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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wow, I guess this is peak 2025. I know I'm calling it to early, but it can't get much worse than this.

Right?

Right???

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

the bird flu epidemic hasn't ground the US to a halt yet.

You motherfuckers better keep it to yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 254 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Ahem... US people? You there?

Just in case: none of this is normal.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (17 children)

That's the thing - this is only barely not normal. It's definitely more in your face, and a lot tackier, but the US has never been great, at least not for anyone straight, white, male, and relatively well off. Our history started with theft and genocide and continued on in that vein. While there have obviously been improvements over the last few hundred years, large portions of the population have had to be dragged kicking and screaming toward every bit of it. Even most of our best presidents have been responsible for atrocities, and then the pendulum always seems to swing back toward the worst of us for a while.

Now we have a population that has been systematically under- or uneducated and fed a steady diet of propaganda about how incredible this country is without any critical thought, and they blame anyone not just like them for any of their problems instead of ever paying attention to the wealthy ransacking the place. The vast majority of them cannot be reasoned with, because Republicans have spent decades making sure they don't have the skills or desire to look at new evidence and change their minds.

It's hard to come to terms with the fact that at least a third of my fellow Americans don't think I should exist as a queer person, and another third don't give enough of a fuck to bother taking any kind of stand. It's hard to watch every institution we've been assured would provide some kind of checks and balances fail as soon as someone decides they're no longer going to abide by any norms. Any meaningful action is likely to end up in a lot of death and if I thought this was a bizarre one off instead of something way too many people are rooting for, it would be a lot easier to think that sacrifice was worth it. It feels pretty hopeless at this point. My only real motivation is trying to use the little bit of privilege I have to try to help my community, but I know it's not enough.

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[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Looking at this image, every child could easily point out who's evil here. Do they not see it?

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 week ago (8 children)

They see it and they like it.

They are evil. You don't get horns and cool red eyes when you turn evil. Mostly you stay the same!

Fun thing I've noticed, evil people even seem to live longer. They don't stress about it when others suffer, they laugh. And laughter... Is the best medicine.

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[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I prefer the original artist's work

[–] [email protected] 177 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I saved you a click. I didn't believe this post was real and I went to find it on X. It's real and I'm sad for all Americans.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago

I utterly despise this AI Ghibli trend. If you're a fan of Ghibli or Hayao Miyazaki you wouldn't do this. I especially hate that fascists are now doing it. Miyazaki hates fascists. I hate what the internet and social media have done to our society. Clearly the majority of us are not ready to use them responsibly.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (16 children)

It's even a bad image for their intended purpose, because it evokes empathy for the person crying in handcuffs.

I guess since the person making it and the philistine machine that produced it both have no understanding of empathy nor art, that was lost on the generators of this image.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

For them, crying is a mark of their weakness and hypocrisy. It's laughable to them and adds to their sadistic joy.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hayao Miyazaki: I don't think there's anything that could make me despise the US more than I already do.

The US:

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

The only war is class war! Immigrants are hard working people who deserve a path to citizenship. The parasite class is the tech bro oligarchs!

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This photo breaks my heart. Like what the actual fuck???

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't understand what they thought this image would do? Except make people more upset.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When people say the cruelty is the point they really mean it. MAGA fascists consider this satisfying. If it makes people upset that's even better. Imagine these people as highschool bullies. That's really all there is to it.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The US is very quickly turning into the new Nazi-Germany. Very sad and alarming to see.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This was posted without context even then the picture is pretty fucked up since there are a ton of Latina women that work in cafeterias. The woman in the image was a food worker that sold fentanyl, this picture without the context is fucked up with the context it is kinda of a dog whistle😔.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Context doesn't make it any better. This is a propaganda image that is glorifying a white man having power over a crying Latina woman who is in distress.

This is genuine 100% nazi shit. Why are people not terrified by this?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

The person looks like Putin a little bit

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