Nice to have enough privelege to not care about the difference between corrupt politician and a clear eyed fascist. I guess you believe you and your family is safe from the icetapo, your financial situation is good enough to survive anything, and your house wouldn’t be bombed.
Enjoy this feeling while you can.
You can call Merrick Garland a lot of things, sniveling coward, a centrist moron, but you can’t call him trump sympathizer if you’re even a little bit serious
Well, in this case we’re talking about websearch, and there is no non-american websearch, so you don’t have many options.
Yeah, the perpetual desire to concede in hopes that the right will be reasonable in return proved to be very, demonstrably wrong
Last time they had difinitive control over the government was 2010 which they used to introduce obamacare. The 50 50 split of congress during last biden wasn’t enough to do anything legally.
You could make a point that it’s obvious that laws don’t exist, and dems should’ve done what cons are doing now illegally, but that’s not dems are, not what their voting base is comfortable with, and there is an argument that it wouldn’t do the country any good anyway.
If you listen to a lot of the perpetually online folks, even now, you’d think Gaza genocide is the only thing on the ballot, on any ballot, ever. You’re not allowed to vote even for a school board member if they dare to talk about anything but how they personally gonna stop a genocide.
Conservatives might use him to run as one of them, as a “used to be”, they eat this shit up.
Not actively working against this specific genocide in this specific country is bad, very bad, disqualifying. Unless you also make everyone shit their pants forever, then it’s OK to do whatever genocide you want, it doesn’t matter actually.
I fear that this all-or-nothing attitude brings more harm than good. If leads to the thinking that if nothing is perfect nothing should be done anyway. More than once people were saying to me that they’ve read that they can get your data anyway so there is no difference between a firefox with adblock on linux and google chrome on windows 11 with all the trackers active.
And this is exactly the attitude that those who are selling our data want us to have.
To be honest, this is one of those times where I would say that it’s not that bad. Can’t expect a company to outright violate the laws of the country they’re registered in, you need to be friends with Trump to do that. If they keep their shit away from all the corpo vultures and only comply with direct subpoenas, it’s probably the best we can hope for.
208 dems didn’t do that, but your rhetoric deliberately ignores that to promote apathy and ultimately elect more gop
In America people don’t vote, land votes
American people outside of very specific online bubbles aren’t, on average, moral or smart people. The amount of “Well, I hate Trump and I voted Biden, but I wouldn’t vote for a radical socialist communist who is, you know and you know” that I’ve heard both from inside the US and, which is very surprising, outside of the US, is both deeply concerning, and made me lose all the hope in the north American continent.
Voting patterns repeatedly show that those people are more prevalent and/or active than normal humans.
I guess so, but I don’t think even with those people included, the statistics will change a lot. Unless there is way more people who were barred from voting, like, millions more. Which means there is so much deeper issue underlying all that, and nobody really talks and knows about it. Which will be so much worse.
Big if true. Like, enormous if true.
I’d say it is as powerful. It’s just Americans stopped believing in their own system, and now their cars are moving the same speed no matter what colour they paint it. They grew too isolated and now they can’t get the power of community to connect back to the source of collective.
If laws meant anything, Trump would be serving his first of many lifetime prison sentences right now. But laws only work as long as people believe they should, and yet another law wouldn’t help that.
I guess, as a rich capitalist, he helped to escalate the issue.
It’s not that the system is bad, although it’s not robust enough, it’s that it was totally taken over, and no system can survive that. Congress isn’t inactive and complicit, it is, as well as all the other branches, under complete control of the same group of people it was supposed to keep in check, and that happened as a consequence of decades of direct political action.
People felt victim of apathysation and surrendered control of their country to grifters and frauds. That happens sometimes. Better luck next time.
Not for the lack of trying.