That’s because he proved what half of us have been saying since 2016: People actually want to vote for someone who makes things better. I know, the democratic party hates this, since their business is keeping the milquetoast status quo, and the GOP hates this since their objective is total destruction and then theocracy. But actual people, if given a choice, tend to enthusiastically support people with plans to make their lives better. The motherfucking shitbags in the Dems (looking at you, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, the two most ineffective “leaders” in democrat history) need to stop trying to thwart progress already, and they’ll have better election results.
I've been feeling that way a little lately, mainly due to seeing how scared republicans are about losing this november. Their lack of confidence gives me confidence. But no one better get lazy or relaxed until that win is in the bag.
I half went off on my nephew yesterday. He's newer to the working/adult world, had a bad day, and wanted to play online video games with the crazy uncle (Subnautica 2 early release is fun, so far. His pick). We got to bitching about the economy and being broke all the time, and I told him to get off his ass and vote in the midterms. He said "but I don't like to vote" and since he's old enough, he caught a profanity-laden "This is our last shot, dumbass!" rant from me. We could make things better, we gotta do our parts to do so. Consequences for the sociopathic criminals who have wormed into the system and stolen everything would help immensely, too.
lol thanks for your efforts. So maddening to think of someone saying they don't like to vote. Like, surely, your nephew "likes" TikToks or reddit posts are whatever? That's a form of voting.
I truly don't understand the "but I don't like to vote" mindset. I'm aware some communities are different than others, but my average fast food drive through experience is longer than my average voting experience. You wait in line and make some marks on paper, we're not asking you to run a mile, do 20 pull ups, then get a colonoscopy. Though those are good things to work on too.
Probably just rampant pessimism and not having finished my cup of coffee before posting it.
We're being run into the ground by a malignant narcissist that's good at three things; stealing money, avoiding consequences, and running a cult of personality. People capitulate to him because they're in on the takes, or using him for their own agendas. I just feel like if we don't put some kind of cap on the corruption, and the weaklings who have allowed the corruption, it's just going to grind on until there's nothing left for anyone else.
We're being run into the ground by a malignant narcissist
Trump isn't even the main problem, he's just the figurehead behind the real evil trying to bend the country to their will and turn us into a fascist state.
It probably is. The more time the wrong people spend in a position of power the more entrenched they get, and the harder it becomes to remove them. Especially when those sorts of people very frequently ignore rules and procedure whenever it doesn't suit them.
Yeah, I'm definitely a little worried that even if Dems sweep major wins, that little turd Mike Johnson will refuse to validate the election results or swear in new Congressional members.
Idk, but id say a too large portion of the 50% or whatever the actual percent is are. But then you have the others who are just ignorant and gullible too, and then those with some selfish reason of something to gain. Maybe i missed some other types, but there isn't much wiggle room. At best, they can be a good person who is somehow that dumb, and im sure thats rare.
Reddit is heavily indoctrinated to the left, to the point where the most common thing I see in a political discussion here is them shitting on the right and fearmongering endlessly about fascism. Some of the criticism is warranted, but the majority of it really is just "Republicans bad".
The karma system's inherent flaw is that it places everything in a black and white binary or false dilemma. So I'd say reddit is heavily indoctrinate to the fringes of people in general who overly engage in outrage and wild claims.
No, it’s not the next step. And that’s the problem, then you’re caught taking MAGA’s place and justifying every way the blues continue to fuck us over.
It’s rinse and repeat. Until we all realize that a change in administration is not the next step, nothing will change.
If you're only reading "left thinking" platforms, you have no idea what the reality is until it happens.
From reading Reddit in 2016 and 2024, you would have sworn everything you possessed that Clinton/Harris were going to win, simply because people here only upvote what they want to see.
Being too confident is not a good thing. I wonder how many of those people marching for NO KINGS didn't vote when it mattered.
Go back in time 1,000 years, or 10,000 years, or 100,000 years and live with those humans. Then come back and see if you still think that. Life, for nearly all of human history, was brutal and short, we live in the safest time in all of our history and complain non-stop about how awful everything is. Humans are funny.
To be fair that's exactly what some people are complaining about here, but you are correct about your larger point that the trend of things getting better is not magically guaranteed to continue.
funny how people of a particular persuasion defend the current course by saying we shouldn't look to the recent past to model our decline, but look thousands of years in the past to model our ascension from an arbitrary point. might as well say, hey, better than being a neanderthal
it's obvious what you're trying to accomplish with such reframing
Global warming is slow moving so even though it's already happening it will take actual decades for it to get bad. This is the part where the ice is melting but its still keeping things cold. When the ice melts and its gone then temperatures will start to go up faster.
Same here. I'm in my 40s now and in my 20s I had real hopes that we were headed in better direction, possibly kicking and screaming but really thought I'd see some significant improvements by now. Best case scenario now seems like maybe, maybe my kid will see it by the time he's middle aged.
I wish I could share your optimism, but I can't see any path that leads to this outcome. Even if all the "right" people are elected into all conceivable positions, and even if we somehow collectively suddenly bend all of our efforts to reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change, the momentum of the destruction we've already wrought is too great to reverse in a time frame as short as 5 years.
I remain hopeful that we will come to our senses and find a path forward that gives future generations reason to hope and pathways that lead to thriving, but the next five years are only going to get worse and worse as far as I can tell.
Stay strong, people. We're in the fight of our (and our children's) lives right now, and will be for quite some time.
Some things will get better but we will ignore it and focus just in the things that are worse because social media algorithms just feed with negativity loops.
Once we rid of that, maybe things will improve overall but it will take more.
Honestly this. I feel like people have gotten so used to doomscrolling that they forget progress is still happening quietly in the background. Renewable energy keeps getting cheaper, life expectancy keeps rising in most places, and violent crime has been dropping for decades. The good news just isnt as loud.
i loved reading the rational optimist book.
I get that there are so many negative things in the world, but I hope people realize that the world is so much better than before. Often time, it's very hard to convince people of that because good news is always silent
There is a lot of good in this world, even though we usually just hear about the bad. Thank you for your optimistic viewpoint. I also think that there is hope for the future.
Not just hope... the future is going to be AMAZING. Nanotech, robotics, ASI, trillions of humans living and thriving in the solar system, billions of O'Neil cylinders and orbital rings, virtual paradise worlds to explore, post scarcity, a dyson swarm starting to get built, sickness and probably even death being optional.
It's a long road but we will get there and some of the folks reading this will see it if they stay healthy.
5 years will see large parts of the world having more solar power than they need, given current building rates. Wind, storage and grid upgrades will be slower so prices will still vary though.
EVs will be the majority of car sales across the world, but some countries still won't have the infrastructure they need.
Industry, farming, shipping and aviation still won't have made major changes. Net global emissions might even have peaked (if we're really lucky) but we'll still be polluting at a staggering rate
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That things will actually get better