To me the thing I didn’t like about Reddit was how it was too focused on US politics. For example, r/worldnews was mostly news from US. It should’ve been just r/news lol, nothing to do with world.
That’s how FPtP works, especially with the spoiler effect increasing partisanship over time. (though the right might be split in 2024 for the obvious reason)
Any somehow the red side still ends up with more power even as minority. Fucking crazy.
As an American it feels more like “50.1% life stays the same” “49.9% life gets existentially worse for anyone not a white Christian male”
Rich white Christian male, the poor ones are just too dumb to notice they voted in people who despise them
I guess now that I think about it…if I extrapolated my feelings towards myself to everyone else, it’s no surprise we got where we are.
Love yourselves people. We do deserve it.
We definitely don’t deserve where we are now, that’s for sure.
Love ourselves… in this economy and social structure?
I know. It’s hard, but doable. It took me a lot of shit to get there, but it is possible. And it’s a constant fight. It beat me down bad, but not nearly as bad as others. Same for all of us. The answers escape me tbh. I don’t know if there really is a cure for suffering. I’m starting to think it’s just our biology, and this is just how it is. But I’m trying, and I guess that is what life is. (:
I think the only part biology plays is how fragile we are and that we aren’t built to generate profit (certainly not infinite growth for someone else).
The rest is just how many barriers there are, and the greed of the few that has been shaping things before our days (relatively recently for humanity, though). In many cases it’s not even an explicitly devious thing, but just something somebody thought was a good(/profitable) idea 40+ years ago that is now deeply entrenched in how people think.
