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The Dow may be finally stabilising. It's hard to tell. I'm watching it like a train wreck. This is just the start of the damage and it's already historical in scale.

Edit: Oh, and no I am not from the US. This is another one of those colossal US fuck ups that has more grip to it than any major natural disaster in my local area.

I was going to note it down as I was watching F1 at the time of writing that comment. There was a kids hospital charity, a food charity, a car, other sport, and a travel/tourism ad.

Ah, the classic "you must be a child" stance. I've now heard all I need to know and things are much clearer. What a waste of time.

Go watch that documentary. I can recommend a few. Better yet, come join me in Athina. We have two museums that cover our ideology extensively. Children go there all the time too so they're well educated on the topic. The boards are in English, so you should be fine.

By definition, something in support of stifling peoples' voices is anti-democratic. Being told how to vote by you or not being given the option to vote for something representative of me is anti-democratic.

If the Ancient Greeks saw people calling the US government a democracy, they'd be offended. Much of the social struggles are because a lack of democratic infrastructure and a lack of understanding what democracy actually is.

You've been fed a narrative that you've clearly swallowed. You don't even get a say on who your leader is, you're provided a set of options, told it's democratic, and patted on the bum on the way out.

When I watch a US sport, I'm blown away that the ads are all medical, banking/insurance, cars, and maybe fast food. It's so weird.

On Reddit, I once bragged about having universal healthcare and got called a Nazi and a communist at the same time.

This is what happens when Xbox kids that use the n-word grow up. They learn new "bad" words and throw them around out of context and contradictingly. They don't actually know what those things are, though, so it never makes sense.

I've been called a tankie here. I didn't know what it was and looked it up, just to discover it was the literal opposite of the things I was saying. I was very confused and just put it down to frustrated self-projection. At some point they had been called that, it upset them, so now they use it to upset people too but they still don't actually know what it is they're saying.

If I see someone defaulting to Russian bot or tankie, I've found another Xbox kid and it's in my best interests to just move on.

Blocking ml made my fediverse experience much more pleasant. I was losing faith in humanity.

No, they're right. Lots of people hate the labels and being labelled as such, they just want to be seen as the normal person they are. It's not normal to be labelled. In my experience, they are the quiet majority and they just want their sexual preferences to be out of the forefront of stranger's minds, defining their social identity. It's actually pretty fucking creepy and weird.

Some people voluntarily do want the label. That's fine, it's their choice. It's not fine to involuntarily assume for others, though. Respect is something that takes the back seat to narrow-minded assumptions that ironically goes against the best intentions. In a respectful society, there are no labels and people are just people. Unfortunately we are still Neanderthalic so social and political labels, categories, etc. still exist and are assigned, for no purpose and with no consent.

Most people don't care and want to be left alone. But there are still idiots out there that care about which toilet they can go in or which toilets others can go in. One day our society will be rid of these people and concept like LGBTQ+ will be ridden of too, because people are just people and toilets are just toilets. A person's identity shouldn't be defined by their genitals and what they do with them. Labels and adheration to that is just creepy and weird.

So, yeah, many people you consider LGBTQ+ are against the whole concept of LGBTQ+ and you shouldn't assume for them or look at them as "that thing" and slap a label on. We can be so much better than this.

It's just racial stereotypes but it's funny because the words Donald John Trump are randomly at the top.

Right? "Winning" what exactly? Reid Hoffman's trying to be the best at being the most miserable and unfulfilled. The most regrets on his death bed.

Go watch a documentary on democracy.

You are locked in a two party system, so you seem to have this idea that you have to choose blue to prevent red.

That notion of thought is literally anti-democratic. It is against the voice of the people. It stifles the people and presents two shit options instead of listening or having the people in power. Your voice is taken away and you are in support of that. You are literally trying to explain democracy to me throigh anti-democratic notions.

With such an understanding of democracy, I can only assume you have a US education.

The fundamental idea of democracy is that you have your say. Even if the outcome isn't your's, your vote showed how much people wanted the other things, this influencing the group that got it.

Your thinking anti-democratically. You are chastising individual voices in the system for not doing what you wanted for your outcome. That's literally how authoritarianism starts. Check yourself.