Yeah I kinda glanced off that…
I think that’s always been “on the menu” for people who are deeply unhappy and can’t figure out who to blame. “Going postal” isn’t a new concept.
I don’t expect the biggest factor to be an increase of the likelihood that a mentally anguished person will decide to mass-murder-suicide-by-cop, I think that the pool of mentally anguished people has just grown so much.
My theory:
A lot of people are hitting mid-life from the first western generation significantly less well-off than their parents. They grew up with expectations set by their environment which they’re now realizing isn’t realistic at all. It’s not really their fault for having those expectations, it was a reality they witnessed with their own eyes.
I think this fairly nebulous anxiety over the disconnect between expectation and reality is the root cause of a lot of various flavours of anti-social behavior. It’s just a roulette spin of who they end up blaming.
Andrew Tate misogyny, MAGA fascism, Xenophobia, Anti-vaxxers, flat earthers, full-on neo nazis etc etc, I think the surprising uptake of these otherwise fringe ideas are just people subconsciously grasping for explanation of why the world (and by extension their lives) “just isn’t right”.
So yah, layer than onto regular mid-life crises, it’s a powder keg.
And I think this is where so much MAGA support comes from. They heavily lean into acknowledgement that things AREN’T good. They’re BAD. You’re NOT CRAZY for thinking they’re FUCKED, and the urgency you feel is APPROPRIATE.
In the US at least, it’s the right offering radical change. It’s fucking idiotic change guaranteed to blow up in your face before the leopards come to chew it off… but goddamnit it’s radical. It at least matches the energy level of the angst. The Dems are offering piecemeal incremental bland realistic changes that while certainly for the better, they won’t rock the boat too hard.
The article (if you’re past the paywall) does seem to point to that. Except it wouldn’t be the wife, but instead fiance.
In 24 hours as President Elect, was the promise.
Gee if only there was a way for countries with a surplus of one resource and a deficit of another to exchange their own surplus at some rate for what another country has.
Perhaps even treaty agreements about the rates. The nations could maybe agree on shared intermediary token representing value.
TRump could perhaps even name such a new visionary system of exchange after himself: “TRade”?
We could further honour him by naming the negotiated parameters a “TRade agreement”?
I dunno. This is some fucking bleeding edge international relations concepts, I’m certainly not equipped to wrap my head around such forward thinking.
Why be the president if you can just buy the present? No term limits, no accountability.
It’s the art of the deal.
The nature of the problem intrinsically supports divide and conquer.
It’s not a problem for you until it is, and once it is you have bigger problems
That’s true, but even if he sat in his seat and did nothing it’d still be better handing it to a Trump loyalist. Squatting in that seat he can do more than 1,000,000 people writing scathing tweets.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I’ve seen a few comments from people who’ve blocked posts by keyword. “Trump”, “Musk” etc. I think it’s totally fair to want to curate your feeds to fit your interests. You might want to explore that as an alternative approach to what IMO is a valid desire.
I’m worried for you if you just block by community because:
You’ll be perpetually playing whack-a-mole and it’ll be an exhausting and frustrating experience for you. And that would suck.
You’ll eventually have blocked such a significant swathe of Lemmy that it might feel artificially empty to you. And that would also suck.
If Roseanne ever was in a music video praising me, the embarrassment might actually kill me.