Yes yes, so cathartic to imagine. But that’s all it is.
Momentary catharsis. You can’t build anything out of it, cus if you did, it’s ultimately just, “round up all the bad people who disagree with me, let them die, and then everything will be better!” and oops, that’s just what Trump is doing
A person’s actions make them what they are. If this neighbor is calling ICE on people, sure yeah they’re a fascist.
But if all this lady did was vote for Trump, that’s not really enough. That’s barley one action, from over half a year ago. Less than that, if its not even in a swing state. If people are showing regret after seeing whats been happening, fuck I don’t know maybe you grow a bigger coalition with honey than with vinegar.
you and the (probably fake) twitter post demonstrate the most important part of US politics:
It’s about making sure the right people suffer. Chuds vote for Trump not because they like him particularly, but because it upsets the liberal in their life. When there are consequences, it’s not the role of liberals to meet that suffering with a mutually positive vision for the future, but instead to point and go ner ner you deserve it! And the next time Democrats are in control, it’s the liberals duty to ignore all the longstanding problems and suffering that has continued through every administration, and instead point to the stock market and say But the economy is actually good dummy!
And the most important thing is that we never expect our government to do anything but dole out suffering to this or that group of people.
It’s when you start including structures within cells that the complexity moves beyond anything we’re currently capable of computing.
Self Driving is only safer than people in absolutely pristine road conditions with no inclement weather and no construction. As soon as anything disrupts “normal” road conditions, self driving becomes significantly more dangerous than a human driving.
speaking of an unrelated chip on one’s shoulder…
I don’t really see how deregulation is supposed to stop investors from turning living spaces into a speculative asset.
No argument from me. What Constantinople was to Rome, the US is to the British.
People are right to say Dems are different when it comes to domestic policy, but they agree with Republicans on almost all foreign policy decisions. A significant portion of the criticisms Democrat representatives made of the recent Iran bombings amounted to, “Hey, you didn’t give us a chance to agree wholeheartedly!”
And most of this “slide into fascism” is just taking foreign policies and applying them domestically. In that sense, Democrats hold a lot of the blame as well.
Lighting is usually a good giveaway.
Take this alpaca(?). Standing outside, casting a relatively clear shadow, and yet still mostly lit uniformly. The background doesn’t necessarily contradict where the sun is supposed to be, but it also doesn’t seem give any support to it either.
There was a bit of a moment after the USSR dissolved where the US was just kinda spinning its wheels without any clear purpose. We still had all the institutions for weapons manufacturing, intelligence gathering, financial strong-arming – they were still doing their thing, but without an overall narrative to give a unified sense of purpose.
You can almost imagine 9/11 being somewhat of a relief – like, oh thank god a clear external enemy, now we don’t have to struggle justifying our continued existence. And, of course, now our leaders can’t agree on weather we’re in existential conflict with Russia or China or both. This go round, we are the crumbling gerontocracy.
Everyone’s always quick to declare the beginning of World War 3, to pass every event through that lens. Inadvertently, it provides cover for the fact that Cold War 2 already started.
you’re life decisions aren’t gonna change anything, sometimes you just grow up to be a moth
Terrorism is internationally recognized as when a group or organization unaffiliated with a recognized government uses violence to achieve a political goal. “Terrorist state” is a contradiction in terms.
Netanyahu is leading a genocide and starting wars, all to avoid the regular democratic and legal process of Israel. Why are you carrying water for him?
so is there an approach you wouldn’t dance around the R word to describe?
No, the BPAs in it disrupt the endocrine system and lead to cardiovascular disease. I’ve also heard it’s carcinogenic. Really should not be described as anything like synthetic estrogen.
I don’t wanna jinx it, but
Keynesian economic policy would give our institutions (and the ruling class) a new lease on life. Unfortunately, these are also the same institutions that spent the last 70 years stripping out everything but the military make-work programmes. I don’t think our leaders, any of them, ideologically capable of recognizing any of the benefits of returning to that compromise.
The Trump administration should absolutely face consequences for what they’ve done. But they wont. Both wings of the american political establishment are very keen on the idea that people in power shouldn’t face legal consequences for their actions. I’d be shocked if Democrats even consider so much as clearing out ICE.
I’m saying it would be stupid to include voters in those (purely hypothetical) consequences. If we start blaming voters for what those in power do, none of us are innocent. Obama has just as much on his head as Bush – it would be absurd to transfer that down onto the overall electorate.