I love the continued assumptions that I don’t know.

I love how defensive people get when you try to tell them that what they’re pushing is chemtrails.

Wasn’t expecting a chemtrail diatribe in my Lemmy today but here we are.

When you drive through obstacles you can’t see through, you’re stupid.

Don’t do stupid things.

If you’re stupid enough to do things like that, it makes you the shitty kind of stupid because you don’t have the good sense to say “Hmn this vehicle is several thousand pounds of steel, and I can’t see what’s under or behind that leaf pile, I should probably not blast through it.”

I’m sure he felt awful and I wouldn’t wish that kind of pain and guilt on ANYONE. Which is why we need to condemn stupidity so people don’t get a social pass for avoiding getting smarter their entire lives. When we give social consequence for being dumb, it forces people to be smarter and fewer disasters like this happen.

You’re not born stupid, you just learn what you can get away with. You can make yourself more aware and smart with effort, but if we shrug and walk away from everyone who does something stupid, that pressure to get better starts to wane and people learn they can live life stupid without consequence.

I used to be more compassionate but I’ve since seen stupidity turn into a goddamn movement.

Here’s the story.

What’s wild is it’s only one of several I found like this. People out there, train your kids to not lay in leaf piles AND not to drive through them.

https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/man-drives-over-leaf-pile-where-his-daughter-was-hiding-killing-her/83-402225200

You’re right, but the other groups are usually actually actively working towards and succeeding at saboating the US’s entire social discourse and putting oligarchs in power.

Tankies on the other hand don’t really want to work that hard, or get it all out of their system posting AI-written manifestos on lemmy.

I get exhausted on Lemmy in particular trying to explain to the nihilistic, cynical teens here that such an outcome would in fact, be a bad thing.

In the Hearts Of Iron IV store you can trade them to have your custom fursona painted on the side of your SU-122.

Almost every currency, crypto included is valued against the USD, I just don’t see everyone moving to dogecoins if suddenly it costs $340,000 to buy a hamburger. There is very real incentive to throw every possible resource behind keeping the middle-class complacent and comfortable for as long as possible.

I mean, if the US dollar does collapse it certainly won’t be a forever thing, but the people with the most money in the world have a LOT of resources to keep things the way they are. I’ll be surprised if the keepers of the cash let the cash become devalued.

The vast, vast majority of this country who are only marginally invested in politics combined the needs of capital to secure that stability will override whatever political ambitions any leadership has in the long-term. All of the current crisis is still just a flash in the pan, it will pass, the pendulum will swing the other way and the cycle will continue. I’ve been watching it a long ass time, I have seen nothing yet that makes me believe the country will experience wide-scale change.

It’s going to get more authoritarian broadly, it’s going to have more unrest and reduced rights, particularly as the climate changes and the immigration situation gets a lot more inflamed as refugees start piling up to get in, but right now, unless a LOT of people make a lot of huge changes to their media consumption habits, we’re going to see a rougher, nastier status-quo for decades to come.

The USA is a HUGE boat that turns slowly, it’s not one country, it’s 50. And because of that, small changes have huge consequences but only decades down the line. Few people who haven’t actually traveled the nation really get the scale involved and what has to change before we see lasting change.

Can’t do that without revolution.

Which is still about a century away.

The US is unlike every other developing or even developed nation that has gone through revolution for two huge reasons:

1. It’s not one big country, it’s 50 smaller countries, each with its own power and systems and elections. If you’re going to collapse a system you have to do it 50 goddamn times perfectly.

2. Nobody here is even remotely close to an actual “revolution” on either side of the political spectrum. Despite the huge marches and protests and violence the world sees out of the USA right now, the vast majority of the hundreds of millions of people here are mostly tuned out. The economic machine is grinding away harder than ever, and powered by a vast segment of the population who get all their news from 30-minutes of facebook memes on a Sunday night while getting ready for bed.

Yah it will get you Tankiepoints™ out the wazoo to say you pray for the collapse of the USA but with every other country’s economy tied to the US dollar, that outcome will be less than ideal when you want to go to your local market and buy food or medicine in almost every other country on Earth.

I get downvotes when I remind people of this fact like I’m making an argument for something. Talk to your local leaders about why they have invested so much in the US, not me.

Which is also a cute segue to remind people that all the loot and cash that Trump’s people are scooting out the back door of our treasury? That’s YOUR money also Mr and Mrs Europe, Canada, Mexico, etc.