i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class
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Musa Okwonga
One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.
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What the rest of the world calls, "That opinionated asshole by themself at the bar."
Maybe FIND some people with jobs and experience and talk to them, US news media?
If you’ve seen the hilarious movie Hamlet II, it’s the equivalent of contemptible twats realizing history is over so they’re trying to make up History II
People obtaining a sense of belonging and purpose from taking up abject hate may be able to be redirected to a more positive pipeline, for example.
If I get bored and kill someone, I’m still going to jail. But if by analyzing my pathway to murder you can stop subsequent bored people from murdering, that’s a win.
It’s an abstract fear, especially for them.
No time for hating Trump’s angry ignorant voters anymore.
They are dead to me.
Here's a really cool song about nothing... 😆 🤣 😂 A beautiful disaster, if you will...
I see it with the inability to manage stress for people that are already wealthy but keep working anyway.
It’s so scary, the threat just out there. We just need to be prepared. The uncertainty blows.
There’s no time to fry your brain listening to Joe Rogan if you don’t have enough time to devote the 3 hours doing so
Instead, he wants to be the god-emperor of mankind and insists on making that everyone else's problem.
They're freeloading off of honest, hard working tax payers.
It certainly aptly describes more than one of my partners: by any objective measure they've done *spectacularly* well over the last 20 years -- and they're convinced the world is going to hell.
It's horrifying.
https://bsky.app/profile/meidastouch.com/post/3liuxmaf3ac2q
This is who America is fighting! Boycott Swastikar aka MAGA and Elon, DOGE STOCK, Tesla, Starlink, X, SpaceX, Proud Boys, etc...
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YngE16/
What do you do when your billions are continuing to pile up, and there is nothing to buy that will satisfy you? You turn to the next thrill: dominating people.
“Yes, objectively.”
::radio static::
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/we-live-like-royalty-and-dont-know-it
https://www.thetimes.com/article/b3bbc99e-e2dc-480e-92fc-bbd7c7c3abc0
but it especially seems rife with conservative leaning people in the legal profession
“Our Great War is a spiritual war, our Great Depression is our lives”
People expect success to be being a millionaire, it’s not. It’s just to be happy.
Belgium goes to “The Congo”. because things were good but boring.
- been obsessing about the lack of fun in America
There are VERY FEW exceptions, and even then, they are bound to be "white adjacent" and working tirelessly to preserve white dominance in some form or fashion.
In all cases, personal benefit is sure to follow.✌🏻
That said, We the (White) People fuk'd us bigly. They represent the biggest demographic, and with 55-60% voting to protect the felononious Beenadick Donald, by far the biggest share of pro-fascism voters.✌🏻
I see countless people say "this feels like the season finale of America."
It is not a TV show. It is not entertainment. How stupid are we now?
I’m thoroughly disgusted tbh.
It's also a reminder to myself to honor all the strife that guided me into being a more compassionate person. 🙏
You can’t go broke, so your existential crisis becomes the public sharply turning against men who harassed a couple students, or have a passing interest in race IQ science.
Give me the Kendrick Lamar version over the kind of hate that demonises people for inalienable aspects of their very existence.
Learn to sit in a room alone.
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Some from sports or performing or some other "real-world" demonstration of skill - also fine.
Some folks get it from religion. And really, that depends on the religion.
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THOSE folks, they INVENT evil enemies, but the kind who they can defeat by being selfish and doing what they already were.
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Some people have their pattern recognition mechanisms turned all the way up to Conspiracies
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”.
I can't YET let myself believe she is wrong... as I, too -- WITHOUT BEING DELUDED OR NAIVE OR IN DENIAL ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING -- have kinda shared that sentiment
Why not turn to the wonderful world of conspiracy theories...and racism?
I know we all know this...
I see this all the time, especially among the men who think they succeeded because of their hard work (as if everyone else didn’t work hard)
They want to be “fed” soap opera drama.
She would rather watch “Chucky’s Revenge” than “All Creatures Great and Small.”
They want no change.
They can't abide diversity.
Nothing beyond the average status quo.
But they will watch their world change in spite of all that is going on now.
Because Americans can't stay on task.
We can't.