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You know what fuck you
*spell of bnuuy vortex*
Pay attention to where the Trump flags are flying. Note the lawn signs, especially in front of businesses. Those places may not be safe to enter over the next four years, especially if you are in any way not cis/white/Christian-hetero-standard.
They like Trump because he says the quiet part (hate) out loud. Many will feel entitled to follow in his footsteps. They voted him to get the right to discriminate. So please be careful and don't feel bad about changing up your habits to avoid openly hostile people and places.
The problem appears to be that Trump's cult showed up, but nobody else did.
I think, it's not so much his cult as.... Trump has a lock on low (really NO) information voters,
so take 2022 Democrats did really well for a midterm, expanded their senate majority and lost the house very narrowly, but only 46% of voters showed up, in 2024 67% of voters turned out, that 20% of the American public that didn't vote in 2022 but did in 2024 likely don't know what a midterm is.
and for people like that, Trump speaks in HYPER, MEGA! simple terms, terms so simple they're wrong even when he's not trying to lie (which he often is) like "build a wall" well thats not actually physically possible, but no amount of pushing back that there was no way to do that got him to stop saying it or his supporters to stop cheering for a thing that couldn't be done, and it was not done, because it wasn't physically possible.
we live in a country PACKED with people who don't understand how anything works, and Trump won because he speaks at a 2nd grade level and there's where 50-ish% of voting Americans are at rn.
The fucking posts i see from people all like "why is the federal government funding research about snail sex this is stupid" piss me the fuck off. There's lots of reasons, Harold.
1. Understand how snails reproduce so we can learn more about the world around us and maybe learn more about ourselves or how things work.
2. You literally never know what could spark the next great scientific advancement. Snail sex hormones could be a miracle cure for cancer but you won't fucking know that unless you study the snail sex.
3. Hate to break it to ya pal but snails are still worth researching even if you think they're "useless animals." They feed larger animals, they eat plants and shit, they exist and quite frankly that's marvelous. Just because they are useless TO YOU does not mean they aren't worthy of attention.
Like genuinely quit focusing on going "ew!! Icky useless animal having icky sex!!" or whatever, you sound like the people who demonized Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, for wanting to study how plants reproduce.
Tailed Tailless Bat, photographed by Irineu Cunha, (source)
Saw this on FB and was amused.