The real self own is everyone continually trying to convince each other that trump was inevitable. I think he is stupid as shit and the fact were struggling to defeat him is just telling how dysfunctional everything has become.

I don’t know who this villian guy is but I’m hearing good things on the kill all superheros network.

“Election”

And the the wolves win 99% of the vote. Guess sheep want to be eaten.

Not just clicks, I’d use that would be the first level or something. I dunno just an idea

Ok but the idea is based on countering bots and bot nets. The only thing it really changes is the threshold becomes more difficult but the difference between maybe a 601 and a 602 is astronomical.

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Also, should work with him emphasizing that politics isn’t really about having a party but before that, having an ethos. At the end of the day you need to evaluate how your ethos aligns with the parties actions, not ideas. I can’t believe anyone today is conservative as I had once known them because I know the GOPs actions align only with obtaining power. Unless your ethos is “fuck you i got mine” the GOP offers you nothing. Which also means that you’ve already got yours. Which, looking at conservatives, I have my doubts. And if they don’t have theirs, well then it’s just, “fuck you.” Which I can understand why a teenager would feel that way.

Being conservative depends on you being fearful rather than empathic. The fast way to get people to turn from conservatism is promoting behavior that is focused on doing good for others and providing an environment where someone might not have as much external stressors triggering a fear response.

There is a concept in improv called “yes and.” When you are out on stage, or practicing, doing improv, rejecting someone’s idea can be jarring for the audience and the performers. For instance, as an improv preformer you go up and say, “here we are, on the moon.” Then another preformer comes up and says, “no no no, were at a mcdonalds.” The problem with the other performer saying, “were not on the moon we are in a McDonald’s” isn’t that McDonald’s is less funny; or that being at a McDonalds in more accurate. The problem is the negative feelings needlessly brought up just because the other performer had a different idea. Then, they decided that their idea was better, or good, based only on the fact that they thought of it.

The negative feelings are just part of it. Obviously, the audience might be a bit confused but it’s improv they can suspend disbelief for a second. The performer might be jarred because they had one idea that got shit canned publicly but it was just a random thought, they can move past it. The problem is when the other preform keeps doing it, right?

"OK we’re at McDonald’s, I’m going to order a coke "

“No, this McDonald’s serves pepsi.”

You get the point.

What “yes and” does is acknowledges someone’s personhood while giving you license to be just as influential. This is called collaboration.

So now, we have two performers, one says, “here we are on the moon” and the other says, “At the McDonalds you won’t shut up about.”

That’s it.

If you wanted to know my ideas for what’s next. This is it.

We collaborate. Until we are all really fucking good at it.

I do think the DNC should act, they should do a number of things. Prove to me that you give a shit about ideas before I waste my time educating you.

Brah, I hate this part, because you’re supposed to be able to dismiss me now because I don’t have every fucking detail planned out. Just what you’re asking of me is so absurd. Im not the leader of the revolution I am the guy ringing the alarm bell. There are certainly things I would do but you don’t really care about that. You’re just fishing for another argument that you don’t like that you can dismiss and “win the conversation.”

It’s always going to be different this time. And I would like to point out that there is a word for doing the same things over and over again and expect a different results.

My fucking brain just broke, are you arguing against me anymore?

That’s what I’m saying, the DNC is moot, stop supporting it so people arent fooled into believing in 2026 they will “wipe the floor” blah blah blah. All that rhetoric is a waste of time. Democrats need to see they are generally accepted as the joke that lost an entire to trump the circus clown and everyone else needs to start feeling urgency to act, ASAP.

This is different. I would never advocate for any existing third party. Your point is moot because what happens from here won’t be anything like before. It will have all the trappings but when it’s time for a free and fair election people are going to freak when they see the results. My argument is, why wait for it? How many years have we already wasted and invested into a party they is not functional. Even if things stay how they are the DNC is a sunk cost and they proved it by losing to trump now, when it mattered most. Trump, the shittyist candidate I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life.

Absolutely not. I had no problem with the anti Genocide stance. It just shouldn’t have happened 6 months before such a critical election. I spent all of 2020-2023 trying to get people to realize joe biden would rat fuck us in a heart beat and I was met with the same resistance I’m getting right now.

I guess everyone gets to be ignorant and perpetuate their own oppression but some one has to be out here doing the right fucking rhing.

Your energy is better directed turning others away from the DNC.

Nihilism, to me, is to put faith in the democrats who will lose thier fucking hat to fascists and never feel a bit of shame. That’s nihilism.

I’ve given them 8 fucking years to get their shit together and what happen. Biden who said he wouldn’t run again drug his feet and shoved kamala through. That is not strategy, that’s a throw. Your fucking insane looking back at this and not seeing how the democrats took the goodwill of kind hearted people only to roll over and die when it mattered most.

I’m pragmatic, I’ll always put my vote where it needs to go. I can not give the DNC any ounce of support and I will not be looking for any wins from them any time soon. The damage is done. What the GOP are reaping cannot be undone in 2 years. 4 years. I’d venture 100. Especially when the democrats come out with a showing like this.

Giving up what? The dems were never more poised then they were this election to end trump for good. They failed. There is no comeback. They haven’t even done the work to figure out where they went wrong. They are a sunk cost and for you to put your political energy into this party is a complete waste.

Welcome to the decent into authoritarianism. The longer it takes you to snap out of this delusion that the dems are going to save you the sooner we can mount a real counter.

Ok, but admittedly, they can’t beat a bunch of morons. It’s shameful. You should be embarrassed for supporting these impotent hacks.

Reddit will be a Frankenstein like Facebook and will refuse to die. They will find a way to monetize it while also forcing right wing engagement. Right wingers will be thrilled for some time thinking they are now the “cool reddit people”(lol) while never realizing everyone stopped caring.

Individual subs will still be as active as they always were. Mod support will wane. At the end of maybe year 5 you’ll look at the site and it will be unrecognizable. Just another captured audience too entrenched to ever leave the platform.

None of this should worry you. Reddit isn’t popular because a left wing person owns it. It’s political lean is entirely from its users. Changing who owns the space doesn’t erase left leaning people. They just go somewhere else. After having used lemmy for some time, I’m fairly confident it will be here. Even if not, wherever it is will be new and cool and away from right wing shit bags. It’s almost exciting to think about having a new space to explore.