Being an optimist it's waves throughout humanity and this is merely the most recent one. We are better as a species though still not perfect. My gut tells me we will make it out of this but like many times before the old thinking will need to die.

We are going to look back at the greed rampant today for the mental disease if truly is and address the underlying issue that makes people like Elon or Bezos not only exist but thrive. We will come to the realization that people like that are not normal and we will no longer idolize or encourage such destructive individualism.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago*

Who is "we"? You had some big part in this? Stop blaming yourself and please stop blaming me. There's not much need to self-identify with an oppressive system if you're not actively doing the oppressing. The nationalist "we" is garbage.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As well as when he made fun of the journalist who was in a wheelchair. I remember seeing that and I thought it was completely over for him, but no.

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[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The amount of times it should be over for him, you could fill a library

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[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 1 year ago

Interesting website idea.

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A significant portion of American voters: "Heh, NICE! I wish I was famous."

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[–] Heikki2@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

That significant portion dont realize they are closer to 0 than they are a 100k-inair

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[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Wow i just need to be famouse and i can sexually assult people? Man this really is the land of the free. You got my vote.

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[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 1 year ago

I hate to be the one to tell you, but the moral timber of the a lot of American voters is infested with selfishness and a lust for hurting others with impunity. And while good people stay home, the selfish always vote.

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[–] EarthshipTechIntern01@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

The Onion, if they were writing this (instead of it being actual) would have made it better reading, less disgusting.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It really should have been. The "conservatives" are not religious or conservative, they are disgusting. The "conservative" republican party is way WAY too liberal for my tastes. We should start calling republicans the "libs", because they are.

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[–] jafra@slrpnk.net -1 points 1 year ago

You sound like someone who still believes a party what doesn't blab about it's cruelties, wrongdoing and stupidity is a party that is innocent and good. Haha, good one. Who has been the opponent of trump the first time around in 2016, Hillary Clinton, right? Personally I always welcomed trumps presidency. Thanks to him the whole world can see what a farce our democracies are (and it's not only the MAGAs I talk about). And as Europeans it enabled us to distance ourselves more easily from the forced western dependency/decadency. I just don't know what's better: being a US colony as before or the recent stupidity, having a straight-from-BlackRock-lobbyist as a chancellor... Darn, and that's one of the reason why people become more and more aggressive while becoming decreasingly tolerant to differing world views...