watching the younger generations of my family embrace maga despite their liberal & leftists origins coupled with first hand witnessing tiktok becoming captured along with open source taking it’s first step towards ID verification makes me think that this trend can be reversed.

i have lemmy to thank for ending my doomscrolling and reminding me that i’m not alone—and more than just theoretically so.

I live in Oakland, California, and here I feel the longing for radical change in the air. I’m sorry that you don’t. Where do you live? Do you have a local political community?

the last time i felt hopeful was when i lived near san francisco. oakland was the place i would go to regain my sanity for almost 15 years. over the last 27 years – both before and after living in the bay area – i’ve lived in and around new york, phoenix, austin, chicago, newark, and las vegas. that experience has taught me that there are bubbles of sanity so disconnected from the overwhelming majority of this country that reconciliation seems unlikely.

my family cements that sense of irreconcilability. my parents, aunts, uncles, siblings, cousins, and i had to pay coyotes to smuggle us across the border. we did our best to thrive without legal status in this country that wanted us gone. that situation became a crucible that forced a liberal/leftist collectivist mindset – necessary for survival – but that mindset is now being completely wiped away. our children, who never had our experiences, either embrace maga’s “rugged individualism” or simply think the rest of us are “overreacting” to trump. and all of us who have coupled with white americans are likewise brainwormed now.

it’s only the younger generations who grew up in the bubbles who stay true to their heritage. they are both a tiny minority and significantly poorer than their suburban/rural cousins. it breaks my heart to watch my siblings eschew their deeply held beliefs just to keep access to their grandchildren – and especially so for my father, who drilled those beliefs into my head as a child. it makes me partly glad that my mother didn’t live long enough to do the same.

moving from city to city over the decades has taught me that my experience is extremely common and indicative of the undeniable conservative trend this country has been undergoing since the '70s. lemmy has done a lot to convince me to try reaching back out to socialist groups again. i’m hoping they’ve stopped being as feckless as they used to be.

The Russians were responding to crimes committed by fascists in Donbass; no government is responding to crimes in Gaza.

Even if the Dems are bad, they are not fascists (for now). Pray they don’t become fascists.

Graham Platner literally has a white power tattoo on his chest and has been a paid mercenary for the imperialist projects in Iraq/Afghanistan.

He’s also considered to be the most progressive Democrat in Maine’s election this year.

watching these updates on these sorts of developments has been eye opening for me; who knew that there so many such facilities just to keep modern life going?!

but then again, it was fun back then triggering the conservatives by merely calling them french fries. lol

sometimes you got to look at life’s silver linings to keep your sanity going. lol

i learned the other day that the previous tanker ship was escorted by 2 russian naval vessels and clearly meant as an insurance in case trump chose to escalate the situation in an environment where the world using russian oil as a crutch to survive.

it makes me wonder about why none of these articles bother to mention the military escort.

the epstein files shows in plain back-and-white print that the system is captured by a ruling class of people who exist above the law to such a degree that they can flaunt their activities to the world in unencrypted messages; calling it merely imperfect is an dramatic understatement.

there’s plenty of people decrying the descent of critical thinking and media literacy skills and there seems to be a body of work supporting it.

neither are arenas that i know much about; but it’s hard to deny it’s trend by either reviewing that body or work or trying to understand why trump still enjoys 36% support of americans despite all he’s done.

fyi: hexbear seems to be the social leftist center of the lemmyverse while lemmygrad seems to excel at exploring leftist theory.

this matters if you’re like me who has a nascent understanding of leftism that leaves you unaware of most things and best become aware of it by engaging in interactions where people (mostly tangentially) banter about it rather than strict exploration of specific topics.

i guess it does look like a chad hair style, but the dunce hats would be much more useful. lol

the foia is a cover-your-ass strategy that the us adopted once they realized that their skullduggery was going to get out eventually anyways, meanwhile the chinese are up front about their intentions.

i bet it’s better to chop them up into fine pieces to feed to the wild animals that have been displaced by their “land development”

you mean things like free palestine or isreal doesn’t have a right to exist? lol

these are haunting for some reason

they already have

there’s something wrong if your cat is stinky. lol

why did this hurt so much? lol

What might appear to be a simple case of smuggling conceals a deeper geopolitical interpretation. It is difficult to believe that European intelligence services, which rigorously monitor arms trafficking, would ignore this flow into the Americas. The most disturbing hypothesis is that the European high command, under unofficial orders, is permitting these transactions in order to inflame tensions on the southern border of the United States.

it’s even harder to imagine that the CIA isn’t already aware of this development given the clearly intentional blind eye they’ve given to the cartels for purchasing american made military grade weapons despite it being illegal to do so. (and let’s not forget that they also created the school of the americas).

Why can such a conclusion be reached? Europeans themselves do not hide their anger toward the United States. Recently, the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, accused the US of wanting to weaken and “divide Europe.” Kallas asserted that the US “doesn’t like us being together because we become a power equal to them when we unite.” In this context, the diversion of weapons to the cartels could be a silent act of retaliation.

this postulation feels like a redirection since we already know that trump is going to seek another win from latin america because of iran and he’s already signaled that he wants an armed conflict with mexico.

it bet it’ll just disintegrate instead of turning into jerky. lol