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DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns
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I dunno if you're in the US or not, but here, the whole information pipe is so screwed up.
Rage? You feed the trolls, and feed the algorithms/news.
Be reasonable like that? No one hears you. Boring statements don't sell ads. And Trump has 'hacked' that attention economy pretty good.
...So you aren't wrong, but I'm convinced that's a useless sentiment now. I'm more into the "where are the Epstein files" meme because uncovering pedophile conspiracies are a core MAGA tenant. It's the only thing that will get through and bust glass.
i have had the impression for years now (at least since 2012, because that's when i started observing) that the world in the US is deeply broken on a deeper level than the surface.
superficially, the US is possibly close to a civil war, with trump deploying troops to cities, angry trump loyalists storming the capitol just a bit earlier, and such. but if you look deeper, the whole picture looks a lot darker.
it's not so much that people are as stupid as they pretend to be (only caring about epstein, neglecting their own financial situation, not caring about sustainability & having a future), instead it's that a lot of people have emotional struggles that reach deep and keep them from making reasonable choices.
i think a lot of people are just really really emotionally hurt. if you look at the typical people in rural areas, a lot are emotionally broken, feel abandoned by society, feel as if they're left to rot in their tiny, abandoned villages, that anger channels to the coastline cities, where it's supposedly better, and then you end up with a "owning the libs" situation where basically the rural population is trying to take petty revenge on the people living in the coast cities for living a better, more meaningful life than themselves.
this can't be cured by just changing the communication channels somewhat. it would need a deep and fundamental processing of the soul of people. it can't be done overnight, and at this point, i'm worried that nobody actually tries to care for the people who feel left behind and abandoned at all. basically, the rich move on, undertaking their enterprises, leaving large parts of the country behind, unemployed and without meaning and purpose in life. i'm pretty sure we'll see some civil revolts (which will be forcefully bashed by the police and such), and then we'll see the development of parallel societies where you practically have large ghettos in cities which is essentially like a parallel universe.
i think it's for the better though if some parts of the country secede. it's not possible to give employment to everyone*, and if these people can at least form their own societies, they'll have integrity and self-determination, and that's worth something.
* in the year 2040, AI and automation have replaced a lot of jobs.
-The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck