doesn’t matter where you live, the people living in hell will force it down your throat because they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are.

yeah but more pictures of cats and dogs.

The demographic of who watches TV has also drastically aged… hence why most TV ads are now all medicene, luxury cars, and stuff catering to the 50-60+ demographic. Nobody under 40 watches cable TV anymore.

My family do watch cable TV, but they are in their mid 50s.

In the 90s everyone watched TV of all ages.

i have an iphone and a motorola android. both are about 3 years old

And that’s why California is considered ‘anti business’.

now kiss

it’s a convoluted rant blaming white women for trumps win, or something. because if only they were the right kind of feminist they’d have seen the light! or something

I particularly enjoyed the random injection of NA land issues, as if that’s somehow the fault of white middle-class feminism?

Wild stuff. But your typical leftist lemmy rant that is completely out of touch and incoherent and blames other people for being ignorant fools for not being their particular flavor of leftism. Because if only everyone believed what they did, we’d live in a socialist utopia where injustice would not exist and butterflies would fly out of everyone’s assholes when they farted.

a lot of black people are homophobic, sexist, and conservative. and racist.

both things can be true.

this idea that black people are all progressive liberals is just a projection from white progressive liberals complete lack of interaction with people outside their little enclaves. they aren’t.

black voters are largely democratic, yes, but they are typically not progressives on social issues.

What everyone forgot, esp on the Dem/liberal side, is you win by buying a coalition of voters around various issues on which they can find some mutual ground. Which is exactly what Trump did in '16 and '20 and the Democrats did with Obama in '08 and '12.

Trump focused on the border, economy, and other rhetoric around which a lot of people found common interest. And racism was one of those interests. Many Hispanic voters also wanted the border closed. My Asian friends parents were Trump supporters, because they were anti-immigration. They were first gen immigrant and they hate new Asian immigrants coming here.

To frame an argument like that is to say through subtext that no act of reformation can ever be enough.

That’s the point though. When you frame it that way you turn it into an extreme issue, to which you allowed an extreme reaction. You can never acknowledge progress or growth or change. It’s can therefore be perpetual ragebait. And Americans eat this up. They love it.

One of the key tenants of modern leftist ID politics is that racism is a form of original sin that can never be washed clean, and often ti goes so far to claim that being white is makes you irredeemable racist, thus you own an infinite debt to minorities. And you must spend your life perpetual seeking forgiveness for your racism and being forever vigilant at any possibly racist thoughts you or anyone you know has.

Where the person thinks they started from nothing no matter how elevated their position was.

In America, this is the internalized narrative that everyone has, it’s our national mythology.

I’ll do you one better. I am a working-class born American, who went to Harvard and became part of the upper-middle class. Many people I meet in my adult life, tell me I should have never been born because my parents were unable to provide me with college/grad school education out of their own money. They actively hate and resent the idea of people working their way up in life because it makes them feel bad about themselves. Sometimes I get told that my lack of wealth, makes me MORE privileged than them. Literally last month I was out with someone whose parents had PhDs, who started lecturing me no how ‘oppressed’ they were by having such successful parents, and my uneducated rural upbringing was ‘more privileged’ than theirs because ‘your starting point was so much lower and therefore it was easier for you to achieve things’. It was wild. But I encounter such attitudes very frequently. It’s basically the sentiment that affirmative action is cheating and allowing ‘unworthy’ minorities to attend schools and ‘displacing’ more deserving wealthier white/asian students.

The upper classes do not want anyone to achieve what they have, they want to horde it for themselves. In their own minds, they are the victims of an evil and undeserving working-class who wants to steal from them.

Most people are racist. Some of the biggest racists I ever knew were Asian and Hispanic.

It’s just white racism is considered wrong and bad, and the other kind of racisms are not, because the white media industry is obsessed with self-flagellating itself over white on black racism as begin the only legitimate racism.

There is also a massive issue with asian on black, and black on asian, racism. But White people don’t know about it or talk about it, because white people are mostly obsessed with racism in terms of their own guilt, rather than understanding how it operates systematically across various groups. A lot of Trumps minority supports were for him because he’s racist and they agree with him.

I am from Boston, northeast has always been super racist and still is.

We just hide our racism by using different words, like ‘those people’. Go to any town/city meeting and you will see 50% of the people going up to talk about their ‘concerns’ using phrases like that. It’s all very veiled and vague, for sure, but it’s incredibly obvious what they mean. Being racist here is 100% cool as long as you are not doing it directly.

And hell, most of my white progressive anti-racists friends, are very very uncomfortable around non-white people. I had the ‘privileged’ of growing up a lower-income mixed race community, but most of my peers have zero experience with non-white people.

Agreed. To me, the root the issue with American politics, is that everyone wants free lunch. Everyone wants the benefits, but doesn’t want to pay the costs that come with those benefits.

Like with housing. People think it’s too expensive, but nobody wants their own houses value to go down. And if you point that out those are mutually exclusive, they tell you you’re an asshole. They start spouting off insane nonsense about how it must be possible, but someone ‘evil’ is preventing it. They just go to magical thinking rather than admit any collective responsibility.

The melting pot is no longer fashionable idea. You’re a racist if you suggest immigrants should assimilate by today’s standards.

Yeah it was brutal. She was a really good doctor too. But just… had zero perspective on her life and was super bitter than other people had more money than she did.

She also wanted a cat but then kept saying how she can’t get one because it will mean she is a pathetic sad lonely single person. It was so weird. I had a cat and she would come over and play with him all the time… then start in on her self-hating rants. She could never just enjoy something.

Some people just have a mentality of pure negativity.

I once dated a doctor, who was a fellow at the best hospital in the world, who had a pretty amazing life, from my perspective. They grew up with wealthy parents, they went to Standford, for free, and had a degree from Harvard Medical school, and they’d completed their residency and had a salary of about 350K at the age of 30.

From their own perspective, they hated their life. Nobody likes them, they were a failure, they were poor and struggling, etc. etc. The same rhetoric you get from so many people here. And I’m sure when I walked away from them because of their extreme self-negativity, they thought I was just also another mean terrible person to them. And they kept lecturing me about how ‘naive and dumb’ i was for being happy with my life…

People just become prisoners in their own minds and can’t see any good in the world or their own lives.

Bingo. People here tend to be very extreme in their beliefs and they vastly over generalized their niche interests.

The vast majority of people out there don’t know what Linux is nor will they be ‘liberated’ by it.

But making small talk can also backfire. The idea that you will just chat people up and all will be well with the world is naive. A lot of people only find community and belonging through creation oppositional identity (us vs them). Frankly I have had to leave many communities over the years because the ‘community’ had warped into that mentality of ‘those people not like us are bad, and we are the good guys’ nonsense, usually because it got infused with political bullshit by insecure weirdos who need to see everything through a political struggle.

And sometimes it’s the same person. That’s what people really fail to get. Everyone is capable of good and evil, often at the same time.

Their need to demonize others as totally evil largely a product of their own fears that their evils will be discovered.

5.3 billion in small arms says to civilians.

The small arms market in the USA is so large it would be the 155th largest GDP if it was country.

By what metric? It’s far better trained and equipped than most any other military, especially elite units.

Unless you’re talking about how the Finnish army whooped us in some exercises, on their home turf in winter, at which their entire nation is super-specialized in? I’m sure if you stuck the Finnish army in Florida for an exercise they’d be the ones whooped.

The point of that exercise was to ID training deficiencies for Arctic operations.