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  • Yuppp but this time we're going into it with the ostrich administration. They'll put their heads in the sand and gaslight the population saying it's all a conspiracy to make them look bad and it's not real.

    Or "even worse" they'll say "for the sake of the economy we need sacrifices. If you die you died for your country but no, as RFK Jr has decided, you may not have a vaccine."

  • Anyone else feel like humanity has too much apathy?
  • I did, but I don't care anymore.

    ...I'll see myself out. :P

    In all seriousness I just don't know if I have it in me to keep paying attention to a trainwreck that I have no control over. I can only help my local community in some limited manner, anything outside of that all I can do is vote and yell at a "representative" that is bribed to not listen.

  • The Resistance Is Not Coming to Save You. It’s Tuning Out.
  • Fucking seriously... One asshole even said if Bernie won he'd be put against the wall like having a fucking firing squad aimed at him...

    Anything to keep their millions and millions from decreasing slightly... Even fascism apparently.

  • Trump sues for billions from media he says is biased against him
  • And will anyone sue Fox other than some private business?

    Nope. Democrats will just sit back and let Fox, Newsmax, OANN and the like all go and call them communist scum that want to kill babies and destroy everything.

    It's so aggravating.

  • Ramaswamy wants to defund unauthorized government programs - like veteran healthcare
  • Touching NASA very well might be the thing that finally pushes me to actual violence.

    Scientific endeavors, but specifically research and exploration of space are pretty much the only things in life I really have a passion for.

  • What would 10 year old you be the most surprised about you now?
  • That in pretty much every single sense of the word I'm an absolutely pathetic loser.

    I didn't think I'd ever be anything special, but I also didn't think I'd be 38 and single for going on a decade, living in someone else's garage, working in a factory in a dead end position with no degree and not an ounce of self worth to even presume to choose a direction.

    10 year old me couldn't wait to be an adult, but after seeing me I think 10 year old me would never want to grow up knowing what I'd eventually become lol

  • I'm a little desperate and I think going to Reddit will help, but I also feel kind of sick just thinking about it. I know that's silly, but I do. Would I be a massive hypocrite or is it justified?
  • Just going to plus 1 what every one else is saying. We ditched reddit for various reasons, mostly about their business practices and exploitation, but this time you would be the one to benefit directly from utilizing it as a tool.

    I totally agree to use it to help yourself and then toss it when you don't need it. If it helps you feel any better use the website with an ad blocker, not the app, delete your interaction when you have a satisfactory conclusion, and think about it as taking advantage of spez by doing so, not being taken advantage of lol

    Best of luck!

  • In a first, US independent turnout tops Democrats, ties Republicans, Edison Research says
  • You register with a party, but if you vote in person they just verify your name against the registration, you don't sign your ballot.

    If you mail in your ballot, you signed the outer envelope, not the ballot, so after verification of the signature hypothetically they discard the envelope and just run the ballot.

    In any case I don't think there is any record kept of who votes for what candidate.

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    Curtis Yarvin: Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

    newrepublic.com Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

    Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

    Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas

    Hey Lemmy! Time to do some digging!

    I was sent a link from a friend about some Totally Cool™ guy who has close ties to JD Vance: Curtis Yarvin. Anyone aware of this guy and his desires? I won't put the link in here as my last post was removed because of it, but a comment within the thread is copied below.

    Apparently Japanese media covered the story as was posted to Reddit, but there doesn't seem to be too much talk of this in the US.

    From a comment in the reddit discussion: “Curtis Yarvin is a far-right ‘intellectual’ that wants to end democracy and install what I can only really describe as cyberpunk feudalism. He’s suggested turning the United States into a patchwork of corporate fiefdoms ruled with absolute impunity by CEOs, as well as putting mandatory ankle monitors on all unemployed and poor people. This sounds like a joke, but I’m serious. JD Vance is not just a fan of him intellectually, but also a personal friend. As someone who has known about Yarvin for several years, it’s been really concerning seeing how he could potentially become a Rasputin-like figure in the event of a Trump victory. Beyond this, Yarvin has also spent many years advocating for what sounds eerily like Project 2025.”

    Links within comment:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

    https://newrepublic.com/article/183971/jd-vance-weird-terrifying-techno-authoritarian-ideas

    https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarvin-neoreaction-redpill-moldbug

    For those familiar with Star Citizen lore, he apparently wants to turn the US into the Stanton system “lol” …

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