That’s how the world should be treating us. Fuck us.

https://aeon.co/essays/germany-became-a-tolerant-nation-only-by-painful-small-steps

In the mid-1950s, nearly half of all Germans polled said ‘yes’ to the proposition that ‘were it not for the war, Hitler would have been one of the greatest statesmen of the 20th century.’ Until the late 1950s, nearly 90 per cent gave an answer other than ‘yes’ when asked if their country should recognise the Oder-Neisse line, the new border with Poland. Perhaps most revealing of all was their stance on Jews. On 12 June 1946, Hannah Arendt hazarded the opinion to Dolf Sternberger, one of occupied Germany’s most prominent publicists, that ‘Germany has never been more antisemitic than it is now.’ As late as 1959, 90 per cent of Germans polled thought of Jews as belonging to a different race – while only 10 per cent thought of the English in these terms.

People are less likely to change their views than they are to be shamed into silence, and then die off in quiet misery.

All bets are off, man. “It couldn’t happen here” is an old and tired refrain, I’m afraid.

Government assistance. Luckily I live in a blue state, so getting several major bills subsidized for being a filthy poor helps me eat regularly and not worry too much about turning the heat above 50 in the winter.

“It’s a good thing that our current situation couldn’t get any worse.”

Situation: [gets worse]

“Maybe another billion dollars for police to jerk off in their cruisers and collect overtime at the expense of all other municipal budgets will help!” - Political discourse in this fucking country

Someplace in the Anglosphere. I don’t think I have it in me to learn a new language just to get by in day-to-day life. New Zealand, maybe.

Unfortunately, my immensely low income and numerous medical issues means that I’m not much of a candidate for emigration.

Also, ideally, a region without a lot of insects.

In any case, though, I’m probably going to die here, stubbornly. If these fascist fucks want me dead bad enough to see it through, I’m at least going to inconvenience them with getting rid of my body.

Guillotines

This is what I mean when I talk about how no amount of suffering will turn people to our side.

Suffering will not cure these fuckwits.

Bad area, ceiling leaks, noise all night from the railyard, recent mouse infestation despite two visits from an exterminator, pipes intermittently stop working, pretty sure something is fucked with the electric bill, rent just went up 100$. And it’s still one of the cheapest places I can find.

I’m fucking living in it. God bless America.

New York mayoral races are notoriously unpredictable due to the city’s chronically low turnout. In 2017, for example, Bill de Blasio won reelection with only 14% of registered voters coming out to support him.

Damn, my hopes for Mamdani just got even higher. Low turnout under ordinary circumstances give high-enthusiasm candidates an advantage, by that enthusiastic base’s relative size to the ordinarily voting electorate.

Sadly ineligible. He’s a naturalized citizen.

Christ, it’s 2025. I should fucking hope that none of this fucking matters for the 2028 primary.

“6-figure salaries just aren’t cutting it”

Reminds me of the people who insist on higher taxes but complain that raising taxes on their lowly 300k+ two-income household would be oppression.

It’s never enough.

Some clients have an option for blocking keywords. Browsing by subscribed comms is also useful. I only have a handful of comms that allow US politics content that show up on my feed.

What is wrong with us?

Apathy, hopelessness, ignorance, and, in the case of GOP voters, malice.

Not sure where they’re getting that number from, honestly. The actual numbers are MUCH smaller, though still non-neglible.

So you’ve decided shitting on people who voiced valid opposition is the best course of action

Ah yes, the ‘valid opposition’ of critical support for literal fascists winning, under the excuse that “both sides are the same anyway”.

Very valid, as this event (one of many, I might add) shows. Marginalized groups which depend on the government not being fascists thank you and your kind for your principled stand against our lives. It’s truly a privilege.

I believe that the ultrapurist attitude that many Lemmy users follow was a non-zero factor in the loss in 2024, such as the some 2 million 2020 Biden voters who refrained from voting for Harris solely on the strength of the Palestine issue; and that the Dem Party’s fecklessness and incompetence was, likewise, a very non-zero factor.

Lemmy users ourselves, as with any small community, are not really a factor in anything but in determining which discussions are useful to have here.

Let’s not blame the insane people in power, no it’s the Lemmy people who had valid criticisms of Harris who clearly swung the whole vote in trumps favor. Actual insanity.

Goodness gracious me, why would I complain on Lemmy about the behavior and opinions of people on Lemmy?

It’s truly a mystery.