That’s the thing. I hear Americans saying to not blame them, this is all Trump.

Not so fast. The entire US government is failing from the middle out. Sure, Trump is an idiot manchild, but the entire US government is supporting him. The GOP fights dirty and don’t care about laws while the democrats completely stopped playing the game and sit on their hands. The citizens elected Trump twice, almost three times, and keep electing the other people around him supporting his insanity or unwilling to fight it.

The majority of US citizens wanted this to happen or allowed it to happen.

Generations of propaganda and lies, the dumbing down of the population combined with arrogance and hubris have accelerated the downfall of an empire whose only current goal is to extract all the wealth from the population.

I’m Genx. No kids still at home. I got a minivan (6 cyl Grand Caravan) and will keep having a minivan because they’re versatile as fuck. I’m on my 3rd right now. They’re comfortable to drive long distances, handle well in the snow, and have buttons for controls instead of a touch screen.

Haul 8 people. No problem. Haul 4x8 sheets of plywood. No problem. Camp in the back. No problem. Move a couch. No problem. Haul a small camper or trailer. No problem.

I fold the seats and slide in a sheet of 1/2 inch 4x8 plywood in the back to make loading/unloading easy.

They’re cheap too. You can pick one up just a few years old for a few thousand.

Most of these these new SUVs aren’t huge SUVs of the 90s - like Ford Explorer. They’re basically the new station wagon but barely larger than a sedan like a Camry.

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How to make soup

We can do that too!

ChatGPT told me I had psychic powers and probably am related to aliens from Venus.

…just sayin’.

I’m hoping for a major stroke that leaves him unable to speak. He just sits in his wheelchair drooling on himself.

God I hope so. That would be fucking hilarious.

Back in my day we had to make Trump uglier manually with filters and morph tools.

Fucking AI takin’ r jorbs.

I have no doubt Trump thinks a vagina that has passed an infant is a ruined vagina.

Of course we all know he prefers vaginas that aren’t old enough for that business.

Please let the replacement be the crazy woman with the witch eyes who always cries.

Well, it’s nice you want to support Reddit with your group.

I’m early GenX. Me and my friend embraced the new tech. We were 10 years old and hammering out Basic on a little computer attached to my TV. Typing in code from a magazine so we can play a game. Saving it to tape and trading with another kid who typed out some other game.

Later, when the internet came out, the guy who could connect at the highest baud rate was the coolest. Winsock and Mosaic baby.

My boomer mother has no clue what she votes for. She’s completely uninformed. Lives in the states. Fox News has made her terrified of brown people crossing the border for a better life. Doesn’t think ICE is bad, but the people they kill should have just complied.

She’s voted Trump every time. Thinks he’s going to fix everything because she watched his reality TV show and thought it was all real. The worst part, she follows the party line her boomer friends follow. I’ve spoken to a bunch of them. They’re all fucking idiots.

She and her boomer friends are definitely contributing to the downfall of the US. They don’t see it. They don’t care.

its a lot more common now so its not nearly as uncomfortable

That was the point of punk though. It wasn’t about dying your hair purple, it was making it a colour hair wasn’t. It was to be different. Run against the grain of society if you didn’t like the way the grain was going. Be who you wanted to be and dress however you wanted. If someone said boo, you gave them the finger. If someone was racist or a homophobe, we’d scream at them and get in their faces.

Now that you can buy any colour hair dye in the grocery store, green hair isn’t much of a statement. Same with clothes. The common folk were trying to dress above their class with Izod shirts, a sweater draped over their back, and penny loafers - like they just came from tennis at the country club. Ripped jeans, or worn out 30 year old clothes were considered low class and trashy which is why we loved them. Now you can buy pre-tattered clothes. That isn’t a statement.

HOWEVER: If you want blue hair, ripped jeans, and a nipple piercing, do it!

I’m GenX and have voted since I could. By the time I was in my early 30s I liked by politics like my music - independent. I don’t usually vote by party but by candidate history and ideals.

I’m way the fuck left though. I support left parties like the NDP, but I’m not registered with them. I recently voted for the Liberal dude over NDP because I thought the NDP running was a serious twit.

I don’t think I’d ever voted conservative.

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Here’s the thing…

Don’t abandon the subreddit. Make a new one here. Then lock the subreddit with a pinned post pointing to the new Lemmy one.