… there’s nothing wrong with doing wasteful things.

Agreed.

But I prefer to live a productive life instead of a wasteful one.

Especially when wasting your life involves picking on a currently oppressed group instead of their oppressors. If your anger stems from liberals lack of empathy, you are certainly lacking it towards them now that they’re oppressed.

So if you want to waste your life being an angry hypocrite in this way, I will not stop you, but I will point it out.

And let me know where in the world you’re living if you feel you are currently safe from the Russia fueled right-wing populist hate machine. I’d gladly move there to escape the grip they are tightening on the world.

Especially considering how effectively they dismantled the US, have now weaponized their military (the largest in the world by several factors), and have publicly stated their interest to take over Canada, Greenland, and Panama.

If there’s a safe place on this planet that escapes their grasp, let me know, especially since you already feel:

…that united front will never happen.

Seeing as a united front is the only way this ends well for humanity instead of Oligarchs, I guess we’ll have to wait 4 years to find out if you’re just being wasteful, or dangerously naive.

This is the reaction of people who are only marginally opposed to mass murder.

Understood.

My point: the world is slowly becoming overrun by people that are not opposed to mass murder at all.

So why should we spend any effort towards measuring what level we’re each opposed to mass murder, instead of actually opposing it while it’s happening?

It’s wasteful at best, and creates fractures in a needed united front against mass murdering corporate narcissists at worst.

Albeit a valid criticism of libs, it’s not productive towards solving any growing problem in any way. It is punching down on a group that Trump already has his boot on. Yet you’re enjoying the boot, and feel it’s earned, instead of aligning with the people it’s on who you clearly agree more with.

At the rate the US is going, there won’t be many libs left to laugh at once that boot is finished with them.

So I’ll save my criticism of their behavior after I know for sure they’ll still be around to criticize. Until then, anyone under that boot is my ally despite any political differences.

Does anyone find it disgusting that conservatives now AREN’T mad that Obama was incompetently committing mass murder in the Middle East? (Because Trump is now doing the same?)

Personally, and morally, our anger should be towards the people NOT upset at Mass Murder, which as you have explained, isn’t liberals.

To be clear, yes, liberals turned a blind eye to this during Obama. But to your point, they aren’t now. Trump, instead, is murdering without care, and his base is celebrating it.

A blind eye isn’t the same as active support, and MAGA is actively supporting murder. While at worst, liberals still have blinders on.

Personally, I’m not going to spend any time chastising a lesser evil. But many did during our previous elections, which is how Trump got elected both times.

Harris + Isreal being a great recent example. Because no matter how bad Harris was, it’s not Trump turning Gaza into a night club.

What disgusting hate should we throw her way about Gaza now that it’s targeted for demolision by Trump?

At best, it’s wasteful to be so angry at liberals now. At worst, it’s stupid, and will keep the people you should be angry at in power to do worse things more frequently as it has for both of Trumps elections.

You know those scam phone calls from India pretending to be Microsoft? They overwhelmly target the elderly, because their success rate with them is so high. The elderly are without question more gullible when it comes to being taken advantage of over the internet and social media.

The elderly control every branch of our government. Their gulliblity is now something that lets all of us get taken advantage of - not just themselves. They are collectively buying MAGA Hats for the country because some guys on the internet told them it would make America Great. It’s clearly not, hasn’t, and is a scam, but now our entire country has to pay for it.

Even the best, most well trained guards cannot provide protection if they are too old to lift a shield. Our entire government hasn’t been able to lift that shield in decades.

Which explains why 9-11 was “Never Forget,” but Columbine is “Always Forget” for every school shooting that’s happened since '99.

I was a Sophomore in highschool when Colombine happened, and now my kids get to see others their age die yearly in school shootings while President crime grandpa tells us it’s because of trans kids.

It’s not boomers as a generation that’s the problem, it’s that generation is just now old to provide security. At worst, they are too proud to admit their age causes issues in their ability to lead and protect this country. But it unquestionably does.

💯 This

I agree with others below that the GOP is at the limit of what they can get their followers to believe in once they can’t eat. Most are already suffering, and expect a quick turn around. Instead, we’re about to get Great Depression 2: Trumps BS Boogaloo. The violence that follows will overwhelmingly be directed at those that control every branch of the government with an iron grip and failed to make anything better despite it. Historically, this has always been the course of events.

If your decision is between voting for someone that associates with the worst, most ineffective, and cruel politicians in our modern era, or someone else, you vote for someone else.

Evil people lie, and most of them have the money to get social media influences to lie with them, so you won’t know their angle until it’s too late to stop them. Like project 2025.

Also, no offense, but why would you even possibly entertain voting for someone who is clearly backed by a lunatic that wants to literally invade and annex your country?

Not believing this is a viable threat to your sovereignty is the most dangerously naive you could be.

One of your choices will unquestionably make it easier for Canada to become a US state. Don’t pick that candidate unless you’re prepared for that result.

They do. Because they already got away with making the US fail to realize a whole bunch. About project 2025. About Trump. School shootings. Class solidarity. Etc. The US is pliable because 50% of the country just needs someone on Fox to tell them how okay it is for them to get fucked, and they’ll just let it happen.

Problem is, there are clear limits on how far this can be pushed. And these idiots are just about to discover what those limits are. But they are without question idiots, and certainly stupid enough to not see how this is going to effect them.

As an American, don’t be naive. Trump said he had nothing to do with project 2025, and now it’s 40% complete in just 3 months in office. Everyone on the right side of politics isn’t to be trusted in this era. They are all absolutely full of shit, and will unquestionably align with Trumps insanity. Name a single one that hasn’t.

By all means, explain to me how Americans are supposed to fight against decades of wrong-think being bought and paid for by the richest people alive.

America is in the situation we’re in because money is power and those with the most of it decided to slowly take over this country. If 90% of the people here could unify, they still wouldn’t have the resources of the 30 billionaires controlling their tech and media narrative.

You better have a good answer of what to do when this happens again because based on the world wide rise of this kind of disinformation, it’s only a matter of time before it happens to your country too. Assuming your safe is the only short sighted thing America did in this situation.

So I wouldn’t be delighting in the strength these enemies showed in defeating the US, because it’s just a matter of time before they come for you next. And if the US didn’t stop them, you better be learning how.

Because this evil isn’t localized to the US.

Can confirm. Boring is the way. Accounting, economics, etc.

For me, I worked my ass off to be a person that works on movies and TV etc. Got lucky, held some dream positions, and even got to make my own thing.

However, if I could do it all again, I’d stay in the boring office job I had and share twice as much time with my family and friends.

Instead, I worked 80 hour weeks, made some decent money in respected roles, and then Covid took everyone and everything close to me. Money and respect mean nothing if you can’t share it with those you love.

Boring is the way. Don’t worry about liking your job in 10-20 years, worry about liking your life.

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Literally proving my point how effective you are at distancing your allies.

I don’t spend time on X, but X does exist, which means it’s possible to look at it without immediately becoming a radicalized MAGA asshole.

You are willing to dismiss my point through an assumption I spend a lot of time on X, so maybe you should care about sounding exactly like all the assholes that do.

Which is the point I’m making. You sound and act just like them. Dismissing conflicting opinions through misplaced assumptions now included.

So is arguing semantics about where and how the term “lib” is being used a better way to gain allies?

Please.

If you ever do go to X, you’d see MAGA uses “lib” the same way the leftists here do. So sure, Lemmy residents may not be regurgitating MAGA culture, but they sure as shit sound like it by complaining about liberals in the same exact way using the same exact terms.

If you’re looking for allies, maybe don’t use the same language of your enemies to recruit them.

Your argument boils down to “but people on lemmy use the word “lib” in a good way.” It’s still the same thought terminating and dehumanizing word my dude, and just because you’re admittedly in the dark to how it’s being used on Twitter doesn’t mean it can be used better by others in a different community.

If we rewind 80 years of history, you’d be defending the right to use the word “jew” to describe those with tight business purses despite it also being used by Hitler for other reasons. You would also defend this position by admitting to not ever reading what’s happening in Germany.

Great take.

Would love to hear your ideas on marketing solidarity to liberal allies by using the term “lib” to win them over.

80 years ago it would be making signs that say “Hey Jews - let’s work together to stop Hitler!”

Which, to the point I’m making, sounds like bullshit rather than a rally cry.

Am American, and “lib” is used every day by MAGA on social media. Just go to X and scroll for a whole couple seconds to see overwhelming proof it’s a MAGA culture war talking point.

I’m not against shitting on liberals either, but there’s clearly a much bigger world wide problem of private equity Fascism that needs solved, and liberals have already been fighting that enemy (albeit not winning that fight). This makes them your friend whether you like it or not.

But solidarity isn’t going to happen if you’re too busy complaining about liberal bullshit to fight with them when needed instead.

Nazis are now in the White House and a Fox News host commands the biggest army in the world.

And that wasn’t even the first 90 days of this dumpster fire.

So I’d rather spend the little time we have left before polical arrests happen to work together than spend time bitching about the history of our possible allies.

I voted for Biden, and was deeply critical of his team. But without question he would be a better President now than Trump is.

Imo words critical of liberals in the US are wasted. Trump will be far more critical of them in the long run, so I’d rather spend my time making allies instead of grandstanding while they’re being publicly admonished.

The next step is them getting arrested, so the time for making allies isn’t long.

Tesla spent two decades building it’s brand only to lose world wide appeal in a matter of weeks.

There is a very clear trend in what Elon touches turning to shit.

X is clearly not recovering to its previous highs.

And Tesla is likely now fucked too.

Simply because neither of these companies have a path forward to reaching the value they had without a worldwide consumer base. Supply and demand determine value and both of these companies shifted their demand base from billions of people world wide to millions of people brainwashed in the US.

The active consumer base for both products is now American, and only so much value can be extracted from Americans compared to the entire world.

Add in a pending US economic crisis to that smaller user base of both companies, and there’s absolutley no hope either survive or recover to the value they previously had.

Invest in either if you want to lose money in the long run. Otherwise short both.

History has a liberal bias if you care to read instead of listen to TV all day.

Very well said, especially the snake oil comparison.

You’re half right.

We absolutley and without question have the money, resources, and infrastructure to supply the world with what it needs.

However, 90% of those resources are owned by individuals, not countries.

In order to accumulate this wealth, they have exploited millions, usually through government bribes, or capturing entire political parties outright.

Now that sharing their hoarded wealth is essential for human survival, they are choosing to disrupt any conversation about it. Socialism and the “left” way of thinking - to provide resources where they are best needed - is dangerous to their wealth, so they’ve spent millions on preserving it at the cost of preserving humanity.

That’s what you’re seeing across the globe. Selfish narcissists that care more about themselves than humanity.

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