This comic depicts four people who couldn't be bothered to pay attention to anything for ten years.
I have no sympathy.
So the vast majority?
That is correct.
That doesn't help the cause though, in fact this exact attitude might be a pretty big part of why we're all in deep shit now.
Correct! One of the most important tools we need to obtain, the most important weapon we need to arm yourself, isn't obvious, or simple, or easy.
It's Messaging.
Want to spend your time bitter? Apathetic? "I-told-you-so"?
I don't blame you.
But you're not actually working towards a solution. If all you have to say is "I told you so," or "what's the point?" or "everything's fucked" - I get it. But you're not contributing to the conversation any more than the people in this comic have been for the last how many years. You're not helping any more than they were.
We need messaging. We need to be willing to fight these battles. Not fighting the embittered trolls, but spreading truth. Sharing solutions. Making plans. Fighting this. Apathy. Pointlessness. Accelerationism.
Spread free platforms. Spread free ideas. Have meaningful conversations with your friends and families and coworkers. Try again, and keep trying. In little steps, in great acts. Don't let the shock paralyze you, the size overwhelm you. Don't get washed away by the flood of hate. This is the second best time to act. Your opportunities are growing by the minute.
Life is about to get very, very hard for many people. Many of the obvious targets will suffer, but it's pretty clear that nobody is "safe". Even the poster boys are under threat of retribution for stepping out of line. And everyone, everyone is facing the inevitable economic downturn that is speeding toward us.
But hardship shakes beliefs. It changes minds. Things will become personal for even the most detached, apathetic, or privileged. And when politics become personal all bets are off.
But don't bother if you're not going to try. Really, really try. Think about yourself, and the world, and the person you're talking to, and really try to make them see.
Take - and make - your opportunities to change minds. Don't be afraid, but be careful. Don't be polite for the sake of politeness, but be kind, be considerate, even be gentle when you think it will help, but don't be polite.
Whatever they can say to you can't compare to what is being done to you or about to be done to everybody. Whatever they say can't be worse than their complacency.
Your one and only goal: stay on message. This is bad and it needs to stop. Here is how it affects you. Here is how it affects your family. Here is how things are going wrong, and why.
More than anything else, we need each other. We need solidarity, community. We need to genuinely start asking ourselves: how do we win? And then make the answer happen.
We kneel beneath the weight of wealth and tradition and fear. But despite the growth of AI, at the end of the day the people we kneel beneath are people. Humans decide what happens next. They are human. We are all human. We can decide what happens next.
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i'M tOo LaZy To bE bOtHeReD WiTh BaSiC CiVic DuTy, So i BeLiEvE aNyOnE oNLinE wHo TeLLs Me ThAt bOTh ParTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe? LoL_!!!_ 🤣🤣🤣
i'M sO pUrE!!! 😇🤪🤩Millions of self-destructively lazy, stupid mediocre people shouted in unison (again):
Vote for a woman? When PIGS fly!!!Or if Biden had remained in the race:
sLeePy JoE! LoL!I mean you can exist in this world if you want to. It is more fun than the truth which is sad and boring.
Most people really do care and have good intentions, but are too overworked and too uneducated to pull apart the propaganda that's being pushed to them 24/7.
The oligarchs didn't win when Trump got elected the second time. The won when they got control over the media. That was a while back.
Not just a woman, a black woman.
She's black now? I thought she was Indian. /s
Stupidity and ignorance are way too widespread. It should not take a genius to figure out that trump and the GOP are pretty much against the working class. I’m not saying democrats are saints, but at least Biden tried to cancel student loan debt, and somehow that got looked at negatively??!?
Are you sure? I checked around and couldn't find much about this. Cable and broadcast news don't seem to be reporting it, and none of the major newspapers. It's not supported by X or Facebook either. I don't see a lot of books about it on my Kindle. I mean, that's quite a conspiracy theory you've got going there. For it to work, a small group of people would have to somehow hold over half the wealth of America and use it to elect politicians with so few scruples that they'll appoint anyone to powerful offices. Even that is assuming they could somehow pack courts with compliant judges who are willing to declare that corporations are people and money is speech. Next, you'll be telling me that a median salary is unlikely without a degree that costs almost as much as a new car, but that it doesn't matter anyway because a median salary can't support a family in the same standard of living they were born into. I can't imagine people would tolerate this kind of thing. We'd have to be living in some kind of dystopian, authoritarian plutocracy like a bad 1970s sci-fi.
Hahahaha... ha...
sob
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
Here is a link but no one I've asked so far seems to have a good handle on how much of this is hyperbole. The whole presentation screams q anon.
I thought characters in webcomics were more politically aware, but I guess they are just 2 dimensional.
Yeah, I feel like it kinda fell flat.
Hungary didn’t crack down on education? Our scores are still competitiv-ishly high in Europe! Our teachers are unfortunately paid in animal crackers though, like most important jobs! The teacher, doctor, bus driver scarcity is just more apparent than some others
In our system Viktor Orban have bought the media with stolen public funds! And the opposition parties and much of our economy…
I think it's talking about https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/03/dark-day-freedom-george-soros-affiliated-central-european-university-quits-hungary. (Random link from WIkipedia on Central European University.)
Turn it up Listen to the shit they pump into your head Filling you with apathy Hold your breath Wait until you know the time is right on time The end is near
I remember when I discovered the CD would change from white decal to black with 1's and 0's all over it from the heat of being played
dude that was peak CD art with an amazing album that has a vivid theme and the biggest fuck you idiots we are all doomed no matter what
Did you see the hand?
In the spectrograph?
My mind was blown when it did that the first time for me, it was so cool
More relevant than ever.
Unrelated, but just the other day I was thinking about an extremely offensive NIN t-shirt I had in the 90's. I wish I still had that shirt.
USians are so racist you have to explain bad things using the words "Russian" and "Iranian" next to them. Like, you have Fox news already for half a century don't you? What do you mean "Russian style disinformation"? You guys invented it before the Russian Federation existed lmao
These people have presidents swear on the bible and talk about theocracies smh
The US has only had 1 president who wasn't Christian and that was Thomas Jefferson who thought the Bible had been adopted by to many political ideologies that tainted the better moral frameworks.
Every president after has been directly and only Christian. No Jewish, no Buddhists, no separation of church and state ever allowed.
Not that i lile swearing on the bible, but considering this anywhere close to "our Law is based on the sharia, thats why a woman's testimony is legally just half as useful as a man's" is kinda dimb.
That's nationalism and jingoism, not racism.
Jeez.
Well, probably all of the above with the Iranian thing.
At the end of the day, they’re still pathetic amerikkkan exceptionalists who think “we are better than this.”
We are not better than this, and we never have been.
Fucking pieces of shit got us where we are with their ignorance.
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Fox News was founded in 1996 which we all know was only about 10 years ago.
Almost 30 years, damn
Voting for what makes you mad, living for what makes you sad.
Are these song lyrics? If not, they should be.
I can't wait for Trump to rename the months after his family members.
I vote for "Ivanktober" because that's the creepiest of their familial relationships I can think of off hand. It'll really augment the spooky vibe of the season.
You guys always manage to make the worst out of a morally questionable concept. Did it already with slavery.
I like that format, too.
Question: Slavery?
Answer: No.
Ah, no, i thought more about that there were different types of slavery (african, british, etc.) that somewhat worked with society but US took of every type the worst parts and made it an inter-generational instead of a limited-time thing.
I hope these fuckers are happy now. They got what they wanted. Or just ignored the problem and now that it's not going away they've finally realized that maybe they should have voted differently. Or at all.
I hope y'all bastards suffer.
If you think they're rethinking their choices, or are even aware of any of the problems, you are a god damn child. They live in a bubble and think things are better than ever.
Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away....
Only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air...
They didn't get what they wanted and will never get it but they're too brain rotten to realize.
But Americans who voted for Kamala will suffer too, unfortunately. I don't understand, why if people voted for Trump, the country just after that gone authoritarian, downhill. It could be prevented with strong rule of law.
I'm not at all ready for it, but I've been acutely aware it was coming since the night of Nov. 6th.
I mean most of us were acutely aware of it since November of 2016 and perhaps even before, but yeah. So far the awareness seems to be more of a punishment because we can see the train wrecks coming but can't seem to convince the drivers of the car we're in to actually stop parking on the tracks.
Perhaps blissful ignorance may save our mental state.
I avoid news a lot more than I used to because all it does is cause distress about things I have no control over. In his first term I at least had the hope that the shaky guardrails were there to keep him from going too far, but those are gone now and I'm fully aware I live in a country under a fascist regime with no opposition from anyone with the power to do something about it.
By the way, there were sanctions against Russia in 2014 because of occupation of Crimea, and that gangster fascist state significantly started to use psy-op techniques and weponizing of corruption against Western countries.
But people still should have personal responsibility, anyway.
It's like Americans lost their national identity or something. They literally act like Russians, judging by the comic.
Year Zero you say?
If the GOP is riding in under the banner of the Christian god, then Hail Satan indeed!
Bojler eladó, nem lopott, vadi új(hungary mentioned) /s
Maybe you guys will know.
Is the following link lefty Q anon?
No.
Hope this helps!
What sets it apart?
If you don't mind helping for another sec.
I'd really like to give this link out to people but watching it fills me with dread about how conspiritoral it is.
This is what I ordered. Not how you famed it but the exact thing I wanted I am getting here. So... not too worried.
You people wouldn’t find political education if it hit you in the face.
Oh, that can be arranged, just in case.
If you told me most online progressives were part of a psyop to make people more conservative I'd believe you.
Seems like you already do.
