"I believe this election turned out the way it did in no small part because a large number of Americans are now submerged in new factories of lies more insidious than anything Orwell imagined,"

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dannotdaniel I agree — excellent commentary.

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@moxiegrrl I agree. Excellent analysis.

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@paninid @skua Yes.

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@midnightwildflower @lolonurse Yes, it's clear that Trump has magical cult status for his followers, so that he stands apart in a single category and can't be compared to anyone. And Hitler's followers and Mussolini's thought exactly the ssame about them.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@photoncollector Poverty? Rampant poverty? And as we have learned from lots of recent history, the Republicans are, of course, very committed to addressing the needs of poor people. Right? One would have to inhabit an unreality bubble to pretend anything of that sort.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LightFIAR The media are utter SHIT, yet your blame-the-Democrats game is a total replication of what the media are doing right at this moment.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@nazokiyoubinbou Couldn't agree more about the imperative need to teach critical thinking. All the years I was in higher education, I heard persistent talk about that, and yet very little has been done for years now to address that need proactively in many of our educational systems.

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@darwinwoodka Yep.

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@oldguycrusty @Variant488 I'm grateful to you for letting me know the thread is worth reading.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@mos_8502 @SteveYYC That's what Rebecca Solnit is doing, you think?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse @Variant488 Thank you. I'm truly grateful.This week has been an uphill climb for so many of us, due to how the election has affected us, and added to it, I've been called everything but a child of God by people posting on my feed here this week — ridiculous accusations and name-calling targeting someone they don't even know, coming from people who claim to be progressives. It's deeply disheartening to see this happening now, and I appreciate the encouragement all the more.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@boardgamer Obviously we will have to wait and see. Meanwhile, I continue to think that the real danger looming in front of us does not come from the Democratic party — not at all — but from the other party that is now an overt engine of overt fascism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse Well-stated.

[photoncollector@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy
The poverty is there, and many millions are living with its misery.

[lightfiar@med-mastodon.com]

@wdlindsy It's not a game. The DNC leadership MUST take responsibility for their part in this horrific failure. Otherwise, they will continue to lose. I am hardly alone in this assessment.

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@photoncollector And the Republican party is, as we both know very well, deeply committed to addressing poverty and assisting those living on the economic margins of society. Their tax policies alone tell us this, right?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LightFIAR Just as the corporate media are telling us loudly right now — as they keep saying each time the Democrats lose, since their primary objective is to normalize what the Republican party is doing. I refuse to assist the media in that objective.

[lightfiar@med-mastodon.com]

@wdlindsy Then you're seriously part of the problem. If you think the DNC/neolib Dems are fine and dandy? You're as delusional as the idiots who thought voting for Trump was a good idea.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@LightFIAR Thanks for letting me know what you think about me. When conversations here reach the level of name-calling, I refuse to continue them. Hope you'll understand.

[nikatjef@mastodon.acm.org]

@wdlindsy
It is much worse than that.
Chump will put high tariffs on Chinese and Indian goods, they will retaliate with high tariffs on US foods, which will cause grocery prices to drop precipitously for a short while as China will be buying less from the US, which will put a lot of US farms out of business, causing massive food shortages in the US... Couple that with the cost of hiring people to pick your lettuce when migrants are gone will lead to the highest grocery costs in US history.