I sorta on OP’s side; he said a sentence that could be interpreted hundreds of ways, and everyone assumed the worse and started attacking his character. And it’s very hard to nicely restate one’s position without some mild anger after that.

Then people attack even more. It’s a feeding frenzy.

I unblocked this community just this week; I even commented here. But this entire thing is just too much. I’m blocking politics again , and hopefully world politics changes for the better when test it out in a few months

The current administration is using chaos for wealth and power. But many see chaos as a necessary step to rescue the country from the grip of whatever the USA is and has become more of.

The very definition of chaos means nobody can control it. It rattles around and produces outcomes which surprise many, it wrecks things many depend. And never builds what people need

I think that is all too frequent throughout the entire fediverse; just the topics change.

I have blocked entire popular communities on many servers to not get caught up in that.

There are some topics I just have to type a few keystrokes and I manage to attract controversy. And I do not understand why. What’s the big deal? Why do people hate me? And some instances are just weird to me, but others love it and find them important. Some instances are more in touch with my own weirdness.

I think if I have learned anything by my adventures, is not to demonize any instance used by a large group of people, but recognize there are different types of oddballs lurking there, waiting …

Hexbear has thousands of users who have written 5 million comments; some are crazy.

Personally I can deal with hexbear crazy better than I can deal with some crazy in other communities, but everyone is different

I’m not a bellicose type, or a lib, and I’m not an imperialist, so I’m a decent fit with most communities there.

It’s far easier for me to ignore most oddball stuff in those two than things that drive me crazy here.

The one I’m on is anarchist , and is rather chill. There are actually many small servers that are left, but not authoritarian.

If you like larger, I think the reputations of ml and hexbear here on world are not realistic. More of a scary bedtime story libs tell their kids. But there are a few users there who drift into what you might not like.

I’m going to write my senators and hold up a sign, with a polite yet firm wording, in a very peaceful protest

You create an account in another and import your account info, keeps a lot of stuff

My experience makes me feel that members of each generation in power is a hindrance to younger generations.

Am old, remember feeling the same as you youngsters. The sad fact is a lot of people are bad, and usually when they get older they become worse either through mental decay, denial of being bad parents, a constant physical pain built up over the years, etc etc

The only way to fix the system is to burn it to the ground. But funny thing is, everyone wimps out

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The numbers only count if it’s constantly repeated, otherwise it’s just a sort of a national holiday.

“Here in the USA, we are so progressive that we actually protest 4 times a year”

Yes; so one can view this as state propaganda ( officially done by the nation).

That is hard to work around. But it has limits and the social fabric of the country is changing: both by technology and a rebound of the internal mass migrations of the last few decades.

A lot will change

There is always hope. It’s just that there are no daily stats yet.

I’m not an expert; but after looking at political turmoil in the last few decades I tend to categorize this stage as the “march of the idealists”, lovely bunch of people who would not hurt a fly.

Not sure if when or how the less kind sort of people come in. Usually, something has to rile up those people. And it’s not done by sympathetic stories or appeals to the heart strings.

I doubt they would be in much danger. Maybe get an angry letter or egging of their houses.

Endless war

I’ve seen these come up every few years, and not just about Iran. Don’t seem to do much

What is planned after this ?

lol I remember the patriot act; forgotten battles… I had so many issues with stuff going on at that time and was pretty naive then too. I think one of the things that made me realize how messed up things were, were the amazing reactions to 9-11 and similar. I was just stunned

Every horrible bill has an optimistic happy sounding name that goes well with baby talk. The happier baby talk it is, the worst it will be.

One will know the end is near when they pass “funsies time” . Seriously, I’m headed for the hills if I hear that