In my eyes, the following individuals are dangers to the world and society:
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Ebrahim Raisi, Ron DeSantis, Mitch McConnell, John Thune, Susan Collins, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, Mike Johnson
And everybody else I hadn't named but behave similarly to or exactly like these piles of collective shits. What a fucking time to be alive, said no one unironically. Damn I have to keep almost coming back to this comment to edit because of a name of some other asshole I just remembered to tack onto this list, it's horrible.
It’s the Republican Party in general. Specifically because they’ve largely suborned themselves to Trump’s insanity, because they think they can control him and cement themselves into power. If you remember last time, that didn’t work at all.
So what I don't get is, does the US not have any mechsnism in place that would prevent this? Like could a party named "We will turn this country to literal fascis and we will kill several minority groups" just...run?
The fact that Trump presents such a threat to the world after four disasterous years as President, after attempting to tamper with the electoral college votes, voting machines, after publicly professing his admiration for criminals and despots, because of an elections and politicians that can be overtly bought because the Supreme Court, which itself has been corrupted by bribes and influence allows it to be, may just well bring down the Republic. We are at the point where wrapping oneself in the flag and spewing fascist screeds is considered patriotic, whereas preserving the Enlightenment principles on which the Republic was founded is considered dangerous and subversive. Even if Trump died today, another strongman, probably less stupid than Trump, would take his place, and likely succeed in destroying the Republic. The founders of this country could never have imagined the effects of hate-filled mass media on a population when their main means of information dissemination required imprinting and transporting paper.
I want to believe that his election loss and absolute shitshow he turned it into with the insurrection and all has sealed his fate and he will never actually win half of America again. He’s a joke. A criminal. He fooled people once but some won’t get fooled again. SOME. All it takes is a small percentage of voters to just stay home and he’ll lose. He can’t win. He’s a loser. He can’t win.
Then I look over at fucking Biden and it’s like… shit.
Has anybody read the list of indictments just on the federal documents case? It is not going to end well for him, most likely:
31 counts of retaining and failing to deliver national defense documents under the Espionage Act.
Each of these charges is for possession of a separate, specific document. Ten of these documents were handed over to the government in June 2022, and the other 21 were recovered in the August 2022 search.[30]
According to the indictment, the 31 documents describe:
U.S. nuclear weapons;
foreign military attacks, plans, capabilities, and effects on U.S. interests;
foreign nuclear capabilities;
foreign support for terrorist activity;
communications with foreign leaders;
U.S. military activities;
White House daily foreign intelligence briefings;
potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack;
and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.[31]
He is a traitor through and through, and this is going to make his life painful next year.
The rich and powerful have taken vast amounts of resources and wealth from mostly everyone. They need to keep the people divided to maintain their power. Soon, with AI, they may keep that disparity forever.
All these first-past-the-post voting systems (here in Canada too it's a problem) need to be relegated to a bygone era, it's so bad that even placings names on a board and throwing darts blindfolded for every MP positions would probably give a better and more representative outcome.
Welp… it will probably be after something akin to world war 3 that we (the ones luckily still alive) would all sit down and set out to fix the many obvious and perhaps not so obvious issues with governance, lack of immediate consequence to lying, independently peer reviewed education system absent of political/religious/vested/private interest or influence, broken taxation system enabling billionaires, the lack of thorough independent study of environmental or health concerns before even granting any permit (problems tend to always be discovered long after it was commercialised/contructed/).
Sad to see the state of affairs in every country 😰😱, nevertheless just as we can see/imagine/iterate/improve our ideas of what each one of us would consider better systems, we should implement, test, cross pollinate, evaluate (scientifically, quantitatively and qualitatively) and keep what works better than before and reject/shun/disqualify what obviously causes issues or collateral damages.
The thing is, we can’t do anything anymore, whatever happens, i have just kinda accepted that we are fucked and am just trying to enjoy life as best as i can…