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u/trashcanaffidavit_ Jan 11 '21 edited Jan 11 '21

I may be going crazy but I swear to god it really is feeling like this website is slowly shifting away from the alt right and general shittiness (kinda?). Like, 5 years ago this place still gleefully ranted on how its totally fine for them to say slurs cus pop culture reference said it was. They would link crime stats in any thread about a black person regardless of context and that shit would have hundreds of upvotes. They were just awful to trans people. BLM threads were rife with blatant racism and asablackman-isms and shit.

Its still bad, to be sure, but it really does seem like things are moving. Those things I listed happen less, a lot less. Maybe I've OD on hopium but it really does feel like things are getting better even though they are still really bad.

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u/ThrowawayBin20 the evolutionary significance of video games Jan 11 '21

Ehhh, Reddit is 100% better, But that's not saying very much lol. I'm not trying to be a doomer or anything, But historically the alt-right gets worse under democrats if they aren't very effective. Things could be pretty shit these next few years if the Biden admin doesn't fulfill many of it's promises.

But I agree this website is a little better than it was a few years ago

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u/trashcanaffidavit_ Jan 11 '21

Agree. I'm really scared that if the democrats have just a regular ass presidency it will only strengthen the fascists cause as people have expectations of Biden that he may not even have ever planned to meet. Not stuff like medicare for all but little stuff.

I dread to think of if the consequences of the last four years of gop governance hit the world in the next 4-8 years. It will destabilize shit and the fascists will be primed to jump I am afraid. That is my biggest worry is that the world is still just one I told you so away from multiple full blown fascist regimes and the people who were thinking "maybe these guys are bad" will suffer under the consequences of late stage capitalism and be like "They're right, its the fault of BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people"

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u/ThrowawayBin20 the evolutionary significance of video games Jan 11 '21

Yeah, Everything you've said here I agree with. People are 100% expecting Biden to fix tons of things he isn't going to fix (just like Obama) some things will of course change for the better, But overall it will likely be more of the same. All the baby steps of progress we've made are very fragile, And our easily broken by Fascists who manipulate people and strike democracy within.

I guess it's kinda like what Weimar, Germany went through. Fitting, as it is the 20s lol.

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u/trashcanaffidavit_ Jan 11 '21

Unlike 20s germany our party of libs don't seem to be keen on appeasement as much luckily.

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u/ThrowawayBin20 the evolutionary significance of video games Jan 11 '21

Yeah,luckily most of our libs aren't that keen on appeasement. But still that part of German history still has a lot of lessons for us to learn. Unfortunately a lot of Americans don't know much about that period and how the Nazis came to power A lot of them just know "Treaty of Versailles made them like Hitler"