You’re right, but it’s worse. That sentiment isn’t just why our cohort votes right - it’s why our cohort is unwilling to change the status quo. It’s scary, when you have a kid and rent and a partner and aging parents and just a fuckton on your plate, and even if your morals are all in the right place you have to choose between even protesting, potentially being jailed or worse, or just biding time to vote. And that’s ignoring even any actual radical expression. Revolution is a young man’s game.

“I bet the DHS, DOJ, FBI, CIA, and NSA are all competing to see who can recruit me or kill me before I graduate highschool”-ass threat model

“My hobby is writing James Bond / Freakazoid erotic spy thriller fanfic”-ass threat model

“I drew a dick on Pete Hegseth’s face last time he was passed out drunk before Sunday service”-ass threat model

All spiders matter

Look man it’s not that serious. SK bad, NK bad, Amerikkka bad, etc. Heirarchies bad. Sorry for making you out like a NK supporter. It’s Lemmy, I thought you were a tankie. Every time anyone throws a dig at SK they slide in with pro-NK content, but because they’re terminal larpers they usually lead with some cowardly shit like “He he yup, SK bad, right? Anyways, about NK, idk seems not as bad as the west makes it out to be…”

Sorry I thought you were a tankie. If you’re not a tankie, I didn’t mean to get under your skin. Peace?

I always take it as good clickbait. The articles never have good info, but the headlines are never outrageous IMO. Just kind of a “Tom’s said X, let me do some research.”

Mmm, look, I appreciate that THIS SK president is now going down THIS path. But buddy, SK has largely been a testing ground for the less religious elements of this.

This was my first post…

My guy, please talk to a priest. You’re fighting ghosts in your head. MY point was that SK is a late-stage capitalist hellhole, literally a staging ground of most of the secular expressions of our christofascist movement. Work til you die for nothing. Take your stress out on women and minorities. Militarize.

Jesus Christ. Go to North Korea 😂

Good. If anti american sentiment can put a dent in these corp business structures, all I see are two moral goods.

Idk why you’re bringing up NK, you can dismantle capitalism without becoming an authoritarian dictatorship, but OK.

Mmm, look, I appreciate that THIS SK president is now going down THIS path. But buddy, SK has largely been a testing ground for the less religious elements of this.

Right?! Don’t get me wrong, SK has some PROBLEMS, but good for their president

I treat my dog better than the IDF treats all Palestinians

Wait til you find out what Israelis have been calling Palestinians for decades

Idk. I think it’s gonna get weird before it gets good. Doge existing already compromised networks, in the sense that we had grossly unqualified people without clearance or training in these systems. They’ve been quiet since April, so I personally believe they abandoned their head-ass effort to switch from COBOL to fucking JavaScript. If they’re going to give it all to palantir, however, say what you will but Thiel hires the best network professionals in the industry. My personal bet is one of the doge boys is going to brag in some discord chat that he stole an entire state’s birth record so he could wish his crush Happy Birthday.

Fair enough. Like I said, I got mine, and I am a fan. At the end of the day though, so long as it’s hardened and runs Foss apps then it’s good by me. I couldn’t see being pro-privacy enough to take the plunge on a hardened phone AND being consumerist enough to the point of brand loyalty, lol

No but like fr. Every single thing they don’t like about Trump, they blame on his advisors. “We don’t like vaccines, so he didn’t really greenlight vaccine research, it was Faucci in his ear. He didn’t really disbelieve the 2020 election was stolen, Sidney Powell was in his ear (until it was palatable to them).” Every step of the way if they like something then it’s him, if they don’t it’s someone else (until they like it). Two months ago they were blaming Bondi for mishandling the files; just give it time, in a few years they’ll unironically say he befriended Epstein to infiltrate him or some shit. Give it a couple more and I guarantee the party line is going to be “look at [victim]. Do you really think that someone like that wasn’t asking for it?”

Eh. I don’t fault anyone for not wanting to give google the money. I love my pixel, I love my graphene, but at the end of the day privacy is the first, last and only priority.

Nah. I talked this over with a friend earlier; you don’t really have to look any farther than Mitch McConnell to see what’s what. Dude has suffered lifelong complications from measles and still played an integral part in where we are. It is going to take entire generations growing up losing friends and family before this sinks in. When the mandates stop, child mortality is going to rise in both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups. Herd immunity is probabilistic, not binary, after all. This is going to be a repeat of covid, amongst people primed to believe that if vaccinated people get sick, the vaccines are somehow fake. Paradoxically, the deaths are going to build the maha movement, not end it. And the US apparatus does not give a shit; so long as capitalism keeps running, nobody is systemically doing shit. Hell, if the economy goes tits up, even then the most we’re going to get out of the US is just enough reconstruction to get it going again. This means that first gen, you’re going to have kids indoctrinated with shitty “proof” that vaccines don’t work, that faced slightly elevated mortality rates. Then you have a second generation with even more dead and disfigured, maybe questioning maha while largely propagating those same beliefs into adulthood. Only when you get to gen 3, gen 1’s kids, will you see it “sink in” amongst people raised in antivaxx communities, and even then it will take decades for them to grow up enough to deconstruct the maha movement their grandparents and great grandparents built. Make no mistake, this is a project that took the right 50 years to build; expect at best the same timeframe to dismantle.