Tr#mp the fascist toddler
lived by the sea
and fucked things up to hell and gone
in a land we wanna leave.
Billionaires bought papers
to help his ego puff
and bought his gold and cryptocoin
and other iffy stuff!
Little Jeffey Epstein
loved that asshole Tr#ump
and sent him girls of minor age
to watch his mighty hump!
Together they would travel
to Jeffey's island home
Jeffey had his cameras
wherever they did roam.
Assholes are forever,
but secrets do get out --
no matter who you kill or bomb
or threaten with your clout.
One night it will happen
the crows will come to roost
and Tr#ump, that horrid monster,
will face our wrath unloosed.
🐲 🔥
@Ulmo ...and schools, and reliable news sources... (all of which Tr#mp is removing/corrupting as fast as he can, of course)
...or get over-dependent on super-close relationships because that's the only time they feel like they're okay just being who they are, except then their overdependence and desperation end up breaking those relationships...
...
...or so I have heard! 😅
@artemis In moments of optimism, I like to think that them "showing their true faces" makes it easier to get fence-sitters accept the need for change.
(...did I already say this? I said it somewhere in a reply, but can't remember who I was replying to. It was a couple of days ago. Maybe if it had been 10 years ago, I'd remember...)
TLDR: there's no "going back to how things were", much less "keeping things as they are [because otherwise they'll get worse]".
@octorine @Beldarak @AmyZenunim
Feudalsm was a system that existed before capitalism; it was hardly the only one.
I think your observation of the connection kinda underscores the OP's point: capitalism was invented as a way of doing feudalism while making it seem more palatable.
Maybe we should try adopting a system that emerged from something better than that, hey.
@ceejbot I've become convinced that employment (well... at least IT employment), as a process, is broken... and has been for many years.
[them, when Trump says he will do $horrendous_thing]: "He's just joking. Liberals have no sense of humor! Trump Derangement Syndrome again."
[them, when Trump actually does $horrendous_thing]: "It's for the best. In the long run! Liberals have no understanding of history."
@thatkatharine This is possibly the biggest reason I have continued to be as vigilant as I have been, even when most people seem to be pretending it's no longer a threat. (It's like "a Black guy was President, so racism is over" ➡️ "we have a vaccine now, so the pandemic is over").
@weta Let it grow into a field! It's much better for the environment.
(Sincerely,
HOA Denialist)
@ablueview I have to wonder, given the massive amount of current investment in AI, how it actually works out in terms of $ per productivity... or whatever it is they think they're paying workers for, if "productivity" is now too "woke" a concept for them.
@Researchbuzz I was thinking in terms of Google working with the car-makers to manufacture demand for off-road vehicles.
@Researchbuzz How else are they going to get the best value out of their Child-Crusher 3000 Sport Utility Vehicles? Gotta go off-road sometime, or they might have to admit they're just driving a passenger-car that's been embiggened to get around safety laws. Can't let that happen.