I fundamentally disagree with this kind of take. If someone is having their 'oh shit' moment because a mainstream media figure is being targeted by the regime, that's good. Don't dunk on them for not reacting sooner just to make yourself feel cooler than 'the libs.'
the best time to start protesting against the fascist takeover of our government was 40 years ago. the second best time is today
Like many things, not starting when you should have doesn't make starting later worthless.
Better late than never
100%, embrace them for waking up to the nightmare. We need all the help we can get and you damn well know it.
We’re saturated in information and it’s easy to see so many sources. Some people do accidentally find themselves in echo chambers but you won’t much hear of them because they don’t go online often.
It’s anyone on this planet’s job to follow news and be connected with how their country is being run. You don’t need to be a political scientist or economist but if a US citizen who was being responsible only just now figured out that something is wrong they are objectively pretty stupid. Stupid doesn’t mean undeserving of love or security or anything like that but oh my god do not tell me I’m the bad guy for being so fucking tired of this shit.
It can be really frustrating when you've been fighting wiþ said person for years about þe issue, when if þey'd just listened and used þeir brain, and voted differently, we might not have gotten to þis point in þe first place.
Your keyboards all messed up btw, seems to be combining t and h into archaic nonsense for some reason.
That’s actually the ‘thorn’ symbol, representative of the ‘th’ sound. It was used in old English, with the example everyone might know being for the word ‘the’. It was spelled þe, with ‘y’ being used as a placeholder representation of thorn, and so thus we got “ye olde”.
Could be an intentional stylistic choice, could be that they are Icelandic (as thorn is still used in their modern alphabet iirc), but it’s arguably not technically incorrect.
but it’s arguably not technically incorrect.
the letter is not used in english anymore. thus, it is incorrect.
If you think it should be correct ᚠᛁᛚ᛫ᚠᚱᛁ᛫ᛏᚢ᛫ᛃᚻᛋᛏ᛫ᚱᛖᛞ᛫ᛟᛚ᛫ᚦᛁᛋ᛫ᚳᚱᚪᛈ᛫ᚹᚻᛏ᛫ᛞᚢ᛫ᚪᛃ᛫ᚳᛖᚱ .
ᚺᚹᛏ᛫ᛞᚺᛒᚺᛚᛦᚢ᛫ᚷᚱᛞᛖᚾᚺᛁᚾ᛫ᚷᛖᚱᛞᚺᚷᚢᛗ᛫ᚮᛞᚲᛦᚾᛁᚾᚷᚺᚱᛦᛗ᛫ᚷᛖᚠᚱᚾᚮᚾ᛫ᛖᛃᚲ᛫ᛖᛚᛁᚾᚷᚺᛋᛖᛚᛚᛖᚾ᛫ᚠᚱᛖᛗᛖᛞᚮᚾ᛫ᚮᚠᛏ᛫ᛋᚲᛦᛚᛞ᛫ᛋᚲᚠᛁᚾᚷᛋᚲᛖᚺᛖᚾᚺ᛫ᚱᚺᛏᚢᛗ᛫ᛗᚮᚾᛖᚷᚢᛗ᛫ᛗᚷᚢᛗᛗᛖᚮᛞᚮᛋᛖᛏᛚᚺ᛫ᚮᚠᛏᚺᚺ᛫ᛖᚷᛋᚮᛞᛖ᛫ᛖᚮᚱᛚᛋᛦᚺᚾ᛫ᚱᛖᛋᛏ᛫ᚹᛖᚱ᛫ᚠᚺᛋᚲᛖᚺᚠᛏ᛫ᚠᚢᚾᛞᛖᚾᚺ᛫ᛖᛋ᛫ᚠᚱᚠᚱᛖ᛫ᚷᛖᛒᛞ᛫ᚹᚮKS᛫ᚺᚾᛞᚱ᛫ᚹᚮᛚᚲᚾᚢᛗᚹᛖᚮᚱᛗᛦᚾᛞᚢᛗ᛫ᛖᛃᚲ᛫ᚮ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᚷᚺᚹᛦᛚᚲᚱᚺ᛫ᛦᛗᛒᛋᛁᛏᛏᛖᚾᛞᚱᚺ᛫ᚮᚠᚱ᛫ᚺᚱᚮᚾᚱᛞᛖᚺᚱᚺᚾ᛫ᛋᚲᚮᛚᛞᛖ᛫ᚷᚮᛗᛒᚺᚾ᛫ᚷᛦᛚᛞᚺᚾᛏ᛫ᛞᚺᛒᚺᛚᛦᚢᛖᛋ᛫ᚷᛞ᛫ᚲᛦᚾᛁᚾᚷ᛫ᛖᛗ᛫ᛖᚺᚠᛖᚱᚺ᛫ᚹᛋᚠᛏᛖᚱ᛫ᚲᛖᚾᚾᛖᛞ᛫ᚷᛖᚮᚾᚷ᛫ᛁᚾ᛫ᚷᛖᚺᚱᛞᚢᛗᚮᚾᛖ᛫ᚷᚨᛞ᛫ᛋᛖᚾᛞᛖ᛫ᚠᚮᛚᚲᛖ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᚠᚱᚠᚱᛖᚠᛦᚱᛖᚾᛖᚺᚱᚠᛖ᛫ᚮᚾᚷᛖᚺᛏ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᚺᛁ᛫ᚨᚱ᛫ᛞᚱᚢᚷᚮᚾᚺᛚᛞᚮᚱᛚᚺᛋᛖ᛫ᛚᚨᛝ᛫ᚺᚹᛚᛖᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᛖᛋ᛫ᛚᚠᚠᚱᚺ᛫ᚹᚢᛚᛞᚱᛖᛋ᛫ᚹᛖᚺᛚᛞᛖᚾᛞᚹᚮᚱᚮᛚᛞᚱᛖ᛫ᚠᚮᚱᚷᛖᚺᚠ᛫ᛒᚮᚹᚢᛚᚠ᛫ᛞᚺᛒᚺᛚᛦᚢᛖᛋ᛫ᛒᚱᛗᛖᛒᛚᛞ᛫ᚹᛞᛖ᛫ᛋᛈᚱᚨᛝ᛫ᛋᚲᛦᛚᛞᛖᛋ᛫ᛖᚺᚠᛖᚱᚺᛋᚲᛖᛞᛖᛚᚺᚾᛞᚢᛗ᛫ᛁᚾ᛫ᛋᚹ᛫ᛋᚲᛖᚺᛚ᛫ᚷᛖᚮᚾᚷ᛫ᚷᚢᛗᚺᚷᛞᛖ᛫ᚷᛖᚹᛦᚱᚲᛖᚺᚾ᛫ᚠᚱᚮᛗᚢᛗ᛫ᚠᛖᚮᚺᚷᛁᚠᛏᚢᛗᚮᚾ᛫ᚠᛞᛖᚱ᛫ᚹᚨᛃᚾ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᚺᚨᛃᚾ᛫ᚨᚾ᛫ᛦᛚᛞᛖᛖᚠᛏ᛫ᚷᛖᚹᚢᚾᛁᚷᛖᚾ᛫ᚹᛁᛚᚷᛖᛋᚺᛋᚮᚾᚾᛖ᛫ᚹᚷ᛫ᚲᚢᛗᛖ᛫ᛚᚮᛞ᛫ᚷᛖᛚᛋᛏᛖᚾᛚᚮᚠᛞᛞᚢᛗ᛫ᛋᚲᛖᚺᛚ᛫ᛁᚾ᛫ᛗᚷᚺ᛫ᚷᛖᚺᚹᚱᛖᛗᚺᚾ᛫ᛃᛁᚨᚾ᛫ᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᛋᚲᛦᛚᛞ᛫ᚷᛖᚹᛏᛏ᛫ᚷᛖᛋᚲᛈᚺᚹᛚᛖ᛫ᚠᛖᛚᚺᚺᚱᚱ᛫ᚠᚱᚺᚾᚮᚾ᛫ᚠᚱᚨᚾ᛫ᚹᚱᛖ᛫ᛖᛃᚲ᛫ᚺᛦᚾᛖ᛫ᛏᛒᚱᚮᚾᛏ᛫ᛒᚱᛁᛗᛖᛋ᛫ᚠᚺᚱᚮᛖ᛫ᛋᚹᛋᛖ᛫ᚷᛖᛋᚺᛋᛋᚹ᛫ᛖᛃᚲ᛫ᛋᛖᛚᚠᚺ᛫ᛒᛞ᛫ᛖᚾᛞᛖᚾ᛫ᚹᚮᚱᛞᚢᛗ᛫ᚹᚮᛚᛞᚹᛁᚾᛖ᛫ᛋᚲᛦᛚᛞᛁᚾᚷᚺ᛫ᛚᚮᚠ᛫ᛚᚺᚾᛞᚠᚱᚢᛗᚺᛚᚺᚾᚷᛖ᛫ᚺᛏᛖ᛫ᚨᚱ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᚺᛁ᛫ᛋᛏᛞᚺᚱᛁᚾᚷᛖᛞᛋᛏᛖᚠᚾᚺ᛫ᛋᛁᚷ᛫ᚺᚾᛞ᛫ᛏᚠᛋᛖᛚᛁᚾᚷᛖᛋ᛫ᚠᚱ᛫ᛚᛞᚮᚾ᛫ᛚᚮᚠᚾᛖ᛫ᚮᛞᚺᚾ᛫ᛒᚺᚷᚺ᛫ᛒᚱᛦᛏᛏᚺᚾᚮᚾ᛫ᛒᛖᚺᚱᛗ᛫ᛋᚲᛁᛈᛖᛋ᛫ᛗᚱᚾᛖ᛫ᛒᛁ᛫ᛗᛋᛏᛖᚱ᛫ᛞᚺᛒᚺᛚᛦᚢᛖᛋ᛫ᛗᛞᛗᚺ᛫ᚠᛖᛚᚺ᛫ᚺᚹ᛫ᚠᛖᚮᚱᚹᛖᚷᚢᛗᚠᚱᛏᚹᚺ᛫ᚷᛖᛚᛞᛖᛞ᛫ᚾᛁ᛫ᚺᚱᛞᛖ᛫ᛁᚲ᛫ᚲᛗᛚᚲᚮᚱᚲᚮᛚ᛫ᚷᛖᚷᛦᚱᚹᚺᚾ᛫ᚺᛁᛚᛞᛖᚹᛈᚾᚢᛗᚺᚾᛞ᛫ᚺᛖᚺᚮᚹᛞᚢᛗ᛫ᛒᛁᛚᛚᚢᛗ᛫ᚺᚾᛞ᛫ᛒᛦᚱᚾᚢᛗᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᚨᚾ᛫ᛒᛖᚺᚱᛗᛖ᛫ᛚᚷ᛫ᛗᛞᛗᚺ᛫ᛗᚾᛁᚷᚮ᛫ᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᛗᛁᛞ᛫ᛋᚲᚮᛚᛞᚮᚾ᛫ᚨᚾ᛫ᚠᛚᛞᛖᛋ᛫ᚺᛏᚠᛖᚮᚱ᛫ᚷᛖᚹᛏᚺᚾ᛫ᚾᚺᛚᚺᛋ᛫ᛖᛃᚲ᛫ᚺᚨᛃᚾ᛫ᛚᛋᛋᚺᚾᛚᚲᚢᛗ᛫ᛏᚮᛞᚺᚾ᛫ᚮᛞᚷᛖᛋᛏᚱᚮᚾᚢᛗᚮᚾᚾᛖ᛫ᛞᛦᛞᚮᚾ᛫ᚺᚨᛃᚾ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᚠᚱᚢᛗᛋᚲᛖᚺᚠᛏᛖᚠᚮᚱ᛫ᚮᚾᛋᛖᚾᛞᚮᚾ᛫ᚾᚾᛖ᛫ᚮᚠᚱ᛫ᛖᚢᛗᛒᚮᚱ᛫ᚹᛖᛋᛖᚾᛞᛖ᛫ᚷᛏ᛫ᚺᛁ᛫ᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᛋᛖᛏᛏᚮᚾᛋᛖᚷᛖᚾ᛫ᚷᛦᛚᛞᛖᚾᚾᛖ᛫ᚺᚨ᛫ᚮᚠᚱ᛫ᚺᚺᚠᚮᛞᛚᛏᚮᚾ᛫ᚺᚮᛗ᛫ᛒᛖᚱᚺᚾ᛫ᚷᚺᚠᚮᚾ᛫ᚨᚾ᛫ᚷᚱᛋᛖᚲᚷᚺᛁᛗ᛫ᛞᚺᛒᚺᛚᛦᚢᛖᛋ᛫ᚷᛖᛗᚮᚱ᛫ᛋᛖᚠᚺ᛫ᛗᚢᚱᚾᛖᚾᛞᛖ᛫ᛗᛞᛗᛖᚾ᛫ᚾᛁ᛫ᚲᚢᚾᚾᚮᚾ᛫ᛋᛖᚲᚷᚺᚾ᛫ᛏᛁ᛫ᛋᚮᛖᛋᛖᛚᛖᚱᛞᛖᚾᛞᛖ᛫ᚺᛚᛖ᛫ᚺᚾᛞᚱ᛫ᚺᛖᚮᚠᛖᚾᚢᛗᚺᚹ᛫ᛖᛗ᛫ᚺᛚᛋᛏᛖ᛫ᚮᚾᚠᚾᚷ
Just because it’s arguable doesn’t mean I’m arguing that. Besides, my point was more intended to mean that the symbol used there is correct for the sound that is being conveyed (and I wanted an excuse to share information I thought was interesting.)
Also, smfh, spoilers dude, Beowulf literally just came out 🙄
It's just the start of it, no spoilers.
I read people are doing it because they (incorrectly) think that LLM’s can’t be trained with their “gibberish”
Huh. I hadn’t heard anything about that, but that’s interesting. Seems strange to me as, if anything, an LLM would be better equipped to interpret that than most people lol
I hate it because I can't help reading it as a P.
Fair. It’s certainly not great from a clarity perspective, I just thought it was a fun fact to share.
You know what, I'm guilty of this exact thing. I've been pissed because this has been obviously fascism for sometime now, and it angers me how much it feels like I'm one of the few who paid attention to history while the ignoramuses acted like I was overreacting.
However the truth is you're right. I turned my anger on late coming allies and vented my frustration unfairly in their direction. Ultimately it's better late than never and every ally counts in the fight against fascism. After all a lot of us are about to die, or worse.
If they actually start caring about the people being killed and having massive violence done of then they are very late and that shows a major lack of empathy but sure as long as they don't only talk about when rich white men are affected.
Hard disagree. The US is cooked. Arguably it's been cooked since the election, but there was a world in which the US public banded together and blocked the regime from taking any effective action. But now that Trump has consolidated power and set all kinds of precedents that fascism will be answered by nothing crickets and ass-licking, there's no stopping him through legal means anymore.
So please allow me to regard these "oh shit it that bad?? :((" people with the highest level of disgust and contempt. I don't owe fascist enablers anything. Just like I don't owe anything but contempt to the Germans who woke up a morning of 1936 and realized "hey guys maybe we fucked it".
right, and so your proposed solution is to drive the people who had their realisation away, so the strategy of divide and conquer can continue to bear fruit? makes sense....
Right, you give up so you then play directly into their hands by enabling the left divide. You've become another fascist enabler.
The people who just now realized that Trump is a fascist aren't "on the left". They are NPCs. It doesn't matter what anyone says about them or to them, the world will literally end before these schmucks lift a finger to fight it.
The idea that "concerned centrists" exist to be convinced with Discourse not to support fascists is literal thought poison. Anyone who was going to resist Trump has already chosen sides. Everyone else is just a passive observer or a literal enabler (instead of whatever you think that term means).
Make no mistake, the time for discourse is over. Whether the American antifascists continue the fight illegally through direct action or bend over is up to them. Historical precedent (Italy, Germany, Russia, Turkey, China...) doesn't favor victory, but I would love to be proven wrong. However the idea that you're doing anything by appealing to the most politically disconnected's hearts and minds is laughable.
Better late than never
Why do we do this to ourselves!? Nothing is ever good enough. Can't it be enough that we agree with each other? Why are we gate keeping awareness?
Purity check is way more important than building the better world. Building the better world is hard, hating libs for not being your flavour of socialism is easy, satisfying, and makes you look cool to your peers (until you slip up and now you're the lib)
This is just another divisive post to stir engagement and outrage. I doubt the tweet in the screenshot is even real..
For real. And not to mention, the Kimmel thing is like, a very serious step forward in a way other things have not been. I'm not saying other bad stuff hasn't happened, for sure. But it's not unreasonable for this to be the straw that breaks the camels back for some people. I hate Kimmel, always have, but it was surprising to see the media control phase unfolding so openly and suddenly. This IS crossing a new line.
Roughly 1500 canaries have died in the coal mine at this point
My neighbor told me the mine keeps killing his canaries so I asked how many canaries he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new canary afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter canaries to the mine and then his daughter started crying
The coal mine was literally converted into a canary processing facility like a decade or two ago, by now. Which sounds bleak, but the bright side is so much delectable canary meat.
I remember people in my twenties telling me imperialism didn't end and I was like I guesss? Idk tho... But now I see it.
Point is someone's always late to getting woke, even if you clocked it twenty years ago, Panthers clocked it before that. And on and on.
I wasn't able to edit my post but I wanted to post an addendum so I deleted it and now I'm reposting it with the addendum and a bunch of more angry ranting:
I promise you that guy probably doesn’t actually care if we’re in fascism as long as he’s safe, well fed, and mildly entertained. He will not put his balls on the table to fight fascism. He might be annoyed that his late night cable slop has been disrupted, but that’s it.
To be clear, he doesn't owe us anything either. He doesn't owe us suicidal devotion to a socialist revolution against the fascists. And you would be unhinged and legitimately an immoral sociopath to think otherwise. Liberal normies do not owe us devotion to political awareness. No one chooses to be born. No one owes their lives to a cause. Rage and froth at the mouth about it all you want.
They voted for democrats, and they did not even really owe anyone even that. We could have avoided this. We could have been fighting against a liberal president. We could have built off that. Instead now we're stuck in defense yet again and we are simply out of time. Congratulations.
And no, I wont get over it, suck the shit out of my asshole. I want good things world make no mistake, and I still feel tinges of hope when I see the Trump presidency stumble and fuck up. With hope that maybe the world can heal eventually to something that's not intolerable, perhaps merely just mildly bad. But there is this meta-awareness of resentment overlaid on top of even that because we should not be here and we did not need to be here. And even after when the world has healed.
Even if it heal to a miraculous degree. Maybe we live in a fucking utopia at the end of this: still fuck you. I'll be an elderly man or dead. The prime of my life wasted existing in a toxic miserable slog of a period of time because of a stupid political larpers and weak liberals couldn't stop fucking bickering with each other and I have to stare into the abyss of people's suffering and pain caused by this administration. And let be clear: Its not even my own pain or death. I'm living a materially better life than like 90% of you probably, but my sense of pride in my humanity is fucking dead. Everything I indulge in covered in a grey smog of "Hey I bet a bunch of Africans are going to unnecessarily starve to death because we did not like Harris enough to prevent Trump from cutting USAID haha ok enjoy your sci-fi book buddy"
Its fucking inescapable now. AGHAGHGA
You expressed my feelings pretty well. Will I be completely safe? Maybe not, but for the time being I am relatively insulated from what is going on.
Even so, I am filled with grief for all the suffering that has already happened and that which is yet to come.
I don’t really believe in karma but part of me cynically wonders if this is the price our country pays for exploiting the rest of the world so long. Not paid by those who caused it, but the common people as scapegoats.
They do have a saying about things built on Indian burial grounds… sigh. Perhaps the system has to be broken to be rebuilt, but how many must be crushed under the boots of progress?
I could be being daft here but I thought USAID was a propaganda and infiltration tactic. Like a way for the USA to put pressure on other countries.
Maybe, but:
Anything that leads to cishet white male anti fascist awakening is welcome at this point. And honestly at any point.
They may have taken my circuses but if they take my bread then I’ll really get upset
That's in process. The tariff wealth transfer will take time, but they are trying to accelerate it all by implementing a 30% national sales tax.
Toilet Paper USA robbing Kimmel is not cool.
It was the FCC, which does not answer to Turning Point USA.
I swear I did not thought I would see, in my lifetime, the fall of the American Empire, and so fast and so far from where it once stand. As a non american this it makes me sad that the people could not see this coming and now it's too far gone.
A great example to the world that we should never lower our guns because evil is just one election away
Fascism has been completely normal here for the past 400+ years.
USA is actively committing at least one genocide right now.
The president is a literal rapist, racist, fascist and failed casino owner.
Where do y'all think that you live?
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