It's always so easy to blame women, isn't it?

Extra_Special_Carbon

@wdlindsy @AeonCypher They said, “left-leaning media can’t be trusted either.”

I agree. Left leaning media is often just a tool of right-leaning media.

That was not what you quoted. It wasn’t my statement, but I was agreeing with their statement.

Andrew

The one on the left is armoured safety glass, the one on the right is wax like they use in the movies. The point is the “glass ceiling” is not the same.

Vanessa A. Shafer

@wdlindsy I think this is going to be worse than when Reagan was in office. A foreign-born éminence grise with his fingers in many defense and technological pies...why this isn't openly raising questions is beyond me.

The Wookie

@wdlindsy

I don't think most know the potential harm of their vote for Trump. I speak to many Trump voters that have no idea how the government works & simply voted for him based on the promise of lower taxes & higher 401K returns.

The real problem isn't that power was handed to Trump, it's that government doesn't work for so many. They don't care if it blows up. hey don't want an authoritarian they want government that focuses on them or they just want their 401ks to last until they die.

🦼Exiled NYer- Connie

@wdlindsy
Today is a CRAP day, William but I *will* make it through your thread. Those articles I haven’t read, I will.

Thank you for everything.

How are you?

My BFF of 50 years is gay and so, so angry.
He says he’ll remain untouched but is enraged by what will happen to others.

You don’t have to respond. I just wanted to let you know I’m thinking of you.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Pagan_Activist Thank you so much for reading and asking about us. My husband and I are depressed, to say the least. We know full well that when the boom begins falling, it will fall on people like us, along with other targeted minority communities. I very much appreciate your concern and hope you're doing at least tolerably well, as elders in my culture used to say when asked how they were: "I'm doing tol'able."

William Lindsey :toad:

@NJWookie You're assessment of Trump voters is more generous than mine. I definitely think many of them are low-information voters and they may not fully comprehend how their votes will result in harm to others — and themselves. At the same time, it's clear to me that authoritarian movements rise by pitting group against group and that many Trump voters are moved by the desire to hurt others.

William Lindsey :toad:

@vashafer I agree. I expect the same.

William Lindsey :toad:

@serendip1959 Well-noted. And yet, surely the point is that they're both glass ceilings, even if one is wax — and that women deal with very different glass ceilings than men do, even when the men are criminals and rapists. The vast majority of crimes of rape by men still go unpunished.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Extra_Special_Carbon @AeonCypher Because it's clear to me that the right poses the real threat confronting all of us, I fail to comprehend how the problem is somehow the left or how left-leaning media are often just a tool of right-leaning media.

I don't see things this way.

William Lindsey :toad:

@TCatInReality Absolutely. 100%.

William Lindsey :toad:

@chiraag I'm not aware I've ever said that the Democratic party should be beyond criticism. I've long leveled criticism against it. What I'm saying is that given the threat we all now face from looming fascism, this tearing-at-each-the criticism is beyond foolish and is wasted energy.

William Lindsey :toad:

@phaedral Surely democracy depends, though, doesn't it, on the idea that everyone, high or low, privileged or unprivileged, has the ability to seek the truth and respond accordingly. It was Alfred North Whitehead, I think, who said that when he traveled in the US lecturing, the most intelligent and well-informed audiences he met were not those of university professors, but of housewives who had "only" a high-school education, but were highly informed.

Andrew

@wdlindsy

As we get further away from the fascist era of the 1930s/40s memories fade and the “strong men” are regrettably becoming fashionable again.

William Lindsey :toad:

"In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.

It began as a tear in the information space, a dawning realisation that the world as we knew it – stable, fixed by facts, balustraded by evidence – was now a rip in the fabric of reality."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/28

A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr

The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

The Wookie

@wdlindsy

I don't think you're wrong but the Trump voters I speak too fall into a couple of categories:

1 Seniors that are money in their pocket voters. At their age they don't care anymore.

2 Forgotten white men: They don't even know what an authoritarian is & don't care. Government doesn't work for them & they want to blow it up.

3 Life long Republicans that would vote for Monkey in a red tie. They see Trump as just another politician that will serve his time & be replaced.

William Lindsey :toad:

'"And the turbulence that Trump is about to unleash – alongside pain and cruelty and hardship – is possible because that’s where we already live: in information chaos. …

The medium now is Musk. The world’s richest man bought a global communication platform and is now the shadow head of state of what was the world’s greatest superpower. That’s the message. Have you got it yet?"

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future #ElonMusk #TechBros
/29

William Lindsey :toad:

"Mark Zuckerberg has ditched his suit, grown out his Caesar haircut and bought a rapper-style gold chain. He’s said one of his biggest regrets is apologising too much. Because he – like others in Silicon Valley – has read the runes. PayPal’s co-founder Peter Thiel, creeping around in the shadows, ensured his man, JD Vance, got on the presidential ticket. Musk wagered a Silicon Valley-style bet by going all in on Trump."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future #ElonMusk #TechBros
/30

William Lindsey :toad:

"Jeff Bezos, late to the party, jumped on the bandwagon with just days to go, ensuringhis Washington Post didn’t endorse any candidate.

These bros know. They don’t fear journalists any more. Journalists will now learn to fear them. Because this is oligarchy now. This is the fusion of state and commercial power in a ruling elite."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future #ElonMusk #TechBros
/31

William Lindsey :toad:

@NJWookie No matter what group they fall into, I think we have to do them the justice of holding them responsible for their (bad) choices and (bad) actions.