people who don’t really do tech besides the very basics

i’ve been building my own PCs since the 90s and have basic hardware and network certs, and want to try linux, but it seems daunting to me

the power of actual indoctrination (read: cult mind control) at work

It is normal for older people to be jaded

google “is ought”

dude…americans OVER 30 are miserable too

Where and when did we fucking go wrong?

it’s a story of corruption, cults, and mind control

https://harvardpolitics.com/in-god-we-trust-how-american-christianity-became-republicanism/

https://newrepublic.com/article/188337/cultural-christianity-taking-conservative-movement

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/14/1156642544/more-than-half-of-republicans-support-christian-nationalism-according-to-a-new-s

no, religion didn’t cause this, but the capacity to believe something to be true just you want it to be true (faith)–and no one’s allowed to criticize your “sincerely held religious beliefs”-- 100% allowed this to happen

edit: finally found the quote i was looking for by barry goldwater:

"Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them.

The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are NOT using their religious clout with WISDOM. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C,’ and ‘D.’ Just who do they think they are?.. I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/5/19/1385982/-50-Years-Ago-Barry-Goldwater-Saw-the-Future

unfortunately, as of now, that fight is lost

i hate being stuck in a country that pardons literal insurrectionists and condemns whistleblowers. even before the magatrumpistan takeover, it was the same shit when edward snowden spoke up

lol i share the unpopular opinion, as well as the downright hated opinion of despising infinite. everyone fell in love with elizabeth while i was thinking “this is the most annoying npc in history.” aside from that the game was meh af

amazing game. bioshock was supposed to surpass it but none of them did imo. prey came close much much later. funny though, how the wrench is pretty much the best weapon in all of them

i’m IN america and i can tell you: whatever it is in this country you think you want to come here and see—it’s not worth it

if you’re a minority or woman who voted for trump, then i have less than zero sympathy

lol if you’re shocked now, just wait until they get to actually rewriting established, agreed-upon, undisputed history, like deleting articles like this, and then going ahead and deleting the fact that slavery ever even happened in this country

“impossible!! that could never happen!”

it’s literally happening…

government immediately appealed the ruling, and said in a filing Tuesday that the judge’s order lacked proper jurisdiction “because the presidential actions they challenge are not subject to judicial review.”

i mean don’t these judges know how fascism works?

imagine not being satisfied with only 1 punisher patch on your rentacop uniform

if the only thing holding people back is a fucking book

that’s the mindset. they’re raised to believe that humans literally aren’t capable of being any definition of “good” without church. and even still, as mentioned above, you can pretty much do all the stealing, adultering, raping, murdering you please anyway as long as you “repent” and ask forgiveness. it’s all such a steaming truckload of horseshit

don’t worry, they won’t be doing that anymore once ss money stops rollilng in and they hit their credit limit

are they killing the population in order to kill democracy? or killing democracy in order to kill the population…

“emerging” JFC thanks guardian for just now mentioning the thing that’s been blatantly obvious to anyone with eyes and ears for over a decade

rookie numbers

fair enough. i still say fuck’em. there are many more people much more deserving of my sympathy than fucking tesla owners

i’m gonna lean on the side of “fuck that shit” on this one. buying a tesla is a choice. maga are terrorizing people for things they didn’t choose like skin color, gender, sexual orientation, etc, and that list will only get longer

fuck tesla, and fuck tesla buyers. unlike their holy godman idol musk, i value empathy. but not for people who pridefully show none of it themselves