The United States is imploding. The reign of Donald Trump is not only challenging and threatening the very foundations of its constitutional democracy, it
In three weeks, Donald Trump has imploded whatever positive image the United States might have had internationally.
You’re getting downvoted by the same people who got upset by calling out that Kamala and Biden were not good candidates.
If they were, they would have beat this idiot.
The DNC has no idea, nor does it care, what people really need or want. They don’t represent our reality. The only Dems who do are… You guessed it: Progressive.
AOC, Bernie, Ro Khana, Cori Bush, Nina Turner… None of them are supported by the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. All of them have people in mind over reelection.
I love the shifting of blame. I worry we’ll still have to repeat “Binary choice with one option between a 34-time felon and insurrectionist” and people will still blame the dems for not fielding Mother Theresa. A can of spiced ham should have won.
You forgot that the other choice was a genocidal corporate stooge who barely hid his racism before bowing out too late to have a primary and sticking us with brown Hillary Clinton.
They didn’t even try to win progressive or working class votes and instead doubled down on genocide and courted the endorsement of the Cheney family.
If you can’t even pay lip service to the working class and instead just constantly talk down to them and blame them for their problems, why would they ever vote for you?
Also choosing a religious zealot who promoted suffering a sacred as you example of a perfect candidate shows how out of touch you are.
I actually think that’s offensive to Hillary clinton, she had more substance in her fucking pinky than Kamala had at all. Kamala was the definition of an empty suit but she checked all the demographic identity politics triangulating democrat bullshit that they’re well known for. She was the ultimate DEI hire. No substance, no platform, minimal experience, and didn’t win a single fucking vote to be nominated.
If 1990s Hillary ran I would of voted for her. She genuinely seemed to want to make a positive change in the world back then, especially with healthcare.
She was shoved down our throats because she’s a black and Indian woman. Not because she has popular support, not because she has vision, not because she has a platform. She received zero votes for the nomination and was anointed in back room deals.
She’s the ultimate DEI candidate, an empty suit who checks all the diversity boxes while not pissing off the capitalists in charge.
There’s plenty of other minority women out there far more capable than her but they’re probably too uppity for the capitalists.
Nothing will fundamentally change.
That’s the biden and Harris campaign in a nutshell. Vote for me I’m a black Indian woman who isn’t trump! Not vote for me I’m gonna work towards universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage, or ending wars. Nope.
Edit - right off the top of my head I’d love to see NY AG Leticia James in a larger position of power, such as president. She’s a black woman and she fucking gets shit done. And she’d greatly piss off the capitalists so it’s never going to happen.
I think Kamala was an embarrassment that deserved to be called out, Biden is evil, and the establishment often cares more about suppressing progressives than beating Republicans, but I absolutely downvoted that dumb as shit comment.
The Democrats can be responsible for failing to defeat fascism, complicit in genocide and the backsliding of civil rights, and a problem in need of active and forceful change without saying stupid things like they’re just as bad as the guy empowering Nazis, destroying the civil service, and persecuting trans people with deadly results.
The people you’re arguing with and you always seem to want the same progressive candidate, but it ain’t reflecting in the vote counts. I’m not even gonna argue from my viewpoint anymore, cause it doesn’t matter when we want the same thing. What can we do together to make sure that changes? Especially in local and state elections, that seems to be where we can make the most impact.
You’re going out and voting for every primary for progressive candidates, right? Cause we both gotta do it, cause there’s just that many Nazis out there. And we need our friends and families to do so too, and I imagine you are just the same as I am and talking with them.
So if everyone is doing their best in their small world, what’s the next step, or what are we missing in your opinion? And I’m asking this with sincerity, whether you believe it or not.
And since it’s a while to the next voting time, do you see any worthwhile plan of resistance? There’s a couple of general strike/don’t work days planned coming up, but pessimism seems strong there. How are you feeling about them or other options?
We’re not voting again. There won’t be another election. There hasn’t been free and fair elections since 2000 but most have their heads in the sand about electoral theft.
I’m done protesting. I’ve been protesting since the Iraq war. The people organizing protests are lame, want the protest to be peaceful and not annoy anyone. Fuck that. They’re such fucking losers. Completely brainwashed since birth that non-violence is the answer. The government is violent towards us every goddamn day and holds a monopoly on violence. There was a protest by me with a set time of a few hours and then everyone goes home. Total fucking losers. About as useful as making a social media post.
Give me a gun and some coordinates on where the capitalists are hiding and I’ll shoot. That’s the only way forward now. More Luigi.
Uhh, you could just post up within 5 miles of Wall Street and see about 15,000 of them on an average day. Is the US short of capitalists? Are you really not acting only because you have no targets?
Although, I guess your original message DID say “Give me a gun…”. So it seems like your only asset is some vague ambition to do something, but you seem to lack the equipment and motivation. Keep it up with your tough guy internet posts though, it’s really making an impact.
Your actions are indistinguishable from someone trying to suppress progressive action. You call for something no one is going to do (take up arms) and make moronic absolutist statements to drive rancor within progressive action.
You don’t need someone to give you coordinates or get you a gun. You could do that yourself. If you’re serious, just go do it, and mention Lemmy so we all get to say we interacted with the guy online. You don’t need our help or approval if you think that’s the next step. But you’re not going to do anything, just bitch about everyone else doing things you say are pointless. You’re just here to talk a big game and criticize everyone else to kill any sort of organizing or solidarity.
If you’re going to be a martyr, that’s a huge commitment. Right now, folks like you and I are just toeing the line and hoping someone else makes the decision for us. But if you’re going to toe that line and you’re not already armed, you’re just volunteering to be slaughtered. Get armed, train, and be ready for when your rights are violated.
I’ve been saying this since they let bush steal an election in 2000 and go on to commit war crimes without any repercussions. Or how Obama also expanded the executive branches power and authorized drone strikes on Americans abroad without due process (trump will use this in America, just wait). Or how Obama filled his cabinet with Goldman Sachs thieves and refused to hold a single banker accountable for 2008, and worse, bailed out Wall Street and let Main Street rot. Gee, I wonder where the support for trump initially came from. Can’t imagine. Couldn’t be democrats complete and utter failure to be an effective political party for the masses.
Meanwhile, the rich got richer, the government got more powerful, and our lifespans have dropped from deaths of despair and most of us are one emergency away from homelessness.
But yay! Let’s paint rainbows in the street, put pronouns in our bio and fly blm flags and kneel in congress wearing Kente cloth! (I’m queer so miss me with the hOmOpHobIc TrAnsPhObIc bullshit) That’s all the democrats have to offer anymore. Performative bullshit. They -just like the republicans - work to serve the capitalists that own them.
I’d rather the United States dissolve at this point. I feel like I’ve lived under a dictatorship of capital my entire life and as someone who doesn’t live in a “swing state” I’ve had no say on federal matters my entire life.
The US has fallen. It’s time for individual states to do what’s best for them. I want mine to leave and join Canada.
in fact supporting the fall of the US makes perfect sense. of course you campaigned against harris in the guise of protecting gaza. so you could get trump elected. so putin and all the enemies of the US could profit from your treasonous actions.
I’m gonna block your dumbass, but before that, I’ve voted in every election including the primaries only to be told my votes don’t matter because of the electoral college. Our politicians are garbage. Red states are robbing blue states of our tax dollars while holding us hostage under their fascist values. Fuck that, let them suffer without our money.
The US was a failing democracy now its a failed one.
you’d sacrifice the country in the dream that the individual states would not become little capitalist fiefdoms? apart from that quite a few states could not function on their own.
why wait to become part of canada when you can just pop over the border?
maybe you can find another way to get politically involved in the country rather than hastening its demise
You think your housing crisis is bad now, wait until there’s a bunch of American refugees coming over your border. That’s why I suggested making blue states part of Canada. You get our tax dollars we get your healthcare. You get our weapons we get out from being under a fascist dictatorship.
A few months after I voted for Biden and having realized I was fooled. But the realization came into full force after the insulting response I got from my Democratic representative in November 2023.
good old lefty progressivism reduced to: “look at what trump is doing!”
if you’re truly progressive or left, you have as much ire for the democratic party-- if not more.
You’re getting downvoted by the same people who got upset by calling out that Kamala and Biden were not good candidates.
If they were, they would have beat this idiot.
The DNC has no idea, nor does it care, what people really need or want. They don’t represent our reality. The only Dems who do are… You guessed it: Progressive.
AOC, Bernie, Ro Khana, Cori Bush, Nina Turner… None of them are supported by the establishment wing of the Democratic Party. All of them have people in mind over reelection.
It’s time for a sea change.
I love the shifting of blame. I worry we’ll still have to repeat “Binary choice with one option between a 34-time felon and insurrectionist” and people will still blame the dems for not fielding Mother Theresa. A can of spiced ham should have won.
You forgot that the other choice was a genocidal corporate stooge who barely hid his racism before bowing out too late to have a primary and sticking us with brown Hillary Clinton.
They didn’t even try to win progressive or working class votes and instead doubled down on genocide and courted the endorsement of the Cheney family.
If you can’t even pay lip service to the working class and instead just constantly talk down to them and blame them for their problems, why would they ever vote for you?
Also choosing a religious zealot who promoted suffering a sacred as you example of a perfect candidate shows how out of touch you are.
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I actually think that’s offensive to Hillary clinton, she had more substance in her fucking pinky than Kamala had at all. Kamala was the definition of an empty suit but she checked all the demographic identity politics triangulating democrat bullshit that they’re well known for. She was the ultimate DEI hire. No substance, no platform, minimal experience, and didn’t win a single fucking vote to be nominated.
If 1990s Hillary ran I would of voted for her. She genuinely seemed to want to make a positive change in the world back then, especially with healthcare.
DEI is something leftists use as an epithet. You’re definitely here to advance leftism.
She was shoved down our throats because she’s a black and Indian woman. Not because she has popular support, not because she has vision, not because she has a platform. She received zero votes for the nomination and was anointed in back room deals.
She’s the ultimate DEI candidate, an empty suit who checks all the diversity boxes while not pissing off the capitalists in charge.
There’s plenty of other minority women out there far more capable than her but they’re probably too uppity for the capitalists.
Nothing will fundamentally change.
That’s the biden and Harris campaign in a nutshell. Vote for me I’m a black Indian woman who isn’t trump! Not vote for me I’m gonna work towards universal healthcare, raising the minimum wage, or ending wars. Nope.
Edit - right off the top of my head I’d love to see NY AG Leticia James in a larger position of power, such as president. She’s a black woman and she fucking gets shit done. And she’d greatly piss off the capitalists so it’s never going to happen.
I think Kamala was an embarrassment that deserved to be called out, Biden is evil, and the establishment often cares more about suppressing progressives than beating Republicans, but I absolutely downvoted that dumb as shit comment.
The Democrats can be responsible for failing to defeat fascism, complicit in genocide and the backsliding of civil rights, and a problem in need of active and forceful change without saying stupid things like they’re just as bad as the guy empowering Nazis, destroying the civil service, and persecuting trans people with deadly results.
That’s fucking stupid online edgelord politics.
The people you’re arguing with and you always seem to want the same progressive candidate, but it ain’t reflecting in the vote counts. I’m not even gonna argue from my viewpoint anymore, cause it doesn’t matter when we want the same thing. What can we do together to make sure that changes? Especially in local and state elections, that seems to be where we can make the most impact.
You’re going out and voting for every primary for progressive candidates, right? Cause we both gotta do it, cause there’s just that many Nazis out there. And we need our friends and families to do so too, and I imagine you are just the same as I am and talking with them.
So if everyone is doing their best in their small world, what’s the next step, or what are we missing in your opinion? And I’m asking this with sincerity, whether you believe it or not.
And since it’s a while to the next voting time, do you see any worthwhile plan of resistance? There’s a couple of general strike/don’t work days planned coming up, but pessimism seems strong there. How are you feeling about them or other options?
We’re not voting again. There won’t be another election. There hasn’t been free and fair elections since 2000 but most have their heads in the sand about electoral theft.
I’m done protesting. I’ve been protesting since the Iraq war. The people organizing protests are lame, want the protest to be peaceful and not annoy anyone. Fuck that. They’re such fucking losers. Completely brainwashed since birth that non-violence is the answer. The government is violent towards us every goddamn day and holds a monopoly on violence. There was a protest by me with a set time of a few hours and then everyone goes home. Total fucking losers. About as useful as making a social media post.
Give me a gun and some coordinates on where the capitalists are hiding and I’ll shoot. That’s the only way forward now. More Luigi.
You’re so smart but you don’t know where they are? Looks like another Internet Tough Guy.
You’ve got a GPS tracker on these technofascists?
Uhh, you could just post up within 5 miles of Wall Street and see about 15,000 of them on an average day. Is the US short of capitalists? Are you really not acting only because you have no targets?
Although, I guess your original message DID say “Give me a gun…”. So it seems like your only asset is some vague ambition to do something, but you seem to lack the equipment and motivation. Keep it up with your tough guy internet posts though, it’s really making an impact.
Shooting some mid level finance manager isn’t gonna do shit but make things worse. I want a billionaire technofascist.
Your actions are indistinguishable from someone trying to suppress progressive action. You call for something no one is going to do (take up arms) and make moronic absolutist statements to drive rancor within progressive action.
You don’t need someone to give you coordinates or get you a gun. You could do that yourself. If you’re serious, just go do it, and mention Lemmy so we all get to say we interacted with the guy online. You don’t need our help or approval if you think that’s the next step. But you’re not going to do anything, just bitch about everyone else doing things you say are pointless. You’re just here to talk a big game and criticize everyone else to kill any sort of organizing or solidarity.
Protesting does not work. if it did we wouldn’t be in this fucking position.
You know what the right does? They show up fucking armed.
If you’re going to be a martyr, that’s a huge commitment. Right now, folks like you and I are just toeing the line and hoping someone else makes the decision for us. But if you’re going to toe that line and you’re not already armed, you’re just volunteering to be slaughtered. Get armed, train, and be ready for when your rights are violated.
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were you saying this throughout the election or only after it?
I’ve been saying this since they let bush steal an election in 2000 and go on to commit war crimes without any repercussions. Or how Obama also expanded the executive branches power and authorized drone strikes on Americans abroad without due process (trump will use this in America, just wait). Or how Obama filled his cabinet with Goldman Sachs thieves and refused to hold a single banker accountable for 2008, and worse, bailed out Wall Street and let Main Street rot. Gee, I wonder where the support for trump initially came from. Can’t imagine. Couldn’t be democrats complete and utter failure to be an effective political party for the masses.
Meanwhile, the rich got richer, the government got more powerful, and our lifespans have dropped from deaths of despair and most of us are one emergency away from homelessness.
But yay! Let’s paint rainbows in the street, put pronouns in our bio and fly blm flags and kneel in congress wearing Kente cloth! (I’m queer so miss me with the hOmOpHobIc TrAnsPhObIc bullshit) That’s all the democrats have to offer anymore. Performative bullshit. They -just like the republicans - work to serve the capitalists that own them.
so you helped trump get elected! congrats
Your inability to hold democrats to account is how trump got elected, genius.
so are you happy with trump in the whitehouse, would you rather have Harris?
I’d rather the United States dissolve at this point. I feel like I’ve lived under a dictatorship of capital my entire life and as someone who doesn’t live in a “swing state” I’ve had no say on federal matters my entire life.
The US has fallen. It’s time for individual states to do what’s best for them. I want mine to leave and join Canada.
in fact supporting the fall of the US makes perfect sense. of course you campaigned against harris in the guise of protecting gaza. so you could get trump elected. so putin and all the enemies of the US could profit from your treasonous actions.
I’m gonna block your dumbass, but before that, I’ve voted in every election including the primaries only to be told my votes don’t matter because of the electoral college. Our politicians are garbage. Red states are robbing blue states of our tax dollars while holding us hostage under their fascist values. Fuck that, let them suffer without our money.
The US was a failing democracy now its a failed one.
you’d sacrifice the country in the dream that the individual states would not become little capitalist fiefdoms? apart from that quite a few states could not function on their own.
why wait to become part of canada when you can just pop over the border?
maybe you can find another way to get politically involved in the country rather than hastening its demise
You think your housing crisis is bad now, wait until there’s a bunch of American refugees coming over your border. That’s why I suggested making blue states part of Canada. You get our tax dollars we get your healthcare. You get our weapons we get out from being under a fascist dictatorship.
I used to think that the Democrats were the lesser evil, now I know they are a more insidious evil with polite rhetoric.
were you saying this throughout the election or only after it?
A few months after I voted for Biden and having realized I was fooled. But the realization came into full force after the insulting response I got from my Democratic representative in November 2023.
so you helped get trump elected
No, I helped get Gaza flattened. I never voted Republican and never will. I think the DNC helped get Trump reelected.
so you think criticizing the DNC and not voting for them is the best way to keep trump out of the whitehouse?