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I really wish I had more agency and wasn't so limited and dependent. I always wish that but right now it's more existential than usual.

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I really wish I had more agency and wasn't so limited and dependent. I always wish that but right now it's more existential than usual.

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That's not to say Omaha is progressive, it's not, it was only a few % win, but if you told me before the election Harris beat Trump in Omaha by almost 4% I'd have been surprised if she didn't win nationally, and would have had difficulty believing she didn't win a single swing state anywhere else. For once the people in my immediate area weren't supportive of a horrible political outcome.

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That's not to say Omaha is progressive, it's not, it was only a few % win, but if you told me before the election Harris beat Trump in Omaha by almost 4% I'd have been surprised if she didn't win nationally, and would have had difficulty believing she didn't win a single swing state anywhere else. For once the people in my immediate area weren't supportive of a horrible political outcome.

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I feel really weird. I feel way worse about my country but positive about my area which appears to be the only swing place that bucked the trend. Our electoral vote isn't going to Trump. But now Omaha is a blue dot on a whole country that feels really terrifyingly red instead of just a state that's scarily red.

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I feel really weird. I feel way worse about my country but positive about my area which appears to be the only swing place that bucked the trend. Our electoral vote isn't going to Trump. But now Omaha is a blue dot on a whole country that feels really terrifyingly red instead of just a state that's scarily red.

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@ericleamen
Misogyny is certainly a component. A solid majority of voters did vote for a woman in 2016 though. And Hilary Clinton was far less liked personally.

This campaign did make mistakes, probably quite a lot of them, and if we don't actually try to figure out what they were and why we made them we're just going to do them over and over and over. But a lot of times when people talk about mistakes it's about trying to lay blame on other people rather than actually evaluating the mistakes.

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@ericleamen
Misogyny is certainly a component. A solid majority of voters did vote for a woman in 2016 though. And Hilary Clinton was far less liked personally.

This campaign did make mistakes, probably quite a lot of them, and if we don't actually try to figure out what they were and why we made them we're just going to do them over and over and over. But a lot of times when people talk about mistakes it's about trying to lay blame on other people rather than actually evaluating the mistakes.

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@Floppy
"But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament."

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@Floppy
"But such a “final solution” implies a further era of peace, a Golden Age, which contradicts the principle of permanent war. No fascist leader has ever succeeded in solving this predicament."

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@Floppy
"For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world."

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@Floppy
"For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle. Thus pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. It is bad because life is permanent warfare. This, however, brings about an Armageddon complex. Since enemies have to be defeated, there must be a final battle, after which the movement will have control of the world."

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@Floppy
I'm not sure that summary really does Eco's essay justice, I did a count a while ago and the Republicans had hit all 14. Some of the pithy summaries don't necessarily get at the core of his point. Like nine for example doesn't really sound at all like they meet it from the summary but then you read his explanation and it really sounds very much like what most of the American right is saying.

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@Floppy
I'm not sure that summary really does Eco's essay justice, I did a count a while ago and the Republicans had hit all 14. Some of the pithy summaries don't necessarily get at the core of his point. Like nine for example doesn't really sound at all like they meet it from the summary but then you read his explanation and it really sounds very much like what most of the American right is saying.

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I probably need to line up a black market source for my estradiol :(
I don't know how much longer I'll be able to get it legally. I'm on a federal healthcare plan and my state has already passed a treatment ban for trans people 19 and under. They won't pass a ban instantly but it could come soon.

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I probably need to line up a black market source for my estradiol :(
I don't know how much longer I'll be able to get it legally. I'm on a federal healthcare plan and my state has already passed a treatment ban for trans people 19 and under. They won't pass a ban instantly but it could come soon.

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@PurpleBooth
The Democrat leaning media tend to have pockets of very serious unreality that are very damaging but they're significantly more grounded to facts. They're also neither doing propaganda or journalism very competently and are way less able to draw people in.

The actual left isn't doing great either. We need to do a ton better. I'm more hopeful there though, it seems like the last few years have shown some promise and maybe it is poised to take off.

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@PurpleBooth
The Democrat leaning media tend to have pockets of very serious unreality that are very damaging but they're significantly more grounded to facts. They're also neither doing propaganda or journalism very competently and are way less able to draw people in.

The actual left isn't doing great either. We need to do a ton better. I'm more hopeful there though, it seems like the last few years have shown some promise and maybe it is poised to take off.

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@PurpleBooth
The propaganda of the American right has created alternate realities that are varied and elaborate and at this point people are almost no longer living in the same world. Even within the right different groups are inhabiting different though sometimes adjacent factual universes with quite limited grounding in facts.

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@PurpleBooth
The propaganda of the American right has created alternate realities that are varied and elaborate and at this point people are almost no longer living in the same world. Even within the right different groups are inhabiting different though sometimes adjacent factual universes with quite limited grounding in facts.

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@PurpleBooth
I don't think avoiding neoliberal politics is what most of them want. I think most of the people voting for him want fascism and that most of the people voting for him also are fans of neoliberalism, but that there's far from complete overlap between those two groups. So like most of his voters probably aren't fans of both fascism and neoliberalism.

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@PurpleBooth
I don't think avoiding neoliberal politics is what most of them want. I think most of the people voting for him want fascism and that most of the people voting for him also are fans of neoliberalism, but that there's far from complete overlap between those two groups. So like most of his voters probably aren't fans of both fascism and neoliberalism.

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@xgranade
People feel really insecure, and for good reason. Unfortunately where they go from there is often where the good reasons end. But IDK we've really gutted a lot of the social and economic individual supports in our culture and people are very much social animals who are reliant on community. We've been undermining most community (though usually the more toxic communities less so) and people are filling the void with really unhealthy and unstable substitutes.

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@xgranade
People feel really insecure, and for good reason. Unfortunately where they go from there is often where the good reasons end. But IDK we've really gutted a lot of the social and economic individual supports in our culture and people are very much social animals who are reliant on community. We've been undermining most community (though usually the more toxic communities less so) and people are filling the void with really unhealthy and unstable substitutes.

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@xgranade
People kind of get that like 1999-2010 or so was awfully tumultuous but I think a lot of people haven't really absorbed that things haven't really been less so since. I think looking at polling and stuff a lot of people are experiencing some kind of trauma response or something where they're not really able to remember or evaluate the past even as well as they usually do (which is not well). And TBH a lot of people were probably already kinda in that mode 10 years ago.

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@xgranade
People kind of get that like 1999-2010 or so was awfully tumultuous but I think a lot of people haven't really absorbed that things haven't really been less so since. I think looking at polling and stuff a lot of people are experiencing some kind of trauma response or something where they're not really able to remember or evaluate the past even as well as they usually do (which is not well). And TBH a lot of people were probably already kinda in that mode 10 years ago.

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@xgranade
😂
It really is incredible what a trip they've been. I think a lot of people really haven't processed how much really the last decade has been just incredibly tumultuous and eventful.

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@xgranade
😂
It really is incredible what a trip they've been. I think a lot of people really haven't processed how much really the last decade has been just incredibly tumultuous and eventful.