• Steak@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    42
    arrow-down
    6
    ·
    3 months ago

    That’s most industries. Society is falling apart lol. Look how the secret service responded to an assassination attempt on trump. It was absolutely pathetic. These people are supposed to be the best of the best of the best. It doesn’t surprise me that other industries are also experiencing this.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      21
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      3 months ago

      There’s no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

      NOFX wrote about the rise of ignorance in America and the song “The Idiots Are Taking Over” is more appropriate now than ever before.

      full lyrics below. link to song for anyone not familiar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNWDfryyMk


      It's not the right time to be sober
      Now the idiots have taken over
      Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?
      Mensa membership conceding
      Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding
      Watson, it's really elementary
      The industrial revolution
      Has flipped the *removed* on evolution
      The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized, what a bummer
      The world keeps getting dumber
      Insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason
      Darwin's rolling over in his coffin
      The fittest are surviving much less often
      Now everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening
      Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool
      Now angry mob mentality's no longer the exception, it's the rule
      And I'm starting to feel a lot like Charlton Heston
      Stranded on a primate planet
      Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground
      With generals and the armies that obeyed them
      Followers following fables
      Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard
      There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated
      Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred
      Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions
      Sometimes the smallest softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions
      What are we left with?
      A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists
      Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland
      Pass on traditions
      How to get ahead religions
      And prosperity via simpleton culture
      The idiots are taking over
      
    • exanime@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      I’m still thinking they send the “barely qualified” secret servicemen to protect Trump

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      Look how the secret service responded to an assassination attempt on trump. It was absolutely pathetic

      it was perfectly fine??? They shot and killed the guy within like 3 seconds of the event happening???

      Sure it’s weird that he was up there, but i’m not sure that’s a failing of SS specifically, but they certainly did their job in regards to neutralizing the threat.

      Also trump isn’t even the current president, so it’s not like he’s going to get all the coverage in the world.

      • Steak@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        3 months ago

        The fact he even got shots off while laying on literally one of the only spots a sniper could get a shot off is absolutely bad enough. They should have had minimum one sniper looking at that roof constantly. That’s like step one.

        • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          3 months ago

          i believe they did, though it’s worth noting, you’re constantly scanning rooftops as a sniper, so there’s always going to be a small amount of time before targeting and shooting.

          I’ve heard, havent verified but apparently local police were working the grounds and apparently maybe that roof? So it might have been their responsibility entirely. I’m guessing the kid only peaked the roof shortly before shooting though, that’s the only way he would’ve gotten a shot off.

    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      3 months ago

      I don’t see how the secret service is relevant to this in literally any way.

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          edit-2
          3 months ago

          Apon rereading, your comment isn’t any more coherent. It’s like a vague “what is this world coming to?!”, drawing disparate concepts together as if they form some grand pattern, but there’s nothing there.