… if the people elect not just a man like Trump to be President but also a majority in Congress to support him almost unconditionally, then the people get what they voted for.
this includes the democrats who vote for his candidates and bills.
don’t get my hopes up!
i’m convinced that the eu would rather go down with the american ship rather than hitch their wagons to any alternative.
the oniony layers of gaslighting are incredible here: the republicans won because the democrats didn’t vote. there aren’t enough split voters to even cover the gulf of voters that the democrats lost anymore and they lost it because of their support for the genocide.
serves you right for not voting for the pro-genocide candidate over the other pro-genocide candidate
it’s tripping hazard in hell, but democrats have convince everyone that it’s okay because it’s a dry heat.
this ignores the roles of propaganda, misinformation, manufactured consent and lobbyists have on the american people; liberals ignoring these things are the key reasons why the genocide machine keeps going brrrrr and people who are aware of that fact (as sanders likely is) but help perpetuate it nonetheless are at least as guilty as the conservatives who dgaf.
zionism and providing weapons to isreal are related, but not the same thing; bernie does one of them, but the results are the same.
the first-past-the-post argument is like anti-3rd-party-voting rhetoric and is meant to re-enforce this shitty voting system and deflect blame away from the people who have forced it upon us. there have been multiple living, breathing examples that prove such rhetoric is false; mexico and sheinbaum is the most recent proof.
the democrats and the republicans are two sides of the same mainstream coin that inevitably come after vulnerable groups when things start to get bad, like they are right now. niemoller’s poem warns us that leftists and trans people need to work together to protect ourselves against this mainstream and your comment about the “Glorious Revolution™” & fptp proves how effectively the american system sows disunity.
finally, we have plenty of examples of what this natural response will look like and adherence like yours to the status quo groups like the democrats is helping to usher it in.
yes it is, but even professionals in all of the tech fields doubt it somehow; i’m flabbergasted every time i learn of this take every time it happens since 2013.
the yougov polls shows that your fellow democrats didn’t vote because they didn’t want to be complicit in a genocide that the democrats openly enabled; not because they wanted to punish the democrats and this is going to happen again and again because even the likes of bernie sanders are a zionists.
that poverty you’re living through comes as the hands of democrats and republicans alike. sure, it’s slower with the democrats, but you’re still going to live with it nonethless.
and there will be no glorious revolution; just a natural decay of the system we’re in and a natural response from the people like us once things get bad enough, while we watch people in other places have it much better.
he’s become a shill that’s using his reputation to guide people back into a party that has done nothing to counter trump and supports the genocide.
A status quo the he’s helping to maintain right in front of our eyes and to great applause
articles like this one suggest that the brain drain is an intentional cultural purge:
This is the vision: take NIH scientists, coders, artists, researchers, and teachers and force them into low-wage jobs doing whatever robots can’t yet do. Not because it’s efficient. Not because the work isn’t valuable. But because they are who the far right considers dangerous—people who know how the system works—and might challenge it.
None of this is about restoring dignity to labor. It’s about stripping dignity from labor that offers autonomy, safety, or intellectual freedom. It’s about reducing workers of all kinds—whether white-collar, blue-collar, or no-collar—to servitude.
aka a real life hand maid’s tale
these electronics are literally made in china; it would be hard to image that they won’t take some sort of action.
I live in Chicago so most would be liberals.
The liberals mods on .world literally remove my comments that gain traction so the exchange would likely be on par irl
if i were any good at speaking to people; i wouldn’t be on social media. lol
those randos are going to more conservative than lemmy users
Of course, there will be violent pushback against this, so like the Black Panthers who first pioneered their own parallel systems because US capitalism punished the black community for existing, we must have people ready to protect the new systems that have been built. Fighting fascism is more complicated than just buying guns and taking them on. It’s going to have to be a combination of building systems we can rely on other than capitalism as well as building groups who can and will do their best to protect those systems.
agreed, but this part feel unrealistic given my interactions with american liberals.
lemmy represents the left-most sampling of the american liberals and even they decry leftists platforms and shame their own people for not towing the pro-capitalist line; especially on this instance.
also from the article:
Democrats must not treat this as a misguided trade policy. It’s not a debate over economic theory. It’s an assault on the idea of an open, educated, pluralistic society. We must recognize it for what it is if we are to fight it with the urgency it demands.
this is also seems unrealistic as evidenced by booker’s pointless filibuster; blocking aoc from the oversight committe; and obstructing bernie from the nomination twice.
even the sane rational republicans still vote republican, helping trump.
you owe it yourself to read up on american political history and; if you did; you would learn that every time they’ve had control of all 3 branches of government; they’ve squandered it by letting a one or 2 democrats derail all of their plans, meanwhile republicans steamroll over their own dissenters every time they’re in control.
you’d start to see that this pattern keeps happening again and again.