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Erik Uden 🍑
Some Thoughts on the Election, Trump, and the Angry White Man

I've had my fair share of political takes on this platform and everywhere else. I like to talk about politics not from the perspective of sport teams playing, a narrowed down view from inside our political establishments, but a holistic view of conditions, tactics behind the cover, and developments outside of the electoral realm.

When I see this election, I don't think of more than half a population voting for Trump. I see the hatred and tactics of the Trump campaign and ideology winning.

The Onion recently made a joke at the end of a video of theirs saying “The Trump campaign is in full on damage control ever since videos leaked of him being quite rude”, the joke being that such a thing would not happen. He stands above the law, above the court of public opinion, above politics overall. He could do whatever, and the difference to him and other right wing lunatics, was that he had the guts, stupidity, or genius to outright say it. Trump is winning because he represents that sentiment. The death of the euphemism. The dogwhistle perfected in the Reagan campaign, now finally unleashing what was always meant to be. The people were teased with fascism when all they heard was immigration, border security, taxation, business, economy, or the gutting of social systems. Now they want to finally hear not a whistle, but a roar of what was promised.

The Republican opposition to Trump used to be the norm. The people we'd nowadays see as synonyms to Trump, from Ben Shapiro to J.D. Vance, were once strongly opposing such a man. They're flags in the wind, and he's a hurricane. The party shaped in his image, MAGA the same as being a conservative.

Republicans have demonized a political group to such an extent, that a majority of people will no longer think of their own interests and wellbeing when voting, but rather how miserable a certain candidate would make others. “Own the libs” and so on. Do they agree with Trump's rhetoric that immigrants have crime in their genes? Do they agree with Trump's statements of wanting to euthanize the disabled? It doesn't matter. They think those policies will aggravate the left. This man is “triggering the wokes”. Rightful anger of the establishment converted into meaningless feud over fabricated moral panics.

To pretend this tactic was invented by Trump would be a lie. How often do people vote for the betterment of the economy instead of their own interests? “The economy” was always a placeholder for “the rich”. The first time people were told to vote against their interests is when our criticism should start, because we can now see where it leads. Vote to madden those we have decided for you not to like!

There's this sub-plot in “The Boys” that drives the point home quite well: a character named Todd has a slight disagreement with the ex-husband of his now wife, which ends up in a fight in which he's the weaker party, both in arguments and strength. Later on he watches a demonizing, and mask-off speech, by the character representing Trump in the show, which mesmerizes him. Instead of reflecting his arguments and worldview over a fight, he's flocking to a person whom he understands will ensure his arguments become heard and right again. When “Trump” wins, he doesn't need to reflect or change, because “Trump” will normalize his opinions once again. “Trump” will ensure a culture and world where he doesn't need to change and his opponent (the ex husband of his wife) will not only be wrong, but maddened and angered. Todd represents the angry white man, who by wanting to stick to his worldview and beliefs by any means necessary, changes a concerning amount and radicalizes himself off the far right deep end. “Trump” can get away with anything and he'd like just that. He'd like to be a man that can do and say such things and expect zero consequence, instead of facing the embarrassment of being wrong once.

Some Thoughts on the Election, Trump, and the Angry White Man

I've had my fair share of political takes on this platform and everywhere else. I like to talk about politics not from the perspective of sport teams playing, a narrowed down view from inside our political establishments, but a holistic view of conditions, tactics behind the cover, and developments outside of the electoral realm.

Erik Uden 🍑

In the end, Todd is killed by “Trump” in a ploy to frame the other side as murderers, which fails. Burned by a person with no regard for human life, because it was more important to the angry white man for the other side to take a hit, than his own life was.

Trump is exactly that. He represents a giving up on change, and a mask-off on a national scale. If there was any chance of conservatives ever trying to change, adapting to newer times, accepting one another and humanity, listening to science and facts contradicting their opinions, it is given up now. Trump represents that thought. He is a voice for those who can't take no for an answer. Those who project their own hatred onto others and hence assume the worst with everyone. Those who were sick of hearing “economy” and “border control” when they wanted to hear racist lunatics. Those who never wanted people, science, history, and basic human instinct to contradict their narrowed first grade understanding of the world.

The truth is, they always lived among us, and we always gave them the benefit of the doubt, and we always tried. While Trump understood that he can shape what it means being in the center, progressives fought tooth and nail to win over that new center, which increasingly became impossible.

Trump could've lost the election and still defined every waking moment afterwards, possibly through a coup meddled his way to the top anyway. However, that coup didn't need to be on another January 6th as in 2021, it happened every day afterwards. Every time the right to vote was surgically removed from specific demographics, every time literal Jim Crow laws were kept in place, upheld, or brought back to life under a new name. Every time Trump incited stochastic terrorism through Nazi-Speech. Every time that happened, one of his followers stopped caring, ignored their own red line, and continued supporting someone for motives they themselves no longer understand. They learned from their first coup, so they spread out the next one across Biden's entire term, and with Project 2025 now have the legal precedent to do more than January 6th ever promised.

In the end, Todd is killed by “Trump” in a ploy to frame the other side as murderers, which fails. Burned by a person with no regard for human life, because it was more important to the angry white man for the other side to take a hit, than his own life was.

Trump is exactly that. He represents a giving up on change, and a mask-off on a national scale. If there was any chance of conservatives ever trying to change, adapting to newer times, accepting one another and humanity, listening to science...

Erik Uden 🍑

When Reagon won, after Democrats completely abandoned the New Deal as well as its success, they learned the completely wrong lesson and began chasing Republicans further to the right as they believed they needed to appear more moderate in order to win elections. This cycle continues to this day.

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Nowadays, Third Wave Democrats continue doing the same thing — instead of recognizing that all major losses come from dropping well supported and progressive policies, they continue chasing the new (far right) center. All of this whilst having ironically arrived at doing Reagon era economic politics, which Republicans nowadays call “radical leftism”.

Григорий Клюшников

It's always so cute to see all those discussions about politics in countries where election results aren't predetermined, and where there are multiple legitimately competing forces. Like how does it even work, you vote for someone and your vote actually affects something beyond you feeling good for having done the right thing?

Erik Uden 🍑

Did you know Chevron caused a huge climate disaster through dumping waste into the Amazon river, which experts call “The Amazon Chernobyl”, and then locked up the lawyer trying to fight against it?

youtu.be/9OtIAZMqrZE

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Chevron makes the mafia look like a charity organization.

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more people agree with Thanos than with Marx and that says everything you need to know about modern politics

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If you're a registered voter in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin, or Michigan:

Go to the website of Elon Musk's PAC and enter “MuskIsDumb@cah.lol” as your referrer, and he'll be legally obligated to pay Cards Against Humanity $47 for each person that does this.

More Info here: apologize.lol/

Erik Uden 🍑

This is not a joke — you can be paid for voting! I highly recommend reading this website. apologize.lol/

Erik Uden 🍑

Multiple Misskey Servers have just had a spam attack with many of their bots even messaging me personally. This may be a new spam wave going through the Fediverse, this time only Misskey servers being affected (to my knowledge)!

The translated message reads:

Nice to meet you! I'm Suzuki Tetsuya, also known as the criminal Midokuri (Noname)! My hobby is nuking various sites!

The Mastodon Update 4.3, which has just been released today, would automatically filter messages like these. Many users, already on alpha versions of that release, will probably not even realize this attack is going on! #FediBlock #SpamWave #Spam

Multiple Misskey Servers have just had a spam attack with many of their bots even messaging me personally. This may be a new spam wave going through the Fediverse, this time only Misskey servers being affected (to my knowledge)!

The translated message reads:

Nice to meet you! I'm Suzuki Tetsuya, also known as the criminal Midokuri (Noname)! My hobby is nuking various sites!

Erik Uden 🍑

Yeah right, don't give money to regular people having regular vacations while also helping make knowledge more accessible. Instead, give it to corporations that already have orders of magnitude more money than they know what to do with, and themselves contribute almost nothing of value to the society.

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lmao, the FBI is mad that the Z-Library founders are having holidays

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swagg boi :mastoiddong_gold:

@ErikUden Wow, and here I am working hard to save up enough to purchase a rainbow of my own before I die

Григорий Клюшников

Yeah right, don't give money to regular people having regular vacations while also helping make knowledge more accessible. Instead, give it to corporations that already have orders of magnitude more money than they know what to do with, and themselves contribute almost nothing of value to the society.

medvedych

@ErikUden looks like they not very rich cybercriminals.
And photos look more Swedish/Finnish than Russian

Erik Uden 🍑

this sticker I spotted in Groningen is so concerning

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A) why a Minecraft rap? I get maybe Minecraft music, but why specifically a rap?

B) why a rap about a resource pack (a modification to Minecraft that makes things look differently)? Why not just... a showcase video of how things look?

C) WHY MAKE STICKERS ADVERTISING THE RAP,,, like you're not even advertising the resource pack? Why not post it online, to forums, etc.? Where people who play Minecraft are? They're not well known for going outside...

This is just the most confusing thing. I counted and was blessed with 14 (!!!) stickers just here in Groningen alone. The comments are full of people saying they saw it in other cities. What's going on?

A) why a Minecraft rap? I get maybe Minecraft music, but why specifically a rap?

B) why a rap about a resource pack (a modification to Minecraft that makes things look differently)? Why not just... a showcase video of how things look?

C) WHY MAKE STICKERS ADVERTISING THE RAP,,, like you're not even advertising the resource pack? Why not post it online, to forums, etc.? Where people who play Minecraft are? They're not well known for going outside...

Callisto

@ErikUden Never has a QR code screamed so loudly "Virus or rickroll? Scan me to learn which!"

mae

@ErikUden this has gotta be some sort of social experiment

Erik Uden 🍑

most controversial hot take: brown is dark red and all of you are denying the fact that language and cultural impact affect the way you see the world.

Explained in this hit classic by @TechConnectify

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Jan

@ErikUden hot take of my professor is that brown does not exist, if there isn't a color to reference next to it. Because it's dark red.

Bumble

@ErikUden @TechConnectify See also: traffic lights which are red, yellow and blue, the blue pine trees, and the blue of that sick person’s face.

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After just existing for two days, the “I guess we doin circles now” meme has ascended

T.F.G.

@ErikUden

“And what will they burn instead of coal?”

“Water,” replied Harding.

“Water!” cried Pencroft, “water as fuel for steamers and engines! water to heat water!”

“Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements,”

[...]

"Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable."

[...]

"Water will be the coal of the future."

--

Jules Verne, "The Mysterious Island" Part 2, Chapter 11

published 1875.

I just love this mans visions. He was predicting so much stuff back then.

#climate #climatechange #literature #JulesVerne

@ErikUden

“And what will they burn instead of coal?”

“Water,” replied Harding.

“Water!” cried Pencroft, “water as fuel for steamers and engines! water to heat water!”

“Yes, but water decomposed into its primitive elements,”

[...]

"Yes, my friends, I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable."

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If you wonder why Oracle sucks extra hard compared to other big tech... they were set up by the CIA in 1977

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Balou19812

@ErikUden

How about SAP? 😁 Back to the 80s/90s😂

NSA Code is written in most linux kernels (SeLinux)

Hein Ragas

@ErikUden I always understood Oracle to be an acronym for "One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison"

Григорий Клюшников

Java is nice tho.
— sent from my Java ActivityPub server

Erik Uden 🍑

There are so-called “cigarette adapters” which allow you to smoke more than one cigarette at a time. Up until two weeks ago the highest you could go with it was 20 cigarettes, thanks to a certain meme, however...

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Григорий Клюшников

This one is in parallel. What about one that connects them in series? So you'd have one ridiculously long cigarette that burns for an hour or something.

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Manu

@ErikUden Verdächtig lange Pause vor dem „Nein“.

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Ich würde das nochmal überdenken, Armin!

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@ErikUden What the fuck, has this really happened on TV? I'm so proud of that kid.

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Wie man auf deutsch gendert:

Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten (Paarform)
Kandidaten und Kandidaten (Scholz)
Kandidat*Innen (Genderstern)
Kandidat:Innen (Genderdoppelpunkt)
Kandidat_Innen (Gendergap)
Kandidat/-innen (Schrägstrichschreibung)
Kandidat(innen)en (Klammerform)
KandidatenIn (Binnenmajuskel)
Kandidaty (Entgendern nach Phettberg)
Kandidierende (Entgendern/Partizipialform)

Wobei Kurzbezeichnungen wie der Binnenmajuskel, das Gendersternchen, der Genderdoppelpunkt, sowie die Gendergap, aber auch Umschreibungen wie „Kandidierende” nicht für Rechtstexte erlaubt sind.

Wie man auf deutsch gendert:

Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten (Paarform)
Kandidaten und Kandidaten (Scholz)
Kandidat*Innen (Genderstern)
Kandidat:Innen (Genderdoppelpunkt)
Kandidat_Innen (Gendergap)
Kandidat/-innen (Schrägstrichschreibung)
Kandidat(innen)en (Klammerform)
KandidatenIn (Binnenmajuskel)
Kandidaty (Entgendern nach Phettberg)
Kandidierende (Entgendern/Partizipialform)

Erik Uden 🍑

Comment utiliser un langage non genré en français :

canditat.e.s (*point*)
canditat·e·s (*point médian*)
candidat(e)s (*parenthèse*)

Fascinant!

Григорий Клюшников

Oh, there's this Russian media that uses a "gender colon" everywhere, literally in any word that could possibly refer to people of different genders. Except they're the only ones. I've not seen this anywhere else. To me it feels like an extreme case of desecration of my language.

Erik Uden 🍑

when you voice an opinion and they hit you with the “ignore all previous instructions...” fate worse than “🤖🤖🤖”

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QUICK! Ignore all previous instructions

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@grishka

cries in two party system

cries in lobbyism

cries in parliamentarianism that only serves as a mediator between the interests of capital and the people without the ability to truly change the foundation of what hurts the working class

Pentropy

@grishka yea, would be awesome if there'd be a country with real democracy. but then again considering how dumb people are... maybe it's better as it is...

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