GOP then: “i’m voting for trump because he’ll make everything cheaper!!!”
GOP now: “REAL americans are happy to overpay for everything for dear great leader trump!!!”
Okay this is not really that relevant here…but my father who works for the government in one of those everyone is probably getting fired soon but who knows… Anyway I was talking on the phone with him and he said “I’m worried about my job I don’t know what I would do … but I’m glad they are getting rid of all that waste in the government spending”
It’s gobsmacking how brainless the cultists have become.
people would rather be broke, jobless, the opposite of free, and be regarded as stupid–rather than simply admit they made a major life-wrecking mistake
tell your dad that i, for one, hope he enjoys his suffering
You know, you’re no better… You shouldn’t want people to suffer… That’s how we got here… Instead of boosting people up and encouraging people to be better… People like you wish people would suffer…
Maybe you will take some time to reflect and be a better person…
Edit: clearly we are all doomed to be assholes and divided… Maybe instead one day you will see who the real enemy is…
When they voted for their own suffering, I find it difficult to sympathize with them.
And just because you didn’t vote for a racist sexist committed felon, means you’re better?
Because your party is so great and wants you to prosper? Or is it just controlled by corporations and billionaires with the same agendas?
Sure, he raped me, but he was really having some emotional difficulties at the time. I really can’t thank him enough.
yea, no.
look where all this “let’s be nice to the very fine people on the nazi side” and tolerance and patience and we’re not going to publish this article because it’ll hurt trump’s feelings has gotten us today. excuse me, but fuck that shit.
you can say i’m a bad person if that makes you feel better, but fuck trump, and fuck everyone who voted for this bullshit that everyone has to deal with now
Did I say that though? I don’t think I did… Not liking someone and not criticizing them because they are a bad person is not the same thing as wishing they were a better person… You can do those things at the same time…
No one said be nice to Nazi… You just want them not to be… And maybe if you can do something to help them. instead of you know wishing that they would suffer.
Especially when all of the wrong a lot of these people did was vote for someone because they were told lies about how things would be better…
Did you say, ‘You mean like you?’
- it’s not happening
- it’s not our fault
- it’s not that bad <— WE ARE HERE…
- it’s too expensive to fix
- it’s too late
This but Climate Change
Move it down one notch for climate change. :)
Nah they are pushing back up to the first notch
That’s the trick with climate change, just cycle through the first 4 every other month till the 5th becomes true
We’re at the it’s too late stage for that though :(
Oh yeah, I just meant that in terms of how conservatives talk about it. We finally passed the “it’s not our fault” with them several years back and we’re still on “it’s not that bad” and walking right up to “it’s too expensive to fix.”
Once they finally admit it’s too late, it will be because they’ve firmly turned to ecofascism with the argument “Only WE are so smart and clever as to know how to properly dole out what’s left of dwindling resources effectively and efficiently!” which is code for “We want to party until the planet burns and nobody is going to stop us!”
It may be too late to prevent the fallout entirely, but it’s never too late to mitigate at least some of the damage.
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One bright spot of a big American economic crash would be the correlated plunge in carbon emissions. Those first few months of COVID were fantastic for emissions rates.
I think it was 7 steps I think it had a “is actually good” second and I’m pretty sure a “You deserved it” last or second to last but I thought the same.
I’m seeing quite a bit of “You deserved it” right now. Lots of “Actually, I just avoid buying things, so now the higher prices don’t bother me” cope all over /r/conservative and like-minded reactionary media.
Poverty fetishism, cottage-core influencing, a proliferation of reactionaries in DIY spaces, and always a healthy supply of “we just didn’t go far enough” revanchism has been trending for a while, but its seeing a new renaissance with the looming recession.
That’s called a cult
I called this in a comment a few weeks ago. It’s going to be a badge of honor for some of them.
Republicans in 2025: Paying high taxes on essential goods to Own the Libs!!!
- Dying of covid to own the libs.
- Losing their jobs to own the libs.
- Losing their social security to own the libs.
- Losing their health care to own the libs.
- Breathing increased pollution to own the libs.
- Paying higher prices to own the libs.
Shooting themselves in the foot over and over… “Ha! Take that libs!”
(Sooooo much winning /s)
There’s a squishy American centrist block that just gets mad any time there’s any degree of adversity (or just negative news media on their screens) and decides to vote the most reactionary candidate on the ticket in response.
Conveniently, Democrats have been marching to the right in order to sweep up those votes. Expect a lot of “Republicans are turning American into SOVIET RUSSIA! and we need the free market to fight back!” liberal campaigning in 2026.
They only care because then you’ll be captive to buying the shitty products they control in the US. That’s the entire grift.
They can’t control international goods at lower prices, so they’ll force you back to buying from the already wealthy in control of goods and resources here.
Definitely looks like the end game here. Privatize everything and profit off of it in as many ways possible.
They are brainwashed in the cult, and they are hoping this narrative works… This is the point where they have to see just how far the lemmings will walk to the edge
To be fair if Trump causes fuel prices to skyrocket he might go down as one of the greenest presidents in recent history.
What if they reduce climate impacts by engineering a global famine?
I think billionaires finally admitted to themselves that the world’s economies, ecological systems, and countries population trajectories were fundamentally broken, and our flawed democratic institutions were not cut out for fixing any of these existential problems.
This is part panic, cannibalizing, and power consolidation.
Convince me think isn’t a deranged cult.
So they want the Dollar to be like the Japanese Yen?
I’m certainly welcoming their pain.
