Anyone remember the internet before trump. Good times, thanks again america
If we ever move past Trump I don't think I'll ever be able to put up with any political bullshit again.
Submitted 2 months ago by Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I wish I knew how to program so I could make a browser extension like ublock that blocks Trump content. I’m fucking tired of seeing his face everywhere and hearing all the dumb shit pouring out of his mouth and contaminating everything.
I know all I need to know about him and who I support politically. I’m so done with him trying to monopolize everyones minds and time. Get out of my life you fucking lich.
Chewget@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I swear there’s an extension for that
HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I hope it would block the unfunny Trumper parody accounts that poke around on Lemmy
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I think a better one is if anyone remembers the internet before the Russian trolls/bot farms invaded all the social media sites. You wouldn’t hear about Dementia DonOLD because at this point he’d be irrelevant or in jail.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If we don’t move past Trump I’m moving to the jungle and not coming back.
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It won’t help, they’ll strip mine it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, tropicaldingdong sleeps tonight…
oooooWEEEEEEEE we we we we wom wom wom ah wayyyyy!!!
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
Maybe you are not coming back, but deforestation will come after you!
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
If the orange bad happens again I’m gonna leave the country.
AA5B@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The city is not much better. We’re all splattered when the shit hits the fan.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 months ago
But… orangutans live in the jungle. I thought you wanted to get away from Trump.
VulKendov@reddthat.com 2 months ago
🎵 Bingo, Bangle, Bungle, I’m so happy in the jungle 🎵
bradorsomething@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
I can’t imagine we will ever have another president whose whole presidency is remembered by its scandals, terrible marriage, his coming out of nowhere to win the office, and the general incompetence and corruption. His slogan didn’t even mean anything, but people just went with it.
One Warren G Harding was enough. America won’t be fooled twice.
okamiueru@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Isn’t Trump just a symptom? What scares the shit out of me, isn’t Trump. It’s that Americans voted for him once, but that it’s still a remote question. Even 5% thinking that could be a good idea, is cause for concern.
Remove Trump from the picture, and that issue is still there. Imagine someone as vile as Trump, but not dumb as a sponge…
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 months ago
A lot of people are really quite stupid. On top of that, they’re in social groups (ie: tribes) that have shitty values.
Long term investing in education would help. So would things like removing lead from the environment, and fixing healthcare and labor laws so people aren’t so stressed all the time trying to survive.
Something like half of US adults can’t read at a 6th grade level (Snopes says this is basically true but there are complexities www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/ )
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 2 months ago
He’s not just a symptom. If he was, they’d have someone else running they can better control. If we passed laws that news agencies are required to be truthful and neutral, we wouldn’t be in this mess. With the red states undermining education and fox “news” stirring up hatred, fear, and lies, you get a cult/base that won’t listen to reality or facts. When they’re presented with irrefutable evidence that contradicts what they’ve been told, they put their fingers in their ears and start yelling shit like "but her emails!!!, well Obama did (insert some random bullshit lie), Clinton did (another bullshit lie), or "what about Hunter’s laptop huh???.
They don’t care, they can’t comprehend what’s really happening and it’s mind blowing. I work with a guy that I asked why he’s voting for Mr Orange and he brings up points that he says the republicans are doing when in fact it’s the democrats doing that, the repbulikkklowns are voting against it. I point that out to him and he tells me I’m full of shit. I tell him do a quick web search, and he comes back with fake news and walks away. It’s scary and sad.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I really just think it’s trump. he has zero shame or self inflection, or respect for himself, so he doesn’t care. he just lies and lies and feeds people bullshit. didn’t do anything, but told people what they wanted to hear, that news was fake, trust him not your eyes, and anyone not white is a problem. it was all the fuel idiots needed to “team up” and wear diapers. their boring lives now had a purpose and a team lol.
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s feeling very, “worst so far” these days. You might need to prepare for reality calling your bluff.
cheddar@programming.dev 2 months ago
I’m sure it’ll be worse after Trump. He’s an idiot. Imagine someone with the same agenda, but actually smart.
beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Yeah I mean project 2025 is not his thing, it’s the heritage foundation’s thing they’ve been scheming for years.
fubbernuckin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He might be an idiot, but he’s a useful idiot. I get the feeling there are smart people at play, just using trump as a puppet more or less.
orcrist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Politics has always been b******* and will always be b*******, and actually that’s one way that s***** politicians exploit people. They make the whole topic irritating or frustrating, and then a lot of people either stay home or become single issue voters because it’s just too frustrating to even think about any of the issues or politicians.
No matter what you do, politics will affect your life. How engaged you want to get really depends on where you think your energy is well spent and what makes you happy.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Just remember there’s always one of the Paul’s
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Ron, Rand and Ru.
vga@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Nor should you. Everything shitty in politics is not due to Trump, but he sure normalized a lot of bad things that weren’t a thing before him.
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 2 months ago
They would have been, but then they would have RAN to their closets to get their white robes and start cheering.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Ok, sucks to be you lol
ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah but we’d have to redo the Senate completely - definitely a Constitutional amendment - and expand the House (I think they can just add seats) to reduce or eliminate the power of land ownership on our government’s composition.
Or change the Senate to a House Of Lords kind of model. Still an amendment.
Which means the short term solution is all anti MAGA people have to band together and stick together until MAGA dies off. Then maybe the Republican Party can be reborn to be more like it was in the 70s (but hopefully with less bigotry). This rot started with Reagan, so we have to go back at least that far.
(This would also free up religious people to find the candidate and party whose policy goals match their most important beliefs instead of the other way around.)
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then you’re gonna have a bad time
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As will everyone else