aaron

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[–] aaron@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

I refuse to believe that the free service I've been using for years has been exploiting my behavior for money.. what kind of world is this?? What kind of psychopathic organization would do such a thing? Why isn't capitalism working for me? Why?

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Mechanical monsters?

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

But I'm tired of listening to these Cyber Truck owners telling me how I should treat them. They should just stay at their charging stations and stop imposing their glued-on-side-paneled beliefs on me and my children.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

I understand the rage completely. As an American, I have lost hair for it. The tiny optimist in me believes that these people have a limit. They will never apologize for anything, but we can hope that they'll trend more toward sanity once they discover how fucked Trumpism is. Many of them are fucking idiots, but a lot of them aren't.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

First women, then gays, now CyberTrucks. Where does it end?

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

China and Russia will sit on the sidelines for WWIII at this pace

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The only characteristic of stupidity is being misinformed? Everyone is misinformed to some extent. There are myriad aspects to intelligence. We're all imperfect monkeys.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (8 children)

While acknowledging that Trump voters are emotional and fear-prone, they're not entirely stupid and generally not cultists, probably, maybe. Can we have some sliver of hope? The ones I know are certainly not stupid but are tragically misinformed and savants of confirmation bias. I've also noticed that they care a great deal. It seems more like a target misalignment problem than a broken turret.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Theory: this is late-stage capitalism, where the working class are so exploited and overworked that they don't know who to be angry at. Someone like Trump comes along and (falsely) mirrors their anger and they unwittingly roll out the red carpet for a fascist. I'm really hopeful that once they see what they actually voted for, they'll not be so welcoming. Trump 1.0 was absolutely nothing compared to what Trump 2.0 is going to be. There are way more puppeteers who are way more prepared this time. Shit's going down and their constituents are not the ones to piss off. Just feasting on popcorn here.

[–] aaron@lemm.ee 46 points 4 months ago (16 children)

I'm seriously hopeful that the people who have historically given into this lie are wising up.

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