The same people celebrating that Obamacare is gone, and being shocked when Affordable Care Act which they depend on suddenly disappears.
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If i had family like that I'd slash their tires
Is anyone keeping track of how many Americans Musk and Trump have directly made unemployed, even before the effects of economic slowdown kick in?
Employment numbers just came out but of course they're behind the times already.
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Make the government great again?? Why sshould normal people have an interest in that? The government should serve the people and not its own „greatness“...
how disgusting for people to celebrate others misery. makes it really easy to understand who is on your side and who is not though, I've decided enough is enough and began the process of cutting these people out of my lives.
short term, it sucks right now. but I know down the line, I will thank myself for doing this now
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Start insisting that they help pay your bills
And this is why I have no faith in the recovery of this country. After everything that’s happened, these people are cheering on the destruction of the country.
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Trump renamed Denali the mountain but not Denali the park? That seems appropriately half-assed of him.
“It’s really hurtful for the president to insinuate that you don’t exist or that your job consisted of sitting at home doing nothing and cashing the paycheck,” he says. “I’d like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails. He’s the one that goes golfing on the government dime. I don’t even know how to golf.”
Although I don't think much will get through to MAGA people, the hypocrisy is what gives me the most hope. Trump's mind is so unlike his voters' that he doesn't deserve to represent them.
Like, I wake up earlier than my wife. She has back problems, but I like to keep the kitchen nice for her and not remind her of it. So every day I unload the entire dishwasher, carefully putting away every plate, knife, glass without making noise. I don't mean it as a virtue-signal, we all probably do little things like this. I just mean, can you even imagine Trump doing something like that? Imagine him caring about someone other than him that much? Imagine having to live so intentionally and carefully for any reason at all?
That should get through to them, right?
Like people have been saying for nearly a decade now: "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people."
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Lol
I suspect a lot of them wouldn't even be able to understand what you're doing or why. And that might make them slightly uncomfortable, so they'd judge you just in order not to have to think about it.
I’d like to see him sifting through spiny naiad in 120-degree weather looking for parasitic snails.
"Those are made-up words!"
The problem is that’s not the Trump they see. They see a hero story told through YouTube, podcasts, angry Facebook/Twitter posts, MSM, Discords and such. It’s immersive. It’s engrossing/triggering enough to turn on family.
I can’t stop saying it. The root problem is the information environment, and no amount of policy or studying or empathy or signaling or even hardship is going to change squat until that is turned on its head.
And I’m more militant about that now. Big Tech is beyond fixing, it needs to be fucked up.
You are 1000% correct, half the continent lives in an entirely different reality. That's why very visibly and loudly protesting and demonstrating at key. It FORCES the dissent into public view where it would otherwise be hidden.
Anything we can do to fight with their control of the narrative is deeply important.
Protests can be deprioritized and warped too! Heck, people are turning on their own kids, so what’s protest on TV or the street gonna do? It just confirms what people were served.
I really hope there’s a tipping point where people pour out of Big Tech, or maybe a giant hack to spur things on.
part of the real value of ai bots is it keeps the rubes in the big tech media bubbles by giving them "people" to interact with as REAL people exit
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I don’t talk to those relatives anymore. It’s done wonders for my mental health.
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