• Malyca@lemmy.zip
    76·
    3 days ago

    I went to a concert last night and it was surreal. We’re just going to sit here and let the train hit us and the world. Mass delusion.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zip
        16·
        3 days ago

        Trump is the worst it’s been, but I can’t remember a time when things were good. It’s been one crisis to the next.

        I think there’s been maybe a 5 year period where the US wasn’t in a major conflict, and even then we were bombing random countries. After 08 the economy has basically always felt on the brink of collapse. Wages stagnate, housing is unaffordable, and basically every “ladder” to a better life it gone. Sprinkle in the impending climate collapse and yeah that’s been basically life.

        It’s disingenuous to act like anything was even okay before Trump. He’s just the final stage of a decades long collapse

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          7·
          3 days ago

          We were generally pretty smart about what we were doing. Even Iraq, I think the idea was to overthrow a brutal dictator (we all agree he was, right?) and liberate a country in the middle east that would be friendly and allow us to be less dependent on Israel and the Saudis.

          I protested against that war, but it was certainly a hell of a lot smarter than threatening Greenland or Mexico.

          Despite all the memes, compared to the average person, W was reasonably smart. Maybe not on the scale of presidents. And evil or not, the people in his cabinet were pretty smart. Dick Cheney might have been evil, but he wasn’t a fucking idiot.

          We’ve had our issues and we’ve had our strengths, but we’ve never been this fucking dumb on a federal level. We’re literally taking advice from Putin.

          This is the first time we’ve had a president who doesn’t realize that he’s in the same boat as the rest of us. Might have a better cabin on that boat, but if he sinks it… and Putin is whispering in his ear that it’d be fun to sink the boat.

          • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
            12·
            3 days ago

            Jesus christ, lol. No man, you massacred millions of middle easterners, before that you genocided Korea, and did ethnic cleansing in Vietnam. Let’s not forget Cambodia, Laos, Libya, Syria, and Yemen. Currently Lebanon and Iran. Gaza. Millions of innocent dead civilians. Tens of millions. Fuck your fascist state and the propaganda you rode in on.

            • Starik@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 days ago

              Why the hyperbole? Isn’t the truth bad enough? Must thousands be millions, and every war a genocide?

              • Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
                2·
                2 days ago

                No, you fucking moron. America killed over a fifth of the population of Korea and destroyed 95% of the structures there. It was quite literally genocide. I suggest you do some reading on the topic of how many civilians America has killed in the last 75 years before you make yourself look stupid again.

                • Starik@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 days ago

                  We just got the world’s first trillionaire, so people might not be impressed with numbers in the millions anymore. Try something like “America raped and genocided billions of Iraqis!” Rape is also a popular buzzword today.

      • pjwestin@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 days ago

        I take your point, but Trump is the culmination of 40 years of austerity, wealth inequality, and dog whistling. To extend the visual metaphor, we first noticed the ship listing during Trump, but we’d been taking on water since Reagan.

        • Serinus@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          It was all about shifting the Overton window. The establishment, corporate Republicans realized that if they just go a little farther and pull from the full on Nazi side that the middle would be very close to what they actually want.

          The thing about creating a movement like that is that you bring on True Believers, and it becomes hard to tell the difference. They didn’t intend for that contingent to actually drive, but they paved the path and all :shocked Pikachu: when he grabbed the wheel.

          I still hold that he gets absolutely nowhere without Putin’s help. I watched r/the_donald from the start. It was a brilliant demonstration of the mix of humor and censorship as propaganda.

          • pjwestin@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 days ago

            They didn’t intend for that contingent to actually drive, but they paved the path and all :shocked Pikachu: when he grabbed the wheel.

            Yeah, more or less. I don’t think the Republican elites ever disagreed with the racist resentment politics they’d been peddling, but they intended them to be a means to enact tax breaks for the wealthy and wage wars. They never expected the base to elect someone who made racism the focus.

            I still hold that he gets absolutely nowhere without Putin’s help.

            Not sure I agree. Russian interference certainly helped, but the economic conditions in the country are ripe for fascism. He might have won without foriegn interference, and if he didn’t, we might be facing a more popular, more competent fascist right now.

      • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Trump is only accelerating what Reagan started and if you want to be cynical it’s been going on since Nixon.

  • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    Me just thinking that my grandparents came here for a better life. Now people from my country get killed by ICE.

    But if I leave and go back with cousins in Mexico I have no doubt that the USA government and billionaires bs is going to spread its impact worldwide.

  • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
    16·
    2 days ago

    Bread and circus. No bread, but a whole lot of circus to keep people occupied while they go under.

  • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
    32·
    3 days ago

    It’s not accurate, there’s not enough dead brown people and guns and the water’s not covered in oil and there’s not a giant yacht zooming in the other direction, away from this disaster.

  • monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world
    17·
    3 days ago

    Wait I think I know this boat. I am pretty sure it is a sunk boat in miami that was there for a really long time. A lot of people used to go canoe over to it and take pictures.

    • fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
      5·
      3 days ago

      there was a similar situation near Beaufort SC where a decently large catamaran from the 80s was anchored out in the bay for years.

      old empty boat. big enough for a large galley and other rooms

      i hopped up on it in the daytime a few times. it was crazy

    • wia@lemmy.ca
      4·
      3 days ago

      Yup. I’ve been there. There was an older nastier one in Palm Beach too. But not nearly the tourist trap as this one

    • Zorque@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Kind of like all the people who comment on the state of the world but never really do anything about it.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    2 days ago

    The one on the left looks like she would get offended if you pointed out the reality that the ship is sinking instead of going along with the delusion.

    Like a magician accidentally revealing their own secret mid trick and getting mad if you don’t pretend to be baffled at how they just sawed that lady in half and put her right back together.

  • Seth Taylor@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    The worst part? It was an electric boat and they had to choose between being electrocuted by the battery and being eaten by sharks