• Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win
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      Yeah, the rage at every time something gets around the filters is nowhere near the stress built up while the filters were inactive.

      Annoying? Absolutely. Worth getting upset about? Nah. I’m not going to pick fights with every person complaining about American stupidity at the water cooler. I’m not going to be rude to people here just because the text passed the filter. It would be more constructive to instead, erm, direct energy towards removing the source of the problem than tilt at windmills.

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    This

    Of all the shit that comes with trump, this is the worst thing. For the next 4 years I cannot have a single fucking day without trump. It’s going to be trump left, trump right, trump before, trump after, there is no escaping it. 4 years of 90% of the news being trump bullshit. kill me now.

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      When he got elected I added filters to my Lemmy app… Trump, Elon, musk, Tesla.

      Half my front page was still full of Tusk.

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      Unfortunately, no matter how the rest of the next four years go, I fear we’ll be hearing “Trump-era” for the rest of our lives.

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      If that’s the worst thing, then you are very privileged.

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          Right, because only America will be affected by all this, just like how only Germany was affected by the Holocaust.

          Which reminds me, the worst thing about that Hitler fellow is how I have to keep hearing about him.

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            If you genuinely think there is going to be a holocaust you should probably be planning assassination of government officials rather than complaining online.

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        Oh shut up already with your “privilege”. That political correctness has been a huge reason for many people to vote for orange cheeto to begin with.

        I’m just an ordinary guy living an ordinary life, I don’t need some armchair hero twat telling me that I’m privileged

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            Thanks for making the point!

            I say that your political correctness is causing harm and you -with zero evidence- just call me racist and every type of phobic. You couldn’t make the point better if you tried.

            You have no idea who I am, what I do, what my good sides are, what my bad sides are. If you’d know me, you’d know that calling me racist is hilariously funny, same as the *phobic, really.

            I’m guessing you don’t like people who actually try to make the world a better place, it would mean you can’t get away with your virtue signalling and have to actually get off your ass and do something?

            You are the problem here, you and your attitude is in large part responsible for the world we live in. Be better.

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          “The worst thing about someone harming others and/or breaking laws is how often I have to hear about it.”

          “What do you mean I’m only able to say that because I’m not directly affected by it? I’M just trying to go about my day— calling my attitude short sighted is EXACTLY why these bad things are happening”

          Holy fuck lol

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            JFC

            You understand what a hyperbole is?

            A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

            I literally overstated it because it sucks so much having to hear trump all day, every day. Yes, it is little in comparison to actually having to suffer his consequences, but that was obvious, no?

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        I think that is partially true

        Wether by design (probably) or accident, the cheeto takes all the headlines and there is no space left for the actual crimes they’re committing, like making sure the rich get richer by tax cuts, the tarrif thing, etc.

        I think a lot of it is just designed to ensure people aren’t paying attention to what really matters, a magicians trick if you will

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    I’m starting to dislike and avoid the Daily Show and even the Jon episodes, I just can’t keep hearing and seeing the stupid bullshit every damn day.

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    It’s almost like we’re watching a historical event where a large democratic nation is quickly turning into an oligarchal dictatorship. Almost like we’re dealing with the consequences of anti intellectualism.

    Also just because you don’t live in America during all this doesn’t mean your country is immune to right wing influence.

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      Dude, here in Europe half the nations are already beholden to some extreme right faction, and the other half are flirting with it.

      Our situation is honestly just a hair better and could deteriorate very rapidly.

      Like, for example, if Putin makes his move against the Baltics. If that happens we’re equally megafucked.

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    Everything… EVERYTHING… related to the orange parasite or any of its’ bootlicking minions, I downvote without looking and move on.

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    Yeah, it means something bad is happening. People are talking about it because they don’t want to do anything serious about it, which is somewhat good. It would be good to solve this problem with words only.

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    Social media was probably the best thing to ever happen for fascists. Because everyone’s online and not out there actually doing something about it.

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      And right now we mostly have clowns (Zuck, Musk) at the helms of, let’s call them what they are, megapropagandamachines. Imagine what equally evil but much smarter players could do.

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    I bet people said the same thing about Hitler both before and after he died. Awful people are typically quite often talked about.

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    I bet if Trump could take over earth by imprinting himself over people like Agent Smith, he would.