All these fools huddling up in their tribes, hoping it will just go away.

I don’t talk to anyone on this planet outside of my house, I need to just delete social media and hope I die before humanity cannibalizes itself.

Yeah, we should just disengage from everyone, isolate them further, and vote like earlier this month.

That’ll solve it.

I can’t wait for all the violence and blood and gore that is coming. I really can’t. (Not accusing you for advocating for it, but goddamn I see it constantly on here).

I really didn’t wanna type some big long thing out. Still this needs to be said.

When I was a kid, I didn’t know anyone who wasn’t a racist. When I was a kid, I didn’t know anyone who wasn’t homophobe. I knew two openly gay people, and they were bullied and shunned by everyone.

Those same people today are treated with respect in the same community that I lived in 30 years ago that treated them with none.

I never heard anything positive about the people who lived on the other side of my segregated neighborhood. The neighborhood was segregated, not because of law at that point in time, but because families continued to pass these homes down. Nobody referred to the identical neighborhood across the tracks by its name. They called it n word camp.

Do you know what changed all of that? The end of isolation.

Take your big, bold stands against fascism. Let it fester all by itself. Talk amongst yourselves in your little echo chambers and watch civilization collapse before your very eyes.

That is the problem. The problem is these fucking algorithms that divide the information that people receive. That is where the isolation starts, and we’re throwing our hands up in the air at half of the fucking people we live among, we give them fuel to be our enemies.

This ancient tribal bullshit has to stop.

Leaving people in their echo chambers Is what is causing these dangerous ideas to gain widespread acceptance.

You’re not going to change the world by ignoring the people you don’t agree with.

You know what? I can’t help but be a nihilist. Everywhere I look our fucking monkeys pounding their chest, gritting their teeth and demanding blood.

The so-called “righteous” demand violence. The so-called “deplorables” demanded violence.

Everyone you talk to demands this segregation.

So what is the game here? What does everybody hope to gain from? Never speaking to their fucking mother again?

Get off my nuts, world. I’m burned out with this shit.

Someone needs to just destroy the Internet.

Heeeeeey.

This is how folks get rich right here. Crazy ideas like this.

Well, that or they lose everything. Let me know if you do it so I can cheer you on.

All he had to do was acknowledge their differences and keep his mouth shut. That’s the rule in my family. Someone brings up politics and we say, “let’s not do that.” and move on. If they insist, they end up on the porch alone, grumbling to themselves.

Or he’s making it up.

I made my mother cry because she voted for Trump and I expressed my disapproval. She called my sister, who also voted for Harris, and my sister made her cry a second time.

We’re all having dinner tomorrow and we won’t bring up politics.

It’s fucking stupid to turn your back on your family over politics.

I think my mom made a stupid decision. Oh well. She thinks I made a stupid decision.

If your politics define you so much that you abandon your people or you’re not disciplined enough to keep your mouth shut at family events where you’ll convince no one, that’s on you.

They bring it up and end up having a bad day, that’s on them. We simply agree to avoid politics and religion. It’s not that hard.

Edit: We’re doomed. We really are.

Mmmm, mold.

I’m right with you on that though. Small basement apartment with a concrete floor that was built in the 1930s. Yep. Mold.

As a person who grew up with a creek full of ducks behind my house, I can say that rapey is just the beginning. I have witnessed multiple drownings by rape followed by hours of necrophilia. I have seen ducks following a vicious gang rape swimming around with bald necks from having all of their feathers ripped out.

They are violent. I have seen males group up and rape and murder fellow males and then attack and rape the corpse for the rest of the day.

When I see a protective mother duck having her babies chased around by kids, I stop them. “You have no idea what that poor girl endured to have that row of ducklings following her around. Leave her alone!”

I shudder at the thought of a more violent animal.

I’ve already messed up at this point haha. I spent my whole life allowing myself to be exploited for a promise that never came. I mean, I guess it still could (not really, but in a sense I guess). I’ve been instructed to go get some cash when so and so dies, and though I’m sure it’s still there, new obstacles have entered the fold.

I don’t know. If I can make enough to live today and buy a few beers I’m good.

I’ve been an idiot all of my life.

I’m going to take your advice though. I promise. Gonna get on that tomorrow. I recently made enough to increase my investing amount by 60%, which would be amazing for someone with actual money haha. I’ll throw that extra 60% into an IRA.

You’re absolutely right. Thank you.

I don’t waste money I don’t have. I don’t follow anyone blindly.

I’m disciplined. If I’m not where I want to be, I wait. I wouldn’t risk everything I have.

I appreciate your concern, but if I lost every penny I have invested right here, right now, it would only hurt my feelings. I’ve already pulled out 10x what I’ve invested and I don’t get sad over big misses. I could have scooped up 200 free dollars this morning, but I didn’t.

It’s small time. I’m poor, I have no debt, and I wouldn’t risk a penny more than I can handle. I never break my own rules, so I’m good.

Seriously. I appreciate you.

No one else noticing the sunglasses on the presidents? lol What about George and Abe’s smiles?

Holy crap! Young Jack Black and Seth Green.

That is the most 90s trailer I’ve ever seen.

I’m gonna watch this movie. I’ll hate it, but love it too. I’m certain of that.

This is me on many topics. I am so uninformed over the last year.

I love Lemmy, but I’m in a smaller bubble than I was before too. There are a lot less political opinions on here. People are outright hostile to anything that doesn’t fit in a narrow window, and though I mostly agree with what passes through that window, my idea of the world is off because of it. (Example, my wife uses Facebook. We both voted for Harris, but she was certain Trump would win. She was seeing what everyone was saying and I wasn’t. Imagine my surprise when she lost the election so terribly. My little bubble had me convinced he didn’t stand a chance.)

I try occasionally to open Reddit. I know that Lemmy hates stock traders, but Reddit is where you get the best info on that. I’m a stay at home dad who contributes entirely by trading so I need to look at what people are researching from time to time.

I just can’t stand the Reddit app. I can’t stand clicking on ads without realizing it because of how they blend it in.

I can’t stand the kind of greed that led to the decision that killed third party apps.

I miss it, but not bad enough to have a subpar experience on there. That, and I believe in a federated social media future. Tech companies are garbage.

Lamp 4 sel.

“What color is it?”

“It’s a fucking lamp. Do u want it r not?!?!?”

Swear to god I’ve heard this before.

I do this too. :p

The neighbors must think I’m insane.

I try to count the steps and see if I can make it further than before. My record is like 140.

It’s very mentally hard. I’m always thinking, “oh I’ve gotta be going down someone’s driveway now!”

I drove around with a Jesus fish on the back of one of my cars for 5 years. It looked like it belonged there. It was a raised plastic fish covered with chrome on a silver car.

One day a guy said to me, “I thought you were a non believer.” “What made you say that? Catch me saying, “god please!” or something?” I said.

“Well, you got a religious thing on the back of your car!”

How did I not know that? It was on there so long at that point that I was attached to it. Haha

Bruh, me and my cousin once flopped on a plabdoe on the flavored side of the rocket shlim. He was all, “noooooo!” and I was all, “yoooooo!”

Sickest slides and slices I ever encountered. Slip pops were ruffin bro! I’d be buggin in the slop if I had a buggy.

I’m so sorry. :p

Why do you think I’m so angry? I’ve never even seen the ocean!

So you’re telling me that my wireless dildo isn’t encrypted?

Oh brother!