Almost ate the onion on that one lol. Wouldn’t put it past them.

I almost started hitting the power button before I read the rest of it. That woulda been awkward.

Well, the NFL did it. They ended racism.

“It’s a big club circlejerk. And you ain’t in it.”

That’s what everyone was saying online but no solutions have worked. Since I can’t boot into Arch I’ve been having to go through the install USB to get anything done so it’s been super tedious. My next idea was going to try a different boot loader if I can’t get it to work.

My man, I have been trying. Been trying to dual boot since I still need windows for work but I cannot for the life of me get Grub to work. It shows up in the install terminal, but after I reset it immediately disappears as a boot option from my and Linux. I’ve been racking my brain for days and no solution online works. The closest I got was getting to the Grub terminal, but it still couldn’t boot into arch.

Meanwhile my laptop is dual booting with no problems whatsoever after doing basically the exact same thing. It doesn’t make any sense

Not denying that. But at the same time I’m pretty sure every president since Bill Clinton would have done the exact same thing because they’re all a bunch of cowards. And things will only get worse under Trump. The only candidate that would have taken action is someone like Bernie Sanders. Like him or not, at least he’s not a fucking coward. I understand the need to protest, but refusing to vote for the lesser of two evils is basically just a vote for the more evil choice.

I think the expectation that a candidate should do everything you want them too is just naive. From the most mundane of policies to literal war crimes you can’t expect to agree on everything. There has never been a “perfect” candidate. Innocent people are getting killed on a daily basis over there and the fact that both candidates didn’t seem to give a shit is disgusting. And I know it’s a fucked up situation and it’s a fucked up choice to even make, but it was our choice to make and we fucked it up. We can blame the candidates all we want, but at the end of the day it was our choice to vote for who we wanted to vote for. And the result of that was fucking Trump.

I mean, this was probably the point from the beginning. I’m sure this has been their plan since they saw that he could turn a place like Twitter into a propaganda machine in just under a year. I’m probably just grasping at straws here, but it seems pretty sus that the TikTok ban only started gaining traction around the time Elmo turned Twitter into a shit hole.

Which is totally fair. I’m just saying there are a fuck ton of people that either don’t care, aren’t invested in politics, or aren’t online as much as we are. Or if they are online they sure as shit ain’t here or on Reddit. They’re on websites like Facebook where they get fed ragebait like it’s candy because it gets facebook more clicks and more money. It’s easy to see these people as just “stupid” but in reality this is the internet to them and that’s all they see. They’re not stupid necessarily, but when it comes to the important shit they’re definitely ignorant.

Had a long winded comment written out but decided against sending it because like I said, I’m not trying to start an argument. I’m just trying to raise some points.

But just so you know I don’t think the genocide in Gaza is made up. And i think its fucked up that the US decided it doesn’t matter because Israel is our ally. But at the end of the day I’d vote against fascism any day of the week. Because that’s how you get even more genocide. And an abstained vote is a vote for your enemy.

Not making enough more money for shareholders, raise the price, people leave, lose profits, not making enough money for share holders, raise the price, people leave, lose profits… Eventually it’ll be $200 and the only thing you can watch is Bojack Horseman because every IP has its own streaming service.

“Now you can watch all the Star Wars content you want with the new Star Wars+ subscription! starting at $49.99 a month with ads”

Have you seen them at the polls? You’re right, they aren’t children. Individually i think voters are smart, but as a collective they are dumber than children. If you consider that it’s no surprise that Google searches like “did Biden drop out” spiked on election day.

Not trying to start an argument, just trying to make a point because I’ve been seeing “Genocide Joe & Kamala Cheney” around a lot lately.

What makes you immune to the propaganda? When I see name calling and throwing blame, it’s the exact same shit we see from Republicans. It just seems childish when we could have had actual debates. I’m not saying Kamala did a good job. She was a trash candidate.

And I’m saying this not to be a dick, honestly. I’m just saying maybe you’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid this whole time. The only difference is that it’s blue raspberry instead of cherry. Maybe give that a thought the next time you call a single dad struggling to buy food for his kids a fascist to his face. Because that’s the easiest way to get them to do the exact opposite of what you want.

Just to be clear i am not defending the extremists. So before you judge this just remember I’m not talking about shit like QAnon. Those guys can fuck right off.

I don’t hate all of them. They just fell for the propaganda, which none of us are immune to. I don’t think the average republican is as racist or fascist waiting for an opportunity to do shitty things. They are just people that want a better life for themselves and their families like the rest of us do. The problem is that they’ve been led to believe the democrats and immigrants are responsible instead of the literal people they voted into office and the corporations dictating their every choice through algorithms and misinformation. They’ve been bamboozled to the highest degree and we shouldn’t hate them for that. And we’ve been led to believe that republicans are responsible for all of our problems when it’s literally the people we vote into office fucking us over too. We’re both getting fucked by everyone in charge and we all take it in stride when it’s “our guy.”

I remember when I was a kid back in the early 2000’s there was a sentiment between pretty much everyone that the government doesn’t give a shit about us. Sayings like “fuck the system” were ubiquitous when I was I’m high-school regardless of if you were a Republican, Democrat, or somewhere in between. Nowadays we are being manipulated to hate each other for the smallest of reasons because it benefits the powers that be. And that’s not just Republicans. Like, when was the last time you had an actual conversation with a Republican that wasn’t trying to tell them they are wrong and explain why you are right? And when was the last time a Republican talked to you without doing the same thing?

Like when it really comes down to it, why the fuck are we fighting with each other when we all know FOR A FACT we are all being manipulated to hate each other? The extremists can’t fuck right off, but the average American from all backgrounds are being manipulated to hate each other instead of looking at the real issues. And now we have fucking Elmo doing a Nazi salute at the fucking inauguration of the president. And I’m sure a lot of average republicans are just as pissed as everyone else. And for the democrats, Biden just rode off into the sunset like it was another fucking Monday.

It’s all about money and power. If you go through and look at the majority of reasons why you hate the average republican or hate the average democrat, I can guarantee if you go back far enough you will find someone trying to sell you something or make money off you. And when you see the average American regardless of politics out in the wild, are they really that different from you? As long as we keep insulting each other for the dumbest shit, the only thing we are going to accomplish is exactly what they want. When a certain Mario brother brought us all together on a topic for once, how long did it take for us to go back to hating each other? A couple days? A week, maybe?

So I guess TL;DR is no, not really. We are all susceptible to propaganda and we all fall for it. Just remember the next time you’re pissed off at someone, try to think about whether or not it’s your opinion or what someone told you is your opinion. And that goes for both “sides.” The powers that be are bamboozling us all so we ignore the fact that it’s their fault.

All I’m gonna say is that with the large number of pump and dump crypto schemes that have happened over the years, if you’re still falling for it I have no sympathy for you. Everyone thinks they’re gonna be the one to cash out and leave everyone behind whereas most everyone are the ones being left behind.

We’re even invasive to ourselves.

They’ll just ask ChatGPT what to do while the world burns.

There will always be alternatives. And honestly I don’t blame them for going to an even more Chinese app. Your data is going to get taken and used against you anyway so you might as well give it to China and fuck over the US companies that are directly fucking you over.

I’m not saying it’s the right mindset, I’m just saying I get it.

I’m honestly surprised more content creators on TikTok haven’t raised a stink about this from what I’ve seen. Agree with it or not, for some people this is their livelihood.

God damnit I literally just got Proton going like 4 days ago.