KelvarCherry [They/Them]

I’ve had nightmares of the sort repeatedly through 2025. Fucking terrifying.

tbf Donald Trump still lost California, as would be expected.

wow, yeah the original article made that mistake. :P Schumer is still the Minority Leader. No one talks about the Senate majority leader, but it’s John Thune, some Republican from South Dakota

“If only he was still here… I could host him on my podcast…”

Don’t ever forget that these evil Nazi tech bros came out of California and were enabled by him in his political career every step of the way.

And this here is key. Every one of those Silicon Valley “techbro” sleazy rapists are where they are today because of corporate USAmerica. Silicon Valley empowered Trump and pushed Vance to be their VP. Silicon Valley is fully to blame platforming Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation.

We can not let Gruesome Newsom win the Democratic primary. Even if you don’t think there are going to be the 2026 midterms/2028 election: Register as a Democrat (or check here to see how you need to be registered to participate in your state’s primaries) and vote for a progressive in the 2028 Democrat primaries.

For the same reason the media pushed the AI bubble. Silicon Valley holds their chosen boys…

That and altering pictures of women to have cum sprayed on their faces. Pure incel deviant behavior.

AI crawlers are scraping every site. Every site. Random public-but-unlisted hobby sites are getting scraped and spiking users’ data. There was a Lemmy post about someone who had that experience just yesterday.

Think of how much Child Porn is stored on public sites that are shared in private groups. Also consider that FaceBook is the largest distributor of Child Sex Abuse material. These models are absolutely trained on Child Porn.

The last 3 years of “White Supremacy” has me questioning the narrative on White Competency.

oh, I totally agree… I just don’t think they’d want to arm us. I think they’d rather put us in camps, like the camps Robert F Kennedy Jr. incessantly promoted in his campaign.

Even farmers own their homes and have means of producing food. We talk about peasant riots. Consider that those peasants had the means of growing their own food (even if they legally couldn’t keep it). The colonists could revolt in the “British Colonies” because their families would keep the farm running while they were out training. Who is going to keep our bills paid while we’re working with the SRA?

USAmericans are in a near-unbreakable bind because most of us don’t have access to resources without the same society that is actively oppressing us. How many of us even own a plot of land to live on, let alone the means to provide food for ourselves? Sure, neighbors can come together and all grow food in our backyards… but that also means more mouths to feed.

I will never get over what this country did in November 2024. We had Project 2025. (Queer Furry) Hackers risked their lives to leak it. IIRC the lead hacker was raided and imprisoned once Trump got in power, and I don’t know if they ever got out.

We can’t overlook the long-standing economic pressures. The Army is the only way for people starting with little-to-nothing to build up generational wealth. If you want a college degree without crushing debt, or a job without a college degree, it’s the only reliable employer, and the only place where you can earn a pension.

and even then, it’s not sustained. At some point people will get desperate and do something, but it’s likely going to be petty theft to survive at an individual level; not a revolution for the masses. Many are past that point; Many believe that will never be them.

Even if people revolt out of desperation, how successful will that be? Once the masses realize they are going to die, how long would they be able to revolt for? Would they even have the time to plan out individual attacks? Do we really believe they’ll march to the state or federal capital, and not just break into a nearby house? Would the average USA citizen even think to do that?

In the USA, we have people on the brink of death. I’ve seen people who broke the law to survive. Every instance I can recall, they took the path of least resistance: stealing from their neighbor, not their oppressors.

People say Republicans/MAGA will “look the other way” on the bigotry and hate; but you highlighted the unspoken. They’d pay, their own time and money, for the chance to feel powerful by depriving the needy.

When I think of the MAGA base I always envision a disgruntled working-class white man who is certain there will never be a better future, and just wants to beat down marginalized populations. Maybe he does it so there’s more for him; maybe because he’s misdirected and hate hurts less than disappointment.

Forgive me for not believing that there will be some ground-breaking reaction to this reminder that Trump and the powerful elites are actually self-serving predators. They were voted in to be ruthless predators. DOGE was about destroying the government employees. ICE is about terrorizing brown and black people, and the “libs” that back them. Sure, some of Epstein’s victims were white girls… some of the “woke feminists” MAGA mocks incessantly are white women. The attacks on SNAP and criminalization of the homeless are going to destroy all skin tones alike. Banning abortion sure screwed white women (and that one happened pre-reelection).

These people don’t vote MAGA to protect kids ; most vote MAGA because they want to feel like KKKlansmen tyrants with as little effort as it takes to cast a ballot; and the rest are just plain gullible.

Imagine being a 75-year-old Amazon camp survivor and getting snark from 15-year old edgelords arguing that there were “only 1488” total deaths and the CECOT footage was faked with AI by the “Hispanic drug cartels that run the world”…

Don’t feel too bad for me haha. I was 100% bought into Kamala Harris’ campaign and the 2024 blue wave; 100% ignorant about the reality of racism and criminality and brutality of this nation. It’s only this last year I’ve come to my senses about the reality of the USA.

The intensity of the Epstein scandal can. not. be overstated. It’s the world most prolific child sex trafficking ring, occupied by top figures across Western nations. USA. Canada. UK. Top celebrities. Top oligarchs. Top politicians. Trump’s connections were known. A story on Prince Andrew’s involvement was suppressed by the ABC news. And… USAmericans just ignore it… All of it. Well, Trump’s opponents cling to it, of course; but it wasn’t enough to stop Trump’s victories in 2016 and 2024, and again, Biden barrrely won in 2020 with an active pandemic brought about by Trump’s incompetency.

Nixon’s Watergate cover-up wasn’t enough. W. Bush’s lies that killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of USA soldiers wasn’t enough. Nothing ever sticks to the people actually in power. Politicians are getting in squabbles while Silicon Valley and big finance are just cruiiiisin’ right along. It’s insanity, and yet the people bend to it.

I really believe we missed our chance to “act now”. I watched it trickle out of our hands in the first months of this administration. Big tech got the spynet cameras and AI networks set up; MAGA got its ICE secret police; The financial stresses got worse; And most damning: people are burnt out.

The ICE kidnappings weren’t enough. That was the base threshold in my mind. If masked agents grabbing people from your neighborhood isn’t enough to get people rioting, then nothing will. As it stands people are “fighting back” in some areas but that mainly amounts to taking to the streets and herding the agents away… then going back to whatever they were doing before.

People older than me would have said prosecuting/rioting against George W. Bush was the last chance off. Folks older than them would point to Nixon. Folks older than that may point to how we let the Confederate insurrectionist states off wayyy too lightly after the war.

Nothing’s going to be “enough” because USAmericans don’t have the energy in them to fight back. Nothing will make them say “enough” because there is no bite to give. The oligarchs know this. The main politicians who aren’t shunned from all the in-groups (so not the progressives or Q folks) – they all know this.

We are sick and terrified, bound to our lives through a mix of tragic optimism and fear of losing what little we have. The once-middle class cling to their ever-harder lives because they’re afraid of drowning in debt; The poor tread water through debt because they’re afraid of homelessness; The homeless persevere for fear of jail and death and being disappeared to camps.

We’re being played. Every day we push forward to be herded like cattle – worse than cattle, because the system doesn’t care about our health. We keep holding steady pushing through it all and trying to cling to hope of a better future that is clearly never coming. Every two years those on the left been promised a “blue wave” while Dems won’t even stop us getting prosecuted for Marijuana; and those on the right are promised a resurgence to some Great America that only ever existed for most straight white men, and which was created through the suppression of the same businesses that are selling them this lie.

This is all Gloom and Doom because I don’t see a way out of this. They’ve got us in a bind that I don’t think we can escape, even with the full cooperation of all the working class (which itself is just inconceivable). There’s some fundamental weakness of human nature and strength in our systems that got us here, and keep us here.

Trump couldn’t do it, but Stephen Miller can!