• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    34
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    Children being slaughtered at school and the degenerates telling us to just accept it too. The overlords have to learn to accept it when it happens to them in increasing numbers too

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    25
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    What happens to a dream deferred?

      Does it dry up
      like a raisin in the sun?
      Or fester like a sore—
      And then run?
      Does it stink like rotten meat?
      Or crust and sugar over—
      like a syrupy sweet?
    
      Maybe it just sags
      like a heavy load.
    
      Or does it explode?
    
    • Langston Hughes. 71 years ago
  • @Poach
    link
    English
    232 months ago

    And yet, they (A majority of voters) also elected some of the richest to be head of government. Trump, Vance (Theil), and Musk; just to name a few. The cognitive dissonance is real.

    • @apfelwoiSchoppen
      link
      9
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      Like fuck all of those people, but that’s populism. Crisis breeds crazy populists. Using desperation and fear in a crisis, populists construct bogymen to point a finger at.

      • Fuck spez
        link
        fedilink
        English
        2
        edit-2
        2 months ago

        The only thing that gives me a glimmer of hope at this point other than the thought of a massive shellacking in the midterms (which won’t ultimately matter anyway as the damage will largely be done, but at least a third impeachment would be able to happen for the history books) is the idea that they will fuck things up so badly and for so many people that it will become unambiguously clear by 2028 that this cannot happen ever again. I wish it didn’t have to be that way but I’m afraid it’s the only way real change can take place any time soon. And 4 years feels like a long goddamn time, too.

        Here’s hoping things aren’t so broken by then that we don’t even have a choice in the matter anymore.

        • @apfelwoiSchoppen
          link
          42 months ago

          It is most unfortunate that humans en masse require the need to feel the negative consequences of their actions before gaining the wisdom to avoid them.

          The cycle then repeats.

  • Chev
    link
    102 months ago

    And then people even vote to get it worse

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    52 months ago

    You can only take any/everything you can for so long before you create people with nothing left to lose

  • @RememberTheApollo_
    link
    22 months ago

    When being a “10%-er” is what it takes to have the basics of: a modest home with a mortgage, kids in public schools, a solid retirement you’ve been paying into, a couple paid-off reasonable cars, and some decent away vacations. No substantial debt other than mortgage and maybe a car payment.

    That means ~90% of the country has a hard time reaching this pretty mundane life.

  • @Mango
    link
    12 months ago

    The access to guns is the immune system function for this situation.