In the past you had to actually be smart to be a “tech bro”. The barrier of entry was higher.

Now any dipshit can get online and start being a “tech bro”.

It’s basically the same as the enshitification of the internet. Used to take some effort to get online. Now any dipshit can do it.

How about they make the app stop refreshing my feed when I have to put the phone down for a second? Got real tired of losing what I was looking at when I re-opened it. I stopped using Instagram because of it.

MuskMail?

Nah dawg. I’m good.

Probably end up getting banned from my own email when he gets triggered by whatever he happens to be triggered by that day. Don’t really feel like trusting my data to an adult that acts like a 12 year old.

What the clown car fuck?

Yeah, but as the quality of life has improved, we have also improved our knowledge and technology to the point where everyone can live a comfortable, generally healthy life, without want for any necessities. But that isn’t happening because of human greed and indifference. And everyone is completely justified complaining about that.

Because there’s nothing more American than getting ripped off.

Alcohol.

The understanding that death will eventually release me from this mortal coil.

And that all the assholes that work against the wellbeing of the average person are also going to die.

Did anyone expect Fuckerberg to be anything else other than trash? His platform is one of the worst spreaders of misinformation on the planet.

Bend the knee little bitch. Bend that knee.

Lol. That’s so shameful.

I’ve spent the last decade witnessing how lies and propaganda can warp people’s brains and it’s still hard for me to wrap my mind around.

Unless a miracle happens, we are set for a very dark future.

Lol. Our society is straight pathetic.

Our ancestors are turning over in their graves.

We’re going to end up being the most embarrassing era in American history. Assuming history is taught in the future.

Let me make this easy for everyone.

If something is detrimental to average Americans and beneficial to the wealthy, Republicans will absolutely attempt to do it.

That is a fullproof formula.

The part that’s hard to wrap your mind around is how average Americans can be so stupid as to elect them despite this being an easily provable fact.

EAT. THE. RICH.

How high are you?

He had a ton of hits. Like, a ton. And he had the moves. That’s what made him The King.

Probably has something to do with them not being particularly intelligent.

The part about our history you’re forgetting is that we never, through any of that, gleefully elected a guy that has made it abundantly clear he doesn’t give a fuck about democracy and will work to subvert or destroy it if it doesn’t suit him.

This is new territory.

And we’re about to experience the deconstruction of things that will be very difficult to build back.

Your point is that we’ve been around for a few hundred years, so we can bounce back. But history would like to point out that nations that were around much longer than us have ceased to exist many times over.

I wish I had your optimism.

Rome had a final chapter.

You probably don’t.

Even with a contentious subject like abortion. That’s a disagreement about a specific topic. You can reach a middle ground. It’s one of many topics to debate over and forge legislation regarding.

But the majority gleefully electing a guy that effectively looked us all straight in the face and said “I don’t give a fuck about democracy and will attempt to subvert or overthrow it if it doesn’t suit me”? Yeah, there’s really no recovering from that. At least not without a long period of serious decline and suffering, followed by lots of struggle and death to earn back what we lose.

We disrespected the shit out of our democracy and everyone that fought/died for it. There’s no way that ends well.

Yes.

In my opinion we’ve already passed the point of no return and recent events have just confirmed as much.

This isn’t about having differing political opinions. A profoundly unfit, amoral criminal with a very public history of being an awful person came along and started spewing extremely dangerous rhetoric, some of which is almost verbatim to Hitler’s, and our society ate it up and made him president in 2016. This man, who leads a party who courts racists/sexists for their votes, utterly failed his tenure as president, bombing his response to the greatest American crisis since WW2 and presiding over the highest White House administration turnover rate in U.S. history. Since then he has become a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist, and illegally attempted to overturn our democratic institutions by various means.

This go around the American people were presented with a choice between that person, who only managed to make himself appear even more unfit during this campaign season, openly stated he is anti-worker rights, and is directly responsible for removing women’s federally protected right to bodily autonomy, or a successful prosecutor with a doctorate in law, backed by a party that, despite misinformation, has a voting history proving they vote in favor of the average American FAR more than the opposing party…and Americans STILL managed to drop the ball and go with the CLEARLY worse choice. And when I say clearly, I’m talking about by every conceivable metric that exists in reality.

At this point it isn’t about Democrat vs Republican or Trump vs Kamala or Biden. It’s about the American people. We are not a society of intelligent voters. We have failed our responsibility as citizens in a democracy by being too lazy to learn and by allowing misinformation to mislead us and emotions to cloud our better judgement. We are not engaged in responsible involvement in our own politics. We gleefully elect people that only offer hate and fear and lies, despite how hard they try to prove how awful they are to us. And THAT is why we have passed the point of no return. If you remove the parties and the politicians out of the equation, you still have a society that fails at responsibly preserving a democracy. That gives in to hateful rhetoric and fear. That wants to get the better of the “others”.

There is no happy ending for a society like that. A society like that can only decline. This was not an election about one political ideology against another. It was an election about morality. And we categorically failed that moral test.

There are excuses. We’ve been through a lot. Lots of people are desperate. Desperate people make bad decisions. But the bottom line is we don’t live in a society with a majority of responsible adults making responsible, fact-based decisions about the most important things.

In the arc of history we may end up reaching a better place, but personally I believe we’re embarking on a decline that will most likely last the rest of our lives. It simply isn’t a problem that can be fixed short term. And we’re about to experience a sort of deconstruction. A deconstruction of norms. A deconstruction of institutions. A deconstruction of education and safety nets. And those things take a lot of blood, sweat, and tears to build back, because it’s easier to destroy than it is to create or maintain.

Buckle up. Try to find happiness where you can. It’s probably not getting better anytime soon.