I wonder what happens in a society when trust in institutions reaches historic lows and said institutions enact wildly unpopular laws amidst massive inequality and financial uncertainty. If only there were some examples somewhere in human history from which we could draw parallels. Ah well.
If we keep changing the definition of that word we may never be 😎
To be fair, the definition of the word was never changed. Recessions were always determined by a bunch of clerics from like Harvard and Chicago econ departments. The system is dumb as hell, but as with everything else the Biden admin literally did not do anything.
Literally every revolution that's happened in the history of humanity. The current conditions in the US are most similar to the fall of Rome and the French revolution.
I cant wait to die in the world stupidest battle in the collapsing american empire as I'm shot for playing gta6 because it has a woman in it
People are too lobotomized this time around to do anything like that.
Anecdotally, it seems to me the GOP is picking up some voters simply because they're seen as the "winners" who are at least "getting things done". This is mostly from white folks who have completely incoherent ideologies; and who are generally tuned out to politics in general.
It's like, even if the GOP is just getting awful things done... people like winners. If you don't actually care about anything, it might seem like the GOP is "tough" and getting their way, while Dems do nothing but whine and capitulate.
There's definitely a type of liberal which is obsessed with the idea of "getting things done" , with no regard to what those things actually are. That's one of the reasons so many of them like the West Wing, with a liberal lion who "gets things done" like dismantling social security :isaac-pog:
The “don’t be an asshole 🥺” party vs the “don’t be a pussy 👹” party. I can’t say I don’t understand why people would pick don’t be a pussy
I've seen this analogy before, but I can't remember from where. Was this a Matt Christman thing?
Yeah, back in the Voteball: Origins days of the CushVlog streams
It was, it’s one of his things that’s stuck with me the most, I feel like it’s a very accurate description of a lot of how American voters think and the parties act.
the trains aren't actually running on time, but LOOK HOW MANY OF THEM THERE ARE, nevermind where they're going or what they're carrying.
fuck that's depressing. at least the old german nazis didn't hate trains. or want the literal apocalypse.
Nazis actually defunded Reichbahn and put those money into road construction.
oh. did not know that. yet another thing to hate them for.
I hadn't thought of that. it's accelerationist but i like it.
silence, fed. brand new account account posting about violence and inviting people into off-site chats.
lol as if labor law is real. burn down a family dollar near you!
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675199
honestly this is the reason i am now okay with political violence. why I just cannot give a shit about random lib lives anymore.
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2674754
so does anyone have an not-super-tracked resources on 3d printing guns?
https://hexbear.net/post/211276/comment/2675528
so i guess im in favor of burning down tim hortons now.
https://hexbear.net/post/211293/comment/2675400
gotta kill all the racists if you want your reconstruction to have sticking power.
https://hexbear.net/post/211219/comment/2674682
does this have groups/private threads, or are we going to matrix or signal or something?
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675473
Death to America
no there's a carrot, it's just also used for beating you-you don't get to eat it.
literally the only thing they ever claim to have going for them is 'we will stop the bad guys!' except... they just proved they can't/won't?
Onion joke or real life?...
A pollster is utterly flummoxed by the idea that people tend not to vote for the Democrats when they are angry at, depressed by, despondent about, and disgusted by the Democrats. “I struggle to wrap my head around this disconnect,” said Rark Mozell.
i was talking to this tow truck driver yesterday and mentioned casually that i was waiting on doing some things around the house until material prices came down, and he popped off. he was like, "that is never gonna happen with the absolute idiot in the white house. that guy is brain dead. and trump was too! what is with all these super old millionaires being in charge? they need to get out of the way and let us try something else." for reference, this guy was like 40.
i tried to lighten the mood and make a joke about how i thought biden had been dead for 6 months and they had him propped up like Weekend At Bernie's, but over the noise of the work, all he heard was Bernie and he just said, "we weren't lucky enough to get Bernie." and then just shook his head and went back to what he was doing.
it was kind of intense. like i had nothing to do with his rant. as a rule, i don't bring up anything partisan with people, because so much of the messaging is blue/red maga. but this guy had apparently just been steaming and was looking to rant about how fucked everything is.
dunno how or if that dude regularly :vote: , but the hate for biden is some real shit. and it seems like the longer dems deny it, the realer it's getting.
My neighbor, who is a rager party type giy, came up to the house drunk as shit talking about how the second coming of Trump is going to be like holocaust bad.
People are really stressed out right now.
Also the price of wood has really dropped. The rest of that stuff like electrical and plastic parts might as well get it before pelosi destroys that supply chain with her Taiwan visit
about how the second coming of Trump is going to be like holocaust bad.
if you're a visible minority or have people you care about nearby, get a gun or ten
I just expressed this exact sentiment in another thread and everyone is fucking jumping on me like I'm a frothing gun nut. (I don't even own a gun) Wtf?
on hexbear? I thought people around here were generally pro getting a gun :lenin-confused:
If it was recently, then it may have been some residual tension from a poster playing fast and lose with the "adventurism" rhetoric.
Yeah no shit, I genuinely cannot fathom why anyone would vote for them after that. They’ve proven once and for all that they’re incompetent losers who can’t do anything
i mean, they can cut taxes on the rich and gut social programs, collaborate on the drug war, do imperialism, subsidize banks and fossil fuels. it's not NOTHING.
i won't be voting for anyone who doesn't identify as at least a demsoc. and only if they have a cool/funny name. otherwise, i play to go in, cough on all the voters (I live in CHUDland), and leave.
I still think local elections matter somewhat if only to help things like affordable housing, parks, and stymie christofascists a bit in the community.
In so many places even shit like that isn’t on the table. In my fairly left/lib small city our local elections look like “Small business owner, small business owner, entrepreneur, small business owner, christofascist psychopath”
Of the people running in the last city council election the best policies offered were “Maybe look into possibly getting electricity prices down” (we have some of the highest energy prices in the country), and “Don’t increase the police budget as much as the others wanted to”
The politics in my city honestly seem to not even comprehend the possibility that the government has any control whatsoever over housing in any way. There’s not a single unit of public housing in this city and I don’t think anyones even considered it as a possibility.
:shrug-outta-hecks: they send the thing to my house, I fill in the "not psychopath" bubbles and mail it back it takes like 10 minutes. Beyond that im not involved and see shit getting worse and worse around me. I don't blame anyone for not voting.
:yea: i do the same, but it feels just as pointless as voting in the national elections if not more so. The national elections at least change up the tv show I get to watch while everything collapses, the local elections are completely run by local capital and each faceless ghoul is basically identical to the next
I guess the way I see it is while most of the choices are still shit, some of the people (in my area) are more inclined to listen to orgs that are trying to improve material conditions for people and not just taking heaps of cash and gifts to let industry do whatever they want. I don't see enough defense of working class interests but there are always environmental, tax allocation initiatives for parks, schools, urgent care, weed stuff etc on the ballot.
Some candidate might be more inclined help reallocate funding for housing rather than police or not try to defund shelters, shit like that. I've definitely seen a difference in the last 10 years as my area has become more red, having both used social services and known people working in the field. The hostility toward workers and unhoused has gotten noticibly worse as local politics have gone from garden variety corrupt liberal to psychopath conservative.
That'd be much cooler than the reality (apathetic losers,) but at a certain point whats the material difference
:biden-troll: Hey, Jack! Make up your mind, do you want to Row the boat or Wade in the water? You can't do both at the same time, that's just stupid.
Roe? Yeah, I like fish eggs Jack. Taste real nice. :biden-troll:
Can't figure out what it has to do with Dwayne Wade though
Death to America
Fun fact, Dwayne Wade and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, have a trans child they're amazingly supportive of. Also, Wade's close friend, LeBron James, tweeted congrats to the cast of Pose in a post dedicated to the accomplishments of black women. LeBron James is from Hexbear's favorite city, Akron, Ohio.
My point is, everything always comes back to Akron.
Fun fact, Dwayne Wade and his wife, actress Gabrielle Union, have a trans child they’re amazingly supportive of.
Very cool!
Also, Wade’s close friend, LeBron James, tweeted congrats to the cast of Pose in a post dedicated to the accomplishments of black women.
Awesome!
Hexbear’s favorite city, Akron, Ohio.
:lenin-confused:
There were like two months leading up to the Jayland Walker murder where there was a story involving Akron on here like every other day. An old golf courses turned into a park , a house where John Brown lived, proud boys punching a black woman on the street. It just seemed like Akron was the center of the hexbear universe.
Democrats won't pass anything of substance that affects anyone's life positively, can't stop republicans from winning elections, and can't even stop republican assault on our rights while they're in charge. "What's the point?" is the rational perspective for those of us paying attention. I do believe things will get worse when Trump is president again in 2025, but democrats can't stop republicans from winning. :vote: most important election of our lives democracy is on the ballot
I predict that liberals will largely react to this with more scolding and condescension.
ITS ALL THE LEFT'S FAULT THAT ROE V WADE WAS OVERTURNED! MAYBE IF YOU FUCKING COMMUNISTS VOTED, WE WOULD HAVE DONE LITERALLY A SINGLE THING WHILE WE HELD EVERY MAJOR ELECTED OFFICE
silence, fed. brand new account account posting about violence and inviting people into off-site chats.
lol as if labor law is real. burn down a family dollar near you!
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675199
honestly this is the reason i am now okay with political violence. why I just cannot give a shit about random lib lives anymore.
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2674754
so does anyone have an not-super-tracked resources on 3d printing guns?
https://hexbear.net/post/211276/comment/2675528
so i guess im in favor of burning down tim hortons now.
https://hexbear.net/post/211293/comment/2675400
gotta kill all the racists if you want your reconstruction to have sticking power.
https://hexbear.net/post/211219/comment/2674682
does this have groups/private threads, or are we going to matrix or signal or something?
https://hexbear.net/post/211236/comment/2675473
Death to America
you don't gotta go full vigilante, the mods are typically on point if anything's afoot :shrug-outta-hecks:
Correct. But I had nothing better to do while "working" from home
Death to America
No way. Next thing you'll tell me is that someone on earth will celebrate their birthday tomorrow and that it will rain somewhere on earth next week
Damn listening to the Return of the King soundtrack and reading through these comments is super foreboding
