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  • Oh, that’s easy!

    No one.

    Our society can barely handle a (minimum) estimated 0.7 million homeless.

    We don’t give a fuck about people who are disabled and cannot work and are on their own.

    Half the country went completely insane when a virus threatened to kill tens of millions, and the government had the audacity to ask people to wear masks, and not shove horse dewormer up your butt.

    When we get internal climate refugees, we will just double down on pretending that either they don’t exist, or that the rapidly growing problem is being solved via wholly inadequate, understaffed amd underfunded nonprofits that would need to have 100 to 1000x the funding to actually address the current problem.

    Optimistically we will get concentration camps.

    Hoovervilles can’t exist, those are are homeless encampments that the militarized police will clear out and destroy every 3 months.

    Realistically, internal climate refugees will just be ‘homeless people’, left to wander and die.






  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.ziptoAtheism@lemmy.worldHow to kill God?
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    Most of the Gen A and younger Gen Z I’ve randomly struck up conversations with in the last year or so have had their brains thoroughly rotted by TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, Rumble, etc.

    Avril Lavigne is actually a clone, or Biden is, or Kanye is,

    Astrology is completely real and my magic crystals will heal your chakras,

    Atlantis was totally real and actually we are all partially descended from different alien species and that’s what ethnicity and race actually are,

    ‘Insert movie here’ was basically actually real and making it into a movie is the way the powers that be laugh at us,

    Shadow Work isn’t just a very loose and differently defined psychological practice of attempting to understand yourself better and come to grips with trauma and negative urges its left you with, its actually that you literally have a shadow demon/spirit possessing you, and if you don’t exorcise it ‘properly’, it will magically spread to other people.

    … and I can tell this because I am a naturally born empath who is 100% accurate at determining what other people are thinking and feeling even if they directly tell me otherwise, which actually means that they are narcissists…

    and so on and so on.

    Of course this is my anecdotal experience, but this is what is normal for me to encounter… as I and the people around me are quite poor.



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    I have literally met high schoolers who sincerely believed the Marvel movies were based on real life events, until I explained to them that no, they’re based on comic books, they are entirely fictional stories.

    We already live in the dumbest possible timeline.

    Remember how when Idiocracy came out, the general reception was ‘wow this is over the top, dude-bro moron version of the future, not worth serious discussion’, … and now a good chunk of people are looking back at it as ‘well actually, a lot of this seems scarily reasonable?’


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    The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization.

    The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning.

    The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.

    The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

    God was a dream of good government.

    You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.

    … prophetic words, one might say.

    Anyway… in the sense you are speaking of, the only way to totally kill God would be the erasure of massive amounts of human history, combined with either killing or ‘reducating’ billions of people, and then the institution of some kind of Orwellian totalitarianism, which must basically persist in perpetuity.

    Other than something like that… its not possible to totally exorcize the idea of God or Gods from humans… we are pattern seekers, we love simple explanations, and we love stories, narratives.




  • I have despised twitter since basically its inception.

    1. The character (original) character limit fundamentally means you are strongly encouraged to limit conversation to basically soundbites, slogans, and pithy comments. Even though this was changed later, it still created a culture that generally mocks anything long winded.

    While its true that brevity is the soul of wit, wit is not the same thing as a detailed and nuanced discussion of a complex topic.

    It thus lends itself to being an optimal tool for political slogans, celebrity gossip, and direct corporate advertisement.

    1. Twitter is far, far, faaar too open ended, as in one to many kind of network connections. Its a dream come true also for narcissistic, attention seeking individuals who want to win Twitter.

    2. Twitter blew up before Facebook completely shifted (enshittified?) their entire model from being focused on actually connecting friend groups, and directly pushed Facebook toward just being an unmitigated firehose of ‘content’ from every which way, which just became the norm for ‘social media’ design.

    Of course X now is even fucking worse, but I am so glad its dying.

    The way I see it, Twitter contributed heavily toward destroying the older, more personal formats of social media, it helped destroy the old forum culture of the net where people had communities and a measure of intellect, privacy and respect.

    It took the sincerity out of online discourse, and was foundational in shifting the internet from a ‘place’ with lots of weird locales, into some kind of Eldritch god’s sick joke of a species level omni-mirror, reducing online humanity to a popularity contest of political slogans, narcissistic clout chasers, gossip mongers, and corporate sloganeering and brand worship… and giving all of this to us in an undifferentiated constant flow.



  • For clarity: Vance did not literally say lugenpresse or fake news, he just performatively complained about fact checking.

    I am the one saying lugenpresse.

    …Because one of the many fascist elements of Trump’s cult is his repeated refrain of ‘fake news’, which is exactly the same tactic as Hitler and many other fascists have used in their rise to power.

    Again, Vance did not literally say lugenpresse at the debate.

    Personal Aside

    But uh yeah, in general, widespread American conservative adoption of fascist culture and talking points is not surprising to me.

    These people it appeals to the most are narcissistic assholes who have largely failed in life, and are fueled by raging against their inability to achieve the American Dream™ … and then that rage is directed toward anything that conservative hate mongers can blame for that failure.

    I grew up in a religious, conservative household and had to do a considerable amount of research and investigation to learn it was all bullshit, then learn how to argue to be able to refute it, and then expend basically all my wit, energy and resources to escape these toxic people.

    Incurious people who grow up in that setting often never really have any inkling to challenge any of it and are basically always ostracized, negged or disowned for doing so.

    They just get more and more indoctrinated, culminating in basically QAnon/MAGA worldview: Just make up a narrative that makes you superior righteous and truly knowledgeable , and all your ideological enemies extremely brainwashed at best, literal, actual demons (reptillians?) at worst.

    My dad went from making me listen to Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage every time we were in the car together, to, last time I spoke with him, attempting to convince me that Tom Hank’s son actually was a pedophile who raped and ate babies for their adrenochrome.

    The… more and more time I spend away from my family, the more and more I talk, either in person or online, with other people, the … more and more I realize just how absurdly insane my life experience has been, that I can best describe myself as a traumatized survivor of it.

    Its taken me around two decades to escape the constant physical, mental and financial trauma inflicted upon me by the narcissistic, moronic hypocrites that raised me, taken me two decades to undo all the brainwashing.

    Its a cult. American conservatism is a cult of rage and hatred.

    That’s why it isn’t surprising to me that it finally went mask off with Trump. It’s always been there seething beneath the surface of begrudging civility.

    You just have to have come from it, been born into it, and then escaped, to know how bad it has been, and still is.


  • It’s actually worse.

    The core MAGA people are utterly convinced that ‘fact checking’ is literally the moderators lying to prevent Republicans from saying what is actually true.

    They are way, way, waaaaay down the rabbit hole of the lugenpresse, I mean fake news, that basically any time the figures they adore/worship are ever fact checked, well actually that is evidence of a vast liberal media conspiracy against them.

    They actively despise fact checking, and when it happens, this triggers their conspiracism harder.

    The reason why Vance made a show of crying about fact checking was partly due to personal anger/embarrassment/whatever, but the other part is that he knows that complaining about it is appealing to core Trump voters.



  • Eh, I think this is less aneurysm and more extremely bad at typing.

    They seem to be asking for help with digitally signing some kind of technical document based on income, where some other kind of program isn’t available in … whatever maripn is a misspelling of, possibly marion.

    An aneurysm post is one that is total word salad gibberish nonsense even if it didn’t have spelling errors.

    Like… My goldfish spoke to the trees which have blue in their accounts but maybe trees actually forget when sometimes cars live to rectangle the blue.

    You can misspell the hell out of that, but what makes it aneurysm is its totally nonsensical even without the misspellings.