edit: seems like some people interpret “full of” as a mathematical majority which, while it may or might not be true instance to instance, isn’t my intent in posting
feel free to swap in “has a lot of” if that’s more familiar language to you :)
edit: seems like some people interpret “full of” as a mathematical majority which, while it may or might not be true instance to instance, isn’t my intent in posting
feel free to swap in “has a lot of” if that’s more familiar language to you :)
I’m with you. I live in a red state in the north, in a small island of blue, but if I drive for a few minutes in any direction it’s trump signs & bigotry.
I feel like I’m surrounded by idiots. They’re bringing my state down with them. It’s horrifying.
Sending love ❤️ I truly hate to see would be-“progressives” laughing at the senseless deaths and violence just because some 30% of them voted a certain way.
It’s one of the ways that capital keeps the culture war lit, I find. Breed hatred and dehumanization for a people group while gleefully stripping that people group from self-determination at every opportunity.
I’m seeing a very ugly side around Lemmy the last couple of days. It’s nice to see posts like this!
If something is despicable when your adversary does it, then it is despicable when you do it.
We are not immune to propaganda! ❤️ It’s on all of us to help each other out, finding our blind spots.
It’s been around in related forms, for a while; the reactions to just any comment where someone points out or mentions eugenics usually are good ones (arguably, the argument that’s caught on around here that brain damage is literally conservativism is a great example of that general thinking and eugenics-adjacent (and ablism-directly!)).
Who’s laughing at senseless deaths? You mean people are laughing at the flood victims??
I saw some comment (since been removed by mods) about 'You get what you vote for!" on an article about the teenagers who got caught in the flood. Basically, liberal blue-maga behavior instead of leftist solidarity among us poors.
Yeah, I can’t stand that stuff. Like when Michael Moore was celebrating the Texas grid failures and the ice storm. I’m like, the whole reason I’m against traitor lunatic policies is because they are harmful.
The only time I’m down with “have the day you voted for” type thinking is when it’s a rich person losing their business or something.
It’s so sad. Voting age in the US is 18 for the record so even if we ignore the historic systemic voting barriers for older people and across generations, it’s also transparently malicious to blame teens, most of whom never voted once, for their deaths.
Hell even if they were an actual adult who very much voted the wrong way and fully drank the cool aid, death is not okay and seeing people online celebrate it because they’re “the bad guys” kinda makes me sick.
One of the reasons I got off reddit was any time a video from Ukraine came up the comments were just full of insults and jokes about the Russian soldier who died. And yeah, there is no redeeming qualities of Russia invading Ukraine and they could stop the war just as easily as they started it, but come on guys. That’s some guy, a guy who had family and friends and desires and dislikes and now he’s dying a slow and painful death in a field somewhere.
You can not like the “other side” but you gotta hold onto your humanity.
Truth! And, if my understanding of history and sources are correct, Russian citizenry had even less say in their government or precipitating invasion than the average American.
Russian elections are like, crazy rigged. I’m sure our president is jealous.
Yes. :( Fortunately the mods and general vibe here are okay but Instagram and Reddit are rife with it. Twitter is… even worse.
Just wanted to put some love and acknowledgement out there in the face of that insanity. :)
Hm. My guess is Indiana.