Consequences

This same behaviour happens to me, but only once in a while.

The problem I have with some people (a lot of people on Reddit, not sure about Lemmy I just started) is that people will take the Democrats fecklessness and say both sides are the same, so voting for either party makes no difference. It’s literally a life and death difference if you are a from a certain caste.

You can say that both parties are a fundamental problem with this country in regards to corporate ownership, etc., while still acknowledging that the Republican party is currently trying to destroy democratic institutions and implement a fascist christian ethnostate.

The people who yammer about that are the ones donning ICE gear.

My Dad was a huge 2A nut, specifically because he thought the government will come get him. But he was explicitly afraid of brown people - terrified of Obama and the ‘radical leftists’. He prophesied that the Gummit was gonna let “illegals” take over the country, and “regular folk” wouldn’t have a home left (ie, a white christian ethnostate, which he believed the US should be)

Protests only work because of the implication that if things don’t change, the people will force a change

It will be gradual, and people will try to weather out the storm. Think, “The Grapes of Wrath” type of situation during the Great Depression.

I feel like I can actually get a somewhat of a sense of what this person is trying to communicate though. It seems like there’s an actual idea underneath all the confusion. With Trump, I’m not so sure that’s the case.

The DNC?

You hit the nail on the head there

Administrations? As if there would be more after this one? That seems a bit premature

Cotton/poly blend?

That’s a stoning

Well if you are a nomadic tribe in bronze age Mesopotamia who view women as possessions, then that makes perfect sense.

The Bible makes a ton of sense when you actually study it in an academic setting. It’s when you start getting life advice out of it when things start going down hill really fast.

Honestly, laws like the bill of rights are needed to protect us from Christians.

Maybe not officially. Yet. But there’s definitely some handwriting beginning to appear on the wall.

But in this situation, it would an abusive neighbor (the US) who has threatened to kidnap you if you leave. And police don’t exist, so it would be up to your husband or anyone else to physically come get you back.

And?

That doesn’t make it any better whatsoever.

Nah man, fuck Trump, don’t cater to his desires.

I hope more and more people start treating him like the moron he is.

Ok, but it really isn’t.

At least, it’s a distraction the same way and hitting yourself in the knee with a hammer distracts from your headache. It may be a distraction, but it’s still just as serious of a problem.

I think we can keep going back to the failure of reconstruction.

MAGA has a direct lineage from the slave holding CSA, to segregationists, southern strategy, moral majority, up through the Tea Party, the direct precursor of MAGA

The US is “too big to fail”, and therefore shouldn’t exist as it currently is.