• NewLeaf@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    20 days ago

    “trumps return” shouldn’t even be possible.

    At every juncture where democrats were in a position to punish people who have poundfucked this country, they always cheems

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    16·
    20 days ago

    They’re gonna bring out Brooklyn Dad Defiant by subsidizing his child support, and they’ll get Jeff Tiedrich a little bit of coke so he posts 5x as frequently. Strap in for a very annoying 4 years before we go Mad Max.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    20 days ago

    When liberals functioned as a multiplier for “resisting” Trump last time it resulted in growth of the left. I would expect the same to happen again.

    • NewLeaf@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      19 days ago

      Only until it’s not fashionable. Looking around, I have a hard time believing we gained any “lifers” from that time. We will have #resist libs until millennials are all dead though.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        19 days ago

        I legitimately do not remember there being many american anarchists or socialists at all prior to that. I’d wager a supermajority of this site here was a lib at that time.

        It created the energy that converted into Bernie support, then the Bernie fuckery converted into MLs and anarchists, I would also say it contributed the early direct action experiences and groundwork that led to BLM uprisings as well.

        The only way to view all of these things is holistically.

        • NewLeaf@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          19 days ago

          True.

          It’s hard for me to tell because I live a very isolated life, and don’t know a lot of “young people”. Everyone I work with are “apolitical” or a brain wormed lib. My sample size is terrible.

          I have to wonder how much the trump effect had on peoples willingness to talk openly about these things. It was trendy to be a radlib during trumps presidency, and a lot of the same influencers who inserted the chip to make leftism cool, swapped it out for the “dark Brandon is God 😎” chip.

          I also can’t discount your points that places like hexbear wouldn’t be here if there wasn’t some sort of exodus. Millennials have dealt with imperialist horrors our entire adulthood, but were fed lines about the American dream™. Zoomers were just born worn out by how shitty everything is with no promise of a future. That’s two different paths to radicalization.

          It’s my theory as to why there aren’t any Zoomer protest bands/songs. They just don’t have the energy or the hope things will get better. The difference between Zoomers and Xers in this regard is Xers were sold the bill of lies about this country before you could get on a computer to fact check. Also, enough Xers were able to pull off the career and homeownership part of The American Dream™.