Oh boy do I have news for you about what the US did without laws to anyone considered communist. Free speech has and will never be absolute, so it is up to us to determine what is allowed and what is not.

How well did that work out for us this time? We have concrete evidence that this is not enough and that we need to try something else at this point.

Liberalism has proven ineffective at keeping fascists out of power I say we do something else.

you’re right. On both points I feel a little like I got transported into one of the bad twilight zone episodes. The ones with out a moral that just say “damn wouldn’t that suck”

translation:

I’ve done nothing but sit on my ass and be mad that someone else isn’t taking the steps to make things better.

The usaf if given the order would absolutely bomb cities. They have done it to other less fortunate countries before.

If anything it would be 10 US territories. It would take years before it was ever allowed to become a state even if peacefully annexed which would not be how this would happen.

I think you are underestimating the might of a military that has 1 Trillion dollars a year spent on it and has over 1 million active duty members. Trump is also dumb enough to authorize the use of nuclear weapons.

I agree with you. A lot of apathetic voters will only vote for something that will benefit them not to prevent something that may harm them in my experience.

I voted. But for a lot of people it was like this,

You hear about a restaurant that only serves shit and tomatoes. So you don’t go. I understand that that isn’t really how that works but that is how so many felt about this.

Lemmy is small mastodon is a little bigger but still absolutely tiny compared to those other social media platforms. The politicians should be where their base is which is twitter and the meta platforms.

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Honestly 500k net in the DC area is low if anything.

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Either go protest and get shot or you clearly asked for your rights to be stripped away feels like a slap in the face for anyone who is directly affected by the things that is happening and is extremely demotivating. It feels like someone saying that somehow it was your individual fault that states that you are not in did not vote the way you would have liked them too.

I don’t think people outside the US realize how hard people have fought to stop this from happening. How this was a slow decent that people have been doing their best to prevent for literal decades and the people in power just kept letting it happen. I am not saying that the democrats are as bad as the republicans but they have been complacent in letting the GOP destroy all the checks and balances that were available to them in the past. They should have blocked the SC picks but did not because it would have been bad form.

If that was in place you could get banned from all of lemmy for saying that but it wouldn’t even have to come from a mod just someone with enough free time to make a couple thousand accounts. I personally like the way one of the discords im in does it where it is basically a draft from the mod team to be head mod and leads to significantly less power tripping because they will be gone in the next month.

Finding an instance that fits you is also significantly more difficult than even mastodon too.

Republicans have not cared about the decorum that the democrats have been trying to uphold since at the very least the second Obama term likely longer.

Democrats are refusing to employ the same tactics that the republicans use against them when they are in power.