I mostly switched to lemmy because the mobile reddit app i used finally broke after the api changes.

I refuse to use that shitty reddit app and the creator of the app i used made a lemmy app so here i am

As someone who said this when they were younger

“Uninformed idiot”

now that I’m older I’m fully liberal since i am more informed.

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No that’s a Republican thing. Democrats (in theory) want the government to fund essentials like roads, school lunches for kids, social security and other such programs.

It’s the republican stance that such things should be left to the private sector and charity organizations

Yeah. That’s one of the shitty things I forgot

Disney decided to keep their dei policies so that’s something.

But they also cut a trans story to avoid controversy and probably other shit things I cant remember atm. So take what you will I guess

The short answer is our legal system was not designed to withstand the stress the ultra rich can put on it as a result a lot of laws were over turned.

Im on mobile so it’s hard to type and explain in more depth.

And that’s only one facet.

But there are good things in the world too. And there are people fighting for what’s right. It’s easy to slip into despair but as mr rogers use to say

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping

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I have depression so like half my memories haunt me and the other half i can’t remember

Personally? Probably not. Im not much of a rebel or confident enough to push a boundary like that

But we kinda have something like that irl.

If i remember right

The Amish think technology is evil but some leave and embrace the modern world despite that

If you’re referring to the gains in the anti vax movment

It’s the same reason why a large portion of Americans are anti environment.

It got politicized and instead of using critical thinking one side wants to win and thinks the other is lying to them about everything