This^. Most of us are part of the Machine. Any revolution must begin outside of it.

Didn’t expect Mamdani to win with 50%+ of the votes! wow

Seems a nerve was struck…

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Followed by American Pyscho

Ugh this is all wrong. It’s GUINAN. :)

I’ve come across Against The Machine by Paul Kingsnorth. This is pretty much getting at the same. He’s a great writer, imo.

Who are you talking to? See, you’ve included me in a group which i am definitely not even a part of. If this is how people like you behave, this country has no hope of reconciliation. (I have, and would never vote for, someone like Trump, btw)

I don’t know… just like how “black voters” are not a true homogenous voting block, neither are “MAGA” proponents all of the same ideology. There’s no rule book they all “abide” by. It’s a spectrum of ridiculous people.

Fred fucked us all.

So if you said you were a 90’s child, wouldn’t that be okay? (As you are a child of/possessed by the 90s) A nineties’ child, if you will?

Unequivocally, yes.

I’m generally annoyed the headline is the least important part of the whole ramble.

Also:

"Trump’s Cabinet couldn’t get enough of their leader. Each member took turns to outdo one another with compliments.

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer took the prize, proudly boasting of unfurling a massive banner on the side of her department’s headquarters featuring the president’s face.

“Mr. President,” she fawned. “I invite you to see your big, beautiful face on a banner in front of the Department of Labor, because you are really the transformational president of the American worker.”

We’re in a real good time and place right now aren’t we…

I like the caption of “accused” like we can’t be certain that it is or isn’t AI.

The amount of Hispanic people who voted for Trump is mindboggling.

“He’s proven again and again that joking is his way of introducing particularly harmful ideas into public discourse, and they have a way to sort of become normalized because we might dismiss them as jokes,” Marx said. “So even if it’s framed as kind of a glib or ironic, we have to still take those things seriously and call them out for what they are.”

Good.

Our culture disintegrates every time we choose convenience over everything.