Oscars and Grammys are so behind the times, just advertisers of the pop sectors of their respective industries.

The entirety of the internet is unusable without ad blockers.

Team 17? Haven’t heard that name in a while.

When the fuck has economic disincentive ever been a priority for civil courts? Large corporations do billions of dollars of damage on a regular basis, and get fined for millions.

Fascism thrives when we self-isolate and drive ourselves and each other apart

Too late. We do that to ourselves every election.

Meanwhile, our enemies have no problem voting in unison.

Trump just got re-elected. Russia won’t face shit.

Tolerance of intolerance breeds intolerance. It’s well past time to be ‘nice’ to Nazi Fascist fucks. No tolerance for bigots.

This is not the time to be nice. It’s not even the time to be angry.

Either we do something drastic that would completely take us out of our comfortable chairs and houses, or we watch as democracy and the rule of law gets dismantled, piece-by-piece.

This whole headline stinks of trickle-down economics.

I played Dark Souls for 80 hours before I thought it was crap. Shit graphics (on the Xbox 360), shit difficulty, no story, thought the game was just one big trollface, tempting you with ideas that might pan out, but don’t. I kept playing because everybody else thought it was the best game ever, and convinced myself that it was like other RPGs, where if you grinded enough to get the right gear, you could tame the difficulty. It didn’t. Difficulty for older areas was better, but new area difficulty was still shit.

That’s not true. The cynicism gave us critical thinking skills to navigate through the bullshit we live with on the internet now. If anything, Millennials and Zoomers are more corporate friendly than ever, consuming whatever the doomscrollers tell them to.

Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generations.

It’s too late for that. The last meaningful bill that got passed was Obamacare, and even that was watered down and didn’t do much to solve the healthcare crisis.

Whatever government benefits we are holding on to will be gutted in the next four years, and American democracy will be dismantled within the next decade.

Welcome to the final goal of late-stage capitalism: anarcho-capitalism. We’ll be paying for our fire departments and police protections before you know it.

All patents need to be killed. They only benefit the rich and powerful.

We live in the same country we did 4 years ago, we live in the same country that elected Barrack Obama twice.

They elected Obama twice and then stayed home in 2010, ensuring that he would never have the support he needed to pass bills.

Nobody gives a shit about politics. They only care about popularity contests.

Star Wars, Ghostbusters, the Mario Movie, the Breakfast Club, the Princess Bride, it goes on and on and on. The heroes were all rebelling against some ignorant authority that either didn’t understand the damage it was able to do or didn’t care about hurting those who had no power. As a result, when I was coming up my generation felt very much against the established status quo. Even the kid-targeted stuff in the early 90s, it was all gross-out humor and struggling against adult authority in favor of personal autonomy. Nickelodeon takes over your school. As a teenager it was grunge and punk and everything being ‘extreme’.

And what did Gen X get out of it? To be so forgotten as a generation that everybody else thinks we’re Boomers!

Ask anybody who’s not a Gen Xer to list out the current generations and they will, without fail, say: “Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, and whatever Alphas are going to turn into”

I mean, that all depends on what the MPL allows.

Trump wasn’t elected in 2016?

They will put up a fight. They will fight like Democratic state senators in Oklahoma. They will fight like the Weiße Rose. And then they will lose.

They can’t fight federal law, and they can’t fight against an uncaring, sociopathic GOP majority in Congress.

It was obvious in 2012 and 2016 that we needed somebody further left than Obama and Clinton.

When Republicans win, the Overton window doesn’t slide to the left. It’s slides to the right. Expecting it to go even further left is a misunderstanding of politics.

The majority of population aren’t the ones who voted for Trump. The majority of the population didn’t vote at all.

I don’t. I also don’t believe we’re ever going to get another (fair) election, thanks to your inaction. The rule of law is finished, because:

• A convicted felon, in the middle of four separate criminal indictments
• Known to have raped his wife
• Raped a 14-year-old, probably raped a bunch of others with Epstein
• Bragged about sexually assaulting many other women
• Incited the Jan 6th riot to storm the White House and threaten to kill the vice president, as well as many other Congresspeople
• Stole boxes and boxes of top secret CIA documents
• Send many of those top secrets to foreign agents, including Putin, which got CIA agents killed
• Praises dictators and the way they rule out in the open
• Put three Supreme Court justices who are currently dismantling whatever judicial ideals the government has

That guy, he got voted president. If he can get re-elected after doing all of that shit, instead of being put in prison, then the rule of law is finished. We don’t really have a functional government that punishes criminals. We’re on the level of Brazil in terms of government corruption now, and quickly sliding into Turkey or Nazi Germany by the next decade.

Be sure to thank your fellow trans Beehaw Lemmy users [he/him] for deciding that your protest non-vote is more important than their lives, while they have their medical rights stripped, and their faces curb-stomped by an already-hostile public.