How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
www.theguardian.com
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

  1. Even dickheads love their dogs. Find a way to connect to those you disagree with. “The obvious mistakes of those who find themselves in opposition are to break off relations with those who disagree with you,” texts Vera Krichevskaya, the co-founder of TV Rain, Russia’s last independent TV station. “You cannot allow anger and narrow your circle.”

  2. Pay in cash. Ask yourself what an international drug trafficker would do, and do that.

He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this.

  1. Take the piss. Humour is a weapon. Any man who feels the need to build a rocket is not overconfident about his masculinity. Work with that.

A fundraising banner from The Guardian, an indepedent British newspaper. The centerpiece is a serif block "For f****s sake", with the letters after the f sprayed over with "act '"

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.io
      158·
      1 month ago

      so, it was only trump voters who died from the inept covid response, or did our side get swept up and decimated, dying in the worst ways, choking and drowning on our own bodily fluids, unable to breathe, unable to say goodbye to our loved ones, bodies piling up. i dunno maybe i dreamed that.

      • Scubus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        124·
        1 month ago

        Uh, what? What is your point here? That good people are going to die?

        …yeah, we voted in Trump. Everyone knows.

            • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
              11·
              1 month ago

              Yes we are.

              Name one other species that shows the levels of love and care that humans can?

              We are lead by the worst examples of humanity, but they do not represent or act like what a normal person does.

              • Chip_Rat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                1 month ago

                Lol you had so many truely excellent arguments to make about our technological prowess or our society building abilities and you chose love? Dude my cat loved me more this afternoon snoozing on the couch with me than I’ve felt from all of humanity minus my own partner, mother father sister and brother. Ever.

                Love is abstract concept, it can’t knock down stuff. -Cleopatra

                  • Chip_Rat@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    1 month ago

                    Me? A human? Yeah. I have. Do you not think a horse feels more love from another horse than it does its human owner?

                    Clueless…

                    Humans are not special or unique, except in their ability to ruin everything around them. Though I suppose wild hogs do that pretty good, and if we want to get technical cancers might compete with us in our ability to fuck up our own host…

    • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      This. I don’t want to “seek common ground” with Klansmen and fascists. Their beliefs disgust me.