• Photuris
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      I used to think that the term “zeitgeist” was a neat metaphor, but people who took it too literally were silly and merely playing around with woo-woo mysticism (like Jung).

      Now I’m not so sure. The “zeitgeist” of America appears to be going through its cruel edge-lord phase, and the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

      It feels like a force of Nature happening, like a sudden flood or something.

      I’m leaning on the mystical to explain this shit now, fuck it. Maybe our land, too, has something akin to a “Spirit of Odin” that rises up every few centuries and makes people irrational, blood-thirsty, and crazy.

      I just don’t know.

      • @MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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        In fifty years we’re going to find a link to microplastics or something. Or maybe not if we don’t do science any more.

        • @ReputedlyDeplorable@sh.itjust.works
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          I mean the people affected by lead are still around. There was lead in everything, the lead in gasoline was found in roadside dirt from the exhaust. Not to mention all the new chemicals we have started using in the last 100years. There is definitely going to be side effects from the plastics. Heck they have proof that obesity and diabetes in pregnant women increases the chances of babies being born with Autism. Apparently the mother’s blood sugar swinging around during critical brain development stage isn’t good for the developing brain. But they aren’t going to tell people that because they want to sell their unhealthy food.

      • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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        the cultural change around me has appeared, to me at least, both frighteningly rapid and preternaturally inexplicable.

        It looks more like the humanist change of the 60s though to 2016-ish was the anomaly (at least in the US) and what we’re seeing today was always present but people just kept their views hidden.

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          So, how do we drive these fuckers back underground?

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            The reality is you don’t. Looking back at human history this is the natural order. This is how civilizations begin their descent. They forget what made them great and begin to assume their greatness is innate. Resting on their laurels, so to speak.

            It would be remarkable if you could drive them back. But the US and the West has lived with incredibly disproportionate prosperity for a long time now, at the expense of the rest of the world, and it would be incredibly naive to assume it would last forever.

            The past 75 years have marked global collaboration and growth in a way humanity has never seen before. But it was only a matter of time for us to reach a point where we could no longer satiate the greed of the wealthiest among us.

            They know that this period of mutual prosperity could never be indefinite so they want to ensure we are as divided as possible when the gauntlet drops.

            If you want to put the cat back in the bag, so to speak, you would need to convince the average person that social media without guardrails is rotting their brains but they’re too busy doomscrolling and consuming, while being fed a steady diet of hatred, to maintain division.

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            It’s a Pandora’s box. You don’t put that shit back in the box. You just learn to live with it.

            • Photuris
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              I dunno. They were driven underground before. How did our grandfathers manage that‽

              • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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                With violence, though a lot of spaces will tell you it’s gauche to talk about violence. Stern words only.

                Also, as a USian, even though my grandparents fought the Nazis the US was still garbage at home.

          • Fluffy Kitty Cat
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            With overwhelming force, until they’re so far gone they can never return. Don’t make the mistake liberals keep making of winning one (1) major victory and going home, letting the problem fester

  • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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    The woman titled the fundraiser: ‘Help me protect my family’

    Won’t someone please think of the children!

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      As soon as she works out representation, it’s only a matter of time before she has a podcast and a meme coin.

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    Shiloh Hendrix called an autistic 5 year old n***** and got $600,000.

    Edit: the NAACP opened a fund raiser for the child and the family request it be taken down.

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        I assumed siloh, let me check.

        Update-looks like I’m mistaken. The family of the child. They have a statement prepared to deliver on May 7. So I guess we wait and see what’s the deal.

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          Okay, cool, I only ask because one is kind of understandable if you just want to be left tf alone and never asked for any of this. The other is… Bruh.

          • @gaja@lemm.ee
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            It’d be such a shame if the people donating accidentally had their info revealed to their employers.

  • @Gerudo@lemm.ee
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    Why the fuck can I not have morals! I’d be filty rich taking advantage of people and doing shit like this if I didnt.

    • Catma
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      She is white. She will get due process, not like those brown people with tattoos.

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    Sometimes I think for a half a million bucks I could do some awful shit. But I don’t think I could do that.

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    May she trip on a Lego and send her child to a less trashy parent