Well the rest of the world are enjoying the downfall of the empire
The crypto reserve idea might actually work, but it would work a ton better if it was less public because him tweeting about caused insane volatility in the price of Bitcoin.
If he destroys the DoE, tuition rates will fall because there’s no more student loans and universities will have to compete on price
When we rebuild government, maybe it will actually improve service as we prioritize what is important now vs what was important historically
it means that the us empire is definetly going away soon.
He seems to have united the world… regrettably against us.
Also the word “bigly.” I use it all the time.
I’ve picked up the gardening hobby and actually seem to be keeping up with it.
Nothing like a crisis where food is looking to be a concern to get ones ass in gear.
He brought defeat to the Canadian conservatives from the jaws of victory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Canadian_federal_election#Opinion_polls
Look at that comeback 🤣
The ever-accelerating demise of the American empire will remove their fingers from every political and economic pie in the world, creating a small chance that something even worse doesn’t fill the gap.
Maybe then we can finally just focus on improving ourselves instead.
I’m secretly hoping for another housing crash so I can afford a larger house and have my dad move in with me. Donald Trump seems to be my best chance at that
Similar hope here, but even then I feel like it’s a lost cause.
Right now houses are expensive because land and materials are expensive, and so no one is building. You’ve also got investment firms and landlords buying up whatever properties they can find so they can just lease them to people and make more money over time doing basically nothing.
The economy could tank, but I don’t think that would help. There would still be no one building houses, and corporations and landlords will still have more money than me. The coming die-off of the Boomers might be a better chance, but even then I don’t have too much hope.
Wonder what would happen if some region passed a law capping corporations and landlords from owning no more than 2 residential properties.
I’ll keep the secret, I promise
The way I console myself is by saying that likely, the only way the US elects a true socialist democrat (AKA Bernie Sanders / AOC) that can bring about a Brand New Deal, is by having the pendulum of American politics first swing so far to the right, that everyone with a conscience is forced to get out and vote in retaliation.
But the idea that we could simply vote our way out of a rising fascist dictatorship seems a fleeting fantasy.
We’re already going through the great depression v2.0, so FDR v2.0 should be coming up next, right?
People will feel the economic impact like a freight train here pretty soon, and hopefully that pisses off the idiot cult enough to make them turn on the republican party. They might not ever turn on trump, but I think his base will turn on the party quick once they start to really struggle. Then maybe we can rebuild some of this madness, invest in science and education, and have a reasonably well educated populas; and then maybe fascism will die.
Most likely wishful thinking. I’ve lived long enough to see my political efforts fall completely flat or get reversed outright. The people who share my viewpoints either can’t be bothered, for some fucking crazy reason, or insist to “play by the rules”. Fuck the rules, they don’t play by the rules. It’s time to get a fucking spine and fight back, but we’ve been given too much bread and too many circuses, so much that at least half of us would rather collapse society than share or take less.
We are vain, narcissistic, horrible little parasites that feel entitled to impose our will how we see fit. Yes, at the moment I mean this strongly about Myself and fellow Americans, but this disaster is far from unique to us. Countless species extinct, counteless lives taken, countless pain inflicted. Human beings are the apex invasive species, and there is no one at all to put us into check. It’s hard to feel like any of this is undeserved, and it’s foolish to think we deserve anything at all.
I generally try to be positive, and you can save your fingers from debating with me. I just don’t care anymore. We could kill ourselves tomorrow and I would only feel relief for the life that will thrive without us fucking it all up. Fuck every last one of us.
we’ve been given too much bread and too many circuses
For a while I celebrated the idea that we were in the “Golden Age of Television.” So many amazing shows, stories being told so exquisitely. But the more I think about it, the more that the ancient roman proverb of Bread and Circus seems more apt. I sit in front of a computer screen all day for work. On my breaks, I browse Lemmy on my phone. When I get off, I work out while staring at another screen in the gym. While making dinner I put on whatever NBA game is currently playing. While eating dinner I watch a show. After dinner I watch a comedy series while I eat dessert, occasionally browsing the internet simultaneously. My whole day, from when I wake up, to right before I go to bed, consuming content from a screen.
I wonder how many are like me, and how many of us are successfully using this constant stream of info- and entertainment to dull the pain of living like this. And what would it take for us to truly resist.
I think you’re right in that it would take hardship. We’re all mostly two missed paychecks away from our living standard collapsing, that could do it. But then that begs the question, how does one resist the rise of fascism? Because I’m beginning to think that voting may not save us when those in power are completely divorced from public outcry or consequences. When peaceful opposition is made impossible (or illegal on certain college campuses), when they round up and deport those that would publicly question their authority, when our elected leaders wring their hands in mocking frustration over all the nothing they’ve tried… well, perhaps violence is the answer after all. What other means have they left us?
We have lost the ability to be present in the moment, unable to confront reality without media to filter it…
Oh I saw a great quote about this, but I can’t remember who it was. It said something like:
Orwell worried about a future of censorship and thought control, but [???] worried instead of a future where we have every distraction we could ever wish for, that we just get too distracted to combat our own exploitation.
Brave New World/Island by Huxley got the memo.
Every time he replaces an experienced government leader/ worker with a loyalist, he gives the Resistance the Gift of Competence.
The military is now run by absolute morons, while the previous leadership, who is highly experienced, moral, serious, and COMPETENT, are all on our side. Do you think they are all just hanging out on the back porch, drinking scotch and waiting for Wheel of Fortune to come on? Just ignoring the oath they actually took seriously, as the nuclear inventory that they spent their lives and highly successful careers protecting, is in the hands of the most corrupt traitors in American history?
We haven’t heard a word from those people, and it can’t be because they just don’t care. They are definitely making plans for the day that HitlerPig declares Martial Law, and suspends elections, habeus corpus, due process, etc. When they call for the current military members to make a choice between the MAGA wannabees, and operating under real military leaders, most will choose Competence over Chaos.
They are definitely making plans for the day that HitlerPig declares Martial Law, and suspends elections…
Unsubstantiated bullshit dreams like this keep real resistance from forming.
“Someone else will save me!”
No, they won’t. There’s no “competent cabal” just waiting to make their move and pretending that there is keeps you from forming or joining the resistance yourself.
No one is going to save you or the people you love, and the price of waiting for Superman is suffering and death.
Do you think they are all just hanging out on the back porch, drinking scotch and waiting for Wheel of Fortune to come on?
Maybe. Or maybe they’re as powerless as the rest of us and are doing the same nervous doom scrolling we are. There’s no reason whatsoever to suggest that there’s some secret gang of competent former govt employees banding together to form the resistance.
We haven’t heard a word from those people, and it can’t be because they just don’t care.
It can be. Or it can be because they’re out looking for new jobs in a shitty economy.
This is pure fantasy. Come on, be realistic here.
Realistic? Realistically, those military leaders are not the kind of people who are just going to accept this. They have spent their entire lives protecting America, amd our nuclear arsenal from threats. I doubt they are going to just fold up in the face of comically blustery MAGA Nazi intimidation.
Pure fantasy is thinking that somehow this situation is going to resolve on its own, or believing that these guys held normal jobs, and are now on Indeed, sending out resumes, and going to job interviews.
This won’t resolve in a positive direction without tough leadership, and the best military leadership in the world has been benched. I’m sure they’d love to get back into the game, especially with such an important objective in the line.
When someone shoots him in the fucking face, I won’t feel even a little bad about it.
We’re seeing the beginnings of further European integration. Who knows, there may even be an EU military in the future.
