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worldweariness.bsky.social
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The dumb has won. Look what dumb has done. And the dumb has just begun.

Dear the rest of the world: You should absolutely not see the US as reliable for anything at this point, shit, none of us on the inside think we're reliable for anything right now either, you're definitely not alone

Somebody please wake me up when this is all over.

Sad but true.

If we survive the next few years, we should probably have a larger cultural reckoning about how the cult of STEM above all else convinced people who should know better that tech and private equity guys are not just the best at building apps and managing money, but at every field of human endeavor.

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

Well, that was some weird shit.

The internet had the potential to make humans so much smarter and interconnected. Instead, it's dumbing us down and siloing us off. A real tragedy.

Judge them not by the color of their skin but by the degree to which they’ll debase and humiliate themselves for an authoritarian imbecile

There are two kinds of Americans: those who know that politics has a direct, profound impact on their lives, and those who think they’re spectators above the impacts of politics.

There seems to be a vast under-appreciation for the lines we’ve crossed and the world we’re in. Trump’s win has basically put us in a post-rules world. People in power don’t feel constrained by rules and any remaining checks don’t feel empowered to be checks. This reality has not set in yet.