Everyone saying “well for Americans absolutely” clearly have no idea what’s been going on across the world. America isn’t the only country diving headfirst into fascism rn.
Yup in a day you have the lnowledge of all of history at your fingertips and there are dumbasses doing their own research ready to bring back polio … pathetic .. o blame podcasts
I especially recommend Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kabe @prisonculture.bsky.social and Kelly Hayes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social (they're all great follows here too).
I keep telling people this probably isn't the worst timeline but it's definitely the dumbest/most embarrassing. We're naming a literal federal agency after a meme from 2013
Especially after spending the 70s and 80s sanctimoniously shaking my head and wagging my finger at the 1933-1945 German populous for their weak and cowardly ways for allowing Hitler, the Nazis, and death camps to take hold. Criticism retracted.
I forget where I heard it (maybe someone can help) but I remember hearing a woman say how our country is so young it's like a prepubescent child whereas others are adults. Feels about right.
I'm thinking about Italy and their embarrassment, Silvio Berlusconi. They've moved on, but he was their trump for 9 years. But they're only 160 years old. Still in training pants and highchairs like we are.
Honestly? nah. Good shit is happening all over the place at unprecedented rates as well as the bad shit. There are SO MANY PEOPLE that you have to look all over to see the beauty. If your device and its social media is bumming you out, you need to look in different places for fulfilment.
We could but we'd have to employ horrific eugenics programs to achieve such a goal. Global cooperation required humans that are sufficiently evolved. Most of us aren't sufficiently evolved. Im only hoping that in like 10k years after nuclear world war 7 we will have evolved into intelligent species
I'm going to buy a ticket to the local elementary school Christmas concert (ya, it's 'ticket only' these days;) where I have no blood rels performing to prove it's STILL time to be alive. Even though I always cry like a saturated sentimentalist at such events. I always feel sorry for the children.
They lost from the get-go, they are just in denial about it. It's like if you played chess with a pigeon, of course the pigeon would lose but it would strut around
& sh*t all over the board as though it won.
Pigeons do what pigeons do.
The Chinese have a better word choice that they invented probably 5,000 years ago. However, The Embarrassing Times would be a better name for a news outlet than The Interesting Times.😊
America has a system that gives idiots greater representation in government than their actual numbers in the population. To a lesser extent, we have a different system with similar results in Canada.
A lot of people in these comments are clearly not aware of the fact that multiple things can be embarrassing. Humans can have more than one embarrassing moment throughout history.
I risked my life to defend the system being used against us right now. Imagine how I feel? My Country sold me and my friends out to rich dudes that couldn't be bothered.
I watched these jerks fail the Kurds. I did not know the US Veteran was next.
As climate crisis continues to increase the number of refugees and destroys more, our nation has elected by the smallest of margins ever, one of the stupidest pathological rapists is to drill more.
I know, right???? We should be celebrating advancement, hope, achievements, and breaking glass ceilings - and now opposite. Total, despicable, unimaginable opposite.
* Homelessness and deep poverty in a time of plenty? (check)
* Unrestricted climate change and pollution despite advanced scientific warnings? (tick)
* Warmongering and proxy wars by nation states? (check)
* Famine and genocide engineered by neo-fascists? (check)
* Brink of nuclear war? (check)
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Better: what an embarrassing place to be alive.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ayana_elizabeth_johnson_how_to_find_joy_in_climate_action
Look for a local group. If there isn't a group doing what you see a need for, ask a few friends.
https://bsky.app/profile/coolzonemedia.bsky.social/post/3ld7gkdfer22t
I especially recommend Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kabe @prisonculture.bsky.social and Kelly Hayes @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social (they're all great follows here too).
Make life boring again.
( sad to say)
I really hope the other galaxies aren’t watching .
The entire country was lumped into "those terrible nazis"
Possibly the end of the species.
Or should I say, a lack there of.
Please don't forget to count your blessings
& sh*t all over the board as though it won.
Pigeons do what pigeons do.
I watched these jerks fail the Kurds. I did not know the US Veteran was next.
Way to go, U.S.A.!
Great job, Republican voters.
We HAD all the correct information and chose NOT to use or believe it..
* Unrestricted climate change and pollution despite advanced scientific warnings? (tick)
* Warmongering and proxy wars by nation states? (check)
* Famine and genocide engineered by neo-fascists? (check)
* Brink of nuclear war? (check)
Just look at the book and move forward instead of repeating.