Is he charging a haduken between his finger and thumb? 🤣
His chops are too righteous!!! They can’t handle this level of rock-n-roll!
No, the demon to his left is shooting a fireball right at his face.
Oh shit, I see it now. Yeah he needs backup, stat!
Looks like the guy in the background is trying!
Yeah but he needs to learn how to carry his weapon. He’s not ready to raise it at a moment’s notice.
Honestly the “last stand” aesthetic may appear inspiring, but what I see here is broken arrow.
Two guys can’t take on a hoard of demons that large, no matter how tough they are.
Still badass though.
Yes, it’s FAR more “rule of cool” than practical! Maybe these two are some of the random corpses you find rather than Doomguy himself.
That makes sense. I may have been looking at it too neurodivergently and analyzing it in terms of realism, while ignoring the fact that he’s fighting demons with SMGs for hands.
I suppose for the average person, a look at this poster would evoke feelings of coolness and inspiration. Which was likely the artist’s intent.
I suppose another tagline for it could be “To the last breath!”
Till shade is gone, till water is gone,
Into the Shadow with teeth bared,
Screaming defiance with the last breath,
To spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
So uh… Anyone else feel like your heart is like…lighter, this week?
I was hope scrolling the first couple days after the election. But now it’s back to doom with…
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Miller as CoS
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Rumblings of escalation in Iran
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Rumors of moves being made to make Jan6 look like a slap fight
Did you expect them to roll over and die without a fight?
They rearranged some pieces on the board. They advanced an offensive on the sidelines. They’re preparing for a final blitz.
These are desperate moves they’re making, because they know they’re not calling the shots anymore.
When the enemy is on the run, you harry them so they can’t regroup.
Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff is atrocious. But also, this means trump will make more and more desperate moves to alienate what’s left of his base and solidify the resistance among swing voters. Let him make an ass of himself. He’ll be impotent soon anyway.
Escalation in Iran is harder for us to stop, but it sounds like Hegseth may be facing impeachment very soon, and once the new session of Congress begins they’ll be able to take more aggressive action to put an end to this madness.
That leaves the third thing, which is immediately actionable on our part. They want a second go at J6? Start organizing the counter-protest now. Position it somewhere out of the way, but where we can sweep in and take the mob from the flanks if they begin to overwhelm the cordon of capitol guards.
Tell people to start acquiring whatever PPE they might need. Shin guards, knee and elbow pads, bike helmets or scrum caps, gloves, eye protection, steel-toed boots. Bucklers, shields, even garbage can lids or plywood with screwed-in handles. Sticks, staves, canes, and cudgels. Whatever it takes.
If they want to mob the capitol in another attempt to overthrow the will of the people, then the people will just have to turn out and give them a brawl. My bet is that most of them will turn out to be cowards once they see they’re outnumbered. The day may go without a bruise.
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Yes, definitely. But it feels like some people are already trying to drop pellets of hail on my feather-light heart
Tankies be tanking on Lemmy, always. Just remember not to feed the trolls
Yehhh, I need to remind myself of that more often…
This is what reddit on rif was for me. I had carefully selected communities that made me happy.
And that’s why they murdered rif.
hope scrolling on twitter… i don’t think so.
Ah yeah, I didn’t pay attention to what platform the OOP was using
Yeah best you could do is schandenfreud scrolling there. And even that’s a stretch.
Now you’re just delusional. It will wear off some time between now and January 3, 2027.
You’re not helping and I suspect you know that.
Everyone needs to block people who have nothing helpful to say while trying to make us feel like idiots for having hope. It seems obvious to me that there’s a reason they’re doing this and it certainly isn’t well intentioned.
Or, I’m pushing 70 years old and have had my hopes crushed so many times, that I feel the need to warn people about what is not going to happen.
You’re actively trying to leave a feeling of despair and hopelessness for the next generation. You say it like it’s a public service too.
70 should be old enough to know cynicism isn’t wisdom. It’s one thing to encourage people to always temper optimism with caution, it’s another to spend one’s life indistinguishable from an edgy adolescent.
Exactly.
Most of my issue with your comment though is that it doesn’t really offer solutions or courses of action. It’s just doomsaying for its own sake.
If you’re 70 you have experienced the Sovietunion falling apart, relatively peacefully. Biggest miracle in recent history. All it took was a somewhat reasonable leader (Gorbachev) coming after a series of senile nightmares. Eerily similar to another country today. There’s always hope.
Yeah, the doomsayers are already pissing on my parade.
I guess you’re right though, we should all go back to bitter cynicism, despair and despondency. Things were much better that way… 🙄
Edit: username checks out, by the way
The tankies are pissed, this makes their agitation process harder
Yeah, they’ve been coming out in force. There was a delay thankfully, so we got to enjoy a couple days of peace and relief after the election. But after that they’ve just been swarming.
I’m thinking I might take a lemmy detox soon, until the gremlins crawl back into their holes (we’ll see them again next electoral season, of course).
I feel you completely. I’ve changed my thought process a bit though. If a user makes any doomer comment, I call them out and then block them. It’s already started to help. These users are significant in numbers but I still think they’re in the minority.
Yeah, I do think there’s value in calling them out so that others can see and hopefully more people will learn how to spot them and see them for what they are.
But it always seems to lead to a shit show of them recycling the same old stale fallacies and personal attacks. Maybe I’m getting better at parrying them more effectively, but it still burns me out after a while. And sometimes they say things that really get under my skin.
I’m concerned that if I simply block them and don’t read their response, then they’ll craft it to make me look like an idiot/asshole to anyone who doesn’t understand the context of the situation. So I parry and riposte until I’m confident that anyone reading knows who the troll is
I always thought pretty much this exact same way. I just cannot do it anymore though. I gotta block them, and even though I agree that it can lead to a lack of challenges to their doomspreading, it may be better for us as a community if we just block liberally. The mods often side with them and I really have no time to tear them down point by point anyhow. 2020 honestly broke me on even trying to do that. People like that will ignore everything they cannot deny and come back with a personal attack, as you said. If enough people block these users, maybe their campaigns will start to feel futile and they’ll either stop or dial it down.
If enough people block these users, maybe their campaigns will start to feel futile and they’ll either stop or dial it down.
I don’t know, as long as this platform is still growing, that just means new users will have to wade through a swamp before they find their way to stable ground.
Maybe it’s like purgatory, except the circles of hell are constantly reaching their tendrils in to snatch down anyone they can get ahold of. Sarlacc must feed.
It reminds me of these, in which the demons obviously represent tankies [edit: (and, more broadly, also maga and any other style of authoritarian/reactionary extremism)]:
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Buy hey, maybe enough people are catching on that you and I are no longer needed. Let someone else swat the tankies away for a while…
Josh Johnson is worth your time, probably. He’s a good comic, and thoughtful. The man discusses present politics in his way. I like comedy in my despair laden news. I miss the Colbert monologues for this reason.
Josh though, pretty amazing. He hasn’t made it to the results yet, but that should drop in YT this week.
If you liked getting news from Colbert, you might also like John Oliver. I think he’s still making videos?
I’ll look into Josh Johnson though, thanks!
Oliver, ofc. Wonder if Oliver regrets becoming a US Citizen?
I think we’ve all seen his Church episode (praise be). His attempted, perfectly legal bribe, of Clarance Thomas. In his case, I think he’s hiding real journalism behind satire.
In his case, I think he’s hiding real journalism behind satire.
I didn’t know that was a question
Or remember what it was like when Obama won his first term…
Tons of irrational exuberance. One major healthcare bill passed, followed by 8 years of just another status quo president.
The weird part was Obama was essentially a moderate conservative. And yet, his blackness triggered them so hard, that didn’t work for them.
Just because it turned out to be a disappointment doesn’t mean the exuberance was irrational. And that certainly doesn’t mean we shouldn’t feel optimistic right now. In fact that very thing was discussed in the article I got this screenshot from.
Here are some more:
There are ways to engage with this rationally and productively, in a grounded and balanced way. And there are ways not to.
And honestly, I’m getting tired of all this bitterness and doomerism that seems to be coming out in force after the recent successes in the election. I already had enough of my own bitterness and cynicism over the past two years. Can you let me feel hopeful for once?
Maybe it’s just amplified on this community. I don’t usually post here; is it always like this?
But assuming you’re being genuine and you actually do care and that you’re just feeling hopeless, that’s valid. But consider that spreading your hopelessness and despair like this can function as a sort of psychological contagion, and if you dampen enough people’s spirits then you can really start to extinguish the excitement and momentum that we’re building towards possibly doing something different this time.
So like… if you don’t want to be a part of the problem then be a part of the solution, or at least sit this one out on the sidelines. Because a favorable wind is rising, and we don’t need you rending holes in our sails at this key moment in time.
If you want to contribute to making sure we don’t repeat the mistakes of the past, then maybe you could help advocate for choosing different congressional leadership.
I think it would be easier not to feel the cold rain if Day 1 wasn’t a 24hr wall of “Jeffries House Soeaker!!!” “Schumer says” spam clogging the attempted hope scroll. Didn’t we just vote against that, what is even happening, I thought progress won, but…
And here we are.
Wait have you missed the whole conversation around “No Schumer, No Jeffries” and “Choose someone else!”?
It’s mainly a niche Reddit and Lemmy convo. Schumer is breaking through such that my sense of the news pulse right now is that replacement may be allowed. But not Jeffries. That appears to be a wall.
I’ll take the victories we can achieve and I’ll set my sights forward to the day we can achieve the rest.
Ousting Schumer as SML in itself would be huge. And Jeffries’ seat is up for reelection every two years.
No way dude. January 2nd is gonna be like Christmas eve.
Except Jeffries is a done deal no matter what we want, and Schumer will probably be in as well. So stop your hope scrolling.
Can you also tell me what the weather will be like on my birthday next year, and tomorrow’s winning lotto numbers?
Fair. People are never 100%, on anything, except death. Even so, the odds of rolling a seven with two six-sided dice remain the highest odds.
Medicine would not exist without rolling the dice on the highest odds.
We kinda do this on the daily, as humans.
the odds of rolling a seven with two six-sided dice remain the highest odds.
Even so, expecting to roll a seven every time would be bad math
And placing all your money on snake eyes would also be bad math.
Snake eyes? That’s a ⅙2 chance. ¹/36 to be precise. 2.7%.
Starting next session, there will be over 100 progressives in Congress. That’s nearly one out of three Dems. ⅓.
You just need to roll a five or a six. That’s all. Just one five or one six.
Maybe don’t bet the deed to your house on it. But it’s worth any little smidgeon of faith you can work up. Especially in a game where mere belief could be enough to influence the result.