Honestly I’m surprised that “You won’t have to hear about Trump again” wasn’t motivation enough for people to get to the polls
This was 100% one of the most shocking things about all of this.
Ironically, for all that I’m sick of hearing about AI AI AI AI AI AI AI everywhere, maybe a really good prompt could plug the few remaining holes…
This
Of all the shit that comes with trump, this is the worst thing. For the next 4 years I cannot have a single fucking day without trump. It’s going to be trump left, trump right, trump before, trump after, there is no escaping it. 4 years of 90% of the news being trump bullshit. kill me now.
Even in Canada 50% of news is about Trump
And the other 10% is Elon
Honestly, I think that’s the top reason he went into politics. Narcissists need everyone to pay attention to them
That’s a pretty interesting observation, i never considered that.
I think that is partially true
Wether by design (probably) or accident, the cheeto takes all the headlines and there is no space left for the actual crimes they’re committing, like making sure the rich get richer by tax cuts, the tarrif thing, etc.
I think a lot of it is just designed to ensure people aren’t paying attention to what really matters, a magicians trick if you will
Less of a magicians trick and more like that time you were 2 and dad took your nose. Some fuckers still out there everyday looking for their damn nose.
Unfortunately, no matter how the rest of the next four years go, I fear we’ll be hearing “Trump-era” for the rest of our lives.
If that’s the worst thing, then you are very privileged.
Or you aren’t American
Right, because only America will be affected by all this, just like how only Germany was affected by the Holocaust.
Which reminds me, the worst thing about that Hitler fellow is how I have to keep hearing about him.
If you genuinely think there is going to be a holocaust you should probably be planning assassination of government officials rather than complaining online.
America is the ONLY nation in the world 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
The worst thing? The audacity.
Oh shut up already with your “privilege”. That political correctness has been a huge reason for many people to vote for orange cheeto to begin with.
I’m just an ordinary guy living an ordinary life, I don’t need some armchair hero twat telling me that I’m privileged
“The worst thing about someone harming others and/or breaking laws is how often I have to hear about it.”
“What do you mean I’m only able to say that because I’m not directly affected by it? I’M just trying to go about my day— calling my attitude short sighted is EXACTLY why these bad things are happening”
Holy fuck lol
JFC
You understand what a hyperbole is?
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.
I literally overstated it because it sucks so much having to hear trump all day, every day. Yes, it is little in comparison to actually having to suffer his consequences, but that was obvious, no?
You’re privileged.
I sure wish people would stop choosing the end of the fucking country over a little word ick.
Pathetic
Privileged and racist AND every type of phobic!
Thanks for making the point!
I say that your political correctness is causing harm and you -with zero evidence- just call me racist and every type of phobic. You couldn’t make the point better if you tried.
You have no idea who I am, what I do, what my good sides are, what my bad sides are. If you’d know me, you’d know that calling me racist is hilariously funny, same as the *phobic, really.
I’m guessing you don’t like people who actually try to make the world a better place, it would mean you can’t get away with your virtue signalling and have to actually get off your ass and do something?
You are the problem here, you and your attitude is in large part responsible for the world we live in. Be better.
I think that comment was sarcasm
That probably called for a /s… that one is kind of deserved honestly
If it was /s then I missed it yeah, and in that case, never mind :)
Even after, there’s tons to undo and process for the history books.
When he got elected I added filters to my Lemmy app… Trump, Elon, musk, Tesla.
Half my front page was still full of Tusk.
Everyone’s talking and nobody’s doing anything.
I bet if Trump could take over earth by imprinting himself over people like Agent Smith, he would.
