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Do not despair. Nothing in politics is permanent. It may be difficult but we can solve this together. Be sure to read this article to the end where it has the calls to action. Those are all good ideas. In addition I want to mention:

One thing everyone should do is vote in every election, even local elections.

Also specifically for when it mentions public funding try calling your representative and asking for this. It does matter.

In addition also work to defund right wing propaganda by calling advertisers and urge them to stop advertising on Fox and other right wing stations. Also if you have a TV subscription make sure the package doesn’t include Fox News. If it’s impossible to remove Fox News call the company and ask for a no Fox option. If enough people call they may one day offer it. This step is important because Fox News gets most of its money from carriage fees.

In addition boycott Twitter/X and also Meta (Facebook/Instagram/Threads) and switch to Mastodon and Bluesky. Make sure your friends do the same.

I think public funding with independent editorial control is the way to go. It’s not perfect by any means but it’s the best we have.

Of course! That’s fine with me!

It’s true. It’s sad seeing how many people are still in the cult.

I don’t hope anyone suffers. I wish people could reflect on themselves and be better people.

I used the GIMP’s hue and saturation tool to change the colors. It looked pretty good but if I had the image as a PNG or SVG the quality would be better. Here’s what I got: https://files.catbox.moe/cri8bz.png

Wow! Thank you so much for making that! I got the image from Wikipedia. It’s even worse than I thought. I think the article on Wikipedia should be updated.

I’m a little embarrassed to admit it but at one point I was somewhat of a climate change denier and also a Trump supporter. There’s a very well funded coordinated effort to get people to not take climate change seriously. That combined with doing whatever your “tribe” does is how I got sucked in to climate change denialism. I’m so glad I’m out of that. It’s why I’m now so passionate about these topics, I don’t want other people to suffer the way I did. When I say suffer let me tell you being a conservative isn’t a good life. You’re constantly fed the latest thing to hate and be outraged at along with talking points to repeat nearly verbatim. Now instead of hate I have love and want to make the world better. It really feels so much better.

The reason I’m saying this is in hopes of giving you perspective on how someone might deny climate change despite noticing the climate is different now than in one’s childhood. Even when I was a Trump supporter I remember thinking the weather does seem different but I never made the connection.

Regarding him being labeled an eccentric visionary I really hope that doesn’t happen.

As far as Ford being fine today, Henry Ford hasn’t run the company for a very long time. I think if Elon Musk were to leave Tesla it could be a good company. A lot of the issues with Tesla seem to be a direct result of Musk interfering with the engineers who want to do real work. So if one day Musk were to leave Tesla and they improve their quality issues I would think much better about Tesla.

Were you trying to respond to someone else? I see you quoted someone and what you wrote feels like a reply to something someone else said. If you’re responding to the picture it doesn’t mention Trump or anyone else. I just saw it and thought it was funny so I posted it here.

As far as what you said I agree with you especially because I was a former Trump supporter. People got angry at me (for good reason) when I supported him. What they did didn’t help me leave, what did help me leave is seeing other supporters becoming even more crazy and violent, Trump’s mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and J6.