I mean, who wants to make a deal with an admin, when every 4 years it can go back on its word?
This certainly isn’t unique to the US. It may be more pronounced here at this moment in time but that wouldn’t have been true 20 years ago. The system hasn’t changed in that time. The same can happen anywhere else with the right conditions.
You guys keep bringing this up as if the day when those non-voters start voting for Democrats is right around the corner. The percentage of people who don’t vote hasn’t changed much in 100 years. Quit wasting words on people who will never matter in this context.
The word consuming is deeply unsettling in this context. More so than high velocity plastic shrapnel, which is surprising
You can’t infringe on the freedoms of others even if doing so would save other people’s lives. That’s un-American.
Unrelated, but I heard there’s a trans cross country runner a few states over who’s winning most of the regional track meets. We have to put a stop to that at all costs.
They said they were going to run government like a business. Businesses do this shit all the time.
Found one of the dumb ones
I’m sorry but if you’re a dumb adult in 2025 and you don’t have a physiological impairment that’s on you. There’s more free educational information on the internet today than you could find in the library at Harvard or Princeton 50 years ago. Choosing not to look at any of it isn’t someone else’s fault no matter how much they may benefit from you continuing on in your dumb ways.
I understand how it happens and I agree that the people making and spreading the propaganda deserve more of the blame than those consuming it. However, I don’t think the consumers get a free pass. We (including myself because I understand that I am not immune to propaganda) all have the responsibility to view information critically and not let our biases and our environments distort our view of reality. In the cases where I fail to do so I am ultimately to blame for that. The same is true for all of us. Blaming manipulators lets people avoid taking responsibility for allowing themselves to be manipulated and that is not going to help us solve this problem.
I wonder what sort of illegal methods of search they could be concealing? A system capable of finding someone under those circumstances would need to have vast resources available to it and we would likely be aware of its existence through whistleblower revelations if not directly. However, since we don’t know of anything like that I find this theory to be (N)ot (S)pecifically (A)chievable.
Sure, but that view makes it sound like they are helpless victims in all this. They have access to the internet just like we do. They fall for the propaganda despite all evidence to the contrary and I only see two possibilities that can explain that; they are stupid or they want all that hateful stuff to be true so badly that they choose to shut out everything else. Neither explanation makes them anything other than shitty, selfish people.
so why not just have at him?
Money, it’s always money. I’m not sure if it is capitalism in general or American culture specifically but our system rewards greedy people so much that they are essentially all we have left in positions of power. Principled leaders barely exist, just craven pretenders who view power as another means to enrich themselves.
I don’t recall if this is where I originally heard it but it gives you a place to start: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-how-do-they-want-to-change-their-government/
Well statistically about 30% of people worldwide don’t mind fascism so that’s hundreds of millions of people too. I’m not sure I’d be willing to say a lack of loving relationships is the primary cause of that but I doubt solving that problem would hurt.
How is that even possible? I mean Nazis have got to be at the tippy top of the Jew-hating hierarchy, right?
He also said he’s not sure if we need to uphold due process in all situations. I’m willing to concede the point in his case if it means we can hang him tomorrow.
I think so. Spit on your hands and touch all the door handles you can find. Introduce yourself with a handshake to everyone you encounter. Buy a MAGA hat and see if you can get a picture or something with Trump. Turn yourself into a full on bio weapon that exclusively targets fascists.
Are you really saying that one of the richest men in the world, who bought an election and does essentially whatever he wants with impunity, hasn’t won already?