Triasha
@Triasha@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise 1 day ago:
Exactly. A lot of getting good at something is practicing. No one wants to spend time doing something they suck at, especially in public, but rather than practice in private, we can try to trick ourselves into believing we are actually already talented, faking it to get the practice that is needed to build the skill.
This might also help with mild imposter syndrome.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 days ago:
Hard disagree. Their base will believe anything.
If we set up gas chambers in Florida some people would be insisting they were harmless showers while they were being forced into them.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 5 days ago:
Yep, there is no organization capable of staging armed opposition to the government. A series of mass shootings and maybe some explosives is all we are going to get.
Given the number of incidents, I wouldn’t be shocked if historians decide later we are already living through it. Political assasinations in Minnesota, the attempted murder of pelosi’s husband, attempted trump shooter, charkie Kirk, the car bomb in Memphis that didn’t go off a few years ago. The United Healthcare CEO hit. Attempted kidnapping of Gretchen Whitmer.
There is plenty of violence to go around, but nothing that would rise to civil war.
I have imagined a scenario where a debt crisis degrades the capacity of the federal government and polarization leaves citizens and national guard more loyal to their state than the federal government, but we are a long way away from that.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Sure, the billionaires are the ultimate problem. They are not the office holders.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Those outlets would not publish that propaganda if it did not sell. It’s not that there is no interplay, but the media figures pushing the fascist propaganda have no incentive to stop and cannot be forced to stop without abandoning core principles of our society (freedom of speech)
Executing, exiling, or dispropriating enough billionaires would make a difference, but again, you need fascist tools to stop the decent into fascism. There is a significant segment of our society that wants the violence. Not a majority, but enough that I see no peaceful way through. The violence will come for us eventually.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Hard disagree. The Republican politicians are not leading the masses to dark places, the masses are pulling the politicians to greater extremes and the politicians are holding them back, because they have a greater understanding of the consequences than the average voter.
Ask the average Republican if undocumented I’m immigrants should all be deported, and they will tell you yes. That’s 14 million people, and the only way to accomplish it is to build up ICE to 5 times it’s current size, and do what they are doing in Minneapolis in every city in America. What they want requires fascism.
Ask them if abortion is murder and they will say yes. They don’t care about the women that are dying from pregnancy complications, the children that will be orphaned, the families that have been torn apart because the treatment for many conditions is abortion of the pregnancy and if it’s murder you can get treatment.
Ask them if environmental regulations are too stiff and should be rolled back so the economy can grow, and they will say yes, they don’t care about the ecosystems that will be lost forever, the diseases that people will suffer from pollution, or the rights of communities to avoid those harms.
What holds them back is that individuals don’t all want the same things, so the party pulls in different directions, because some people understand the disaterous implications of a specific policy, so they don’t support that particular cruelty, but they don’t question the wider ideology, and the basic ideology is a death cult.
What you get over time is generational frustration that the corrupt politicians refuse to do what is necessary and support for more and more extreme individuals in office. People that hatch plans like the federalist society, to corrupt the courts, and project 2025, to destroy the administrative state and consolidate power into the executive, and congresspeople who will support the descent into violent fascism, because that’s what is required to give the masses what they demand.
Democracy slows down the process, but the American voters will get the cruelty, suffering, and death they demand eventually.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 2 weeks ago:
Both. Definitely both. Our minds can experience two emotions at once.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
That’s a calculation each of us has to make personally. If you are white, a citizen, have people that rely on you, and are wealthy enough that they can fight a legal battle for you, maybe don’t resist and hope for the best. If you are none of those, and you think you might get sent to a concentration camp or Africa, maybe defend yourself as best you can.
Good luck to everyone.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
World leaders are doing things. Europe has committed large sums of money to building out their defense industries, China has been building out it’s military capabilities for decades, Canada has used tarrifs to strategically punish the US for it’s tarrifs on Canadian goods and joined the European defense partnership, presumably to gain access to the aforementioned defense industry build out in Europe. Japan is increasing it’s military spending and moving to amend it’s constitution to remove the restrictions on military force.
Sanctions against the US like those on Iran are possible, but for a country as large and wealthy as the US with such a diversified economy, even if the entire world sanctioned the US it would plunge them into desperate poverty.
It would wreck the US economy, no doubt, but most world leaders are not willing to even suggest their people should endure that level of hardship over Nicolas Maduro. And the US would still have most of the world ability to project military power, so driving us into a corner like that would be incredibly dangerous.
Make no mistake, every world leader and especially every head of state in Latin America is considering the chance that delta Force could pull them out of bed at 3 AM, I imagine Sheinbaum in Mexico, Lula in Brazil, have a few new grey hairs and especially Cubas head of state is sweating bullets. They don’t have the power to prevent it.
I am personally reviewing my options for how to protest this action.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, Israel was able to launch a shit ton of Missiles into Iran, and some of the Iranian Missiles hit Israel, even through the Iron dome, the tightest missile defense system in the world.
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 1 month ago:
AI. Is huge capital investments. Just tax the wealth. Any fortune over 10 million has to pay 4% of the gross total per year.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 month ago:
That’s definitely where my mind goes.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 1 month ago:
I thought it was native to wealthy families from Jersey/Virginia/Maryland. People that grew up in Martha’s vineyard.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
If you don’t remember pemdas, you can use the longer P.lease E.xcuse M.y D.ear A.unt S.ally.
- Comment on I dunno 2 months ago:
Pemdas, parenthesis first, for a total of 3. Then multiplication, 15, then addition. 17. What’s hard about this?
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
If you think your church is doing good work, you give.
The church I grew up in closed for lack of funds. The preacher never lived large, they weren’t taking more than people wanted to give.
I would never give money to a mega church, but I have donated to UU churches as an adult.
- Comment on How are these ICE agents allowed to fire on protestors like this 3 months ago:
This is the answer. ICE is operating by the same rules the Ferguson police were during the 2014 riots, and the George Floyd protests in 2020. They can do whatever the my want up to and including break your door down in the middle of the night and shoot you while you sleep like they did to Breyonna Taylor.
- Comment on THE CRAZY PILLS 3 months ago:
The founders tried that and look where it got us.
I remind myself all the time that as mad as I may feel, as righteous and justified and endangered, that violence on the level that might change things will fuck up my life and the life of everyone I care about and a whole lot of people I don’t know but don’t deserve it. Are the Cubans better off after the cuban revolution? Maybe, hard to say. Were the Soviets better off after the Russian revolution? Again, hard to say. The French are better off today than they were before the French revolution, but they also got Napoleon right after that.
Things will get worse before they get better.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 3 months ago:
Getting 2 is generous sometimes.
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 3 months ago:
Nebula has some cozy bedtime stories at I’m pretty sure are not AI.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
The Constitution is clear, the house votes to impeach, the Senate votes to convict and needs a supermajority.
Nixon resigned because it was a done deal that he would be convicted. Trump remained and his party did a little jury nullification and voted not guilty regardless of the evidence.
The SC didn’t need to do anything to stop impeachment (and doesn’t have the legal authority to do anything about it regardless)
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 4 months ago:
See a doctor and ask for a sleep study. You might have sleep apnea, or some other condition.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 4 months ago:
I grew up here, being white doesn’t mean it’s not my culture. I don’t know jack about Mexican cuisine, but Tex Mex is my culture.
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 4 months ago:
I will attempt to say a person’s name how they say it. If they say “call me [simple anglicized name]” then I will do that.
Most people seem to appreciate the effort. I’m sure my American vocals butcher some pronouciations, but I don’t make a big deal out of it and my work gives me a lot of chances to practice. I will always make a good faith attempt at last names.
I live in Texas and will pronounce food names of Mexican origin with a Mexican accent. Burrito, taco, chalupa.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 4 months ago:
In my county we get paid 35 dollars per day for jury duty.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 4 months ago:
Blue wave in the midterms is just one sandbag in the wall that would need to be built to stop the flood of fascism.
- Comment on Americans have 400 days to save their democracy 4 months ago:
You get paid about 3.50 and hour in my state.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
At this point I doubt Jackboots, swasticas, or gas chambers would make a difference.
Take care of your loved ones.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
And if wishes were fishes there would be no room in the ocean for water.
You aren’t wrong, but “could” is doing some heavy lifting.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Back during Trump’s first term I would hear people saying “this country is going to fall into civil war” and I told my friends “we are nowhere near a civil war.” Because the conditions were not there. It takes a huge buildup to move people to organized violence. You have to have thousands and in the US case millions or at least 100s of thousands of people willing to kill and die for a cause and we didn’t have that, and still don’t.
But the pandemic came and we saw half the country couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask or get a vaccine to protect their neighbors and the other half saw that outpouring of collective psychopathy and realized that their neighbors were willing to risk their lives and the lives of their family and community to “own the libs” and we moved a step closer.
But you can’t have a civil war like the 1800’s today, there aren’t bright geographical lines of loyalty. I predicted in the Biden administration that we would see a period of rising violence scattered across the country, like bleeding Kansas, but spread all over.
And that is exactly what we are seeing.
We still aren’t at the point where we could fall into civil war, but we are closer every year. Trump is doing his damndest to create the conditions.
I pray we never get that far. Civil wars are the worst short of full on genocide, and they make the big G a whole lot more likely.