• Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    That "God Emperor Trump" meme is becoming more likely all the time.

    Not him launching a crusade to unite humanity. Him being hooked up to a life support machine that keeps him alive in the most technical sense of the word while his followers worship him.

  • cpfhornet [she/her,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Imagine being told your entire childhood how genius the American system is; how our leadership structure is the only one in the world (and the only one that has ever been) capable of being a fair, righteous, humanitarian global hegemony.

    I always considered myself a smart kid, but god damn did it take me an embarrassing amount of time to wake up from that shit. Sure, I had my criticisms, but the American system in its design still held this untouchable, infallible quality. Since fully discarding any trust in the US systems at their very core half a decade ago, everything has seemed so obvious in confirming the idiocy and unworkability of it all.

    My question is for long-time (10+ years) self-identifying enemies of the state - did the mainstream discourse always look so cartoonishly satirical? Because this shit these days...lmao

    • rozako [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      My friend who is a lot older and the one who really got me into leftism was extremely leftist during the Iraq war days. And a Muslim immigrant. And they always tell me that everything may seem crazy right now, but anyone who was aware during that time can see it's only like 75% as bad as it was then.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Many doctors are saying it folks, they’ve been saying, and many are agreeing with them, people, a lot of people, they’ve been saying we have some of the best breathing. We’ve been doing breathing like you never imagined. Y’know I spoke to the doctors, they say “you’ve got lungs like I’ve never seen”, and they’re doctors folks!