I'm going to start by saying I've become more of a commenter than a poster on Lemmy but, the election has gotten me fucking heated for obvious reasons.
I want to preface this by saying I don't mean this as an "all is lost" doom and gloom post, but it's the number one thing that has been on my mind in recent days reading headlines and even comments all over Lemmy regarding various ways people are attempting or planning to attempt to resist Trump.
- "But XYZ is illegal!?" Followed usually by some citation of a law showing that Trump's plan A or B are technically against the law, be it military deployment, or firing of Federal employees etc.
Y'all, get this through your heads. They have the POTUS, the Senate, the House, the SCOTUS. It's over for "precedent". It doesn't matter what the law says. Trump can now do LITERALLY anything he wants and all the other branches will fall in line and MAKE IT legal or otherwise wave the illegality away.
- "But this program has already been signed off on by Biden"
This means nothing. On January 6th it WILL be cancelled immediately. No program is outside the reach of Trump now. No amount of studies or research or anything will do a damn thing to stop this.
This, in my opinion, extends to Aide to Ukraine or Palestine or Taiwan. ANYTHING that has not physically left the country and already been handed to the country in question, by January 6th, will be completely within his power to drop. It does not matter if we have a treaty, or an agreement, or a contract.
- My last vent is directed towards the far left .ml people around here.
I'm so fucking tired of your holier than thou attitudes. Some of you come into the comments on .world and other instances and act like you're part of some club that has a plan for your far left ideals and you're somehow going to be immune to all of this and you're just sitting back and watching it all burn.
Get this straight. You will be first.
In times of far right take over and violence, they don't go after the peaceful first. They go after the agitators, they go after the armed and ready agents of chaos, they go after any they deem a danger to their ideology and YOU are the biggest target. So laugh while you can but, to all of you that find this election turn out just SO funny and promoted all your Jill Stein or whatever third party bullshit. To you, a sincere Fuck. You.
Nothing you describe is unique about human behavior throughout history in regards to domination of kings and warlords.
In the message you just replied to, I quoted:
“Donald decided to invite for this task — the special scientific department of the “Cambridge University.” British scientists from Cambridge Analytica suggested making 5,000 existing human psychotypes — the “ideal image” of a possible Trump supporter. Then … put this image back on all psychotypes and thus pick up a universal key to anyone and everyone. Then it was only necessary to upload this data to information flows and social networks.”
That is what is new. Lemmy and Twitter are what is new here. the population of the Earth, airports, and the ability to have 5,000 channels of fiction are what is new. Technology created by non-politicians is what is new.
Exactly what time period do you think those existed at all? I'm GenerationX born in 1969 and I had it (I'm 3rd child, parents were middle class)... but I think that only lasted from 1950 to 1990. And frankly, people who lived in downtown New York City in any time period didn't live that way.
"The American Dream" is the www.GreatSealUSA.com - also on Lemmy [email protected]
And what I see in May 2025 is Lemmy users who refuse to be serious and exit the 5,000 Cambridge Analytica screen games of "hate harder' (which mentioned in the message you replied to).
Let me be ultra blunt:
The Church was simulacra book alternate reality games in 1955 USA - The Bible was the script for the alternate-reality USA screen game.
Today in 2025 it is Lemmy, alternate-reality Cambridge Analytica screen games.
We are still not living in real reality, which was what the nation was founded on and defined by the www.GreatSealUSA.com
This is a global problem. I have also lived in Chile in South America, in Algeria in North Africa, in Jordan in Middle East, in Malaysia and Indonesia - and they aren't living in scientific reality either.
Carl Sagan in 1994 and 1995 spelled out how we would be living in 2025 if we continued to abandon science thinking.
I think we live in entertainment thinking. Fiction Lemmy, fiction Fox News, fiction Twitter, etc. Just as Carl Sagan said in his 1995 book.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
That was a TV show called "leave it to Beaver", a fiction TV show. And people still live in fiction dreams. Donald Trump is a fiction storyteller and people on Lemmy are not discussing reality itself, only reacting with popcorn to the fiction. That's what Carl Sagan was spelling out in his 1995 book, we were building fiction again, to live in "American Dream" of living in anti-science thinking, fiction films and TV show thinking. Donald Trump "The Apprentice" reality Twitter show of White House Tweeting.
Dude....What the fuck are you talking about?
I'm talking about how this country is fuckin' cooked. You're talking about seals and digital profiling.
How Cambridge Analytica has conditioned you to message like this on Lemmy. "WTF" kind of reactionary conditioned reply electric message.
You think this is only one single nation. it's the entire world, WWW.