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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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These might be the good old days. Go outside, feel the grass, say wassup to your neighbors,... whatever you do that means community, because sh*t might get bad for a while.

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[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Racism and misogyny. That is all it is.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

Large part of the country was built on that foundation. Shocking how proud of it they are.

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago

And propaganda. LOTS of propaganda.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

That's not all, probably not even the main one. It's a major cost of living crisis and impoverishment of average people while companies and the richest get richer. Neither the Ds nor the Rs want to do anything against it, they get their money from there.

The people kinda understand this. But they're not intelligent enough to distinguish "actually changing the system" with "just saying they're gonna change the system", like Trump does. Trump is always talking about uprooting the deep state and bringing an "average person"(white middle/lower class) perspective to politics, and people just gobble it up and believe it because he's kinda good at talking with conviction.

Of course the misogyny and racism is part of it and an extra, but it's not the main reason at all. For some people it is, of course.

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 2 points 22 hours ago

That's a really black and white way to look at it. These are complex issues. Any attempt to find a simple explanation to them is by definition going to be oversimplifying it massively.