Like day 1? The pilgrims were literally religious extremists who wanted to force everyone to do what they wanted and more importantly to make people stop doing things they didn't like and had no qualms about genociding the indigenous peoples to accomplish the goal. We been shit the WHOLE time

These rural types are so blinded by cultural issues that they don't even know who's been buttering their bread, half of their produce is used to make biofuels, not free market www.reuters.com/sustainabili... The next Dem in the WH needs to get rid of this policy, this is costing us the Senate

I'm more concerned with farm land being bought out by major corporations and other countries and small farmers being pushed out so that markets can be cornered and we have less variety and easy access to food even in the areas where it's grown. It smacks of English tactics against the Irish.

Just ya know... rich against poor instead of nationality playing a factor. We need massive economic reform. And the rural types I get why they're upset, I'm in a very rural area. We get shit on constantly. The problem is the people around me can't see through the feces to see it's the rich shitting.

They picked Woodrow Wilson over Teddy Roosevelt, they've been voting Republican ever since the Civil Rights Act. They voted for Reagan inspite of him exaerbating the farm crisis of the 1980s. I'd advise you to move to a Blue city or to an Exurb of a Blue city, stop wasting your life on these guys

You gonna pay for me to move lol I'm stuck where I am. I'm in a blue state but a VERY red county. I think my county voted 80% trump iirc? It's also 95% white so... yea, that tracks. I can't leave. And I shouldn't have to. These miserable fucks deserve better whether they want it or not.

Ok, then try donating/supporting to YIMBY( Yes in my backyard ) friendly mayors for those Blue cities. If, for example, California cities had the same Urban density as Barcelona, those cities would be able to house 9 million more people, I'm sure that Blue dots in Red counties would love that

There's no changing this town or county honestly but I do what I can when I can to educate and help plant seeds for those I do interact with. Maybe with all the Epstein stuff though at least some of the minds around me will change, hopefully.

Within 10 yrs of the Watergate scandal, we had Reagan in the WH. If 47 goes down, they start swarming another BS artist. If you have to stay in a Red town try convincing young women that cuts to education hurt their kids the most, as well as other cultural issues, but you'd do better in a Blue city

Spoken like a real city kid. Those farmers raised the cows for your butter and the wheat for your bread. Next time you go to the market, ponder who grew what you are buying. I'm curious to know when this USDA report was published. This smells of more Trump propaganda.

I truly don't think that's true of most Americans. I think most of us have compassion for our neighbors and many are trying to help them and their families if they are picked up by ICE. The real place to look for evil and cruelty is the White House.

2021....

non of it makes sense to the people that are good, this much I know

we’re on the same page. I just posted this on my page. If you’re a Republican in Santa Monica complaining about homelessness, spare us. You helped create this crisis. You don’t get to defund, deregulate, and dehumanize—and then act shocked when people are sleeping in doorways.

Now he wants to remove the homeless and institutionalize them!😮‍💨😢

You mean incarcerate for profit?

Exactly 👍🏼

But only if they can't be forced to work.

November 9, 2016.

This load…… of dipshits! Or as the Orange supreme leader said: LOOOSERS!

When a black man became president

Racist bullshit

The Age of the Asshole.

1619?

Always a Petri dish of dysfunction, the US has relied on its constitution to maintain cohesion and stability until MAGA shat on it.

There’s nothing in it for them. Period. They forgot how to be happy & were told all these people were stealing their happiness. They pay taxes & think it’s benefiting people that are lazy or undocumented. And, instead of believing their eyes/ears, or fact checking, they drank the kool-aid.

1/2 That has been the way of the world - and the United States since time began. Most of the time they privately took joy in other people's suffering, but not all of the time. Childhoods in the United States for the general public only began existing in the 1940s when they started passing child

2/2 labor laws. Prior to that childhoods were for children of the rich, not the general population - 10-12-14 hour workdays are what the average kid had. Those who accepted public help were shamed & ostricized. Looking down your nose at the less fortunate is a worldwide problem & always will be.

Don't fool yourself. This is Amerika when it takes one mask off and puts other masks on. I've lived in the US all my life, and this is what the people here believe in. It's always been this way. The majority are bastards. Now they can practice their new religion of being such. Don't come here.

1619

In my opinion, it really took hold when Rush Limbaugh's ratings soared.

Apparently that’s all Woke

Around 2007 I think...

Trump came in; human decency went out.

I’m sure some 1930’s Germans didn’t understand either.

Get rid of the asshole that run the country

The golden elevator. He said it was okay to be a racist, homophobic, hateful, bigot. And half this country said okay.

It never really existed. Humans are a vile species.

When..? When trump got involved and the republicans

I don’t know but if you finds an answer, other than wearing a stupid red baseball cap, let me know.

It moved to Canada where it’s appreciated

ever since the orange nazi let them out of their basements.

I saw people who were waiting for their moment to unleash their authentic selves and boy is it ugly.

Dig back. It’s always been this way. First Nations genocide Black African Slavery Chinese rail workers Irish fleeing famine Italian Americans Jewish Americans And now (not exclusively but prominently) Latin Americans. This ain’t new.

When far too many people were pissed that a smart, educated, articulate, nice black man with a wonderful family had the audacity to get elected President, live in the White House and become very popular. Racism, bigotry and hatred became normalized. And has metastasized like a cancer

It all started with a few pricks crying about their King.

Long list of disappointments , but hell they voted for this ...

This roughly coincides with the rise of Trump.

It’s called The Republican Party. A white-supremacist hate group since 1964. Once under the cover of “lower taxes” and “ smaller government,” with cons like trickle down, no longer bothering and wearing its neo Nazi face for the world to see.

There is absolutely a terrifying trend of enjoyment of watching other in pain with the Maga movement. They don't hide it at all and they seem to be getting a stronger grip. It's enough to make you just lay down and want to quit. Won't happen on my watch tho.

It seems to have skipped a couple of generations, although not in every family just the ones who vote red.

When?... the Gilded Age roughly from the late 1870s to the early 1900s, following the Civil War...then through history in an era known as 'Jim Crow' (ending in the 60s), the US contribution to Nazi model for the Nuremberg Laws which included the Tulsa Massacre - one of many such atrocities 🇺🇸

It’s been like this all 44 years of my life. It isn’t new. Trump just gave these people permission to say it out loud and to be proud of it.

Only the Bad like the Bad. We have too many Bad people in this country. 80+ million.

I do. The white man just can't stand having the black man in power.

I don’t understand either. I feel sad every day because so many people are suffering in this world. We used to help, but now the US cannot be trusted because if it does not benefit tRump and his friend’s financially it will not happen. And so much cruelty is disgusting. It is all happening so fast.🥵

I hope something is going on behind the scenes and we don’t know 🙏🏼💫. Never Again is NOW! Crimes Against Humanity!

So very true 😭

I think you have to go all the way back to Reagan killing the Fairness Doctrine, and the introduction of the worldwide Web. Both facilitated the profound radicalisation of the right-wing base.

And his famous trickle down economics!

Now open air bdsm dungeon?

Fox news

Trump redefined who was human and worthy of decency. That's about 800 Mega rich billionaires and multimillionaires. The rest of us, you included, don't count,

Amerikkka has simply shown itself with no smoking mirrors or mirage's 💯💯💯

When? 1980 when Reagan was elected and began this multi decades long destruction of the government and hope.

It happened last November

BULLYING IS CURRENTLY KING!!

I do recall in 2016 the red hats cheering when they were told the goal was to take away their health insurance. Yay! Stopped me in my tracks. Dumb MFs aren’t they? I don’t understand either. Make it make sense.

I wish I could 🥴

Trump stole it like the devil sucking the life and love out of the country.

Since Nov 5th 2024.... No... take that back. Since Nov 8th, 2016! Think for yourself. Find something positive to invest your time in. Help RESTART give a single family a single chance! 💡 Just $5, $10,$25 can change a life. 👉 gofund.me/a0243a4a #RESTARTProject #FaithInAction #EndHomelessness

America has turned into a pit of shit

I blame Jerry Springer for glamorizing bad behavior.

You know, those are real questions. What happened to helping each other, protecting our children from rich pedophiles, working hard to teach our kids that nothing is given, you need to work to get it and it is possible to do so. Oh and RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW

tRUMP

They think they are winning if other people lose something - it's seriously f-ed up 🤯

Right? I don't want a person who would do this in my life.

Trump happened

It kinda started a generation or two ago. With a few pauses. Then Donny and the Christi-fascists turned it up to full blast during (yes DURING!!) Obama’s presidency. Right in front of your eyes. While you were watching it happen. When they stated their goal was to freeze congress.

Toxic Christianity, that’s what happened. There is no hate like Christian love.

1740-19never. It’s who Americans have been. Slavery, Jim Crow, misogyny, tying health care to a job, Native American genocide, immigrant hate, just terrible.

You need to do some serious history reading. This is not new just ramped up in velocity…. Cause internet,

Trump gave them license to vent their racism, bigotry, and hatred in public.

It’s institutionalized cruelty. Designed to convince foreigners that coming here for a better life is not worth it. Stephen Miller’s cruelty architecture.

trump started it all he brought out the hate that was always there!

He made hate “cool”? Presidents shouldn’t fist pump 🥴

No, it was there with Reagan.

My parents were awful Reaganites.

2015 When trump started his first campaign.

A day of infamy 😢

Whites supremacy swallowed human decency. 😔

Taco Cunt, Supreme Court, Republikkkan party, Maggots, and the Media all have contributed to America’s demise.

The downfall started in 2016. What's not to understand...

#ManifestDestiny pretty much cemented it into white American Christian "culture."

When it was colonized.

US got pQg-ified

RELIGIOUS belief the white man is gods finest work

It’s so much worse than I ever thought . I’m ashamed of Americans

We have always been like this. It’s just that some of us have always been better protected from the reality of just who and what we actually are. Mostly white folk. White women.

Interestingly, it all starts with religion.

TRUMP

Bull 💩🤬

That died when the pilgrims gave the native blankets of disease.

Money and perceived power have become the most important aspects of American society.

When Trump took over~

Bigoted, racist, christofascist upbringing.

When magats appeared

1776

Humans

Shameful!!

2016 and again in 2024. That's when it happened.

Yup 👍🏼. So true!

Yup twice voted in as president when will Americans learn repubes aren't the peoples party

When they are sitting in one of the newly built FEMA-funded concentration camps.

It's always been like that. But people use to get punched for saying it out loud. We need to punch more people in the face so they know what they are doing is wrong.

What happened....one word TRUMP That's what the fuck happened!

See, there's these two wolves....

Nor do many of us. It’s mind boggling!

...a clatch of selfish fools elected a sexual assaulter/pathologic liar/bankruptor to run the country...what could go wrong...

The culture of this nation is based on competition- There always has to be a loser.

that started when the evangelical, white "christian" nationalists, and prosperity gospel extremists started to rise in power.

Ask the orange blob and his demon henchmen. Their answer will be a riff on, "We don't believe in it. It's not money."

Jerry Springer

When? Pretty much always.

This has *always* been America. Google "lynching postcards" if you have a strong stomach.

When the GOP, decades ago planned to take away rights, to refuse to care for "the least of these," when Reagan began his horror stories of "Welfare Queens," when firearms became more important than children's lives, when the wealthy were exalted and the average person became of no concern.

Unfortunately human decency appears to have been a very thin veneer for about a third of the American population. I have never understood their complete lack of empathy towards their fellow human beings. They would rather imprison the homeless than provide them with accommodation for example.

That appears to be the "Christian" way.

Yeah. It's funny how the people who profess to be "Christian" seem to ignore all the teachings they claim to follow

It began to disappear when 1. Reagan ended the “Equal Time Provision,” birthing Limbaugh and FOX News and 2. “Contract With America” by Newt Gingrich passed Congress. BTW, “Contract With America” was really the “Contract ON America” issued by NYC’s 5 Mafia Family bosses and Trump accepted it.

Also, Limbaugh was on the air before the FD was repealed. And Fox News wasn't launched until 8 years after Reagan left office. Linear time! How does it work?

You can hurl all the personal insults at me that you wish. I was an educator; I’ve heard them all. They do not the impact on me that you think they do.

If being told which facts you got wrong has "no effect" on you, then, I am glad you WERE an educator.

I WERE but now I’m retired and I still remember people like you from as far back as the 60’s. I also know how they turned out in the end.

Well, my end ain't so far off, based on average human life expectancy. I turned out old, bitter, and cynical. But, TBF, I also started that way. :)

The thing with average life expectancy is that the older you get, the higher your life expectancy becomes. It’s odd how that works. But maybe not so odd after all.

It’s possible we all started out bitter & cynical when born, but we weren’t yet old & there was still time to be less bitter & cynical before we got old & cynical again. But it’s impossible to not get older and, given how we’ve seen most of this before in the past, it’s also hard not to be cynical.

Equal Time Provision??

Fairness Doctrine, ‘49 to ‘87

The Equal Time Rule is still in effect. It only (and always has only) applied to political candidates. The Fairness Doctrine required some airtime for diverse viewpoints. It was only applicable to holders of broadcast licenses so had no impact on Limbaugh, who was on air while it was in effect.

Additionally, it could not apply to cable.

The Fairness Doctrine has nothing to do with the Equal Time Rule, which is still in effect and enforced. The odds are very high you don't know what either of them actually did/do, how they were/are implemented in practice. You just see words like "fairness" and "equal time" and assume the meaning.

It's like "evolution is just a theory", but for media regulations.

So your conclusion is that FOX News and RL had nothing to do with why things are so contentious these days and that they have been fair and balanced in all that they do? Got it.

PS: Where the HELL did the myth that mass media is, was, or is expected to be "fair and balanced" come from??? The press in the United States, literally since the Revolutionary War, was expected to be highly partisan and biased. Jefferson and Hamilton founded newspapers to insult each other.

Most newspapers, for most of US history, were explicitly partisan. If they weren't directly run by political parties, they were for all practical purposes an arm of them.

The brief moment (roughly, 1950->1990) when technology and economics created the "6:00 News" run by three large corporations which cooperated in forming a consensus false reality is an aberration that will never come back. (Even that was only TV. Newspapers and magazines were unchanged.)

Now you’re just ranting. Take a deep breath, relax, and try to see how others might see you when you act like this.

My contention is that news has never been "fair and balanced" and society has always been "contentious", yes. Thanks to the democratization of mass media and breaking the artificial consensus created by a handful of gatekeepers, it's simply more obvious now.

Do you agree or disagree that the degree of “fair and balanced” has changed significantly in the past 30 years or so? Certainly anyone who knows anything about US history knows it’s always been “contentious” but do you sense any difference in how today’s contentiousness compares to yesteryear?

a)Disagree. b)No, I don't, because I *do* study history. The difference is in how easy it is for people like you and I to reach the same national audience as major legacy media.

Again, this is a backwards-facing rose-colored-glasses variant on "There weren't any transgenders or gays or peanut allergies or autism when I was a kid!". There WERE. You just didn't *notice* it.

I was an inquisitive kid and I noticed a lot of things. I even noticed that all the other kids in my class were white, yet not everybody on the street was white.

I see what you did there. Did you break your arm while doing it?

I disagree. Partisan news coverage predates the first printing press. Did Nixon think coverage of his Presidency was "fair and balanced" during "Watergate"??

Would we have been better off if Nixon had the power to demand such coverage be "fair and balanced" and have it be an effective, enforceable, law?

(Spoiler:No.)

True, but in the old times everybody knew which papers were behind which party. So it was a “known” partisanship. As for Nixon, when you are a crook you don’t think anything is fair and balanced. For it to be balanced to him it would have to say “he’s not a crook.” And that would have been a lie.

Ding ding ding! We have a winnah! bsky.app/profile/liza...

No, they didn't.

Why is that Black Americans are always the ones to remind white Americans who like to wax nostalgic about America’s past. White Americans used to cheer at lynchings. Black American minors were often killed by white adults see Emitt Till

I’m blown away that so many people think this started with Trump. Who raised you people? Seek out some American history not written by straight up KKK members and figure it out.

Groceries are so high- this administration is starving people here.

Take things out of context often?

America morphed into this place when a cult and the media normalized the narcissistic, psychotic and sociopathic behavior of the melon felon and his GOP apologists.

There's always been people like this. But one of them has rarely been in charge of their country.

The same as Israelis

The curse of MAGA. The biggest problem is that MAGA doesn’t get it and they never will. Dumb and Dummer Dummies. And, it’s far from funny anymore. Sad

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a portion of America has always celebrated the misery and suffering of Americans they view as not like themselves.

Christianity happened. The ones who truly believe the teachings of the Bible are fading away, replaced by corrupted, twisted hatemongers. Christians today cannot site one Fruit of the Spirit to their life, but can claim every Sin of the Flesh. That is American Christianity

I agree with you 💯%!!

I've asked myself the same question often lately. It makes me sad.

People think schadenfreude is a cool sounding word and equate that with being a good thing. It’s not. bsky.app/profile/tind...

2016

Basic human decency requires weakness which, Musk said empathy us a weakness, something that amperes to be frowned on by conservative, Christian, family values. why ignoring Palestine is so easy for them.

It was there all along. They were getting something for free that not everyone else was getting..jealous???

This is sad, people stop caring. I, too, don't understand.

Yes! America, WHAT HAPPENED!?!?!?😳😡😳😡

Donald Trump happened

Pretty devastating that’s why I distanced myself from any Republican voters on my area they are dead inside and on my book also there is no way decent people shouldn’t be feeling any remorse for doing this to their country otherwise they aren’t human 😡

For me personally I noticed it when Sarah Palin hit the stage with the snarky, mean comments and people cheering it on. I’m sure it started before that, but that’s when I started to see it.

Pretty sure it took root somewhere around McCarthyism. Then again, I'm pretty sure McCarthy was a traitor.

The Orange has eaten their humanity.

They have ALWAYS been here. Genocide small pix blankets, slavery, lynchings, Salem Trials, Trail of Tears, Japanese Internment, Chinese railroad slave labor. We just didn’t have a whole administration of them. And I agree about 30%, mostly living in the South, the butt of the US.

the administration and the policies and laws are what allowed and pushed those things in place.

Trump defended it

The process of dehumanization. Associate people with vermin and filth and then tell people they are a threat and boom, you can remove empathy from the equation. Easiest way to pit the working class against itself.

It hasn't existed since Roosevelt

FFSUSA

We have spent the last 20 years rewarding being a bad person and incentivizing outrage and then connecting those people to each other so they don't realize how far they've drifted away from socially acceptable behavior.

I take that as: Republicans are supposed to practice Bible teachings and not use them as weapons against people they don't like.

Separation of church and state.

When it imported slaves for free labor🌬️

It’s all fun and games til it affects them. It’s a state this country is in. Everything is ok until they get affected then the anger and tears come. I’m over it.

This!!!!

Selfishness and greed made this possible.

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you that a certain segment of this country has always been this way. What changed? That demographic has control of all three branches of government now.

100

Conservative tribalism at its worst. By making everyone that’s not in your state, town, religion, political affiliation, country of origin, skin color, gender, etc an enemy at worst or just ‘other’ at best it strips away their humanity and removes any obligation of treating them humanely.

2016, 2020

👉🏽 When certain folks started complaining about “economic anxiety”, understand that their anxiety stemmed from watching non-white and marginalized people as they went to work, sent their kids to school, and minding their own joyful business, as they thrived in a society that was always against them.

The rest of the world stands behind your question. Nobody understands. It’s so overwhelmingly cruel and corrupt and destructive and inhumane and anti democratic. In USA. So sad this is how your lives are now.

Maga

Look No Further than The Republican Party who gets supported by the Rich, and Accept Lying as a Strategy and Fear Education. Midterms, every election big or small Vote Democrats. 👍👊😎🇺🇸

That’s been answered before, when a fat bloated turd promises them someone to blame for their problems. When the class wars start because people can’t feed or shelter themselves. Don’t blame the billionaires, blame the peoples skin color, beliefs or their politics. Yes we are having a history lesson

Trump and his cronies happened! IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH!

2016

That was somewhere around 1776 or so. Maybe earlier. This is a nation built on the exploitation of "other", from immigrant to child to native to slave. Basic Human decency has NEVER been one of our true tenants. Bout time ya'll actually started noticing.

MAGA destroyed our country.

I don’t know, but it is all heart crushing

Beyond…. It’s insanity 😮‍💨💫😢

I ask myself this all the time. I miss polite society. And if you hated someone, just vent behind closed doors. Also people were more considerate too. I honestly believe social media destroyed society and brought trolls to real life.

You don't have to be mean about it...

All of that happened when the people on the right side of this drawing started believing what the people in the center of this drawing were saying:

Because misery, hate and idiocy love company.

This is a country where postcards of lynchings, complete with smiling white onlookers, were openly sold. This is nothing new.

America is flipping the daily "Either I'm crazy or everyone else is crazy" debate. Let's get back to reading books, we need to slow this train. Any books. Give your some time to think. Maybe start with 1 from the Top25-Banned and ask why it's listed. Kids: Textbooks have authors you can email.

I see many good Christians wearing crosses. I DON'T see good Christians demanding Republicans stop wearing them. Why not?

Been cooking since Fox News turned on. Boosted by greedy conservatives. Boosted by Rush Limbaugh. Exploded by internet propaganda and podcasts. These things created our current situation.

Did you miss how POC have always been historically treated? Or how men treat women? I hate to say, none of this is really surprising. It’s the backlash of people who always did this but now have consequences for doing it. Technical term-extinction burst.

What have we become?

Oh I do! I understand it!!! I can trace it back 400 years for sure, but let's not go that far! Go back to Charlottesville Virginia! When he said "very fine people on both sides". That's when it came out of the dark and into light of mainstream racism. 😡

Since 1787 when we lynched black people and murdered 60,000 native Americans in the name of white Jesus. There you been?

Love your avatar picture :)