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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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But in their infinite wisdom, they decided former presidents and presidential candidates were a sacred cow and we cannot hold someone accountable for their crimes of they might become president, we must put them in a position to ruin everything

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[–] Pavidus@lemmy.world 54 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

This is the point I keep reminding myself of. We had four years to do anything at all. We all knew version 2.0 would be back like deja vu but worse, and we (as a country) just let it.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 25 minutes ago* (last edited 22 minutes ago)

The nationalist "we" is insidious. Don't blame regular people for the endless crimes of the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_religion

I didn't participate in or support any of genocide joe's miserable actions. Dude literally just kept the seat warm for his fellow fash.

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 39 points 16 hours ago

Propaganda, election interference, election fraud, hostile nation interference, etc. it wasn’t just the voters, and it’s reasonable, given the evidence of corruption and election interference, to believe that they did get away with cheating the system this time. Not that we can do anything about it.