Funny that the one thing all three scenarios have in common is: “misled people that vote”. I wanted to write “dumb and ignorant people voting” but I wanted to be generous
The big part is also well-meaning people not voting. There are more of those well-meaning people by volume, and they could’ve easily prevented all that, but they for one reason or another decided not to do that
The fucking Vlad supporters are winning and the short sighted dumbasses, in the UK and USA, fell for it.
Reminds me of an all time classic Onion article.
Anybody with the slightest Critical Thinking Skills knew how bad this would get, way back in 2015.
I knew who this hump was back in the 80s, and could have told you what a disaster he’d be as president back then, and would have been 75% correct, with only a 25% underestimation of how bad it would actually be.
Overall 40 percent of Americans didn’t even read a single book last year. Doesn’t bode well for critical thinking if we can’t even read.
Gen Z Arriving at College Unable to Read
“It’s not even an inability to critically think. It’s an inability to read sentences.”
I owe this women an apology. She was completely right and reacting appropriately.
A lot of people owe that poor woman an apology.
She and the McDonald’s coffee lady should form a support group or foundation.
‘The Foundation for People Who Can’t Grieve Good’
The hate she gets is wild. I don’t always find her comics funny, but the absolute vitriol she gets is wild over on Reddit.
… I don’t think the person fizz is talking about is Pizzacake. if you look at the source view on his post, it’s the woman screaming during trump’s first inauguration/announcement of election results
Oh, I don’t see anything but text in Fizz’ post and don’t know what source view means.
clicking the button shown what they typed out to get what their post is; this way you can learn markup to make similar formatting.
sometimes images don’t load, so you can use the same tool to get the URL of the image they are sharing
Ah that’s hidden in a menu on piefed and doesn’t seem visible at all on Boost. Thanks!
Who is this woman? I’m not familiar with the reference.
Someone who was filmed screaming and crying during the announcement (maybe inauguration, can’t remember which now) of the 45th president of the US
Jessica Starr. It was Jan 20, 2017 just as he was sworn in. His terrible followers sometimes subtitled this image “autistic screeching”.
Oh ok. Yeah that was the correct reaction.
You know what you see here? Acceptance of election results. You know, what many trumpers lack.
There was another woman I think about sometimes who was very upset about maga hats and I thought she was overreacting. I also owe that woman an apology
One man’s red hat is another man’s brown shirt.
Wait was that actually pizzacake or is this someone else?
I dont think so. Its just an unknown person who got dragged through the mud but conservative media.
Yeah but the other option was a woman so I sat at home.
I knew this was all the Demmicratz fault
Please remember this happened when folks get all “AOC is the only person who can win.” No she’s got a built in loss, two X chromosomes. In a decade maybe, but right now boomers still have too much control and even boomer women don’t want a woman president. They’ve done polling on it and it’s very clear, they don’t think a woman has the temperament to lead. We can think it’s silly but we should not ignore it.
Yep cue the downvotes ignoring it. Read this carefully and explain to me why we should even consider running a woman right now. But you won’t, you’re in a bubble where you think everyone believes what you do.
Hillary Clinton won the popular vote
*in the US.
Many, many other countries vote women into the top seat. Even boomers.
I had someone here on lemmy literally tell me that history doesn’t matter and we shouldn’t pay attention to it. The ignorance was fucking astounding.
Lemmy is very STEM-brained, maybe even more than Reddit
As in math and science? Because I think history is pretty important with those.
Years ago someone told me on reddit that antivirus protections on personal PCs aren’t necessary and a waste of processing power.
Can’t really reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Were they arguing that extra antivirus wasn’t necessary? Cause windows built in has been better than alternatives for years now (well, idk about 11, but 7, 8, and 10 all had good antivirus).
It’s been long enough I don’t think I could faithfully remember the details of their argument. I think they were insisting that no AV was needed at all though, not that Windows’ built in protections are sufficient, which has indeed been true for a while.
That could have been me… I once had a virus in the 90s. I didn’t know I had it until I took a floppy into the university to print something, and it alerted me. So I installed McAfee, it found and took care of this virus. Then a month later my PC wouldn’t boot. Long story short, I had to remove McAfee to fix it. The experience stuck with me- antivirus has caused me more problems than any virus ever did. I have lived dangerously ever since. (Though before I run anything even slightly questionable, I will fire up a disposable VM)
Unfortunately a lot of AV “solutions” on Windows are proprietary which makes it a no for me.
Windows Defender has been sufficient for most users for a while. Which is just a default part of the OS unless you go out of your way to remove it.
Are there any open source av programs, and any that don’t cost money?
Just use Linux and don’t be an idiot on the Internet
I want to switch to linux for sure, both in phone and computer. Too late on the idiot part. Just joking though I’ve not said anything prosecutable.
My favorite is when you point out someone outside the USA lives in a country where they shouldn’t be throwing stones in their glass house continue to do so.
The left will never get the credit for being right all along.
The best the Dems can do is demand their vote then if they win say they didn’t need it but if they lose it’s all the left’s fault.
That’s okay. I don’t want credit. I want things to get better. I want to make things get better.
As an autistic person who has a great skill of finding similarities between two things, you can see a lot of parallels between our modern world and 1940s Germany.
Basically what I think of Simpsons “predictions”.
Matt Groening isn’t some kind of clairvoyant. He just knows history and recognizes patterns.
More like the show has been running for over three decades, it would be weird if they didn’t hit a few.
Which prediction exactly? The one about the current president becoming president, their writer was interviewed about, and he said they just chose him to symbolize the US hitting rock bottom. As they were smart and informed and therefore realized the then real estate mogul was a crooked lying cheater, that lied to steal and then slandered his victims to justify it, that was in bed with organized crime. I don’t know if they knew that he was a career blackmailer, and also being blackmailed by Israel and their Epstein, and the Russians at a minimum though.
But the prediction isn’t all that clairvoyant, because in their version the president just bankrupted us and then we elected Lisa, which would be a best case scenario as Lisa is a good person. While the president’s party here will bankrupt the country, they are fixing elections, something the show didn’t see, or put in the episode.
There’s been like 300 of them. There’s an old meme, “Simpsons did it.”
I’m scared about the prediction of Britain saving America’s ass in WW3.
The UK is one of the original Axis III powers. They are beating the US to the punch in some respects.
Also they laid it all out in project 2025. It’s not like they tried to hide it other than trumps usual “I’ve never heard of it”. And if you believe anything that shithead says… well this is what happens
If I’m being honest, the first term was quite underwhelming compared to how bad it could be (as 2025+ has proved).
Did you forget all the COVID anti-mask and anti-distancing insanity? The still-not-fully-understood blatant theft and corruption around the PPP “loan” program that pilfered so much money it inflated the US Dollar at unprecedented rates? The intentional separation of children from parents by force?
The PPP was just part of the bailouts as well. They did direct cash infusions into the richest companies, and the Fed did a lot to make sure the rich didn’t lose any money, and in effect shoveled trillions of dollars to the richest.
The PPP was forgiven to big corporations that got the money then fired workers anyway, while small employers that kept people on after getting the money, as was the point of the program ostensibly, were forced to pay it back later.
The Democrats are fucking worthless I’m afraid I’ve to throw in there. Can’t even make hay out of this, or change an unjust system, when they are hated and have to win.
Were we talking about Democrats? Or did you just need to bring them up because you can’t abide a discussion that doesn’t criticize them as well?
You can’t escape it, if you give the establishment a pass and allow them to stay in control of the party we lose. Unless you are pretending to be one of us and helping fascists to overthrow the Republic in all but name in favor of putting the worst people in permanent control of the country, you need to face that fact.
Democrats can’t say shit about Trump’s covid response after fully adopting the playbook themselves once they were in power
If anything they were worse because they turned it into a bipartisan consensus on reality and made all the ‘normal’ people take their masks off.
If the public isn’t on board with something, it’ll cost the ruling party dearly. This wasn’t like 1918 where the public wanted to help each other by limiting the spread of the disease. This was rugged individualism, “you can’t tell me what to do.” Dems were honestly smart to get on board or a red wave would have wiped them out.
When we want to change things like this, we have to change the norm in advance, not reactively.
BTW epidemiologists I used to work with at the CDC have long said “the big one is coming” and after Covid, many of them said “this wasn’t the big one,” so we still need to change that norm, but like climate change and a dozen other pressing crises, we can’t deal with it because fascism.
A complete inversion of reality. Democrats actively manufactured consent for the ‘end’ of the pandemic. They were pushing for a return to school before the vaccine was even out. The moment covid was their responsibility instead of a cudgel with which they could barely win the election, they started adopting the exact same language they were criticizing. Minus of course the meme shit like horse paste and bleach.
I think being in a sane state kind of mitigated that COVID issue for me, but I agree on the PPP loan theft (immigration stuff was always bad, although I guess not children in cages bad). My point was, compared to this term, he was actually held back a bit.
He didn’t surround himself with literally zombies who only say yes to him during his first term. Them turning on him when he wanted to overrule the election results showed that. He doesn’t know how government works and thought everyone should treat him like a king from the beginning and had a rude awakening that was term 1. Now he knows and thus, utter destruction.
Project 2026. They’re going full mask off. It’s good that they are pulling this a few decades too early.
It would be if we had a little organization and some leadership to stop them, we don’t still.
No, the first term was pretty damn bad, it was a version 1.0 for sure but it was BAD.
This is nothing yet, and the previous wasn’t bad for lack of their trying. There is nothing to stop them this time.
yeah but like, I saw that—if that is the same person—she dared to make some comics about very obvious social issues rendered with very competent art and comedy and also dared to be a woman doing such activities and as a person of man I find that objectionable that a woman so me mad. but like just because i had to see it because me mad at her because she is.
She’s a massive bitch if you say even the slightest remark. She went ballistic a few years back when I commented on that other vile website.
Oh you’ve met her?
She went back & forth with me on Reddit. Thin skinned twat.
I remember Lemmy having a matter boner for her last year cause of some law suit.
Nah, she got hate because she takes criticism very badly, exacerbated by the r/comics mods. That, and also the comics just aren’t very funny.
I think some of the early ones are pretty funny. But she has become largely lackluster as she gained fame.
Matter Boner? Law Suit? I don’t think I’ve ever had a boner from a lawsuit to be perfectly honest with you.
Bruh if your boner isn’t matter, then what’s the point in all this?
but like doesn’t it suck that she dares to be a woman making content as a woman like that make ne mad as me man like how dARE?
I really don’t have an opinion on that. I liked her early stuff, but don’t really care for her contemporary work. That said, let people do what they want? One of my favorite quotes goes something like “if you ain’t hurting anyone, I’m here to help or get out of the way.”
Being a leftist means being right too soon…
Fun fact: After WWII, people who had recognized the danger of fascism and opposed it from the start (such as Americans who fought in the Spanish Civil War) were often termed “premature antifascists” and regarded with suspicion and passed over for promotion in the military because of the possibility of having communist sympathies.
Or any of the people outside of the military who got blacklisted for simply wanting better working conditions ie wanting to start unions
Honestly, what I didn’t expect is that QAnon was like 70% right?
70%? No. Yeah I think maybe you’re forgetting most of the insane shit those people said. Maybe like 10%. The obvious shit that we all knew.
Can we not start lionizing those fucking freaks
It’s the whole Nostradamus effect. Throw out enough bullshit and eventually something will be correct.
What has Qanon actually predicted?
President Trump would initiate The Storm, an attack against the deep-state actors responsible for the global pedophile cabal.
No
the group identified Q’s influence when Alabama’s football team presented Trump with a jersey bearing the number 17, which also happens to be the position of letter Q in the alphabet.
OK. I’m out.
Illuminati people were more on point. Rich pedos control the world. Also who’s saying it is bad? I still hear magas going on about how great this is.
TF? Not even 3%
Well, to be fair, being able to read is quickly becoming indistinguishable from the arcane arts in America.
