These guys need to get the fuck out of here with this rude awakening and economic anxiety bullshit. I don’t really want to hear about any soft peddling of these obvious racist/sexist/other hateful driven motivation voters. Last time The Fanta Menace won, there were all these articles about low income voters (of which I’m one, but I had the good sense not to vote for a flaming pile of garbage) voting for him because of “economic anxiety” and not that he appealed to their base desires to hurt any non straight, white, or male group they didn’t like.
This isn’t our first rodeo with this fat piece of shit. We all saw what he did before. How can you be “rudely awakened” when you vote for someone whose behavior you’re fully aware of? They saw what happened last time and his main campaign promise was, “More of that, but cranked up to 11.” Fuck that noise. They are getting exactly what they voted for, with full knowledge of the outcome. Unfortunately, the rest of us are also getting that and it’s gonna be bad.
The article talks about him playing favorites, which of course he will, but I think they give him too much credit when it comes to sparing his supporters. He didn’t have any problems breaking up families of his supporters last time when one or more of them was undocumented and got swept up in an ICE raid. He’ll do what he wants, tempered only by what his handlers want, and that means some notable percentage of his supporters are gonna see some negative effects… Which is exactly what happened last time. They were all shocked Pikachu face then, and amazingly we’re now supposed to what, feel bad about them learning nothing and being shocked Pikachu face again after they put themselves in the same situation again? The hell with that.
Fuck off. I’ll celebrate if I want.
Maybe not going to celebrate but I am all out of pity and tired of it all so several million people first on the compassion list.
Celebrating can be considered immature. I’m out of compassion and empathy for idiots though. They will absolutely face the consequences of their actions and it doesn’t mean I have to help them.
I somewhat vindictively hope it’s every bit as bad as predicted this time, less actual nuclear war of course. But enough so that there’s just no way any amount of social media shadow fails to prevent daylight getting through.
Next time we have progressive leaders there needs to be done what the tech bros and oligharchs feared: proper regulation of social media as journalistic organisations unless they e.g. remove algorithmic sorting, and take steps to remove anonymity.
My idea is you could have avatars/pseudonyms linked to a third party open source identification API which uses encryption keys. It doesn’t reveal who you are to law enforcement (no one would want to use that) but it does reveal you are the same person regardless of your pseudonym if you get up to naughty business, leading to your reputation going with you to any participating platform.
Oh there’s no more voluntary reform. They had that chance over the last 40 years. It’s time to start actually regulating again.
That is what I mean yeah. Regulation and strong institutions to uphold the rules.
Tech bros love that idea; I’ve seen a few blockchain-based versions.
Using the block chain is completely unnecessary though, so they’ve clearly got a money making angle.
If it isn’t open source and non-profit, it won’t work. ICANN for example could integrate it into what they do. Only then could it be part of internet regulations fairly.
Meh… I’m happy that they will get to suffer right along side the rest of us. And while this may not be a celebration by definition, I certainly have zero sympathy for a single one of them.
What’s the media going to do when we stop reading this stuff because we’re sick of hearing about it for the last decade?
poor is such a weird word… in most cases it just means bad. Poor food quality, poor planning, poor critical thinking skills, etc….
but when we refer to a person, poor means a lack of money?
isn’t it just baking in the notion that impoverished people are bad?Also in America there is an unspoken attitude that being poor is a moral failing because of the narrative that all you need to succeed is “hard work and determination”. If you’re not rich you must be lazy.
i’m going to call this the hegemony of the rich… but what’s the word for when people adopt the values of their oppressors?
It is my fervent and sincere hope that they get everything that they so richly deserve.
Many of them are low information, or high gullibility and won’t even notice because it’ll get blamed on something else or they’ll be told by their echo chamber that it’s not what they think. The important part is they “find out”, and they may not even while facing the consequences
I am glad they are learning.
The rich ones are going to have permanent erections.
