America is the land of bullshit and it seems as though everyone can't get enough of that bullshit.

1492. Thnx for playing. Lol

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Exactly George

Also the fallout from when white Jesus killed the brown Jesus in the bible and threw out all of his teachings for being DEI and woke.

They became white nationalists who hate & want to hurt everyone else who has come here. Every single white person is an immigrant or had ancestors who were immigrants! Stop being so entitled!

Imagine loving your country so much that you… try to destroy it? That’s like saying, “I respect my grandma” while drop-kicking her rocking chair. 🤔🇺🇸

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Exactly.

Conditioning. Brainwashing. Grooming. Call it whatever you like, but the bottom line is it's evil and shouldn't be allowed in ANY civilized society. EVIL. Pure & simple.

As a young child my dad drove me to school in the mornings listening to AM radio and I still remember the hateful fuckery Mush Bimbo spewed and how my father lapped up every drop. It’s no surprise that today he’s alone with only his hate for company.

There is not a single entity in that graph that the Fairness Doctrine would have applied to.

Sums it up perfectly

If Americans just walked instead...

I feel like CITIZENS UNITED deserves some credit as well. Thanks for sharing about your dad. :(

And, podcasts.

100% correct.

What we’ve become! It’s just so sad.

The day it became fashionable to spew hate.

They've been wishing ill on us for so long, they've finally made us not give a damn if they suffer. They voted for this. Schadenfreude.

It’s killing me that things are so poorly centered on that.

America was spoiled by the greatest generation that sacrificed so much during the Great Depression and WWll that made America what it is. From Reagan on the middle class and poor shared little in the wealth they created. How quickly we are back sliding into a Confederate segregated society or worse.

We are getting what they deserve.

We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian. Adolf Hitler We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity. Our movement is Christian. Project 2025

Sadly not sure America has ever moved away from that. They just come in different forms and different targets.

Come on George, this is not new. America always took joy in the suffering of others. Or do you think that the concentr.... internment camps were the beginning of intolerant America? The US has the potential to be one of the greatest and yet it always falls short.

The WaPo, LA Times, et al have brainwashed people not to trust the media. The WH Correspondents Assoc. capitulated to Trump. AP can’t get into press briefings. Law firms are giving in & paying huge sums for having once hired a lawyer who opposed Trump & Dems are lawn jockeys not leading the fight.

You ask what happened to basic human decency, TRUMP HAPPENED.

Evangelical posers who just want money, fame and power

The lying orange nazi fascist scum put hatred and disgustingness on steroids.

If you let the mob run your country....

What is strange they want the Ten Commandments and a bibles in schools but what good will that do if you don’t lead by Christian behaviour and policies in politics.

Jerry Falwell's "Moral Majority" a.k.a Christian Nationalism, then hypocritival Newt Gingrich, then foreigner Rupert Murdoch, and Fox News. Then, Obama's election supercharged white supremacist outrage that led to the TEA Party and the likes of Ted Cruz.

103rd Congress and the "blowjob impeachment.."

When our elected representatives stopped representing us and focused their influence on helping rich people and mega-corporations. When we saw the American Dream shipped overseas for pennies on the dollar.

No, George. This is the foundation of what America was built on.

It emigrated.

Since when was America was decent? There are Americans who will tell otherwise.

The natural result of Republicans poisoning society for decades, encouraging the worst elements and endlessly setting examples of hypocrisy, and "might makes right"

Murdochs, Trump! Putin, Orban, Erdogan, Modi, Xi, Bolsanaro & little Miss sweet cheeks Meloni. These are just some of the Worst people on the planet and it passed a lot of Democracies by as RW have all been having secret meetings and planning all of this While democracies sleeping on the job!!

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I've been disowning people who celebrate these things. There were people I thought were good people, or at least decent people, and friending them on social media definitely disillusioned me. I didn't realize how many rotten people I knew. It's been very disheartening.

I grew up in Ocean County , NJ which is basically Trump Land. Mostly white, mostly upper middle class or Pineys which is our version of red necks. I’ve tried to forget where I came from because in a graduating class of about 500 I’d venture to guess that 75% I see on SM are lunatics

It started in ernest in 2016 and has gotten worse each year

I have been astounded how many people seem to lack of empathy.

It’s astonishing and sad

Bingo!

Republicans never had basic human decency. They have always been of the philosophy, if it isn't happening to them, who cares about other people. They only care when it happens to them. No empathy.

Get Dems back in charge and fix this bullshit

Working class has been abandoned for decades, ppl adjust to material conditions. When shit sucks for you, some ppl chose to blame others. More simply, the education system in the country has been under assault and it’s only getting worse

Well, those folks are currently being betrayed by the dude that called them all “poorly educated”. I see a few migrating to the left… give them a minute to get over the shock of the King of denial

The uniting thread is "Democracy" over autocracy. Most American's want their Social Security, Medicare and Veterans benefits protected. There are other important issues also on the "Democracy" tent to defeat Musk-Trump. American's want government to work for THEM, half of us want it to work for ALL.

I agree. Wondering why we are not seeing demonstrations at Fox. They should not be able to list themselves as a news organization. The Enquirer would be more appropriate.

My mom told me decades ago that television was desensitizing us. It has also diminished empathy.

I dunno, Sesame Street and Daniel Tiger and Peppa Pig are pretty good at teaching empathy and sensitivity.

Screens have definitely contributed much to the downfall of our society.

I have not seen a more accurate post today

She was right. Slowly upping the level of what was once unthinkable into everyday nonchalance. Some countries now teach empathy at school. I thought that was part of the basic kit we came with.

History is rife with the unthinkable.

and books were causing a panic when gutenberg rolled up the impact of modern communication mediums is different from yore, without regulation it can easily be a vore, and its that goddamn vile reagan's fault for this situation we abhor

Slavery was legal for 250 years in this country, no television at all.

Correct. Just a how to treat slaves for Dummies book known as the Bible.

Now I know why I don't watch much TV anymore.

My sister-in-law told me her cousins grew up without television. She said as a kid she felt sorry for her cousins and thought that the family was strange. As an adult she had a change of heart and said she wished she'd raised her own kids that way.

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George , REMEMBER the new unwritten law. it's FOX. Just FOX. Following it with NEWS is a lie. We don't lie to friends.

Capitalism run amok is Strangling Democracy. It now serves the few and destroys the many. Lies beget lies. America got soft, indulgent. Takes privileges without repaying toward a better future.

you can thank the abolishing of the Fairness Doctrine

and not watching #StarTrek

The prurient interest in the drama and hate perpetrated by too many "reality tv" shows is partly to blame; the American public (in the larger sense) has an almost insatiable appetite for mean-spirited entertainment.

Merchants of Hate

It has been happening for decades, with support from the USA; remember all the dictatorships installed in South America during the 60 and 70. It may be the first time it is happening inside your country, I reckon.

Sad but true

The American Dream is dead!

Fox News and the education system. Just keep believing all the lies.

And by believing that whatever’s on social media is true without rethinking it! It’ll get worse when more fact checkers get blocked by Zuckerberg, Musk and the like!

the richest man in the world told his worshipers that empathy is bad... sooooo.....

For me it was when Biden came on board with the mantra, “This is not who we are”. But after Sadist45, it was pretty clear that it may very well be who we are… and I learned to stop over-estimating fellow Americans. Then with Felon47’s win, the coffin was banged shut. Now we’re all in it together.

January 20th.

Yup… with the Project 2025 crew lurking in the weeds…

Ask Israel….

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It's all well and good until THEY lose their jobs like the MAGAt in W. VA. " I WAS A MAGA SUPPORTER,now I'm unemployed. Boo hoo lady.

We tried to tell them for 8 years what Trump was all about. They refused to believe it. A lot of them still refuse to believe it. That's a symptom of cultism and idol worship.

She'll vote for him again thinking this time it'll be different

An increase of 0.05 rating points in Fox News viewership has increased Republican vote shares by at least 0.5 percentage points... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Judging by the lynching post cards and the footage from the Civil Rights movement, I’d say America has always been chock full of cruelty and savagery. What has changed is that we can now record much more of it in real time on our phones.

When President Johnson signed the Civil Rights legislation, reagan, bushes, mitch, christian right leaders. the hate ramped up. I realized that the folks i graduated h.s. with spent their entire lives trying to undo it. Nov 5th a lot of them got caught in their own unintended suffering.

Since the felon descended on his escalator, he has been tirelessly working to make everyone as crazy as he is.

America has a history of domestic genocide, slavery, civil war, institutionalized racism, regime change foreign intervention wars, endemic gun violence, misogyny, religious zealotry and bankruptcy of its citizens over their health care needs. When was the concern for common human decency again?

I keep asking myself, "What country am I living in?"

When one group poisoned our society in their quest to own the libs. Unfortunately, children, elderly and many more will suffer before they pull their heads (on both sides) out of their backsides.

Brutal and ugly. I blame trump.

A country built on genocide and slavery where the mentally ill are thrown on the streets or in prison, where the poor are left to starve and children die from preventable and curable illnesses because they born to a poor family will always be a hate filled country.

When someone rode down a golden elevator to announce that Putin wants him to be president

Decades of grievance politics + a bunch of white dudes who think they're alpha males projecting they're insecurities on everyone else

It always makes make laugh when men proclaim they are Alpha when in reality if you have to say it then it’s probably Bull S**t.

And poor L. David Mech who coined the term has spent his entire life trying to make people understand he was wrong to no effect.

They always like to say it’s the decline of religion in America, but it’s really that they’ve allowed their own religion to be gradually replaced with fascism. Like boiling a frog. 🐸 Now they’ve got a certifiable dictator cult. They used to oppose Stalin and Kim but now they’ve got their own.

I’ve said forever… “If you’re wasting time watching Fox “News” you don’t want to know the truth!” They are Poison.

100%

Correct! Sickness, Jealousy, Envy, Hate, Fear!! Everything Faux News Pounds into viewers!

I still maintain - and with some backup from memory - that it pretty closely reflects the 'change' in the NRA; from being a 'sporting-related' org to starting to promote guns for self protection. And to do that, you have to get your head around the notion of 'shooting your neighbor DEAD'...

Voltaire put it perfectly, “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”

Tell a Maga this and they'd ask if he invented electricity.

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To be honest, the ones doing it now have been doing it since at least Reagan.

Wealth and prosperity is what happened... Greed takes over as rapidly as a wildfire, spreading in every direction... Greedy people hate anyone who doesn't feed their greed, so no-one is immune, they turn against everyone.

No, @georgetakei.bsky.social it goes back about another 50ish years. open.substack.com/pub/demodirg...

Very sad what dementia dumpy and the repugs are doing to our country 😢

the welfare Queen Reagan's attack on the poor.. we went from concern to disapproval..

My answer was, at the latest, when the Patriot Act was passed.

If you read any of Angela Davis's books, you'd realise the has always been oppression in America. However if you want the sort answer to your question it's when you did nothing but watched your neighbours struggle & didn't challenge bigotry!

>>>>If Internet goods and services are developed by those whose motives are primarily money and power, components of human existence such as empathy, deep relationships, child development, family harmony, sustained conversation, and compassion are seriously undermined and seemingly not valued.<<<<

I keep going back to this www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Brainwashing of those who have no critical thinking ability

It was never really there. It was an illusion. The mob that has become MAGA were not prepared to carry on until Trump and the Republicans made it fashionable to sprout hate.

I agree to a point. I believe it’s always been there but social norms in the past made it taboo to show their true colours. Then as you said, Trump made it acceptable to THEM and they don’t have to hide it now.

It's sad. Scum like Trump bring out the worst in people.

Totally!! And there is this…

Yes have you been attacked by any online ever? They are vulgar and hateful to female accounts at least.

My sister just did that with me. Daggers flying. She's blocked for life now.

That’s a shame. People waste their lives filled with bullshit.

I’ve always said the best thing to do with a guy like tRump is to ignore his antics. Then his supporters will grow bored of him.

This makes so much sense

DAMN!!! Talk about on point.

Sad but true.

If Democrats attached a chain to Tramp and a speeding locomotive he would be Superman

You nailed it precisely.

Trump supporters very identities are shaped primarily, if not solely by that which they fear, loathe, and hate.

TRUTH!!

Sad and so accurate.

Sadly, this is on the mark.

This, right here, sums up those that call themselves MAGA. Well stated. This is also why they must be rooted out and dealt with. Trump is nothing more than the manifestation of their disease. This group of people feel they are OWED something for their existence. The only thing they are owed is NIL

This is the result of decades of civic poisoning by Fox News and right-wing echo chambers and channels. --- Yes. They followed the 'play book' of J. Goebbels all the way. Keep lying & spread hate all the time. The results are now well & truly showing.

When immature bullies somehow gained favor and power. Driven by misinformation, propaganda, disenfranchised people, and the working class getting know where in regards to a better future.

Fox spews!

Can hope whats happening will drop the scales from enough eyes for them to how the establishment uses/abuses lies to them, If Im honest I am not hopeful, they be given another set of lies and a scapegoat to blame, But everything changes and maybe the pain they are going to get will tip the balance

This is a country built on stolen land with stolen people. A culture that has always wanted white males to be the most powerful. The "good old days" never happened for most. The difference now is the "leaders" have given us the permission and encouragement to hate openly.

When? Pretty much when Justice failed to hold Trump accountable. 34 criminal convictions? No prison time. Colorado SC barred him from the ballot? SC overturned it, 9-0. Supremes say he has immunity, so all his followers think they have it too. He gives them permission to be their own worst selves.

No accountablity, the next coup succeeds.

“Thank you very much. I won’t forget it.”

And a distinct lack of meaningful action to protect this basic concept.

Sado-populism.

I think it started with Reagan the "pull yourself up by your boot straps" ideology. Capitalism with Reagan really took off. Then came Clinton and NAFTA, which was a good idea but poorly managed. We became a sink or swim, every man woman and child for themselves society.

Families separated for jobs and, because of distance, became indifferent to the needs of others. This is a simple answer that sounds simple, but that was a complex ?? You could write a book on it.

It's always as been like this with the U.S. That is why most of the World hate your country

Why would so many have immigrated to the US if this was exclusive to the US and if the World has always hated us?

Mostly money to send back home

They don’t stay here and have families to do that. Many come to the US for the long term with the intention of becoming citizens. We are a country of immigrants.

My grandfather came here in 1906. With $8.00 in his pocket, he worked his way on the ship shoveling coal. He had his name changed at Ellis Island. After barbering on the street, he made his way to CA to a little town where land was $2.00 an acre. He then started his dairy and never went back home.

His mother wrote in 1923 that she thought he had died in the war. He wasn't yet a citizen but volunteered for WWI. He had 4 kids, with one wife, he did not send money home except when his mom died. He was from the Azore Islands, part of Portugal. He died in 1991, became a citizen in 1922.

Thank you for your kind contribution. It has not always been like this. Before this monster, America strove to improve. Every country has faults. Every country makes mistakes. The only countries who deserve hate are those that oppress and abuse their own people and are aggressive with other nations.

It has always been this way, even during the Obama administration has been U.S. citizens clapping at people suffering and they are the loudest crowd you have.

They don't see it because we haven't turned the imperialism against (white) people here, at least not since the war.

Of course we see it. And you don't know my race. There are cruel people and good people in every country. Hating a country is a lazy oversimplification. My friend was in Greece on 9/11. She said people were laughing and cheering. If you laugh and cheer at the suffering of anyone, you are evil.

I didn't make any claim about your race, i made a claim about my countrymen. Our internal oppression doesn't typically target white people, though some late 19th century immigrants might disagree. Also the criticism wasn't aimed at every individual person in America - as a state we are a bad actor.

Just in my lifetime we've killed millions in wars of aggression, and just off the to of my head disrupted elected governments in Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Honduras, disrupting millions more lives. Before my time Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia. I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty.

Many Americans have protested all of these wars, myself included. Others cheered them on. Any people is complex, but the US has been the core of an empire for a while now, and all empires are violent.

And many of those are been persecuted and will start to disappear, sent to prison, without any legal procedure, because of the fascist government and the Felon pedophile in chief you got over there

We're an extremely propagandized people.

Yes it is. We need countermessaging at the personal level, and by supporting unbiased media

I remember the Vietnam marches, free speech, women’s rights, and Black Panthers. We were told it was all anti-American. And here we are…repeat, repeat.

People talk about going back in time and eliminating Hitler as a way to void a world of suffering. Perhaps Murdoch would be a better target...

This is what happens when you are given permission to hate. It doesn't negate what is already in their souls. It is just now that they don't need to hide it.

And when they realize that they too will get hit with a boomerang with blunt force trauma. People will start revolting quick.

Rupert Murdoch take a bow, you hateful old prick.

Has to die soon.

Not soon enough. Never soon enough.

Yep.

2016

They eat their own.Amy C Barrett a Trump App.,pissed off Bannon because apparently,the look on her face,was not one of sufficient enrapturement.Bannon showed the video of her to his viewers and said “that’s not a look of admiration for T” here we go-the new centers of power start to fight each other

Donald tRUMP as those he was able to buy.....the WHORES IN THE RNC that support him & Elon Musk....but the racism in this country that he brought to the front....MUST BE EXTINGUISHED....PERMANENTLY....WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN & HE LOVES DIVERSITY...

This is MAGAs doing 🤬🤬🤬🤬

I'm going to give it a try: The federal government has been hijacked by individuals suffering from narcissistic personality disorder. Their desire to feel better than others is being shared with those who have believed the NPD lies. The entire nation needs therapy to recover from NPD abuse.

humans (and all nature) are destructive by default. civilization is an attempt to bring equilibrium, but manmade balance only lasts for so long. we are not outside the system - we only fear the nearest and biggest enemy. give people something to hate and you get a unified army.

Don’t forget about the reluctance to do anything about all the public shootings thanks to Cheetos face.

"America" isn't that sort of place. MAGA is that sort of people.

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I dont think anyone in America really wants any outside observers to answer this question

The US Congress has been thoroughly dysfunctional for decades. And, through capricious gerrymandering and the corrosive influence of money, they have insulated themselves from being held accountable by constituents. Now, someone atop the Executive branch has chosen to take advantage.

Spot on! Prime example is Hegseth!

When Republicans began to consolidate power across city and state legislatures, as well as in Congress, the Senate and the Supreme Court, topped off by placing idiots in the Oval Office to carry out their ‘extreme conservative white privilege’ agenda.

Well…to answer this we need to go to beginning…in the beginning- that’s when it started! When white men brought their slaves to this land, slaughtered the ppl already here (claiming they were superior), had no regard for women’s rights as human beings…umm 🤔- that’s when it started!

2015. When MAGA started. Trump made people feel good about being their worst possible selves.

I moved into a rural area & met this echo chamber before F.News was "a thing." Those who live far away from cities unsurprisingly don't like people much, want to be the king of thier own land. If they do meet it's at the local gun club, men's club, or church. Then cable was strung to that land.

It is incomprehensible that Fox News was not shut down long ago. Been peddling lies and conspiracy bs for as long as I can remember. But hey, 1st amendment. Oh wait…

In fairness I celebrate and find joy every time a Republican who voted for Trump or a MAGA gets what they voted for. Like the importers I do business with crying about the tariffs. And my neighbors who are rushing out to buy a new car this weekend. 1/2

2/2 and the guy who works in the same industry as me, he can't purchase a house now because he isn't sure he will have a job in 6 months. All Trumper MAGAs. Ya I celebrate.

Who hates Americans more? Putin or Trump?

But none of this is new.

If Rupert Murdoch never existed (A Wonderful Life parody) A bit of Fry and Laurie www.dailymotion.com/video/xflqt2

Brilliant! Credits at the end: a BBC production (1994?)

Exactly where’s that patriotic country that you’ve always claimed to be!! Was it just an act? I definitely feels like it was so disappointing and disgusting!

Decency wasn't lost. They never had it. A despot has empowered them to be overly awful.

10000000%

Couldn't agree more.

When they elected the orange Nazi the first time around

That flaming liberal, Barry Goldwater, said the radicalization in the Republican party over social issues would be the end of the party. In 1989. He didn't see the destruction of the entire country in 2025.

YES

UMM 🤔🤔🤔 SINCE PUTTING 1ST STEP ON THIS LAND. What's changed? You're still greedy motherfuckers & those chasing the 'American Dream' BECOME GREEDY MOTHERFUCKERS So what's changed since 1620? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOTHING The world waits to see if this time your morality meter turns on.

Bingo. I have observed firsthand over the decades, the influence Fox “News” has had over people, and the damage they were doing. I have lost friends over it. I completely blame Fox “News” for the grave situation we are in now. Rush Limbaugh too, and other propaganda sources that have popped up.

Now there are even more potent sources of right-wing rageahol like Newsmax and OAN. Now the drug is even more toxic.

I know. Not to mention Elon’s X. The disease is spreading. It frightens and angers me every day.

Oh yeah, that's one of biggest sources of misinformation, disinformation, and hate speech.

America, like every other nation in the world, has their haters and those who choose kindness. Greed and power, fuel hatred and bigotry, generosity and selflessness fuel human progress.

But Rupert Murdoch, 94, & his son, Lachlan, lost the trust trial to siblings James, Elisabeth & Prudence — who politically disagree them & their agenda on many fronts. Rupert cant live forever. So the right-wing media empire (and America) might shift when his kids acquire their equal voting rights🤞🏼

I have no doubt he put conditions on all of his wills and trusts.

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It’s frightening that one media empire can inflict so much damage. But Fox isn’t the only entity to blame here. They simply exposed what was already there (racism, homophobia, misogyny, ableism, xenophobia) and amplified it for views. Meanness sells

We’ll pray that change comes soon, before too much damage is done.

There are too many offshoots of right wing media today. The end of Fox News would only mean their viewers will go elsewhere.

One can only hope

IMO.. not good enough. Money rules as long as there’s a bigger audience for propaganda than truth.

George is exactly right: Since 1988, Newt Gingrich has been hard at work poisoning America, and he’s proud of it. “…recommended words to use in describing Democrats: sick, pathetic, lie, anti-flag, traitors, radical, corrupt…” Sound familiar?? 2018 Atlantic article: The Man Who Broke Politics

Guys like him are what caused Auschwitz to happen. Who is that evil moron trying to kid?

It started a lot earlier than 1988 ... here, let me help you ... try 1619 ... so, you were only off by 400 years ...

Don't ever underestimate Newt's contributions to the political divide we have today.

This ☝️

I despise Gingrich, but he knows a lot about the effective use of language for messaging, as well as how to teach it to others, something Democrats still haven't mastered.

The result is that we have one political party that engages the other as if it is in a manichean struggle between absolute good, and absolute evil. Good faith politics is unestablishable in such a position.

Part, and I mean part of it, is due to folks not calling out bullshit behavior. There is merit in shaming the cruel, indifferent, callous, greedy, and those who describe empathy as a weakness. If we give them operating space, they will take it and more.

This is what I vote against. This is what I speak out against. What happened to decency and moral character and caring?

SMH 🙄

I think that stupid reality show Survivor started it, if they didn't screw the next person over, no controversy, no show.

ALL reality tv!! The more you treat people like crap, the higher the ratings. The Apprentice!! “You’re Fired!” Kardashians and their treatment of their parents, especially Bruce, was appalling. Real Housewives… need i say more?

2016 and 2024 happened

(Jumping in mid-stream) MBA mentality —> quarterly profit thinking —> union busting —> LBOs —> off-shoring mfg jobs —> income inequality —> job insecurity —> susceptibility to MAGA thinking spread by right-wing profit-seeking media. Sprinkle liberally with racism, sexism, & xenophobia and voila!

It got smothered under a case of orange face paint and a bad rug.

THIS IS WHAT THE MAGATS VITED FOR. PATHETIC.

We all want that sense of community back. It will be the pot of gold at the end of this chaos.

Exactly. This country has been full of hate for years.

I think we've been building to it slowly over the years. I wouldn't be surprised if our obsession with "personal responsibility" politics was part of the root of it though. When you believe everyone is 100% responsible for their lot in life, it makes it a lot easier to kick them when they're down.

The only one's still cheering are the handful of MAGAts still praying he doesn't come for their paycheck! Well he's going to get it with his new taxes. The rest of us are suffering. Personally I won't let it show, and I won't sympathize with the converts.

Is this who we want to be?

Precisely. We’re distracted by the felon, but it’s Rupert Murdoch who sent this whole disaster of a Republican Party in motion, enabled it, facilitated it. He’s the most evil of a bad bunch.

Exactly what occurred to me as well, Jill... #Krasnov isn't #Russia 's most valuable asset (he's the useful idiot), it's #Murdoch and his ilk. Men (and women) love power, evil ones far more so. Such people will burn any society down so they can rule over the chaotic remains.

When people who use to be high school bullies and weren’t hugged enough by their mothers got control of the government and bought podcasting equipment.

Conservatives have gone full Nazi.

·Not just them They started burning cars and ripping down statues and gaslighting the public into thinking everyone was racist and starting calling their friends Nazis because they did not always agree with them and allowed little kids to get their dicks cut off.

Go back to Twitter and be among your kind

My kind? Im an old school democrat you know before they went crazy. Every story has 2 sides. It would do you good to listen to both once in a while.

I already know what the Republican side of the story is.

MTG? Is that you?

Maybe it’s Elon. Need more ketamine?

There's always been some proesters and fringe folk. But the gop is doing it as a coordinated, campaign pushed by all of them. And forcing their ideas on people.

Nazis learned from Americans.

Isabel Wilkerson discusses this in “Caste-the Origin of our Discontent.”

Definitely. I don’t want to live here any longer. :(

Me neither but I don’t have anywhere to go

Left years ago. Couldn't pay me to go back to that cesspool

I wish I could. But way too many people here, depend on me.

I wish I could, but I'm on disability and not allowed to have enough money to even afford to revoke my citizenship

Join the fight. Don't give up your resistance. The world stands with you. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

They always were, they just stopped caring about hiding it.

AMEN, George.

Don't forget the push towards anti-intellectualism and worsening education over the last 40 years.

Major contributors: 1980s wealth culture, reality Tv plus late stage capitalism

Too many people are poor, unhealthy and live shitty lives that they see others suffering and take pleasure. It's really that simple. They've been taught to believe that 100% of their tax money goes to the boogie man of their nightmares, so they're sick of funding "it" and hate everyone different.

If you're not quite right (white), you are not human. Therefore, it is ok to hate.

It went out the window with Trump's cognitive ability a long time ago!!

Unfortunately, Dems need to dive into the mud and start ruthlessly kicking the shit out of maga before we can get out of the mud altogether. We need to jump in, beat them the fuck down, and when they're knocked the fuck out, grab them by the balls and drag these assholes out. Then we can wash off.

Yessss. That.... Allllll That.... I'd feel better... I've kneaded, no beat the hell out of bread i recently learned to make from scratch... keeps me sane... I've got a lot of bread here🤣🤣

I've been saying the same thing for years. I've always been a Democrat but it's damned annoying how they obsessively bend over backwards to be civil and follow all the rules when Republicans not only break the rules, they pis* on them too.

I know how you feel. Taking the high ground is ALWAYS harder. It's not much but, at the end of the day, you have to look yourself in the mirror and be accountable to only one person. Yourself. These people forgot that a long time ago. Their time is coming, though. Can you feel it? I can.

I can’t. They’ve proven that there are two justice systems in this country, one where only the rest of us and not them are held accountable for their actions.

I think we've passed the point where judicial influence is going to amount to much. The Orange Moron continues to snub his nose at the judiciary and that is going to quickly roll both ways. It's a pretty stark realization as to how precarious the system really is.

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They are in a cult so pervasive that they will die before recanting. That would be acceptable because in the end it will come down to them or us.

I am hopeful that when the FO part of FAFO kicks in, they will wake up. When they can't afford anything, and they have to support their parents because the latter lost SS and Medicare, and they (or friends) are being terminated by DOGE.. maybe a miracle will happen. Or not.

I'm hopeful too, but we have to plan for them not waking up. It's time we go on the offense. Example: attack their sacred cow of evangelical churches preaching the maga hate gospel and hammer them on the 1000s of children being molested by those preachers, then dare them to defend that evil.

That is a start, but I hardly believe that the oligarchs taking over the country have any serious religious persuasion, other than more wealth to secure their position.

I don't expect any maga to actually do something about it, because they never have, but it will put them on the backfoot for a change. They own the narrative. We have to own it and nothing will discombobulate them more than Dem nominees rightfully going after the evil they hide sanctimoniously.

Very nicely said

... or not. This particular cult will find a to way praise their own destruction along with the destruction of their families.

There certainly is that possibility.

There are some if us who have always been Democrats & don’t take shit off of these assholes! MAGA has infiltrated my family & they’re constantly spew their BS. Until someone calls them out. Then they only sound off when nobody’s around to challenge them. Cowards All!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

In my experience, they ARE assholes and Cowards. They have a warped sense of reality thanks to all the lies and bullshit that have been pumped into their heads. Toss that on a healthy sense of super entitlement thanks to their racist viewpoints and you have a recipe for lunatics.

Zactly!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Democrats need to first do some deep soul searching and realise that as long as they continue down the same centrist road, they will not be able to solve any of the underlying problems. Then they need a coherent and effective campaign to convince the electorate of the serious change that is needed.

Their side has no decency, that's the problem.

Started before this, but in ff mode when America had the audacity to elect a tan suit wearing President. Day of his inauguration, they had a meeting and decided their #1 job was to make sure he got nothing done. Here's looking at you John Baynor and the tea party (yes Eric Cantor and his crew).

Thought you’ve always enjoyed it, just normally taking place in other countries

That's why Europe kicked them out 400 years ago.

... what happened you ask? Take a trip back to 1619 ... it started with the hate-filled & demonic taking of human beings into bondage. It is no accident that the same states that made slavery their principal form of economic exploitation then are today's purveyors of a white Christian nation today.

Fully agree

Very true!!

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Trump. Trump happened.

It seems like ever since 9/11. Fox News has sucked in many older Americans. Even my own stepfather who was a state employee all his life and a democrat. He fought in Korea! He because a Trump loving asshat too. So disappointing.

100% Fact

and the fucking religions

Agreed 100%...Reich Wing AM talk radio brainwashed a bunch...

omg, you are sharing screenshots of twitter memes. Have you learned nothing about memes?

I'd argue that this toxic culture was always lingering barely beneath the surface, and is merely boiling over into visibility (again), due to the factors George mentions.

Trump is an entirely indecent human being. What kind of people support someone like that for POTUS? Our friends and family are to blame, something I no longer tolerate. Tell your Trumpists friends and family you are taking indecent people out of your lives, and then do so.

I remember realizing that Fox was toxic in the early 2000’s

Ummmmmmm, this is the real meaning behind " the price of eggs is too high" they knew Trump/Republicans are exactly all of the things listed in the graphic above. That list has ALWAYS been what Republicans have been at their core " I got mine! F*CK those who don't and don't try to take any of mine

The Right has been hollowing out the middle class for its own profit for a long time. To distract from their agenda, they have waged a propaganda campaign to get people to believe that liberals, the LGBTQ community, immigrants and minorities are all the reason they are suffering.

- W bush vs Gore election? - election fraud? - ballot machine manipulation? - patriot act? - tea party movement? - citizens United? - mitch mcConnell? - judge stacking? They’ve been doing…

Killer of Human Decency. Murderer of Truth/Justice. Destroyer of Health, Welfare, Morality. Single minded Seducer of the Greedy Money Mongers. Even the worse punishment thought of- WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH!

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And we all owe or thanks to an Australian Oligarch and Prez. Ronald Reagan.

I think that’s true, prolonged bullshit compounds fanaticism, and results in FoxNews Reporters leading Major Government departments. We laughed at the thought of this not so long ago.

#Truth

This is abslutely true, but the mean-spirited hatred goes much farther back than 20 years. The GOP has been trying to dismantle all the gains we made in the 60s (civil and women's rights) from the time those gains were created. It's just that Dear Leader made it ok to speak the hatred out loud.

I worked at a cable TV company in late 90’s and we used to get dozens of calls per week from senior citizens regurgitating the exact same Fox inspired phrase. “I want Fox News added to my lineup because I want the news to be the truth.” Fox had already begun the brainwashing.

Fox News viewers cannot accept "The Truth" anytime it is at odds with "Their Truth."

Exactly! My frustration with Fox News is off the charts. I only see clips when independent media highlights their outrageous takes.

I so agree. Drive FOX out of Canada in a Tesla❣️ 🤍🍁🤍

The poisoned fruit that confuses anti-patriotic sentiments for true patriotism.

Another budding Orwell, be funny if it was not a looming possibility, you can never guarantee the actions of insanity

de Adder nails it again. Man, fuck these people

#FuckTrump #FuckMusk #FuckVance #FuckPutin

No shortage of dumb as a box of rocks viewers today!

Take down Fox, people will find another place to validate the opinion they want to have. Don’t blame the pimp or the prostitute. Blame the customer.

Truth. We keep forgetting people have agency. Agency to be shitty human beings.

Validating, normalising and rewarding things that are invalid, not normal and should be punished can be spewed by either side of the debate. Therein lies the paradox. The current political zeal exceeds anything I have witnessed in my lifetime and is comparable to religious fanaticism.

In part it is fueled by religious fanaticism. Right wing evangelicals actively support Felon45. Most of the US appears religiously unaffiliated. Has commitment to political ideology replaced institutionalized religion?

Most Australians are relatively free of the ravages of religion. Well I am. My state was built on an ethos of religious freedom and small towns with 4 or 5 different churches were not uncommon. I think by nature we are tribal - perhaps why sport is so popular? We need to wear our ‘colours’?

RW media is like a drug and MAGAs can't get enough of it.

It is fan fiction masquerading as journalism.

This has been happening at least since Regan. Fox News just amplified it.

Our democracy depends on the disassembly of Fox AND ALL OTHER #PropagandisticPlatforms Ainnagonna happen w/o that.

Started earlier with Fox News putting “free” TVs in waiting rooms across the country (dentist offices, car washes etc) as long as they had Fox News on during working hours.

It is similar here in the UK with a publication called the metro, they distribute freely on buses public transport etc, the gullible tuck it under their arm pit, another nail in their coffin, same with the sun and all the billionaire crap they print for the plebs

Indeed. And I could never understand Hospitals playing FOX when they were spewing anti-vax shit during covid...IN hospitals. I'll leave any business now if that's what they choose to spew on their TV. It's no wonder America is so stupid...the programming played is like getting a lobotomy.

During my time in the Air Force, the television stations were restricted to "authorized channels" only. Which in practice was, tune in to Fox News, and hide the remote.

Yeah...I pretty much knew this, but JFC!!!!

I even heard my colleagues spouting out the talking points. Supporting then president Dubya Bush's regime of torture. Justifying it as "saving lives."

Oh yeah...I know a good guy that served under Bush, who at that time was an obvious idiot that led us to a needless war based on non-existent WMDs. My friend stated how great Bush was!...I guess some need to assure themselves of that given that they were made to potentially give their lives for him

They report less news than CNN, but more than Newsmax. So they got that going for them.

Yes, this.

"I love the poorly educated" DJT