They want to read the book so they’ll understand the live action play when it happens in real life.

Come on now don’t bring up that in one of the “left most” and most populous state in the union that people are actually pretty non leftist, it might contradict some of their feel based arguments.

America is not full of progressives. I don’t know why people here can never be convinced otherwise.

Enjoy Trump’s tariffs because that is somehow his answer to inflation.

The cycle of political crisis generation and complacency has gone down from 8 years to 4 in the last forty years. People grew complacent over Clinton’s two terms and then allowed GWB to happen, same with Obama and Trump, now we’re putting Democrats in there to clean up after even worse crises than before, and putting Republicans back there after the last mess isn’t even fully cleaned up.

You can be doing two things at once.

Obviously, war aide isn’t “for peace” which is what I was saying no to.

But who cares? You got your way nobody wanted to vote for Harris. Enjoy the celebration.

Guerrilla resistance could prevent the US military from ever implementing full-on fascism in this country no matter the military, to that much I agree. But you’d need people to give a shit. They really do not seem to.

Neo-liberals (diet conservatives basically) are so busy jerking themselves off about how great they are, forgot why the second amendment exists.

That isn’t why the second amendment exists, but you’re too busy jerking yourself off about how much better you are than “liberals” to know that.

Nobody needed proof.

Lol quite the counterargument. 😆

Oh well, you’ve gotten your way Harris lost to Trump. I’m sure you’ll badger his supporters and push on him to end the war peacefully and won’t just spend all of your time writing up new Democrats bad and libs bad posts on lemmy.

Democrats are NOT leftists, they’re center right at best.

Americans are NOT leftists, they’re center right at best.

Edit: Also, everyone loves to blame Democrats for turning conservative after Jimmy Carter, but have you looked at the election results from 1980? 1984? 1988?

You run to represent the population you have, not the one you wish for.

No, they were trying to have peace talks with Netanyahu for peace.

Netanyahu was able to successfully run the clock out on them, and now they have close to zero leverage because even if Biden single-handedly impounded the funds for Israeli aide, they still have plenty of powder left to blow through and Trump will resume the flow of aide in two months.

Why would he use this process instead of his stated approach of using the alien enemies act?

Oh, you just posted this because, like many other people claiming “I did the research”, you have no idea how to do research.

Why would his attitude have to change with Harris vs his current attitude with Biden?

Because Biden and Harris and various other Democrats wanted peace and were genuinely concerned about the people in the region caught up in the conflict. Trump gives absolutely no shits about any of it and neither do Republicans who will allocate the funds because that’s how our government works.

Netanyahu was filibustering the peace process hoping for Trump to win while he ran out the clock. If he, like Putin, were forced to deal with Harris instead of Trump over the next four years his attitude would’ve changed after the results were announced.

I agree that they didn’t really give him a fair shake in 2016…however, they thought they were representing their best interests at the time and that a “fascism” proxy would lose handily to a “socialism” proxy in Sanders. They or may not have been right, and there is a lot of debate about that and I’m honestly not sure myself what to believe. He was never a serious candidate in that race and everyone probably including his own supporters knew that. In 2020, he got much closer to securing the nomination and that is why we saw the beginning of the attacks the media will toss at any Bernie-like candidate.

Your truck and your cock are alike: they’re both useless garbage that nobody with a functioning brain cell would want to touch.

I’m a bit skeptical that the billionaire-owned media will support honest reporting of a candidate that threatens their power.

I 100% share in your skepticism.

This is where a lot of the online talk about “the DNC” gets me. Like sure, the DNC wants their preferred candidate as an organizing body I’m sure, but the media did everything it could to keep Bernie from winning the nomination as well. I remember people on MSNBC of all places talking about how dangerous nominating Bernie Sanders would be.

They attack it in straightforward ways (calling them “communists”, “socialists”, “Marxists”) in more republican-leaning media, and they attack it in other, less straightforward means in other type of media (calling the plans “stupid”, saying that they’ll “never work” that we “don’t have the money”, or “it’ll cost more in taxes!”).

I just don’t see it at all. I wish I was more hopeful about this stuff but with the individualistic behavior of the American populace, the mass media landscape, and the way the Internet has been sculpted into something palatable or even usable by the oligarchs to get what they want (perhaps even more cheaply than it was in traditional media) I just don’t believe it is possible to win with some “better message”.

The only thing I could see saving this country is a groundswell of old-style civic behavior where people largely tune out or drop off from mass media and social media and start connecting with their neighbors and building actual community. I am not optimistic about that either.

Oh, gotcha. Well, yeah I think I agree actually.

Your car / truck / motorcycle is lame and your exes all laugh together about how bad you are in bed.

The more right the US shifts, the more it will be controlled by money over masses.

I’m curious as to why did you made this statement. Like do you think the US isn’t already fully “controlled by money over masses”?

I legitimately don’t understand what people think America is as a country. All I see everywhere I go in this country is an orgiastic celebration of material wealth and those who have it over all else.

We’ve been controlled by “money over masses” my entire existence. I seriously have zero understanding of what online leftists are even talking about when they talk about solidarity and community. I’ve lived in many different places here and I felt the same sense of individualism and capital above all else everywhere I’ve been.