• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    232·
    21 days ago

    White guys make up a large chunk of the population. There are white guys that have some of the same problems that are harming minorities as well. Poverty, addiction, mental and physical health, inflation, an unfavorable jobs market, and so on.

    They see a democratic party that is at best useless at addressing these problems, when they admit that they exist at all. At worst, they see a party that is dismissive and hostile to these concerns, and to them personally. In contrast, they see a republican party that is full of welcoming con artists who will happily tell them that all their problems spring from minorities.

    Neither side is offering actual solutions, but republicans are acknowledging that the problems exist, even if they’re offering false solutions.

    So white guys keep falling for con artists. No one else is offering them anything.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    112·
    21 days ago

    Why I left the left? I used to be a radical leftist, who believed in radical ideas like <most lukewarm liberal opinion> and <thing that is standard in Europe>, but then I went through <signs of cognitive decline> and also got falsely accused of rape after having sex with a drunken woman, so I became a moderate christian conservative who believes in <opinion considered theocratic by people with more than two brain cells>, <thing that would make Hitler blush>, and <literal nazi thing, but “extermination” is replaced with “removal from society”>.

  • fartographer@lemmy.world
    91·
    21 days ago

    As a white guy, I have the kind of privilege that allows me enough space to realize that I’m sad. Hell, I could probably just walk up to a cop and tell them I’m sad, and they’d offer me some horrible, but well-meaning advice.

    But when I mention my Judaism, something interesting might happen. Especially if I told them that my Zionist family lives in Israel. But the real excitement will start when I say “free Palestine.”

    But the saddest part of all is that I could say nothing, and just be white, and no one will give a fuck. It’s mostly sad because I’m incapable of saying nothing.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      51·
      22 days ago

      Literally what shitposting is, by definition.

      And you’ve done it once gain, Maestro. Well done.

      Swear the followers of lemmyshitpost don’t know what a shitpost is. Like, at all. Ironically makes it the most freshest of places to do it.

      • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
        2·
        22 days ago

        Shitpost communities are fucking terrible because it’s either shitposts, which are like 50/50 on being good, or it’s a bunch of regular memes mixed with good shitposts that people upvoted.

        I mean, at least it keeps it on the shit theme.

        • saltesc@lemmy.world
          1·
          21 days ago

          So long as the result is a bazillion comments with as many upvotes as downvotes on each, it’s a good shitpost. Bonus points if it captures those two cliche users that end up frustrating the hell out of each other as they strive to be first in a 20 comment head-to-head marathon that goes absolutely no where. All because some people take it seriously while others take it as a joke; minimal effort by OP.

          This community seems to lean quite a bit toward people taking things seriously, or they simply don’t notice where they are before they unsheath their keyboards.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
    86·
    22 days ago

    I guess class divisions and racism towards Eastern Europeans in my country are imaginary then.