(which ultimately means there’s no knownbiomarker to test for).

I had a relatively serious TBI as a teenager that wasn’t treated properly (long story) and when the symptoms from it became impossible to ignore as a young adult it was my fault for being lazy and there’s nothing wrong with me I just needed to try harder.

That level of gaslighting makes me hate the medical industry.

No fucking way! Being medically gaslit leads to bad outcomes! The sky is blue and water is wet!!

Electric cars are just greenwashing for the upper class to feel good about themselves while not doing a single fucking thing to curb their materialism. Electric cars saved the auto industry they’re not saving the earth.

They have zero chance of getting anywhere in America so I don’t really care about their negatives. I voted up and down the ballot for them last election.

The democrats are never going to learn (good billionaires! Let’s pivot further to the right!) so a stinging loss it is. They and their blue MAGA vote blue no matter who idiot supporters deserve to lose.

I mean look at them right now. They can’t even do the bare minimum and obstruct everything like the republicans do. Totally fucking useless.

Apocalypse gestures broadly

Oh. Well in that case. Democracy it is!

As if the US would support such a movement. They only support right wing fascist dictatorships. Or “democracy” if there’s resources to exploit.

Does Serbia have any special natural resources we need to “spread democracy” for?

And Iran went from mini skirts to burqas in three years.

You’re probably right but I hope you’re wrong.

I think the right will revolt if pushed hard enough. A lot of trumps support isn’t genuine - it’s a lot of “reverse” lesser evil strategy. Most people I work with in a deep blue state (federally) voted for him. Of those, only two are actual trump supporters. The rest are mostly “apolitical” and don’t like him but saw him as less evil than Harris, who promised a continuation of much of the same failed policy as biden which was economically hurting my coworkers.

I think one of my coworkers - straight, female, 30s, white, seemingly socially liberal - is a perfect microcosm into the average trump voter: Me: I’m surprised you voted for trump. Why? “my paycheck didn’t go as far under biden. I don’t like the guy but I’m struggling now more than ever.” Me: what about women’s reproductive rights? “I’m not worried, our state’s constitution protects it”Me: what would make you regret your vote? “if they went after the states right to abortion”

This woman doesn’t hate minorities, doesn’t really care about immigration, is pro lgbtq, pro women’s rights. And she voted for trump because neoliberalism is bankrupting her. She’s not alone. The rabidly stupid base of trump supporters the media parades around because they act like a ridiculous cult are not the people who put trump in office. My coworker is the type who put trump in office. And if government services they or their loved ones rely on disappear or they’re kicked off of, there’s a real chance they might revolt.

I totally agree with this. They’re fucking around and they’re about to find out. There’s a gun behind every blade of grass in this country. The question is… what will be the last straw? I think we came dangerously close to a revolution during the beginning of covid, with the right wing losing their collective shit over being asked to stay home and wear a mask, and the BLM protests after another black person was shot by the cops. (Note the difference in severity of offense to get a crowd to form. Blacks getting killed vs whites getting inconvenienced)

What’s it going to take? Killing off social security? Medicare? Medicaid? I think SS will do it. My mother (and many others her age) rely on it almost entirely to survive. With nothing left to lose, kids grown and looking at the end of their lifespan, why not revolt? My moms a dem but most her age are trump supporters. Surely it’s the undesirables that trump will hurt and not them. but are they physically fit enough to revolt? Doubtful.

Last year I was in Home Depot looking at tool accessories. A woman dressed in marine officer uniform approached me. I thought she was hitting on me at first. In reality, she was trying to recruit me to the marines. “You look so young and fit! Hard to find these days!” Well unfortunately for her, not young enough.

This woman was casing out the local Home Depot looking for young fit people to recruit. They’re desperate. What does that say about our society and the chances that we even could revolt successfully? What does that say about our national security in general?

As for the whigs… the republicans went that way when trump and the tea party took over. The republicans of my youth (bush 2 and co) are now effectively the democrat party. See Liz Cheney as an example….

Thank you for this glimmer of sanity. I can’t deal with the libs and their vote harder bullshit any longer. We need real leadership and opposition, something the democrats are incapable of because it offends the “good billionaires” (lololol they learned nothing from the loss) aka their controllers.

Who am I supposed to vote for? The fascists or the controlled opposition?

Lol at you equating being voted out of office as “real consequences”.

The only thing these people fear is death itself. They need to be more scared.

My wife points out that a bunch of geriatrics revolting sounds anticlimactic. OTOH, the visuals of cops beating senior citizens would be an interesting media event.

A whole lot of them have guns and also family members that will be resentful that they have to take them in like abandoned animals when their funding dries up. Also a bunch of armed people with nothing to lose is dangerous even if they’re old and disabled.

Agree to disagree. Bread and circuses, man. Bread and circuses. TikTok, X, Meta, Lemmy, Mastodon… people think being indignant on social media is going to cause change.

Well yeah. All of social media, sure. Although x and meta both block leftists. I’ve been banned from both and Reddit too for “inciting violence” by being anti fascist. But liberals are far too happy to make snarky clap backs and change their profile picture than take over the federal judiciary.

Yeah have fun with those democrats confirming trumps nominees for absolutely no fucking reason other than to protect their capitalist donors

Libs are fucking insufferable and have only themselves and their failed policies to blame. The socialists have warned for 150 years what capitalism leads to.

Shooting some mid level finance manager isn’t gonna do shit but make things worse. I want a billionaire technofascist.

I’m gonna block your dumbass, but before that, I’ve voted in every election including the primaries only to be told my votes don’t matter because of the electoral college. Our politicians are garbage. Red states are robbing blue states of our tax dollars while holding us hostage under their fascist values. Fuck that, let them suffer without our money.

The US was a failing democracy now its a failed one.

You think your housing crisis is bad now, wait until there’s a bunch of American refugees coming over your border. That’s why I suggested making blue states part of Canada. You get our tax dollars we get your healthcare. You get our weapons we get out from being under a fascist dictatorship.

You’ve got a GPS tracker on these technofascists?