Patrick Stewart is Jesus?
I get it, it’s a shitpost, but the US choosing a slightly less fascistic government halfway through the orange shitstain’s second attempt to turn the US into his technofeudal fiefdom isn’t really “fixing all the problems”…
It’s a VERY small step in the right direction, and the first step of a VERY long road.
I’m not from US, but calling this “VERY small step” is really disingenuous…
Fucking texas is now blue, first time since 1988. I know very little about your weird ass country but I didn’t think it was possible.
Take your victory and keep pressure on and keep on squeezing.
I’m not from the US.My whole fucking point is that a SINGLE country, no matter how influential it is, switching to a slightly less fascistic leadership is nowhere near “huzzah we saved the world” level change, and thinking so highly of yourself (in this case, on the level of a whole nation) is absolutely narcissistic.
Besides, we’ve seen what the Dems really do 99% of the time, especially without a charismatic leader who brings cohesion. Aside from a select few new faces, most of the old guard will now just sit back and do nothing. I mean, Hakeem Jefferies already announced they won’t seek “to get even” (meaning they won’t even try to prosecute obvious criminal activities in the government), nor will they attempt to impeach Trump…
That wasn’t a small step. That was about the biggest step that could have happened.
It was the biggest step that could have happened and it was a small first step.
When I’m looking at a boy bleeding out from a racist crowd shooting at him, “A paramedic showed up to the scene instead of skipping work” is the best thing that could have happened but it’s not a moment of celebration yet.
Earl gray. Hot. While watching the Epstein criminal class tried and convicted. Whole human trafficking and drug smuggling operations being exposed and brought down. A sliver of Justice. Make it so, oh please gods of trek and beyond.
Americans really need to get over themselves.
We’ve been fed a lot of propaganda, I think we may be in the “digestion” phase, still have to poop.
Yeah, let’s not count our chickens just yet on world events. Though I’d love to hope you’re right.
There are four chickens
Hope is free and doesn’t hurt anything. You should always have hope.
Hope is the motivation killer. Hope is what encourages people to post memes rather than take action. Hope is relying on others to achieve your goals for you. Replace it with expectation based on deliberate action.
You just sound miserable to me. Without hope no revolution will succeed.
Perhaps you and I mean something different by “hope”, but a revolution doesn’t succeed on hope, it succeeds on determined action towards the desired goal. By all means keep that goal in mind, but, unless you are actively working towards it, you are just relying on others to achieve it for you, and if you are working towards it, then it’s not hope, it’s expectation, and that’s a very differentn and far more positive, thing.
That’s not hope, that’s expecting others to do what you won’t. Without hope a movement fails with the first setback. People don’t do anything without hope.
We clearly have very different ideas of what hope is. What you’re describing seems thin and rather tenuous to me, and would do nothing to motivate me. You would not look at a broken arm and just hope it got better, you’d bind the wound, splint the break, maybe get help from someone who knows what to do, and you’d expect that to help. In the same way, when facing a broken or corrupted system, just hoping it gets better, maybe even believing it can be made better, achieves nothing, and encourages exactly the sort of meme post activism we so often see. Only deciding what you can actually do to make the situation better, and then doing it, makes a difference, and if you’ce planned well, you can do it with the reasonable expectation that the situation wil improve as you expect it to. Seeing how your actions move you towards a better situation is what drives more action, and what buffers you against setbacks. At least, I find it vastly better than just sitting and hoping.
You would not look at a broken arm and just hope it got bette
I have no idea where you’re getting this nonsense. Where did I say that you only need hope?
US is moving a fuck ton of kit around in the middle east and Europe. This isn’t over.
Where did I say it was?
“Oh God no, I never hope. Hope is pouting in advance. Hope is faith’s richer, bitchier sister. Hope is the deformed attic bound incest monster offspring of entitlement and fear.” -Frankie Dart
I don’t know who Frankie Dart is, but if you think there needs to be some sort of revolution you’d better have some hope.
My life results tripled the year I gave up hope and every game on my phone that had anything to do with farming. What’s true will be true, Annie. Our job is to deal with that truth.
Hope makes people believe lies and propaganda. Hope can make people docile when things need to actively be changed. Hope is poison to reality when it motivates you to do less.
When people decide things need to actively be changed, they’d better have hope. Otherwise they’ll give up the minute things don’t go their way.
Doomer! /s
We gotta keep on fighting! For Jean-Luc!
If you live in the US, email your local senator and tell them how happy you are about Abdul’s win, and how you hope they’ll follow Abdul’s example. Tell them what issues you care about, and what sorts of things would cost them your vote.
Tell em Shumer and Jeffries gotta go.
Jokes aside, there’s a non-zero chance his death, and the values he portrayed as Captain Picard, influenced voters.
We changed the name of our first shuttle from Constitution to Enterprise because of Trekkies writing in, it absolutely has an influence and we could really use more of Jean-Luc’s resolve and Sir Patrick’s kindness these days.
Now how do we fix the curse of Al Gore’s loss and the hanging chads?
We have to go back and get Nader interested in growing flowers or something.
The Hung Chads is the name of my in no way homosexual glam rock band
Careful, we thought it was fixed in 2020 when Biden won.
I absolutely did not. If we elect another corporate centrist, then he’ll be followed by another fascist.
President Newsom, followed by President…honestly, after Trump sucking all of the oxygen out of the room for the Republicans for 12 years, I’m not sure who’d be able to take his place.
EDIT: Apparently, Newsom is no longer considered a frontrunner for the nomination. Good!
He would, too.
The goal was to fix the oops in 2012, but something’s better than nothing.
Everyone always cites Harambe in 2016 as the event where everything started to go wrong… But did anything else relevant happen in 2016?
Harambe was in May, the elections were the result of the curse.
The bad news - that mess was already being played out before 2016 started. Both the overall plan by the GOP laid out decades before, and the media’s weird courting of Trump as a valid candidate. The GOP saw their chance and ran with it, and the obedient media followed their lead, just as they had been trained.
Which oops in 2012?
New Mayan cycle. Or something. They made a movie and everything.
Oh, well we’d have to go back pretty far to change the Mayan calendar.
Tuesday? Or worse, two Tuesdays ago?
Are you citing Last Tuesdayism? It’s really hard to tell if that’s true either.
I only wish he lived long enough to see the blue wave surge across the nation.
Yeah, “the” nation, as a Britishman.
Our lord and savior who died to redeem humanity! Here here!
