Says the guy who posts Trump videos on social media*
Previous Message I've always been someone who (quietly) mocked people who "unplugged" from the news as privileged simpletons. I don't think I can do it entirely, but everything feels so fucking hopeless in a way that I've never felt before.
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My cynicism about the state of our country/world (politically, socially) is at an all-time high. - GMAW April 30, 2024, 10:10:55
- I’m more than fine being mocked in any fashion for this - digs April 30, 2024, 15:11:58
- congratulations on turning 50* - suburbanmyth April 30, 2024, 14:57:41
- You have running water and electricity. It’s not all bad* - opossum jenkins April 30, 2024, 14:49:38
- Agreed, hopefully only 7 ish more months of this* - bigbop85 April 30, 2024, 14:30:09
- It seems a cycle. There were major divides around the 1870s-80s, sometime around the 1920s, - ghost_of_clt April 30, 2024, 14:07:19
- Papers, podcasts ok; TV news 100% out* - Potomac April 30, 2024, 13:18:45
- i found a lot of comfort in the adam grant podcast. recently he interviewed historian yuval harari - Nobster April 30, 2024, 11:58:35
- Does anyone here know Gorsuch, or Gorsuch adjacent people? - complainant April 30, 2024, 11:57:03
- I used to think that our institutions would be pressured but would generally hold - CanHartlebHireSnider April 30, 2024, 11:30:36
- My approach: Focus more on local/micro that you can more easily see results from - oskeewowza April 30, 2024, 11:05:44
- except everything local where I live is an uncompetitive sameness - Potomac April 30, 2024, 13:35:13
- My local/micro politics are just as broken* - GMAW April 30, 2024, 11:30:44
- This exactly. I'm heavily involved with my Supervisor district, elections, and ballot initiatives.. - haighter April 30, 2024, 11:19:59
- meanwhile in Washington state - Sounder April 30, 2024, 11:16:03
- local/micro in Seattle is just endlessly long construction projects* - Sounder April 30, 2024, 11:07:58
- And now shit is really about to get real… - OB25 April 30, 2024, 11:04:26
- I always say that a lack of monoculture has caused this - Sounder April 30, 2024, 11:00:17
- The Culture War is poison * - VIV April 30, 2024, 10:52:19
- ooo - JeffFrank April 30, 2024, 10:45:20
- Says the guy who posts Trump videos on social media* - HamptonSki April 30, 2024, 10:36:20
- This will be, without a doubt, the most important election of a lifetime - UofIL6 April 30, 2024, 10:20:29
- wow, never heard that before* - Tooldresser April 30, 2024, 13:32:26
- Hardly. We’ll get through and have a reset in 28* - Potomac April 30, 2024, 13:20:31
- It seems to me that if Trump gets elected, we'll have something on the spectrum of actual fascism - meanjeans April 30, 2024, 11:07:04
- This won't get fixed until we get a Gen X'er in the White House - timmer April 30, 2024, 10:46:00
- it seems either the fever will start to break or the country will irreparably be on a very new, - John Coctostan April 30, 2024, 10:41:11
- No. The truth is that if Biden gets reelected, it isn’t the end of the world. If Trump - jjlocke923 April 30, 2024, 10:32:07
- It was a good run.* - timmer April 30, 2024, 10:18:54
- Agreed and it will only get worse after the election* - illini21 April 30, 2024, 10:13:21
- It's always been hopeless. You just weren't as aware of it. * - doubledown April 30, 2024, 10:12:10
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