These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,… whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

  • @bamfic
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    1916 days ago

    Racism and misogyny. That is all it is.

    • @InverseParallax
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      1816 days ago

      Large part of the country was built on that foundation. Shocking how proud of it they are.

    • @Cryophilia
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      816 days ago

      And propaganda. LOTS of propaganda.

    • @[email protected]
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      16 days ago

      That’s not all, probably not even the main one. It’s a major cost of living crisis and impoverishment of average people while companies and the richest get richer. Neither the Ds nor the Rs want to do anything against it, they get their money from there.

      The people kinda understand this. But they’re not intelligent enough to distinguish “actually changing the system” with “just saying they’re gonna change the system”, like Trump does. Trump is always talking about uprooting the deep state and bringing an “average person”(white middle/lower class) perspective to politics, and people just gobble it up and believe it because he’s kinda good at talking with conviction.

      Of course the misogyny and racism is part of it and an extra, but it’s not the main reason at all. For some people it is, of course.

    • @[email protected]
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      316 days ago

      That’s a really black and white way to look at it. These are complex issues. Any attempt to find a simple explanation to them is by definition going to be oversimplifying it massively.