Political Discussion and Commentary

Assumption: There is another federal US election. Assumption: That election is legitimate. Assumption: The Democrats win that legitimate US election.

It will start with "lying" on forms, "incorrect" asylum claims, "concern is over" asylum claims, and soon enough people born to illegal immigrants. Slow boiled frog and all that.

In 2022, Chris Jones, a nuclear engineer, ran for Governor of Arkansas

In this scenario, Pan-Americanism gained strength and support, prompting countries across the continent to begin discussing the idea of a supranational organization. After several meetings and discussions, the member countries founded the Continental Confederation of American States (CCAS) on April 8, 1947.

I wonder if the Germans felt like we do when Hitler was coming to power. A disbelief that normal people could be so evil, and then horror when it was somehow legitimized.

Democrats are all upset over Mamdani because he’s a Democratic Socialist? Why? I don’t get it. What’s wrong with being a Democratic Socialist. It seems like a good thing to me. I thought Democrats embraced socialism.

Just that.

The second a ceasefire was mentioned I called it and said, "Ceasefires in general never work". Because they don't.

I posted this article on c/politics and it was quickly taken down by mods. I was informed that the reason was

Discuss?

Imagine yourself pre-2016, and this presidency (2016/2024) is the subject of a movie.

i'd imagine party block where 1 large party is in an alliance with many small parties, the main party gets increased support in areas where it's close and the smaller parties get influence in politics

I was struck by the Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) moniker, as in addition Shumer and many of the Dems deserve a similar tag line. Few seem to be standing up during this upheaval nor being the leaders we need. They also seem to be chickens. Newsom, AOC, Sanders, Buttigieg, etc seems to at least be speaking out if not acting with an appropriate response.

Assuming that you (magically learn) know Mandarin to a native level if you pick China

I copied this back and forth from there:

When speaking about personal freedom and it's boundaries, I take the position of: every person must have all the freedom to do whatever they would like, until it starts to harm others or limit their freedoms.

... and the conditions that lead to his death is tantamount to murder.

I personally feel it's best for most people to just focus on a few companies. Having a lot of people focused on boycotting Tesla, Twitter, Uline and the fossil fuel industry would likely have the most success fighting against the far-right extremists and the Republican party.

I have been suspicious that my city is being used as sort of a testing ground for a full scale authoritarian takeover for a while, now. I know that sounds pretty paranoid, and I don't blame anyone for thinking that. I have been trying to tell myself that's all it is, but it's getting harder to convince myself. Things are changing here so rapidly, and I know they're changing everywhere all over the U.S. There's so much going on at once, and it's impossible to keep up with it all. But, that also means there's a lot you won't notice until it's right in front of you.

What Idiocracy lacked was politicians arguing with AI, and losing.

Sorry if this has been discussed before. I have been thinking about how fucked my family will be once he really starts rounding us up..and it hit me that the tariffs are likely not the incentive, but rather removing any options for people like me to escape.

When you see words like "legitimate" and "legal" in front of "citizen" this implies the speaker thinks there are other types of citizens. Which makes them unqualified to discuss civics. These people think their opinion matters more than rule of law. They can't be trusted. There are citizens, natural born citizens that can run for president, green card holders, and a whole dazzling list of other things but there are no illegitimate or illegal citizens.

I think this will coincide with the military parade in June.

This might be a minor issue in progressive messaging, but conservatives are not watching fox news like they used to. I'm sure a small percentage is, but most MAGAs I know personally believe that Fox news betrayed Trump, and they've switched to watching Newsmax. Also, talking to my MAGA friends and family, they believe that Newsmax is the only truly 'conservative' and thus reliable source of information, and every other source of journalism is just liberal propaganda, including Fox News. I don't exactly know what to do with this insight but I've realized that progressives and liberals keep attacking Fox News and I don't think most of us have realized that Conservatives have switched to a more underground right wing propaganda source. Just for clarification, I dont think Fox News is liberal in any way, shape, or form, but that's what some MAGA people I've talked to think. Edit: I think the danger is that the MAGA propoganda machine has gone underground, and fox news is a decoy to distract everyone from what they really think.

Trump has shown that he doesn't care about the constitution by violating the 5th and 14th amendments, and he's toying with the idea of violating the 22nd and MAGA so far has been complicit. Do you think they might say something if he comes for the guns?

https://youtu.be/DhcGSQcoM5Q - abc news where Donald throws a tantrum over what is the real hand tattoos

There has always been lying in politics, but the US has entered a new age of untruth. Fortunately, it isn't as difficult to identify as a lot of people think.

I also asked this on socialism and communism at lemmy.ml, but was advised to also ask on a non .ml community.

That's it. Anybody got any better ideas for something catchy?

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I'm from Canada and I find it very confusing that US federal workers haven't gone on strike with all the BS being pulled by DOGE. I feel pretty confident that if the same thing was done in Canada with random mass layoffs of critical services and hostile takeovers of critical infrastructure, that there would be a general strike of federal employees. Why has there been no labour action in the states?

According to the lore, Fred Trump, while in the grips of Alzheimer's, insisted on still going to work every day. And the people that surrounded him, in order to let him keep feeling powerful while minimizing the amount of damage he could do to their business dealings, would have him sit in an executive office all day signing papers.

I can't be the only one who is seeing this fucking pattern on damn loop every few years. First, leftists managed to clobber together a movement. Lets say Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter. Or we can go more recent and talk about 50501 or TeslaTakedown.

Because it was.

There’s of course the quote of DJT saying “Vote, one last time and you won’t have to vote again after that” at some evangelical event before the election. But the way I know is because unlike his first term, he has completely stopped holding rallies for his supporters.

The U.S. education system is broken. Underfunded schools, overworked teachers, and massive disparities in quality depending on where you live. Meanwhile, countries like Finland, Sweden, and Denmark consistently rank among the best in the world.

If a “Tax the Rich” party was created:

I started looking through my post history to see if there were any swarmy posts I could use to meme about how all the support for Palestine has virtually vanished.

I wasn't fully convinced before that Putin has Trump in his pocket, but after that stunt, I am convinced that he is under Putin's thumb. Trump and co. could have had marching orders from Putin to do exactly that. Also, this is something that Putin have done and would do, publicly humiliating someone on live TV.

I gather that congress required the creation of USAID and provided funds for it through the Foreign Assistance Act. Through that act the President is given power (and requirement?) to execute the mission, with a lot of rules to guide the execution. So if the USAID agency is being dismantled, is the President not still required to fulfill the mission of the Foreign Assistance Act?

I think it has become pretty clear That corporations have completely taken over the U.S.

We can try a criminal case with the slimmest possible amount of information. Why is bad faith action not criminal in modern democracy. It amounts to fraud of the highest degree. To me the most blatant form is those elected representatives who changed political party after election, but includes any elected official acting contrary to the platform they were elected on.

The Democrats are still playing old-school politics and it cost them the election. The Republicans have apparently given over to the oligarchs. A party that actually represents the working class could break the stranglehold that the two-party system has on us.

I remember the Hilary PUMA voters protesting Obama’s victory in 2008, but I don’t remember them saying it was rigged.

If it gets america out of the war trade I'm for it but this is just another example how russia has perfectly positioned itself to deconstruct america as a global power.

Title. It seems like the police just chose a random person to have someone to prosecute.

They have no moral fortitude. They are not principled or intelligent. Every time they push the envelope there is a collective pause between all right wing media so they can collaborate on talking points before anyone says something off message.

Would it be antithetical? Would it help them push the agenda? Could it be an end game?

I watched brandon herrera's video recently about how hed dismantle the ATF from within and it left me wondering why anyone thinks trump is pro gun. Hes a new york conman and an aspiring dictator, doesnt exactly scream gun nut to me.

THIS IS NOT A TROLL. I’d like a deeper dive into this as a black man.