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2024 is going great, and I can't wait for things to get even better in October!

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[–] hrimfaxi_work@midwest.social 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, today is worse than yesterday. But at least it's better than tomorrow!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Today is the best day of the rest of your life.

[–] DrugsMcChrist@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

2024 is going great, and I can't wait for things to get even better in October!

oh shit we're all going to die, aren't we

[–] Fyurion@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

On the plus side, we will all be spooky ghosts just in time for halloween!

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

These costumes aren’t going to sell themselves.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t worry, this is all a simulation

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The comfort is also part of the simulation.

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

That’s if we’re lucky.

[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Photo is from the movie: "In Bruges" - highly recommend.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn’t even know where fucking Bruges was

It’s in Belgium

[–] AquaTofana@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

SUCH an underrated city. I spent a day there back in 2022 and it's so pretty, calm, peaceful, fucking fantastic chocolatiers...

Actually, as an American, I found all of Belgium highly underrated. Everyone always talks about Paris, Berlin, and Munich as the crazy big tourist destinations in that region.

I went to Brussels for my birthday in spring 2022, and its easily one of my favorite birthdays to date. Unf. Big Belgium Fangirl here. 10/10 I want everyone I know to visit.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Only been to Brussels but I do overall agree Belgium is slept on

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Serious question, but like, does anyone think things are going to be OK? Like... Anyone?

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we can actually charge trump criminally, I think we'll be okay. He is a self-serving squealer, on top of being and idiotic blabber that can't keep a secret. He will bury every one of his sycophants to get a single day off his prison sentence.

Also, nothing is scarier than a peaceful man resorting to violence. The non-MAGA majority are slow to violence, but if it happens, it would be swift and unstoppable.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What do you think will measurably change in the average person's day to day life if Trump gets charged or not? Are taxes going down? Wages going up? Will housing or healthcare become more affordable? The whole fucking thing just seems like a clown show designed to keep people distracted from actual problems to me.

Don't get me wrong, he's a traitor and should be treated as such along with all his cronies but I just don't believe anything will get better for me afterwards.

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[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Currently, I don't think so. The problem is the WILDLY different views on what the actual problems even are, let alone what we should do to try to solve them.

I hear that ominous music, too

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think there's a good chance things are going to be ok

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I see you have 0 up votes (and 0 down votes).

I like your style. Don't give up. You will be disappointed, but don't give up.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's good. But like.... How?

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[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long of a timeline? 100 years from now? W/ global warming, no. 400 years from now? Yeah, they'll be fine. Maybe only 200.

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, this is kind of like the meditation on death from the book of the five rings. Like, once you accept death as inevitable you can see that on a long enough time scale things will be fine.

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We've beaten Trump before we can do it again. He's a fucking 3x loser and his supporters are still full of hope.

Meanwhile Democrats after winning the presidency and the midterms are shitting themselves instead of standing up to the fuckery and organizing to vote.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

GUNS GO OFF ..... several shots ring out

Dozens of dead immigrants, Europeans, Middle Easterners, Africans, Asians lie on the floor or are trying to crawl away with bloody gun shot wounds

Somehow the two Americans are still standing there holding their guns.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Jesus man, chill out maybe? We don't murder Europeans.

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[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Y'all Americans on this post need to cheer up. You don't know what 'the end', the apocalypse, doom, or whatever sinister synonym for 'conclusion' even is, what a curropt government really is, and less still know what misery feels like (I don't either). Acting like it's the end of the fucking world and getting all nihilistic is the most shitty-American thought there is. Stop crying and help? Or just keep watching. It's not the end of things and nothing that can't be fixed.

The meme made laugh my ass off though

Edit: I'm American :P

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History can tell us where things will go. But from here it looks like we're dealing with an attack on our democratic features by the transnational white power movement (or the Christian nationalist movement. There's lots of intersection.) in order to rework the US into a one-party autocracy, as per the Heritage Society's Project 2025.

And in the meantime, the climate crisis looms in the background like an army of frost zombies, one that won't be put down by simply killing the zombie king.

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You mean GoT's fantastic metaphor that was ruined by killing the Big Bad was bullshit? Aw, man 😉

History can inform our choices and give us possible outcomes but it isn't a crystal ball.

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[–] cristo@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because our corrupt government does it better than yours doesnt mean we dont know what it is. Btfo european

[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I'm an American but I understand your anger at Europeans talking shit.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

the only colin farrell movie that was good was phone booth i said what i said

[–] GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Wild take. But it's your right.

[–] dessimbelackis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I don’t agree with what you say but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it

[–] Princeali311@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

You can say what you say, but congrats on being wrong?

[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Depending on your definition of good, I submit Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Lobster.

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[–] orl0pl@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Not only America

[–] UnfortunateDoorHinge@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"So Mr President what has your government done for young families and in particular childcare and parental leave on your 4 years that will rally up the democratic base come 2024?"

"Taxes? Isn't this the line for Metallica?"

[–] oatscoop@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, there's this.

And this.

He's also the president: he can make proposals, he can sign executive orders, but he can't force funding for those things. He can't wave his hands and pass laws -- those are things congress does, and shockingly every single progressive or pro working class idea he or his party backs gets immediately shut down in congress by the GOP.

[–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TheControlled@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm sure everything will be fine for you, don't worry.

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Bro that's not where your brain is

[–] GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"End Times" YouTube is amazing right now, just saying...

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

End Times Productions seems like some stupid conspiracy channel

I just mean the whole end times culture over there, but yeah...basically. That and religious grifters, with a sprinkling of true believers.

I find it all fascinating.

[–] casmael@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Oh boy I hope they make some sane and sensible rational decisions that we can all agree with on the whole ^help^

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