Sooooo, are Nolan and Villeneuve the only two directors left in Hollywood? Because I’m getting that impression with the quality of output in the last several years.

Vote for fascism and you get fascism.

When the fuck has economic disincentive ever been a priority for civil courts? Large corporations do billions of dollars of damage on a regular basis, and get fined for millions.

Let’s not spread false hope. Comparing this event to Bush or Reagan is disingenuous.

The rule of law is over. This is the backslide into fascism. The GOP is going to have a field day overturning all of the things we take for granted, including the progress we fought hard to make in the 2000s and 1990s.

Fascism thrives when we self-isolate and drive ourselves and each other apart

Too late. We do that to ourselves every election.

Meanwhile, our enemies have no problem voting in unison.

Tolerance of intolerance breeds intolerance. It’s well past time to be ‘nice’ to Nazi Fascist fucks. No tolerance for bigots.

This is not the time to be nice. It’s not even the time to be angry.

Either we do something drastic that would completely take us out of our comfortable chairs and houses, or we watch as democracy and the rule of law gets dismantled, piece-by-piece.

What the fuck am I reading?

*cough* Dr. Who *cough*

That’s not true. The cynicism gave us critical thinking skills to navigate through the bullshit we live with on the internet now. If anything, Millennials and Zoomers are more corporate friendly than ever, consuming whatever the doomscrollers tell them to.

Well, that depends on how well we manage to get out from under the shadow of the boomers and bring our ideals to the next generations.

It’s too late for that. The last meaningful bill that got passed was Obamacare, and even that was watered down and didn’t do much to solve the healthcare crisis.

Whatever government benefits we are holding on to will be gutted in the next four years, and American democracy will be dismantled within the next decade.

Welcome to the final goal of late-stage capitalism: anarcho-capitalism. We’ll be paying for our fire departments and police protections before you know it.

We live in the same country we did 4 years ago, we live in the same country that elected Barrack Obama twice.

They elected Obama twice and then stayed home in 2010, ensuring that he would never have the support he needed to pass bills.

Nobody gives a shit about politics. They only care about popularity contests.

Star Wars, Ghostbusters, the Mario Movie, the Breakfast Club, the Princess Bride, it goes on and on and on. The heroes were all rebelling against some ignorant authority that either didn’t understand the damage it was able to do or didn’t care about hurting those who had no power. As a result, when I was coming up my generation felt very much against the established status quo. Even the kid-targeted stuff in the early 90s, it was all gross-out humor and struggling against adult authority in favor of personal autonomy. Nickelodeon takes over your school. As a teenager it was grunge and punk and everything being ‘extreme’.

And what did Gen X get out of it? To be so forgotten as a generation that everybody else thinks we’re Boomers!

Ask anybody who’s not a Gen Xer to list out the current generations and they will, without fail, say: “Boomers, Millennials, Zoomers, and whatever Alphas are going to turn into”

It’s not that they don’t want to institute these things. It’s the fact that every Republican win shifts the Overton window, and makes them believe that they need to move more to the center.

“If the GOP are winning elections, then maybe this is what the American people want.”

Also, none of us are the typical voter. Nobody on this forum, nobody popular on Twitter, nobody with a YouTube channel. None of us are the average mindless American that doesn’t give a shit about politics, doomscrolling 4 hours a day, falling for whatever propaganda lands on their eyes, and are only voting because it’s a team sport they get to play every four years.

From now on, I’m voting for someone that can offer real change.

So, Trump or whoever the GOP offers?

Unless that resistance includes armed insurrection, it’s not going to do a damn bit of good. Full control over all three branches of federal government, and they’ll make sure they implement their policies as quickly as possible.

I mean, that all depends on what the MPL allows.

Trump wasn’t elected in 2016?

They will put up a fight. They will fight like Democratic state senators in Oklahoma. They will fight like the Weiße Rose. And then they will lose.

They can’t fight federal law, and they can’t fight against an uncaring, sociopathic GOP majority in Congress.

It was obvious in 2012 and 2016 that we needed somebody further left than Obama and Clinton.

When Republicans win, the Overton window doesn’t slide to the left. It’s slides to the right. Expecting it to go even further left is a misunderstanding of politics.

The majority of population aren’t the ones who voted for Trump. The majority of the population didn’t vote at all.