krashmo

joined 2 years ago
[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 2 points 53 minutes ago (1 children)

What was inflation like during Biden's presidency? I agree that Biden did some good things but framing him as fantastic is a bit much, especially to the average person who doesn't give a shit about most of the stuff he did. American voters are supremely selfish and Biden didn't do much for them, at least not in an immediately visible way which is what he needed to do.

Just look at what's happening now. There's tons of bad things happening currently that I would call highly visible and polls consistently show that most Americans have no idea that any of it is going on. Biden made some solid efforts but almost none of it spoke to people on a personal level and that was his big failure. He thought Americans were paying attention when he needed to go out and grab their attention.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Maybe keeping in a geriatric neoliberal long enough to skip a primary and force a candidate no one voted for down our throats wasn't the best choice. Obviously Trump is worse than Harris but if the goal was to drive turnout then the Dems behavior pre-election is about the worst possible strategy I could think of.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

They won't because we are a nation of idiots

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Don't be a bitch

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

If money is speech for the rich then violence should be speech for the poor.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

More like holesome

ba-dum tss

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I think I agree with her concept, just not the food group. I wish it weren't so but I'm starting to think that only death will separate the MAGA crowd from their collective insanity. If it only impacted them that would be one thing but it's impacting the whole world.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would seem that by "tyrannical government" most of us actually meant "non-whites".

More directly, I would guess the people who are in a position to do something, like myself, would prefer not to be the only one showing up against a militarized police force and federalized national guard troops. Armed resistance isn't widely viewed as necessary even though I would argue we're past the point where it should have been widespread. Perhaps holding that belief and not engaging in such methods makes me a coward, I'm honestly not sure. I do know that I see a lot more sentiments like "where are the armed leftists" than I do "how do I join an armed leftist organization" and I don't think we're going anywhere until that changes. Everyone, myself included, is waiting on someone else to step in and stop this rather than deciding that it's up to us to do it ourselves.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The comfortable will never rebel. No one is going to give you those things and we can't build them without dismantling the current system. You're going to have to get supremely uncomfortable in order to give others the possibility of having those things at some indeterminate time in the future or face a dystopian future so bleak that it will make The Hunger Games seem like a fun vacation. Either way, comfort is rapidly fading from the picture.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (16 children)

If you're asking this question you should be joining their ranks. Don't wait for someone else to protect you. Arm yourself and learn how to use it.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How is a school going to regulate what kids do outside of school property? They could ban cell phones on campus but that's not going to change what happens after hours.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The present doesn't exist without the past. Our current situation is just as much about the Dems failure to significantly alter the course of our country as it is the GOPs efforts to undermine democracy. One does not follow without the other.

 

Can we add the option to exclude communities and/or posts that are in a different language than our chosen default? I'm guessing filtering communities would be easier than individual posts but I'm not sure how language would be flagged. I understand some people may want to see some of these posts but even multilingual people must be bombarded with posts in languages they don't speak. I'm getting pretty annoyed that half of my feed is stuff I can't read.

I've looked through the settings multiple times but I suppose it's still possible this already exists and I just missed it.

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