Very much a 6 right now…

I LOVE Rammstein.

Watch their video Deutschland and you’ll get the gist very quickly of what they think of NAZIs and authoritarian, repressive governments in general.

They are absolutely off their tits.

Well, at least they ARE seeing it now.

At this point, you can work on them to bring it all into focus and the FIRST thing I always say is “you gotta get away from the billionaire controlled cable TV and social media sites…” then I point them to the vanilla news sites that have no editorializing, like AP and Reuters.

If they are open to it, I also point them to using Firefox and adding uBO. Given that sites like fb are now running rage-bait scam ads, the ad-blocking is critical.

A lot of the MAGA folks have been overwhelmed by the noise.

You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site’s paywall.

Reality is crashing in and with the number of these folks on assistance that Trump has cut, it’s only going to get worse.

My prediction is that if you still see a die-hard Trumper like in the photo, it’s actually someone wealthy that’s cosplaying.

The majority of Trump supporters generally don’t have two pennies to rub together, and given what’s going on in DC right now, they probably don’t have that anymore and they’re pissed…

My Alex Jones listening co-worker claimed I had TDS. He was all big on Trump as the Epstein Files were gonna be released, the economy was going to have all the factories returned to America,food would be cheaper…

I just bit my tongue and said nothing.

Now, with his wife’s medical needs so severe that he’s got almost nothing left at the end of each month, he says to me “How come we can’t get an affordable medical system that covers everyone completely…” to which I said, “Well, we could have that and be like every other civilized nation on Earth, but that’s ‘socialism’ after all and we can’t have that… I mean isn’t that what your right wing radio says?”

He’s gotten awfully silent about lots of that stuff now and I mentioned Epstein files being not released and he lost his shit over it. I told him that there was no more “deep state” it was the State now, and is right there in Washington DC and in your face. He is no longer disagreeing with that assessment.

I think that the reality of the situation is breaking through the Trump Delusion Syndrome a lot of these die-hards had and they are starting to see what really is going on and they’re pissed and silently fuming about it now.

My co-worker took the vinyl “1776” stickers with the tattered flag backgrounds off of his truck and lost all his Trump swag as well.

I’d be open to the Inspector Gadgetarianism.

It is, blessedly so. Maybe this will take the electricity-gobbling AI data centers off line and my power bill will go down.

Seriously gonna try this the next time I pick up some sushi.

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Lots of kids in the neighborhoods across town wherre the families now live. In the part of town where I am where it is all rental units filed with childless professionals and retirement homes for affluent snowbirds, there was no trick-or-treating. My husband grew up here and in this part of town it used to be crawling with kids in the 60’s and 70’s. Then again, that was before rich people “discovered” our city and snapped up all the affordable rentals and converted them to luxury condos.

Oh man, is it. That is exactly what got me banned from Reddit after 14 years. I’m on old.lemmy.zip and starting to spread out and check other instances and am finding so much delightful stuff! All of it is drama-free and I love it.

You’ll find…

Asking the questions we want answered…

The burger is definitely healthier than the cigarette.

Coffee for the win though… all those complex alkaloids and polyphenols…

It’s the extra tar that makes the Gailoises so smoooooooth…

Exactly. Chances are at that height it’s gone to seed and is now hemp.

Oooo, that looks like headaches, not highs.

A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn’t need to draft.

Selective Service would like a word with you.

An all-volunteer military isn’t that ironclad an outcome. I can certainly see service being used to leverage young men and of course “inform” them with nationalistic propaganda.

Oh, don’t you know it.

If half of what cunts like Hegseth and President Miller want to do become action, this country is in for a rough time of it… starting with everyone under 27. :(