🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞

Alright alright, medium sighted it is ;-)

They’re certainly enhanced and it’s related probably but I’m not sure it’s a 1:1 thing exactly. But far closer to the truth than things like “Democrats just don’t do anything”.

Okay. So stop voting and help the fascists then. I can’t stop you.

I hate where we are as well. I’m 50 and remember when it was just starting to go bad. It sucks.

But I will always vote.

A bit short-sighted, perhaps, when oligarchs control the media and encourage the “both sides” bullshit so people won’t vote, and right-wing media has gone for decades convincing a third of the populace to vote for fascism.

If we were able to break through that propaganda, voting would give us a supermajority of at least Democrats, and some number of actual progressives such that we might be able to get shit done.

That said, giving up is certainly not the answer.

But if they had truly implemented an earth-shattering transformation, then surely at least some faint tremors would have registered with the public. Instead, Biden’s popularity plunged early in his presidency and never recovered. There was no uptick in Biden’s approval rate produced by trustbusting, no green shoots that promised to blossom with more time.

Perhaps oligarchal control of the media means that when progress is actually made, it is not communicated to the populace.

Neo-Brandeisian ideas have drawn at least some support from Trump world.

This is probably necessary if we have any hope of re-taking our country back from fascism and oligarchy.

Well, I don’t know. The author of the piece definitely doesn’t agree, and I’m not sure if I do or not. I do know I personally think the root of our problems in the US are primarily the oligarchs. Fascists are a close second, with Evangelicals a close third.

Yes because the second half is fine by the Senate and is the removal part. So impeachment in the house has happened but the Senate has never voted to approve.

So it’s like a cop writing a ticket but it never gets filed with the courts or something like that.

If you knew all that and were just bitching about it, sorry and I agree with your bitching. Hehe

Impeachment is a political process and Congress is controlled by fascists.

I think the article is clear about what it means by that. It mentions that technically Russia was slowly gaining territory, although at a cost that might not be sustainable. And now those gains have slightly reversed - at least for now (and hopefully that trend will continue).

We need the guillotines everywhere. heh

I just ranted on another topic so I’m out of rant energy, but this breaks my heart. I’m 50 years old, and I grew up seeing racism and homophobia and even misogyny taking hits. Always there, never went away, but we were making progress, dammit.

Then the fucking Tea Party that turned into MAGA allowed them all to come out of the fucking closet again and be proud.

Fuck them all. Fuck this timeline. Fuck everything.

As a Virginian, this has hit me hard.

I’m tired, boss.

We need to break out the guillotines and fucking fix it from the top down, and by the top, I mean the oligarchs spending all the money to corrupt most of our politicians. That’s more important than ousting Republicans, although that would be the next fucking step.

:sigh:

But we’re all not starving QUITE enough to get into the streets. They’re fucking dumb, but they know they can only push us so far. And they’re slowly pushing more and more and more to find that limit. And it’s clear we’re not there yet. We’ll pay $10/gallon for gas and see our food prices double if it’s over the next 2-3 years and we still won’t riot, and more and more of the ones on the bottom lose housing, lose their lives for lack of medical care.

We’re dying, but most of us are JUST comfortable enough and JUST precarious enough to be scared to riot.

Fuck all of this. I’m on dialysis. I might have a decade in me, but there’s a good fucking chance I won’t. I got double-screwed by this fucking country and it has greatly shortened my life. But I’m still lucky because I’ve almost always had housing, I’ve always had food sometimes with the help of a food bank, and even more lucky with some occasional help from my dad for emergencies. Yeah. 50 years old and I owe my dad thousands over the years for occasional “oh shit no car means I lose my job” help…

It feels useless. I almost feel like giving up and stopping dialysis and saying fuck it, but I ain’t gonna do that because the human body is surprisingly resiliant about wanting to live for as long as possible. And hey, I got food and right now I have decent medical care, and I even just got disability which will make it easier to scrape by each month until I’m dead.

But goddamn if this timeline doesn’t suck.

She would be wasted without a solid house/senate majority who can then also expand SCOTUS. Like Obama was largely wasted thanks to Republican obstruction.

Can you imagine MAGA at this point if we elected her? I think there WOULD be a large number of assassination attempts. :|

How have I not really heard her speak before? I had no idea her accent was that thick and her English that bad. And these stupid ass redneck nationalist/racists/etc elected Trump with her a First Lady? They really are just that special, aren’t they. Jesus.

I mean, I have no problem with the nationality thing, it’s just that Republicans DO… most of the time. Unless it’s one of them. Pricks.

YMCA? I think you mean the “Trump giving handjobs” song. :)

Far as I can tell, he’s supported voting rights bills, but also supported efforts to gerrymander in NY (in favour of Dems) to “fight fire with fire”, i.e. take action on the issue.

Can you point me to where your comment is coming from? This is not sarcastic - I know in this age of online debate such a question is, but I’m willing to consider more background info than I have.

My family is from Mississippi and Louisiana, two states at the bottom or near the bottom of most things you can measure. Except things like racism.

This doesn’t surprise me at all.

Not only is this racism-gone-wild, but it’s also corrupt politics, and Louisiana has to be one of the most corrupt places in the US.

It’s a bummer. I grew up loving a lot about both states, but I’ve had to let them go because they are lost causes.

Proud of my state.

I’m against gerrymandering, but at this point, I’m way more against fascism. We need the fascists gone (and our oligarchs defeated) at whatever cost. THEN we can worry about fair elections (as it stands, Republicans will still benefit more from gerrymandering that Democrats anyway, so it’s not fair right now and sitll in Republicans’ favour)

While it is bad here, it’s not like we’re the only people with a growing fascist problem. Just like obesity and people giving us shit for decades, all of a sudden more countries are having some of these problems.

Keep giving us shit, sure. But just don’t forget to learn from us and shut that shit down while you still can.

Trump: Israel didn’t talk me into it!

…soooooo Israel talked him into it.

Why do we continue to import people who hate us?

Born here. Hate you fucking fascists and you can all go die in a fucking fire. Fuck off.