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

[patrickleavy@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy you're missing the point. All those groups can live side by side (even if not really interested in each other) - it's the #algorithmicmanipulation from #bigtech #platforms that is stoking anger.

It's dividing people from other people way further than they normally would be.

Look at where people got their #news before the election...

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Trump proved proved "that the most vicious campaign of lies, misogyny, racism, and xenophobia ever waged—and yes, I am including his previous two campaigns—was not enough to stop nearly half the country from supporting him. …

It is a disastrous revelation about what the United States really is, as opposed to the country that so many hoped that it could be."

~ Susan Glasser

Second statement quoted by Charlie Sykes, /19 above.

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/21

Even Losing May Not Stop Trump’s Campaign of Vengeance

Susan B. Glasser reflects on the stakes of the 2024 Presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

[njwookie@mindly.social]

@wdlindsy

I don't get these ... "It's all broken" ... laments. 68M people obviously feel that Trump & what he represents was the wrong direction. If we are profoundly unserious no one would have supported a message of hope, progress, and democracy. A vast number of us still see a better path despite broken journalism & algorithms that feed the darker side of the human psyche.

When Trump fails to deliver relief to the working class & causes a recession with tariffs opinions will shift.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"This election was a CAT scan on the American people, and as difficult as it is to say, as hard as it is to name, what it revealed, at least in part, is a frightening affinity for a man of borderless corruption. Donald Trump is no longer an aberration; he is normative.”

~ Peter Wehner

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/22

nytimes.com

(www.nytimes.com)

[todwest@beige.party]

@wdlindsy You see? She almost gets it. 'Almost half the country,' she writes. Well, this certainly implies that the non-racists are in the majority. Where did all those folks go? Who can say? It's all such a big mystery why these people are too stupid to vote for us. Better double-down on the queer-bashing.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@todwest Whatever you need to tell yourself.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@NJWookie "68M people obviously feel that Trump & what he represents was the wrong direction."

But the rest of us chose to place all power in the hands of Trump and MAGA.

[patrickco@fosstodon.org]

@wdlindsy @SykesCharlie Algorithms of engagement and social media broke journalism a long time ago by sucking all the attention and all the money away from journalism. We moved from a healthy intellectual diet to junk food for our brains. Trump is a consequence not the cause of that.

[todwest@beige.party]

@wdlindsy This is your response? Seriously? Well, why do you think nearly 10 million Democratic votes disappeared? It wasn't racism.

[aeoncypher@lgbtqia.space]

@wdlindsy The Truth Decay this caused has infected everything. Left leaning media can't be trusted anymore either.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@patrickleavy Someone doesn't want to see the point — you're right about that.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Dawilson999 Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Dianora Yes — an excellent point.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@janggolan You're welcome. Thank you for the positive feedback at a time when unsavory trolls are crawling all over social media feds like mine.

[chiraag@mastodon.online]

@wdlindsy I mean, part of this comes down, I think, to the failure of the neoliberal consensus to actually improve the lives of most people. Especially when people are told capitalism and democracy are intertwined (they really aren't, but that's the narrative), then feel the negative effects of capitalism, why wouldn't they reject democracy?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Rworld Sorry, but I'm not understanding your question.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

And sometimes I can even find myself agreeing with Bill Kristol:

"It wasn’t the Democratic party that nominated Trump three times. It wasn’t Democrats who shied away from the fight against Trump. It’s the Republican party that has deeply, catastrophically, perhaps decisively failed America this past decade."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #future
/23

Stop Handwringing, Start Fighting

Plus: The next GOP Senate gears up to hand Trump more of its power.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[dianora@ottawa.place]

@wdlindsy It's only a 'marketplace of ideas' when all vendors have equal access to the market. And Billionaires have achieved a near monopoly on the 'marketplace of ideas'.

[nmba@mstdn.ca]

@wdlindsy
Many young people had 1984 and Animal Farm and other books removed from the school curricula, so they are more likely to fall for the golden lies of fascism. They also had the History channel glorify war and the nazi war machine, when previously war documentaries showed the horrors. The fascist warchmaker has been busy for a long time.

[kathylk@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy

But the #GOP has succeeded for the wealthy, and those are the only ones who count in today's America.

Finally, the Elites Have Been Defeated by the Billionaires

“Resentment against elites proved to be deeper and more profound than many in both parties had recognized.” — NYT “Many other billionaires and indu...

McSweeney's Internet Tendency (www.mcsweeneys.net)