Our govt has a long track record of supporting dictators, asst in the🚨overthrow of democratic govts, & sometimes➡️sending in the Marines
Tom Lehrer taught us about this back in 1965. :blobcatupsidedown:
@yacc143 @TimWardCam @ichbindabomb
"Most people I've had any communicative contact with" -- but your point is valid.
To refine my point: most Americans disapprove of what is happening now (albeit some of the time that's just "the leopards weren't supposed to eat my face"), and a large percentage of us are horrified.
It would indeed be nice* to know what percentage.
* or possibly horrifying, if it isn't within shouting distance of 50%.
@TimWardCam @ichbindabomb @yacc143
They're afraid of punishment (possibly eternal).
The authoritarian mindset is a weird and scary thing, and we seem to have more of it here than in most of the Anglosphere.
How about just a cartoon of the reflecting pool, clearly showing the bits of peeling liner, and label that "Lake America". That seems fitting.
@LucasWerkmeister In another thread, someone was talking about naming geological faults after him.
P.S. ...and also pretty appalled at things done by previous administrations, although this one sets new record lows every few days. It is past time for a reckoning with our system of government and the people who have come to be in control of it (and probably always were).
Just to be clear: most of us are absolutely fck'n appalled by that and many other things that our current federal government is doing. Please invade us for our own good (I'm only half-joking).
proposal to replace every political cartoon with a block of text saying "omg Tr💩mp and his goons are SUCH AMAZING IDIOTS / WHY ARE THEY STILL HERE / please take them somewhere else NOW", or words to that effect
Maybe all the lakes should be "Lake Epstein"...
...but that's kind of giving short-shrift to all of his other crimes.
...which are surprisingly difficult to remember, because they've been so normalized by the media and also because there are So Damn Many of them.
...although at this point I can't think of any snark that would be adequately sharp and pointy and yet of sufficient heft to get through the thick skulls of whoever makes these decisions at Google.
RE: https://toot.cat/@woozle/116346827217945139
I guess it's time for me to do another one of these...
@rnd Yeah, the word "conservative" means a completely different thing outside of politics (where it means pretty much the opposite). :blobcatupsidedown:
My only nitpick would be that it's kind of a relative term -- like... most people embrace some changes while resisting others; how do we compare those, or even measure them?
That said, it's still fair to say "most people are conservative" in the sense of "most people will resist or reject a fairly large set of possible changes".
@artemis That phrase, "solid rock"... my partner had difficulty accepting the idea that I could be overwhelmed and need help...
@artemis My parents "helped" me to deal with feelings by explaining why those feelings were wrong or unhelpful. ...so, yeah.
@artemis I relate to that worry of "I've always been not-X, so if I'm ever too X then that's truly terrible" -- and thinking about it, now that you bring it up, I realize what the fear must be: that people always valued me specifically for being not-X, so if I end up being too X, then they won't like me anymore. I'll have lost That One Thing That Made Me Acceptable.
