I agree the internet feels a lot different than the eqrly 2000s, but breaking down what’s different I can’t pin anything concrete down.

There’s pretty much no fundamental differences between how social media was and how it is now. People talk, share interests, get in arguments. What we feel is nostalgia for a wild west internet with less people and rules that will never exist again.

More people use the internet now so more people participate in the conversation. That’s how it will be for the rest of human history probably.

Fascists usually leave power when they die.

Lol, i wonder how many of them will volunteer to work for free?

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

And when enlistment keeps dropping like a rock they will give the suicide drones to our local PDs! :D

In a world that is constantly forcing people to spend money just to stay alive then the vast majority of people would rather spend their time making or preserving the money that lets them survive instead of spending their limited time and money being altruistic.

Wealth redistribution would unironically fix most problems in our economies and societies

I love the term lol

My most affirming moments as a trans woman have been people saying sexist shit to me because they see me as a woman.

It’s not nice, but I know they’re being honest about me passing lol.

Less genZ vote right wing proportional to every other group. This only changes when comparing specifically small group of genz men to men and women Millennials in cherry picked articles.

More Millennials voted for Trump than GenZ proportionally.

More GenZ VOTE than Millennials

The propaganda around the red wave of young genz is just a huge cope and idiots eat it up.

If Trump tries to take away a federal holiday, that might be what makes somebody finally do it.

I think a fair line is removing debilitating genetic conditions, but not for cosmetic uses.

If the person grows old enough that they have dysphoria for some reason then cosmetic surgeries are pretty routine these days.

Yeah, they capitulate on bills that seek to delegitimize trans people. So not only are they choosing identity politics instead of real policy, but even fails to support the targeted groups they talk about protecting.

Neoliberals are beginning to look equally as invalid as conservativism

Eh

I also think it’s crazy how few American Christians understand to what level their ideology has been coopted by right wing extremists.

Nixon, and then Reagan, worked with celebrity megachurch pastors to manufacture abortion and anti gay beleifs in churches as a wedge issue.

Almost all political rhetoric from large churches since the 70s has been an attempt to create issues that Christians never had and then abuse their religious faith to maintain loyal and hateful voters for conservatives.

And it worked.

Oof

I feel bad for the half of Israelis who don’t support the genocide and war.

The rest deserve to reap what they sow

Trans rights isn’t a winning political strategy.

I say this as a trans person. Americans don’t care about 1.3% of the population, they care about themselves.

People want economic progress, that’s why they elected a strongman conman.

Because it makes their rich doners uncomfortable that they might have to lose a little money to fix the wealth inequality destroying global society.

It’s fine if they are his bastard children, just as long as he has some blood relationship to the people he redistributes the wealth to

That’s not weird at all…