Yeah, but not every empire survives these things. Or survives and remains recognizable.
The U.S. has also never experienced a felon rapist traitor in the Oval Office with an entire party abdicating their responsibilities and conceding their power to that felon rapist traitor and protecting him from repercussions at every opportunity.
Reality check. We have a literal traitor in the Oval Office backed by a treasonous party.
Shit’s not looking good.
Every once in a while a trend comes along that outs all the village idiots.
I think the Tide Pod challenge was the last one before the Cybercuck.
You stop speaking to them.
They’ll either come to realize that there are real world consequences for being a dumb asshole, like their friends and family abandoning them…or they won’t. Either way, you win.
Probably waiting for Americans to stop stripping them of their power and handing it over to a felon rapist traitor and his treasonous party.
Is acting only according to your self-interest a good strategy in life?
Not if you plan on living in a society.
Because the majority of Lemmy users are American and the United States is in the process of collapsing, or at the very least, steep decline. So it’s kind of the primary topic of discussion.
If you don’t like it, you can edit your feed to only show the subs you want. It’s pretty easy.
Once or twice every decade a clown car gets released and a handful of dipshits buy them and become the red-headed stepchildren of our roadways. The butt of jokes. Cautionary tales.
Ford Pinto
Pontiac Aztek
Chrysler PT Cruiser
Tesla Cybercuck
“The best part of you ran down your mother’s leg.”
The best part? My friend’s dad said that to him when we were kids. Yeah, he was a major asshole. Also, not scientifically accurate. He was pretty stupid.
Conservatives.
Start a cult.
Everything I’ve seen for the last decade indicates it’s pretty easy and highly profitable.
I rapid-fire solve technical problems all day.
I also place orders. But that’s the easy stuff.
Go on Google Maps and go to South America. Start pretty zoomed out then start zooming in a bit and you’ll start to see all the grey, light green, and brown areas eating away at the dark green areas that are the Amazon like a cancer killing its host. A ton of it is already gone. Another few generations and it’ll disappear.
GUMMI BEARS, BOUNCING HERE AND THERE AND EVERYWHERE!!!
Also, literally eating gummi bears right now.
Another fantastic reason to be here instead of Reddit.
I’d take that chance.
He’s a cult leader. Cults tend to collapse after the cult leader dies. It was so close to the election I don’t think there would have been enough support for another Republican to win in the chaos that would have ensued within the Republican party.
It almost certainly would have resulted in a better future.
Kid shouldn’t have aimed for the head. Harder to hit and nothing there anyway.
In 1995 I considered movies from 1965 old. So, yes.
Just throwing this out there.
If you expect conservatives to learn anything from this experience, I can promise you on my life that they won’t. They will not deviate from voting R under any circumstance in existence.
Best we can hope for is independents getting a clue and helping swing the next election, if there is one, back to the grownup party.
Not holding my breath though. This is a very, very stupid generation of Americans.
“We just have to stick with him and things will get better.” - Loser Conservatives
As someone who became an adult before social media was a thing, it has absolutely been a detriment to society.
There’s great aspects to it and I utilize them. But as a whole, it has FUUUUCKED us up in a very significant way.
There is a direct correlation between the rise of social media and the absolute nosedive our political discourse has taken. Misinformation is SO much more prevalent now. And that rise in misinformation is definitely having real world effects.
A lot of them were hippies that became selfish assholes. People change. Especially when there are propaganda networks working to change them.
Except now every stupid, racist asshole has the ability to spread their message to millions of people.