Honestly If half of you country is like these people, you’d better secede and leave them try to live their bigoted selfish lives at their fullest to see what happens.
They don’t have a grain of empathy, introspection, education or critical thinking.
If anything, this shitshow shown people’s true colours and we know some of them are barely monkeys with guns. I dont want to live next to these assholes.
If half of you country is like these people, you’d better secede and leave them try to live their bigoted selfish lives at their fullest to see what happens.
I don’t disagree with you on them not having a grain of empathy, but seceding like this… won’t happen. This is more often than not a urban/rural divide, so my state which votes like this has two major metros that vote against this sort of thing, as well as a smaller college town. Flipside the neighboring state of Illinois is known for being blue and voted against Trump and his policies because Chicago has more control over the state while the farmlands are red.
California has a major right wing movement in entire segments of its state that is trying to secede from the state.
If we go into a civil war again, it won’t be like last time with a north vs south, it’s going to be a nationwide clusterfuck. Washington, Oregon, California is the closest to being able to pull off a splitting off from the country and it being a line.
USian here, and it’s as sad as it is scary. So many people like this lead a lazy passive existence where they put so little thought into their lives that they can be led to vote for Trump for over a decade and only today be surprised like this. And those are the “good” ones who are merely ignorant and self-centered, that aren’t just proud to be nazis.
Here on Lemmy we talk about problems like controlled opposition and implicit support of genocide on the other side of the world. But compared with the median american voter we are like those geologists in the meme about how experts in a field wildly over estimate the general public’s knowledge of their field. And I am NOT saying we Lemmings are policy experts – I’m saying the average schmuck is that far behind our internet “discourse” bullshit.
And we learned the hard, 150 year lesson that you can’t heal the country with active Traitors in the neighborhood. They will only poison the system, and keep it from being successful.
The French did it right, and made some strong examples of people, and taught the wealthy and powerful that they serve at the pleasure of the CITIZENS. The problem with the current crop of Sociopathic Oligarchs is that they don’t believe that we’ll ever break loose, and they also believe that if we did, their bunkers would protect them.
We are strongly socialized to obey the law, and behave within societal norms, but the wealthy are beating on that with a sledgehammer, and eventually it will collapse. When the Dam of Society finally breaks, it will break terrible, just like during the French Revolution, and not only will the Oligarchs lose, so will their entire bloodlines.
They would be very wise to negotiate a settlement before it gets that far. They will lose a LOT of their fortunes, but they will still have more than enough to live opulently, just not enough to be an existential threat to the entire planet.
Stupid fucking ahistorical nonsense. The French had a bloodbath that resulted in a dictatorship and then a return of the monarchy. That’s “doing it right” only if you’re a dumbasss.
And yet a lot of entitled, untouchable, wealthy sosiopaths still lost their heads, and it has stood as a very real warning to rich shitheads ever since.
Honestly If half of you country is like these people, you’d better secede and leave them try to live their bigoted selfish lives at their fullest to see what happens.
They don’t have a grain of empathy, introspection, education or critical thinking.
If anything, this shitshow shown people’s true colours and we know some of them are barely monkeys with guns. I dont want to live next to these assholes.
I don’t disagree with you on them not having a grain of empathy, but seceding like this… won’t happen. This is more often than not a urban/rural divide, so my state which votes like this has two major metros that vote against this sort of thing, as well as a smaller college town. Flipside the neighboring state of Illinois is known for being blue and voted against Trump and his policies because Chicago has more control over the state while the farmlands are red.
California has a major right wing movement in entire segments of its state that is trying to secede from the state.
If we go into a civil war again, it won’t be like last time with a north vs south, it’s going to be a nationwide clusterfuck. Washington, Oregon, California is the closest to being able to pull off a splitting off from the country and it being a line.
And even if we could magically all reshuffle into a geographic split, can you imagine being neighbors with Trumplandia?
USian here, and it’s as sad as it is scary. So many people like this lead a lazy passive existence where they put so little thought into their lives that they can be led to vote for Trump for over a decade and only today be surprised like this. And those are the “good” ones who are merely ignorant and self-centered, that aren’t just proud to be nazis.
Here on Lemmy we talk about problems like controlled opposition and implicit support of genocide on the other side of the world. But compared with the median american voter we are like those geologists in the meme about how experts in a field wildly over estimate the general public’s knowledge of their field. And I am NOT saying we Lemmings are policy experts – I’m saying the average schmuck is that far behind our internet “discourse” bullshit.
Yup
I mean they did try and there was a whole war about. Problem was there were all forgiven in an attempt to " heal the country"
And we learned the hard, 150 year lesson that you can’t heal the country with active Traitors in the neighborhood. They will only poison the system, and keep it from being successful.
The French did it right, and made some strong examples of people, and taught the wealthy and powerful that they serve at the pleasure of the CITIZENS. The problem with the current crop of Sociopathic Oligarchs is that they don’t believe that we’ll ever break loose, and they also believe that if we did, their bunkers would protect them.
We are strongly socialized to obey the law, and behave within societal norms, but the wealthy are beating on that with a sledgehammer, and eventually it will collapse. When the Dam of Society finally breaks, it will break terrible, just like during the French Revolution, and not only will the Oligarchs lose, so will their entire bloodlines.
They would be very wise to negotiate a settlement before it gets that far. They will lose a LOT of their fortunes, but they will still have more than enough to live opulently, just not enough to be an existential threat to the entire planet.
Stupid fucking ahistorical nonsense. The French had a bloodbath that resulted in a dictatorship and then a return of the monarchy. That’s “doing it right” only if you’re a dumbasss.
And yet a lot of entitled, untouchable, wealthy sosiopaths still lost their heads, and it has stood as a very real warning to rich shitheads ever since.