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You haven’t seen the illiterate statistics for them yet have you lol

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I like the way you think lol

Just reminded me of how meanspirited everyone is on twitter these days lol

It adds literally nothing to the joke but anger and hostile overtones.

These are more identical than the meme!! lmfaooo

And his entire campaign was based on convincing willful idiots that his presidency would do the exact opposite.

Now the US is dead last in education, science, GDP and trade. Lmao

Good luck blaming all that on Biden and Obama as if it’s possible to pretend that any facet of society wasn’t objectively better. There is no war in Ba Sing Se!

This but unironically. It’s how authoritarians retain power.

Oh shit lol

they don’t even seem to read what you write so much as just make up stuff in their heads that what you said is some dog-whistle about ‘who you really are’.

Lol I was just saying this the other day about the last time I bothered checking replies. A simple question I asked started a civil war in the comments, and I couldn’t believe how strongly people were personally attacking each other based on the random comment of some stranger that they decided to imbue with all these extra meanings.

It’s just a bunch of angry people looking for outlets for their emotions, the actual meanings behind the words don’t matter.

I run on another reddit alternative that was apparently an offshoot refuge after Squabbler shit hit the fan (so extremely niche yet somewhat active community) with a completely different demographic of users to Lemmy (mostly middle-aged centrists/liberals that couldn’t tell apart a Linux distro from a macbook), and I can tell you.

It’s universal.

I posted something the other day about how nice it was to wake up and have your feet hit a warm rug that’s been baked in a sunbeam first thing in the morning, and shityounot the replies I immediately got ranged from “Why even bother getting out of bed” and a list of things that are “far superior” to a warm rug. Just blatant whataboutism all the way down, and almost made me consider that if I had posted the opposite, about how much I dislike that sort of thing, if people would have then flipflopped and disagreed lol

Then I came to Lemmy for a break, and the first post I saw was a photo of someone’s pet bunny next to some food they’d ordered, and every single comment was about how OP was a bad person and should be ashamed of themselves for using a delivery app. It was fucking wild.

I think it’s genuinely just the state of the world right now. Everyone’s enraged as hell and seemingly have zero real world outlets for it. So it all just gets funneled into stranger interactions online.

I just try not to read replies and generally move on with my day rather than absorb all that insanity. If people really need an outlet or whatever that badly they can go scream at ChatGPT for an hour lmao

If you haven’t been banned there you have not truly lived

Damn, you guys really make me feel like I’m missing out lol

With all the nonstop spewing about Nigel Farage over here, I am genuinely shocked you guys somehow got there so much sooner than we did.

I can directly speak to the overwhelmed healthcare point. Conservative governments have consistently and deliberately underfunded and hamstrung healthcare in several provinces to make it easier to push for privatization.

That’s the exact same thing that’s happening to the NHS in the UK.

Fuck globalization lmao, it doesn’t even matter where you choose to live anymore everything’s fucked. Welcome to Cyberpunk 2077 2027

I can definitely tell you that. The UK was fine up until a couple years ago. Now everyone seems more enraged about migrants here than those sensationalist stories I used to read about civil unrest in Sweden.

Chickens always come home to roost.

Holocaust story you shared is sad but has nothing to do with this specific change.

Holy fuck is this a bad faith argument.

I’ll save you guys some trouble and say just stop engaging with the bait right here lol

Holy shit. Whaaaaaat?

Et tu, Bruté?

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