• prof_wafflez@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party.

    Yeah disinformation and social media slop has diminished the little confidence I had that America could turn it around. It’s over and we are simply running out the clock, imo. Even if we are able to slice off the Republican fascist hydra head the climate change head will have grown too powerful at that point and devour us all

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      21 hours ago

      Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn’t work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can’t responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we’re failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don’t stand a chance.

      It’s not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It’s going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.

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        20 hours ago

        I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign

        Same. At this point I’m exhausted though. I don’t see a way through and people have proven themselves far too stupid and susceptible to misinformation for there to be a way. A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation on something as simple as birth control and have actively shown distrust toward multiple medical professionals. Simply no energy left to fight against the tide of stupification. We’re cooked

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          20 hours ago

          A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation

          This is probably the most depressing aspect of it all to me. Finding out that people who I thought were intelligent and good are actually anti-intellectual and amoral.

          You know when you have a society rebelling against vaccines, one of the greatest things to ever happen to humanity, that you’re witnessing a downward spiral.

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        20 hours ago

        But God forbid you call it depressing and ruin someone else’s high on the way down.