Well I think they really only did two things : A) appeal to far right people with their roots waaaay out in the boondocks mostly northward rather than southwestward using stuff like dog whistles, and B) use doublespeak to simultaneously appeal to, draw in, and superficially radicalize the more centre right types just enough to get their vote over the top, to have a substantial base, and to be able to call it ‘a mandate’. I mean they really went out into the deep country for campaigning.

Trump makes a variety of compliment sandwiches. It’s hard to tell after a while just what kind of sandwich it is.

Sounds like that movie the Obamas made ‘Leave the World Behind’. Guys… I think this is it. The trump administration has gone idiocratic accelerationist. Brace. Prepare. If you don’t like words like “prepper” then use the environmentalist term “adapt in place”. Know your community. Community is what will save us. Make a new human connection in person. At least one. When you achieve that go beyond it. Become a pillar of your community, a fixture, and do it as quickly as possible. Be a benefit.

Well the republicans are in some kind of hyperfascist accelerationist mode so I’m not sure exactly how much time we have to give them.

I don’t understand what they hate about the (now) old world order, what they were and I think still calling “the new world order”. I understand what I hate about it, I just don’t understand what they hate about it. THEY are the new world order now, they and their dictator friends abroad. Whenever there is a new world order forms (yes, deictically it’s relative to the formation of world orders in their historical contingency) it seems like it is announced often with that exact term “new world order”. It would be incredibly ironic if he were to use those words today. But it’s as if he could. I would so rather be under George H.W. Bush’s adminstration though, if I were to pick my poison. But I think right now the hegemony belongs to the PRC, from a descriptivist standpoint (not prescriptivist) - he’s a PRC pawn.

They’re doing some weird things right now I think. I was posting a big paragraph about peak oil on slrpnk.net a couple hours ago and that’s when slrpnk went down. Maybe I’m just paranoid.

I started voting green party when I realized that that was the system - lesser of two evils. To me, it doesn’t feel like the least of all evils, it just feels a little disappointing as a third party almost inherently. But then I get a second wind sometimes and concert myself to making something of it.

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I am aware, but it makes me finicky. Irks me irrationally.

Technically that would make king charles my head of state seeing as I live in California. Not into that. A lot of pros/advantages though, I’ll say that much.

It’s the consumption of an idea. There’s very little in the way of substance at Starbucks. I achieved more than any Starbucks order by grinding my folgers classic roast just now while using an unbleached compostable coffee filter and having cleaned the coffee maker with all natural biodegradeable dish soap. Can’t afford good coffee grounds right now, but recently I had ‘Punk Goes The Bunny’, Billie Joe Armstrong’s (from Green Day) coffee brand.

But here I am wondering if I’m just consuming a bunch of ideas myself. Consuming the idea of Punk Rock for instance, or eco-friendliness, or health. But then I catch myself and say “Those are tangible benefits.” Anything more likely to make me listen to The Clash is a positive, anything that’s not gonna put bleach in my body, anything that’s gonna be clean for making coffee but without such a residue of dangerous chemicals as is typical with cleaners, and anything to add to my compost.

Like russian nesting dolls. Just starbucks all the way down.

All I can say is freedom isn’t free. Maybe that’s something Canadians need to learn, I don’t know - I don’t really want to assume. But I got a cascadian flag tattoo on my left arm like a soldier’s patch for a reason. I’ve been thinking in neomedieval military terms since I was a teenager at an alternative high school in the late 2000s.

Freedom needs to be constantly defended. If you can’t give up any kind of tribute to a governing authority or series of governing authorities to defend it for you or don’t find any existing entity as authentically defending it then you frankly have to defend it yourself. Same principle for arguing in favor of participatory democracy - if you don’t participate in democracy in some meaningful way you are bound to lose it.

Shrodingers rat penis situation sounds like.

We need to look at this thing called ‘adapting in place’. I think this is just such a complicated situation that people just need to figure out what’s going on around them, at least for the time being. Radical simplification - corporate greed, yes, but it’s still complicated as to what exactly we do about it.

And there’s the fascism.

I’m providing my perspective. It’s valid. Not trolling.

Seems like an overwhelming number of you are sex negative and thus poorly educated on here. Lemmy sure has turned out to be a disappointing website since I started on here. At least I know where Lemmy stands. Improve yourselves, please. You have more literature to read. More to learn.

Are you serious?

I actually have mental health struggles. I take meds every day. I’m at baseline. When someone says “seek help” and I’m fine it’s insulting and demeaning. I’m doing nothing wrong. You’re being rude to me. This whole thread is about a food crisis that a lot of people on here agree is happening, most in fact, and you are in denial of their experience with this aggressive rhetoric. If you think oil production is unrelated to food production there are better ways to express yourself on that.