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Dude it was all meth back then

Vitamin B12 in the ass, meth, Dexedrine, we were just getting things in full swing with our full control of the natural world at all times and the girl-can’t-get-pregnant pills and it was basically just a normal thing like yo I’ll have some meth and then I’ll have energy and can focus

There was an anthropologist who visited with some undeveloped village somewhere, and somehow while he was living with them, the concept of depression came up.

The man he was talking to said oh yes we know about that. Sometimes someone will get broken in this particular way, they want to stay inside all the time and they can't get happy or feel emotion, they have very low energy, trouble with sleep, we know, we have that here too. It is evil spirits that get into the person, and so we worked out over time, what you need to do is get a whole bunch of the people who are close to that person, go over and haul them out of the house, and there's a whole ritual. It's like a big parade around the village, people have to touch them, throw arms around them, sing, we throw this type of powder on them, carry them around up on everyone's shoulders up in the sunlight. You have to do it for many hours. But most of the time it works; they get broken out from that type of thing they are suffering from, and if then if they try to make an effort from that point it's not hard for them to come back to a normal life and they are much happier. It is very important to do this ritual if you know someone who's in that state, and if we find it out pretty much the whole village will make a day to get them out and rescue them from it, because it is a terrible affliction and usually they cannot fix themselves from it on their own.

The anthropologist was fascinated and talked about depression in Western societies a little bit, and the villager suddenly got animated. Yes! I know this. I never saw it but, in the cities some foreigners came in and tried that way. You sit in a little room and you talk to a total stranger about all the things that make you sad. And you repeat this for a short time each week. It is absolutely terrible. We had to kick them out of the country.

Maybe I am preaching to the choir on Lemmy, but:

Do your security updates and use different passwords for different sites.

I know it’s a pain in the ass, although it’s a much smaller one than you’re making it sound. But yes it is important, yes the “hackers” will come after you (or more accurately their automated systems will that come after everybody).

If you ask any revolutionary movement what led to their success, they’ll tell you “if the deck is stacked against you, give up.”

That perfect equal society gonna fall from the sky any day now

(I’m sorta just talking shit, tbh. I’m not doing anything about the problem either. But I do think the central point is fair that of course the deck is stacked; that’s why work to change it is important. Every single movement to correct the wrong people being in power has by definition had to start with the deck stacked against it.)

30% of the people voting in the GOP primary said they wouldn’t necessarily vote for the eventual nominee.

That is a massive and highly unusual number. And, just like so many other things, nobody fuckin knows that, because the media has a code of silence about it like a JV hockey team that just doesn’t talk about Logan’s sex crimes.

They just keep reporting polls of all registered voters who want to answer the phone, trying to correct their ratios and not bothering to try to ascertain who’s likely to vote, and then swearing that 2 point up or down differences in the resulting number are super important.

Crimeception

As with so many Trump things, the overlapping crimes, for whatever weird reason, actually make it more difficult to prosecute any single one.

Dude it is IMPOSSIBLE to list bad things Trump did without missing some huge ones

Hey did you know his estranged ex-wife died by falling down the stairs, and she’s buried on his property?

I’m not saying that automatically definitively means anything. But tell me one other human being on the planet who that combination of circumstances ever happened to.

Or, alternately, one other human being who was once involved with Trump for which he gives any kind of a shit any which way about where they should be buried.

I’ll wait.

I take this as a sign that the swell of derision about their fawning attempts to shit on Biden with every minute of every working day has entered the mainstream and impinged on their consciousness

And, like a bunch of transparent dishonest hacks, they’re making the world’s most transparently dishonest hacky attempt to solve the problem

Great job guys, you’re gonna fool em with this one I think

Almost as if there was a concrete objective difference between the two candidates that would impact people’s assessment

It is not partisan to say it would be bad for a rabid chimpanzee to run the hospital

Dude

You need to have some sort of award for this 😃

Ignore the haters, you’re doing the lord’s work son

Honestly the sheer unequivocal redundant nature of the reason why he is better makes it ironically a little harder to argue for

You can say “a bucket of ranch dressing would be better than Trump; I would vote for the bucket even in that case and honestly DGAF that Biden is old and neither does most of the reality based community” and they say “yeah but Biden made inflation happen”

And you say “Biden increased working class wages by 32% in current dollars; yes 20% cumulative inflation ate up part of the gains, but (a) that wasn’t his fault (b) people still wound up ahead” and they say “yeah but he bombed Gaza”

And you say, etc etc, it can continue. The reasons why he is better are so extensive and numerous that it gives space for people to Gish-gallop their way around within them and make it look like there’s some kind of uncertainty

There’s no pushing. We were already in extremely weird territory when the news media can present the candidates so dishonestly that Biden is at all unpopular.

He forgave hundreds of billions of dollars in students loans, reduced income inequality for the first time in god knows how long, increased working class wages even when adjusted for historically massive inflation, raised corporate tax by a MASSIVE amount in order to fund all of the above, and also spent a trillion dollars on trying to address climate change, like the first time ever that a US presidency actually tried to do something about it in a big way, which is way too little way too late but that’s not his fault.

His opponent is a literal pants shitting moron who goes on weird tirades about toilets and windmills; even the truest of true believers often walk out of his speeches before they are finished, because they are unhinged and random and, at the end of the day, uninteresting. His campaign priorities are cartoonishly evil. Beyond cartoonish. They sound like a joke. He wants to kill foreigners, throw his political opponents in prison, and make friends with our nation’s worst enemies siding with them against American soldiers and American people. He wants to ban contraception and porn, and dismantle the Department of Education and the FDA. And the FBI. And NOAA.

And yet, somehow, the news manages to present such a distorted landscape that “Biden is very old and shit the bed at the debate” is like the most relevant thing everyone is trying to talk about, even now, a month later, when it is objectively undeniable that the great mass of the Democratic electorate doesn’t give a shit about it and cares more about all that earlier stuff. As well they should. They are, surprisingly enough, not as stupid as you and the news keep consistently, relentlessly, dishonestly, pretending that they are.

I won’t say that distorted media creation won’t succeed, and get Trump elected, against whoever his opponent turns out to be. But yes, it will be extremely weird (as well as absolutely infuriating for those of us who live in America and have to experience what might happen under a second Trump presidency) how we got here and what destination we’ve arrived at.