Looking into purchasing a firearm. Too many stupids in this country. Have to protect myself.

In 1995 I considered movies from 1965 old. So, yes.

Just throwing this out there.

If you expect conservatives to learn anything from this experience, I can promise you on my life that they won’t. They will not deviate from voting R under any circumstance in existence.

Best we can hope for is independents getting a clue and helping swing the next election, if there is one, back to the grownup party.

Not holding my breath though. This is a very, very stupid generation of Americans.

America’s North Korean propaganda network at it again.

I wish upon a star that we could be a generation that takes power back for the average worker and uses our strength in numbers as leverage to have a better quality of life by making the wealthy pay their fair share.

But it’s looking like our historic legacy is going to be that of a fool generation that votes against their own interests and refuses to stand up for themselves.

A very embarrassing time to be an American.

I’m tired, boss.

I work on a help desk. We hired multiple Zoomers and they literally don’t understand how computers work. They don’t know what the registry is. Or what POST means. Or how to properly back up a user’s data without using automated software.

They’re fucking dumb. Nice. But dumb.

If they’re American I would point out that they have no representation for their conservative views because there is no fiscally conservative party in the United States.

1984

I know it’s a typical answer. But there’s a reason for that.

That book will put the fear of fascism in you in a way that even actual history doesn’t. That book caused me to take historic examples of fascism more seriously and personally.

Apparently not enough of my fellow Americans have read it.

As someone who became an adult before social media was a thing, it has absolutely been a detriment to society.

There’s great aspects to it and I utilize them. But as a whole, it has FUUUUCKED us up in a very significant way.

There is a direct correlation between the rise of social media and the absolute nosedive our political discourse has taken. Misinformation is SO much more prevalent now. And that rise in misinformation is definitely having real world effects.

I’m tired, boss.

I suggested lobotomizing all conservatives. I’d 100% live in that world and love every minute of it.

Lobotomize all conservatives to see if their IQ increases.

We’ve exhausted all other options.

Your mom sounds like kind of an asshole. She was alienated from liberalism because she was tired of hearing about a minority being targeted by a fascist party for existing?

That’s some asshole behavior.

I now have no reason to be excited about their platform

I’m excited about the part where they AREN’T FUCKING FASCISTS.

I’m completely numb to anything they say negatively about Trump.

Then Trump has beaten you through attrition, which was his goal.

We’ve never elected a felon rapist who attempted to overthrow our government before.

So clearly something has changed.

Boomers aren’t responsible for all our woes, but they absolutely have pulled up the ladder. That’s not debatable. Voting records prove it.

Saying that boomers hold all the wealth is not correct

They don’t hold ALL the wealth, but they do hold the most. And that allows them to contribute more to political campaigns and have an outsized effect on legislation.

Are we more stupid than we used to be? Yeah. But I’d use the word ignorant instead. It’s a bit more accurate. Ignorance is chosen, and that’s what our current epidemic of stupidity is. Chosen.

There have always been a lot of ignorant people, but now, with social media, those people have platforms to infect others with their ignorance. Also, in my own lifetime, I’ve witnessed a shift from ignorant people still being able to set aside partisan politics to condemn obviously bad actors or decisions to 100% doubling down on partisan politics no matter how bad the person or action is.

I’ve definitely FELT this increase in willful ignorance over the course of my life living in this country. People in my own life choosing to believe things they absolutely would not have believed a couple decades ago. People not understanding super basic concepts.

I think there are other factors than just bad actors spreading ignorance on social media. I think a lot of it has to do with simple distractions. The modern world has so many. A lot of the people I know don’t even read books. Like, they simply don’t read. If I ask them what book they read last they have to concentrate because it was multiple years ago. That’s fucking crazy. Instead of picking up a book they’re watching Real Wives of Whatever. Getting involved in some wealthy person’s 1st world problems, instead of, you know, learning something.

We’re entering an age of concentrated ignorance and, unfortunately, that’s very unlikely to end anytime soon. And the stakes are higher than ever for something like that to happen because we possess greater power to decimate this planet than we used to. Through pollution or braindead child-like politicians who can wage war or launch nukes.

It takes a lot less effort to allow things to keep going the way they are than it does to turn things around and responsibly educate the masses. So we’re probably going to continue spiraling.

Things are going to get dark. Our quality of life will decline.

How would they “block” it?