@nprofile1q... There is absolutely no way that it will be over by then unless Trump/Project 2025 finally start using nukes.

At which point we'll be too busy dying in World War III.

@nprofile1q... I'm actually a little bit confused about the gas prices thing. Some places have taken a big hit definitely, but overall they're still shockingly low considering the situation. What exactly is going on? Did they start pulling from a reserve but hide the fact they're doing so? Is it something else?

As for the stock markets, there's an ongoing trick to convince people that the stock markets are "the economy." They aren't, but people believe it.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... A nice *conservative* would be able to be here. Though we have reached the point that if you're ok with the ultra-far-right groups like the American GOP then you're not really conservative. This is not hyperbole — they have reached the point of being ultra-far-right zealots who believe some humans should be tortured or killed solely for existing and other humans should be enslaved for their benefits. So what you may not realize is most claiming to be conservative *are not.*

@nprofile1q... This is why you don't put an f-ing *IDIOT* in charge of a whole country.

@nprofile1q... what even the

@nprofile1q... What does this article say? On my normal browser it demands I disable my privacy protections to see it (big ol' nope there) and they have the entire TOR network blocked as far as I've been able to see.

@nprofile1q... Why are there no humans in there?

They're responsible for millions upon millions of human deaths too...

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I don't know. It started out boiling frog, but then it switched to a blowtorch. Lately it has seriously accelerated. There's so much going on right now ranging from governments giving fake "AI" companies carte blanch to steal everyone's data to age gating to try to lock people out of having access to information that isn't controlled by media corporations and politicians. Don't even get me started on the stuff going on at the top like the info given to ICE.

@nprofile1q... I'm given to understand they've arrested some people for touching the peeled paint even? Like... just touching it I guess? Not even actually pulling it off or anything, just... touching it...

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15916401/olympian-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-vandalism.html

https://time.com/article/2026/06/22/lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-vandalism-algae-paint-trump-admin/

Screw this freaking stupid timeline we live in.

@nprofile1q... Even stranger to me is the way the rest of the world seems to be pretending everything is normal with people coming in and then finding out that no, in fact, it is not normal in person.

Even as much as the media are sanewashing everything the regime is doing, they still haven't hidden the fact that people are being kidnapped off the streets and illegally crammed into concentration camps. Why would anyone want to walk into that situation knowing it could be them in the news next?

@nprofile1q... I don't know, this one is tricky. I've seen some actually not do this but, in fact, kind of the opposite. Pretty much a "pulling up the ladder behind them" thing. Wanting the systems that helped them to be destroyed lest they help others. I think it somehow goes either way, very much depending on the person, but also somewhat on the influences they're exposed to. My own parents went from being somewhat open-minded in the past to strong right now with a lot of closet hate/bigotry.

@nprofile1q... So I was just thinking about this and what I think was the perfect metaphor just popped into my head.

Those in power mandating that people not be allowed to use encryption is the same thing as if they were mandating that we not have locks on our doors. They don't want us to have encryption so they can break into everything we own without a warrant and it's absolutely no different from requiring no locks on houses so they can break in to our houses without a warrant.