The combination of hopelessness and misinformation is very powerful
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2025
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Police Procedural shows.
Law and Order, Criminal Minds, NCIS, CSI, Lie to Me, Dexter...
Basically, anything that makes people think that police are more effective at solving crime than they actually are.
I've gone through all the stages of grief and I don't live there. I honestly don't know why it does or even should bother me. I guess there is some part of me that hates injustice and has some nostalgia for an America, real or always imagined, that was trying to do its best for the free world (even though that was, in many cases, found to be objectively not true later).
If anything, it seems like they may finally get rid of some of the stuff that makes it difficult to impossible for US people living overseas to use certain retirement vehicles without committing tax fraud (PFICs; PFICs everywhere and I can't put income into my US tax-advantaged vehicles due to rules on that side), but potentially doing one thing that helps me does not do anything to assuage my revulsion and rage at the current situation.
Everyone's angry, nobody can agree on what the problem is or what to do about it.
I bet soon you'll see massive consequential protests.
There is a lot of protests, the media isn't really reporting them.
The delusion that their party will someday fix it
We are mad and we’re getting madder. We just haven’t hit the fever pitch yet. There hasn’t been a catalyst.
But eventually there will be one and we’ll be able to coalesce around it. Seems like Moscow Musk is starting to be the foil, but so could a number of other things: egg prices, bid flu, new Hoovervilles. Something will make it happen.
Now is the time to plan and prepare.
I also wonder this but then the people that voted for trump are very happy.
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You'd think with that username...
The chance at taking freedom and everything from others first.
Edit: that quote and story have disappeared except for some Nigerian news site still on MSN.
Apathy
They are so mad that democrats weren't a sufficiently exciting alternative to an outright fascist entente. Livid, they are.
Why are we still talking about this? I'm over it. I'm over the democrats too. I'd sit with the Palestinians at lunch time rather than the DNC any day, anyway.
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Americans are pissed as all hell. Michael Moore said in 2016 "the American people will throw Donald Trump into Washington like a Molotov Cocktail."
We do not agree who is at fault. 40% the voters think it's brown people and queer people and about 30% of them think it's the wealthy.
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