The Unconcerned: “Orange man bad”
Me: YES! Orange man VERY bad, glad we were able to dumb it down for you in a way you can understand it.
I’m not worried. I’m just utterly disappointed in the younger generation. Not in the whole typical way you’d expect older generations to be towards the younger ones.
It’s more along the sense of “put down your fucking memes and jokes for abit and realize the reality that’s around you” deal. Because we’re now seeing the Onion practiced in our daily lives, we can’t make the shit up that is actively happening in real time. And it doesn’t affect just me, it affects you too.
We can’t be putting off this shit forever and sit there going “aww, I just hope it gets better” naturally.
Because let’s put it this way, say you don’t vote this general election and Biden wins. Okay, cool, we’ve dodged Trump. But know that in the next 4 years, Biden is not eligible to be re-elected so good on you to no longer see him on the ballot, but you’ll never know who could be next after him and there isn’t a lot of strong favorability for his VP either. Trump for all we know, is likely going to run until he dies, so he’s going to be trying again and again so long as he’s living and so long as his voter base is there to back him.
But even when he dies, god knows what the Republicans will try propping up. We’ve got a bit of a glimpse of that when known fascists like DeSantis tried running for presidency. The only reason him and other candidates has lost is because they can’t touch Trump. But when Trump does die, you know they’ll be back again.
My point is we need to keep Republican interests the fuck away. They’re nothing but destruction. How much evidence do you need before you see that? It’s all fun and games to you with your jokes and memes until you’re on the internet bitching and griping for why you think shit hits the fan or why you’re struggling to make a living.
I’ve come to the conclusion from this thread and others that liberals either don’t believe or can’t comprehend that leftists consider Palestinians to be actual human beings whose lives are inherently valuable. The way they see it, we’re whiny children throwing a fit because we were refused a puppy. I keep seeing people talk about opposition to genocide as “an individual want” or “being upset that you got bread instead of a cake,” and so on, characterizing us as selfishly prioritizing our individual preferences, because in their minds it’s just about us feeling bad when we see dying Palestinians, and not about the Palestinians themselves.
Opposition to genocide is a hard red line and a fundamental moral principle. It’s not a want, it’s not a preference, it is a demand which is absolutely non-negotiable.
I’m never going to be convinced to vote for Biden, but if you actually care about convincing leftists, then you’re shooting yourself in the foot by trivializing the issue. Of course, the most effective way to convince an opponent of genocide to support a politician would be to get the politician to stop supporting genocide, but if you choose to focus you efforts on getting leftists to stop opposing genocide instead, I can’t stop you.
Its called apathy.
Make everyones vote count (mandatory voting) and all of a sudden it matters
Young people? How about Democrat party leadership? If you need certain people to vote for you, then you have to earn their votes! How is this so hard to understand?
I worry Bernie Sanders doesn’t know he’s irrelevant.
I wish less people were so jaded about voting…
Or maybe people are overestimating his survivability in the hardest job in the planet. My prediction is no matter the victor, by January of 2029, the outgoing president will neither be Trump or Biden.
Recently came across project 2025, which is a plan to upend the government for trump to run it like a dictatorship. It’s actually frightening to even entertain the possibility. And I’m guessing it’s derived from how putin got to his dictatorship position, because trump really likes putin and met with him too often.
This mf spittin
Hi. I’m not American. But we all understand Trump’s threats. Or the inherent threat he poses. I think I speak for the world.
I’m more worried about a system that let someone like that get this far!
Old fuckers shouldn’t have put us in this situation.
It ain’t just young people. I’ve got a lot of lefty friends and family who have been lost and are willing to gamble on turnip because they think there is no way to handle things worse than we are now.
We’re not underestimating a damn thing, we’re ignoring it because the feds have proven that nothing we do will change anything.
I almost wish Jimmy Carter would run for a second term. 99? 82? Age is just a number now apparently anyway lol
