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

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@vashafer I agree. I expect the same.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TCatInReality Absolutely. 100%.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.

[serendip1959@mastodon.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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
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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)

[njwookie@mindly.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

'"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
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"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
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@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.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@serendip1959 Well-noted and well-stated. What's old becomes new again….

[badger_af@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy Just waiting for the MSM to travel to a diner just outside of Pittsburgh to get to the bottom of this over a breakfast platter and black coffee...

[njwookie@mindly.social]

@wdlindsy

That just perpetuates the "US vs THEM" divisions that got us to where we are today.

[serendip1959@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

My point exactly, women have different glass ceilings that society claims to be the same.

[aeoncypher@lgbtqia.space]

@wdlindsy @Extra_Special_Carbon You would need special pleadings to interpret my statement as "Left-leaning media are THE problem."

"The Left" isn't the problem. Truth Decay - the inability for people to trust information - is entirely the problem. This has been created by right-wing and foreign threat actors, but is so complete that _not even_ left leaning media can be trusted.

[voline@kolektiva.social]

@wdlindsy @inthehands
Oh?

toussaint (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images the exact same 74M people voted for trump in 2024 as did in 2020. please resist all efforts to say 'the nation was re-shaped' by this election or that trans ppl/blk men/arabs/muslims/latinos need to be punished. the difference was the 10-11M dems that said fuck yall and your genocide. If that is the 'Left' its tiny, but it could also be king/queen maker if we had our own party that only deals wit #CorpoDems on the POTUS spot, trading electoral votes for policies #Solidarity

Newsie (newsie.social)

[ferricoxide@evil.social]

@[email protected]

Looking at the numbers, though, he didn't get more votes in 2024 than he did in 2020?