I learned how to install Linux Mint on my old computer that had been running Windows 10 for exactly this reason. And then I bought a new laptop and installed Fedora on it. Goodbye Microsoft!

(Yes, I had to learn a new skill for this, but it turned out to not be that difficult, and it was worth it.)

The problem with that is that every side believes they have reasonable arguments to kill.

In Missouri, the ballot proposals that people vote for are consistently overturned by the representatives that people vote for. Right now, it's the ballot proposal that people should get sick leave.

People are completely propagandized to vote against their own interests.

Ironically, the sentiment that people are scum and deserve nothing--or rather, that they are greedy, short-sighted idiots--is also held by the villains in charge. So I'd maybe rethink that sentiment if you want to change things for the better.

That would be our relationship with each other if we were self-governing

I read a story in the paper about a middle-class white family that knew a big storm was coming and got out, and didn't bother to warn their neighbors, poor whites living in a trailer park, who all died. And I was like, yeah that tracks.

[[gif of Orson Welles clapping. I'm new to PieFed and don't know how to reply with a gif]]

Bravo! Thank you for saying this, and so well.

Mood.

Yeah, I've gotten really tired of seeing victims of this administration get kicked by opponents of this administration, based on sweeping generalizations of "you all voted for this." The kickers are not the helpers.

I left reddit after I realized that reddit was using an algorithm to addict me to endless doomscrolling--not a good combo with the obvious censorship on reddit rn. The equity running reddit can't convince me to go conservative--but they can incapacitate me in helpless outrage that goes nowhere. Despair is its own insidious propaganda.