ITT: small, shithole country thinks it’s elections matter even slightly to the rest of the world.
I made these pictures because I don’t think that arguments like “Trump is a threat to democracy” are something his supporters agree with. Maybe people could share these things in groups they know in these last couple days before the election.
Their goto response to things like this is, “Even the devil can quote scripture - nice try, Satan.”
Really? Because I recall the first woman hung in Salem for witchcraft was hung because being unable to say the Lord’s prayer in english(she spoke gaelic) means you’re a witch.
I wonder which one is canonically correct? Can the devil say bible words or not? Or is it specifically the lords prayer? Because if that’s it then we can prove we ARENT the devil.
I hate religious rhetoric so much. My brain hurts now trying to make it make sense.
I don’t know exactly how bad a second Trump term would be, but I’d really rather not find out. At best it will be embarrassing and absurd, at worst it would be devastating and catastrophic for countless millions, both inside and outside the US.
Right off the top of my head.
- Ukraine? Fucked
- Taiwan? Fucked
- Palestinians? Triple fucked (as bad as the Dems are, a Trump win would remove all barriers).
- LGBTQ+? Fucked
- Women? Fucked
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Public schools? Fucked
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Labor rights? Fucked
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Environment? Fucked
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Science-based medicine? Fucked
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Your ability to vote? Fucked
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Your freedom of speech? Fucked
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Children within proximity of religious figures and republican politicians… (see below)
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(TRUMP) Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky & Former Campbell County Judge, Served as a judge, school board member and city solicitor, forced 19 victims to perform sex acts, including seven who were minors under 16. Pled guilty on February 11, 2018 and was sentenced to serve 20 years in prison. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/05/03/former-judge-tim-nolan-could-sentenced-today-more-drama-could-get-way/577947002/
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(TRUMP) Republican George Nader, Trump Foreign Policy Adviser, sentenced to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography and transporting a minor into the United States for sex. https://www.courthousenews.com/child-sex-trafficker-from-trump-tower-meeting-gets-10-year-sentence/
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(TRUMP) Republican Ralph Shortey, a former Oklahoma state senator & Trump’s Oklahoma campaign chair, was indicted on four counts of human trafficking and child pornography. Pled guilty to a federal charge of child sex trafficking after hiring a 17-year-old boy for sex. Sentenced to 15 years in prison, in addition to ten years of supervised release and ordered to pay $125,000 in restitution. https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-s-oklahoma-campaign-chair-plead-guilt-child-sex-trafficking-n822461
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Republican Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Illinois Congressman and one of the highest-ranking U.S. politicians to ever go to prison, molested at least four boys as young as 14 years of age when he coached wrestling at an Illinois High School. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, two years’ supervised release, and a $250,000 fine. A civil case was due back in court for a status hearing on Jan. 8, 2021 at the courthouse to further address the jury trial. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/ex-u-s-house-speaker-dennis-hastert-starts-prison-term
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Republican Minnesota State Representative Jim Knoblach Drops Out Of Race After Daughter Says He Molested Her For More Than Ten Years 22 Sep 2018 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/22/lawmaker-quits-race-after-daughter-says-he-molested-her-more-than-decade/?utm_term=.8ac8527c7f43
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Republican Jayson Boebert, husband of Q-ANON Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert of Colorado, was arrested in Jan. 2004 after allegedly exposing his penis to two women at a bowling alley, according to an arrest affidavit. Lauren Boebert (then a minor at 17 and known as Lauren Opal Roberts) was also there. He pleaded guilty to public indecency and lewd exposure involving minors. https://nypost.com/2021/01/16/gop-rep-lauren-boebert-and-husband-have-racked-up-arrests/
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Republican congressman and anti-gay activist Robert Bauman was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old boy he picked up at a gay bar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bauman
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Republican Committee Chairman Jeffrey Patti was arrested for distributing a video clip of a 5-year-old girl being raped. https://web.archive.org/web/20171129052114/http://www.njherald.com/article/20060510/ARTICLE/305109971
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**Republican Joseph Dendy, Cobb County GA Republican Party Chairman & Sunday School Teacher,**was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted on four counts of child molestation, four counts of first-degree cruelty to children, three counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, and one count each of aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation. https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/former-gop-chairman-arrested-on-child-molestation-charges
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Republican anti-abortion activist Howard Scott Heldreth is a convicted child rapist in Florida. https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/sops/flyer.jsf?personId=28587
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Republican director of the “Young Republican Federation” Nicholas Elizondo molested his 6-year old daughter and was sentenced to six years in prison. https://bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/registered-sex-offender-keeps-custody-of-daughter
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Republican Kentucky state Representative & pastor Dan Johnson, committed suicide after an exposé revealed his serial lies, suspected arson, criminal church, racism, accused rape of a teen and more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Johnson_(Kentucky_politician)
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Republican County Commissioner David Swartz pleaded guilty to molesting two girls under the age of 11 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison. http://www.lanternproject.org.uk/library/child-abuse-arrests-and-court-cases/child-abuse-arrests-trials-and-proceedings/ex-county-commissioner-admits-sexual-abuse-of-girl/
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Republican judge Mark Pazuhanich pleaded no contest to fondling a 10-year old girl and was sentenced to 10 years probation. http://www.poconorecord.com/article/20120426/NEWS90/204260334
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Republican legislator Edison Misla Aldarondo was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping his daughter between the ages of 9 and 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison_Misla_Aldarondo
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Republican Mayor Philip Giordano is serving a 37-year sentence in federal prison for sexually abusing 8 and 10-year old girls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Giordano
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Republican activist and Christian Coalition leader Beverly Russell admitted to an incestuous relationship with his step daughter. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/02/opinion/journal-beverly-russell-s-prayers.html
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Republican activist Marty Glickman (a.k.a. “Republican Marty”), was taken into custody by Florida police on four counts of unlawful sexual activity with an underage girl https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same
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Republican Senate candidate John Hathaway was accused of having sex with his 12-year old baby sitter and withdrew his candidacy after the allegations were reported in the media. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/06/06/us/politics-the-senate-maine-candidate-again-faces-1990-child-sex-accusation.html
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Republican preacher Stephen White, who demanded “a return to traditional values”, was sentenced to jail after offering $20 to a 14-year-old boy for permission to perform oral sex on him. http://www.thedp.com/article/2004/01/brother_stephen_convicted_of_soliciting_sex
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Republican Party leader Paul Ingram pleaded guilty to six counts of raping his daughters and served 14 years in federal prison. https://culteducation.com/group/1255-false-memories/6514-man-in-notorious-sex-case-finishes-term.html
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Republican election board official Kevin Coan was sentenced to two years probation for soliciting sex over the internet from a 14-year old girl. https://www.semissourian.com/story/57773.html
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Republican politician Andrew Buhr was charged with two counts of first degree sodomy with a 13-year old boy. https://www.arktimes.com/TheHoglawyer/archives/2007/08/28/the-latest-republican-sex-scandals-plural---more-of-the-same
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Republican politician Keith Westmoreland was arrested on seven felony counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition to girls under the age of 16 (i.e. exposing himself to children). http://www.chattanoogan.com/2002/6/21/23202/Tennessee-Legislator-Commits-Suicide.aspx
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Republican County Councilman Keola Childs pleaded guilty to molesting a male child. http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/Oct/08/ln/hawaii710080338.html
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Republican candidate Richard Gardner admitted to molesting his two daughters. https://lasvegassun.com/news/2002/oct/14/assembly-candidate-gardner-ruled-ineligible-due-to/
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Republican City Councilman Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr. pleaded no contest to raping a 15 year-old girl and served 6-months in prison. https://www.wgal.com/article/council-accepts-resignation-of-member-imprisoned-for-rape/6189408
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Republican activist Parker J. Bena pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on his home computer and was sentenced to 30 months in prison http://www.salem-news.com/articles/october172007/repubscandals101707.php
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Republican strategist and Citadel Military College graduate Robin Vanderwall was convicted in Virginia on five counts of soliciting sex from boys and girls over the internet. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Robin_Vanderwall
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Republican city councilman Mark Harris, described as a “good military man / church goer,” was convicted of repeatedly having sex with an 11-year-old girl and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
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Republican Brandon Hixon, Idaho State Representative, resigned while under criminal investigation for molesting two girls, including a young female relative for more than 10 years, then killed himself three months later, shortly before his ex-wife and two others were to testify before a grand jury. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brandon-hixon-former-idaho-lawmaker-facing-sex-abuse-inquiry-kills-himself/
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Republican Tony Yocham, Hamilton, TX Chief of Police, was arrested by Texas Rangers on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a child. https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county-chief-of-police-arrested-for-continuous-abuse-of-a-child
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Republican Nathan Larson of the Virginia House of Delegates is a self-confessed pedophile and white supremacist. Was arrested on felony charges for kidnapping, child abduction, soliciting child pornography from a minor and meeting a child for the intention of sex. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alleged-pedophile-white-supremacist-arrested-kidnapping-12-yr-old-girl-n1251832
- **NOTE: so here’s a website with [a list of about 1000](https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/10/23/1806673/
Have some Lemmy Gold!
Thank you for your service.
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Latino immigrants? Fucked. Muslim immigrants? Fucked. Economy? Fucked. Healthcare? Fucked. Education? Fucked.
And then there’s those Haitian immigrants …
Climate? Fucked. Safety? Fucked.
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Your armband is showing…
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If you think that all white people are supposed to be on the same team against everyone else and that not subscribing to your sick ideology is hatred, please remove all of you from the planet.
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South Korea (NK); NATO (he’s pull us out of it); the baltic states (Russia will likely try to invade, after the previous one) Finland (same); Mexico (Trump will probably try to invade at some point)
So much fearmongering. I’m new to Lemmy, and it seems to me that the Kamala campaign has infected Lemmy as well, just like they have Reddit. Looks like I’m not safe from leftist echochambers even after switching to Lemmy.
If supporting Kamala is your definition of a leftist echochamber you clearly haven’t browsed Lemmy much
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Leftists on lemmygrad and hexbear don’t support Kamala. You’re on lemmy.world tho so I don’t blame you for not knowing.
How many lemmies are there? Could you please teach me how to use this place… or places??? Idk.
There are a lot of Lemmy instances (or lemmies) out there. I don’t even know how many my self 😅.
Each instances are characterized by their set of rules and moderation styles. You can see them through join-lemmy.org/instances as well as their description. To see a user’s instance, just look at the domain after their username and the @.
Usually each instances can decide if they want to be able to interact with users and communities from a certain instance. That’s called being federated.
Sometimes tho they don’t think an instance’s userbase or community follows their rules, so they can decide to cut all interactions with them. That’s called being defederated.
The instance you are on, lemmy.world, is ironically, very US centered, and is the most popular instance. It’s defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, so you will never see posts from them on lemmy.world unless it’s a screenshot or something.
Since I’m on lemmy.ml tho, I can see posts from lemmy.world, hexbear and lemmygrad.
The benifit of this is that each instance can curate their experience how they see fit. If you think a moderator is being too trigger-happy on an instance, or you don’t agree on how lenient they are (or whatever other reason), you can migrate to another instance. So let’s say you want to go to lemmy.ml (which I highly doubt you would, but just an example), you go into your account settings, export your data, create your lemmy.ml account and import it. Currently it doesn’t support importing comments, but the devs are working on it.
I’m not the best at explaining things, but I’m sure !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca could help.
Thanks. You did an amazing job at explaining it. I understand it better :)
They left out one other important thing - like how you can see and interpret with users on other instances, each instance also has its own communities, and the community names are also @ whichever server hosts them. For example, there are multiple politics communities.
And groups hosting a Lemmy instances range from the Lemmy devs to a bunch of tankies to instances like the one I’m from, which is run by a group called SDF that’s been around since the 80s and had its start as a dialup anime BBS.
I use lemmyverse.net for finding communities
Hell, a large portion of us outside of grad and hexbear don’t exactly like Harris. Sure is a helluva lot better than a bald faced fascist though.
Fearmongering? The republican presidential candidate talked about using the national guard / military on “radical leftists”/“the enemy within”. If that’s not a threat/fascism, what is?
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Here ya go bud.
I understand wanting out of echo chambers but this has been everywhere for awhile.
I’ll do more research on this.
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Yes, I do. The media has a reputation of taking things Trump says out of context to the point where you’d have to go look for raw interview footage to confirm for yourself.
Do you like cram the night before a test as well? I’ve been watching his interviews and rallies intently up till now, I don’t understand this desire to procrastinate homework while talking like you did the assignment.
That’s what I’ve been asking the magabrainz in my life when they object to the f-word. I ask them if this doesn’t count as fascism, what would count, in their view?
So far, no cogent responses. All emoting.
What exactly were you expecting when you shifted to the Reddit alternative whose main developers were communist? You’re either clueless or a bot.
If you read my comment, I said I’m new here. That is my first ever comment here. How was I supposed to know that the website was being ran by tankies? I’ve jumped from the frying pan into the fire. I can’t escape far leftists. And they want to put a communist and a known warmonger in office. We’re so cooked.
Asking as a non US citizen: why do you believe Trump is better than Kamala? Just objectively curious.
It’s not Trump that I believe in. It’s RFK Jr. But since RFK Jr joined forces with Trump, a vote for Trump is a vote for RFK Jr. Any genuine RFK Jr supporter knows that.
First, A lot of the far-left authoritarian users are in other instances, like lemmy.ml. Those communities are easy to avoid and users from there easily identified.
Second, I can only guess you’re talking about Harris when speaking “a communist and a known war monger”. Speaking as a former libertarian Republican (who left the party when Trump took over), Harris isn’t communist or far left. That’s 100% right-wing propaganda. America’s Democratic party is pretty conservative compared to liberal and leftist parties in Europe and isn’t that much to the left of the pre-Trump Republican party.
As for the known warmonger, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
How was I supposed to know that the website was being ran by tankies?
Um, tankies? I don’t think that means what you think it means.
A tankie is another name for a communist.
That’s simply not true, but by happenstance the particular communists in question are tankies.
Evidently clueless in more way than one. No worries botski
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Lol what? What discord server? You may find that even discord is slightly looked down upon here.
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Um, what?
You aren’t welcome here. Bounce on back to Reddit.
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Lmao if Kamala was a communist more people on Lemmy.ml would’ve voted for her.
tankie
🤨 I’ve never heard a right-winger, or even a liberal use that term.
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In their defence why would you expect them to know about the political stance of the devs?
Honestly, I think they’re a troll account. In general Lemmy took a bit more effort for me personally to sign up to vs Reddit, I had to figure out an instance and roughly how it worked before signing up and the political stance of the devs came up. I mostly assumed most people went through a similar process.
I think he’s a symptom of a much larger disease. The people behind him, the evangelicals, non college educated whites, the climate change deniers, the industrialists who fight every regulation, the behind closed doors racists. These are the democracy extinction harbingers.
I’ve been saying for a while, George W. Bush is the one who took the door off its hinges and sold it, Trump is just the inevitable crackhead who walked in and started living in the kitchen.
Or it could be regular family people that are sick of seeing their taxes going to countries not even in NATO. Or the fact that the inflation during this administration has American choosing food or medicine. Or the fact that during this administration housing has become only a dream. Or the facts that the current administration opened the boarder to bring cheap labor to replace us. Yeah great current administration!
You can do all that stuff and still not support a racist asshole
Or it could be regular family people that are sick of seeing their taxes going to countries not even in NATO.
I thought republicans didn’t even like NATO, what’s the butthurt about this?
Or the fact that the inflation during this administration has American choosing food or medicine.
We had to choose that long before this administration. The primary source of inflation is corporate greed and the top 0.1% demanding more from the rest of us, while paying less themselves, a position they only get away with because of conservatives.
Or the fact that during this administration housing has become only a dream.
Because there are no penalties or dis-incentives for corporations not to buy up all the land and houses. Every time we try to impose such rules, it gets shot down by republicans.
Or the facts that the current administration opened the boarder to bring cheap labor to replace us.
Border. Also, the implied violence and expulsion against undocumented workers is what enables employers to pay them such a cheap wage and enforce abysmal working conditions on them. The correct solution is to provide an easy path for work visas, and heavily penalize companies for hiring undocumented workers. You’ll never guess who is against doing that though…
Your comment is peak “stick in bicycle” meme.
Im not a republican!
Food prices inflated during the current administration, food was super affordable. What did Biden do to try and control inflation? Nothing could care less.
Again housing was affordable during the trump administration its not affordable anymore and if the dems win housing will just continue to be un affordable. Its been 4 years and they have done nothing!
They opened the boarder to replace you open your eyes man. No body does anything out of the kindness of their hearts.
You voting for this current mess is the bicycle meme lol
Thank your buddy Putin for throwing the wheat prices off all over the globe. It’s not just the US that has felt inflation. But your head is so far up your ass you can’t recognize that.
Im not a republican!
Press ‘X’ to doubt.
Food prices inflated during the current administration, food was super affordable. What did Biden do to try and control inflation? Nothing could care less.
Which grocery company does Biden run where he can decide to reduce the prices?
Again housing was affordable during the trump administration its not affordable anymore and if the dems win housing will just continue to be un affordable. Its been 4 years and they have done nothing!
As someone who had to look for housing 3 times during Trump’s administration: no, it wasn’t affordable.
They opened the boarder to replace you open your eyes man.
Who is “They”?
No body does anything out of the kindness of their hearts.
No shit. Is that why you are voting for the orange fascist?
Then dont assume right and whats the point of assuming? I correct you and you still doubt it lol ok I see why you want to vote for “Them”.
Which grocery store does trump own cause he had way better prices.
But you found a home now its unaffordable 80% increase in the last 4 years. Thanks Biden you the best!
They are them!
Im voting for my interest not against it!
Who is “They” again?
Grocery prices were “good” during the end of the trump admin because grocery purchases were waaaay down during the global pandemic. Are you saying you’d prefer a global pandemic to paying hiked up prices for eggs?
I actually bought my first home this year, whaddya know.
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Trump was already president and it was the best 4 years for Americans. Everything started to suck when Biden became president and Trump warned us that this would happen. Prices for everything inflated homes are only for huge corps to purchase yeah great great administration. They were better under trump and thats a fact. I’m not looking to make history with a women president I’m looking to make money for my future self and family.
The ‘everything started to suck’ came with COVID, not with a presidential administration. To the extent that inflation and everything ultimately got away from us, that started mostly under Trump’s watch, but even then I don’t think I can blame Trump for the bad economy stuff, except maybe the degree to which he escalated trade war with China, but Biden has been happy to continue it. I don’t see Trump or the GOP willing to go against those huge corps for the sake of the common man, generally I see quite the opposite.
We cant tell the future, Im going by the past and what I experienced during the Trump administration.
In the kind of world you’re trying to usher in, your money isn’t going to save you.
They have you believing that trump will be like a putin. This isn’t Russia!
Who is “they”? I’m coming to my own conclusions.
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This take is so incredibly bad I’m almost thinking that you’re a troll. “Everything was good under Trump 😊” -> “Everything was bad under Biden 😡” therefore Trump good, Biden bad is probably the most juvenile and pathetic logical fallacy that persists in our shared political thought. I’m not sure if you remember, but there was a little thing called COVID that happened which shocked supply lines, trade, took a huge toll on our collective mental health, and created an economic crisis. Acting like Biden caused that is so ridiculous, I have a hard time believing that even you believe that.
You could argue that Biden handled the recovery poorly (and I don’t think that’s a bad argument), but then you’d have to compare it with how Trump would have handled such a recovery – something we really don’t know. Given his contempt for the working class it is doubtful it would be any better, and there was plenty of room for it to be actively worse.
Im going by past experience and the Trump administration was better for the American people. Shit sucks right now and it will continue this way with the current administration.
sick of seeing their taxes going to countries not even in NATO.
This misconception needs to be corrected.
The tax dollars go to America’s milliary industrial complex. It’s their surplus (which is already budgeted and paid for by the American government) that is sent overseas. No tax dollars leave the USA.
“Israel has also historically been permitted to use a portion of its FMF aid to buy equipment from Israeli defense firms—a benefit not granted to other recipients of U.S. military aid”
Good point. Although one could argue that Israeli defence firms are part of the US military industrial complex.
Forgot money grows on trees! Its still spending our tax dollars thats what I said. I got a crazy idea how about putting that into education or infrastructure. The american people are getting taken advantage any way you try and paint it. Israel has free healthcare and education and they are not part of NATO. They can fund their own genocide!
I don’t disagree, but the Military Industrial Complex is enabled and funded by both the Republicans and the Democrats. Nothing will stop your tax dollars flowing to it.
Medicine? You mean like those handled by Obamacare which Trump wants to get rid of? From my understanding that was a huge change (here in Australia we have Medicare which is life changing and similar)
Also, if you’re getting replaced by people from another country (who have a huge disadvantage), I’d argue maybe you need to work on improving yourself.
That being said, she’s also increasing the minimum wage and taxing the rich more (whilst reducing tax for middle class and poor). So even minimum wage people are hugely better off.
Trumps bs has caused issues internationally, even here in Australia. I don’t think you realise how much he is fucking things up for normal people worldwide
Worry about Australia don’t worry about a country you cant vote on or live in.
If Trump wins, I’d be happy to have political refugees from the US personally
And it actually affects us too. All Trump’s shitty racism, bigotry, anti vaccine agenda is being reinforced worldwide because he’s an idiot. And he’s showing our absolutely crap political parties what they can get away with (and they’re using him as an example).
For our military, don’t forget, he’s giving away confidential military secrets too (I have a friend in the military, and he is putting her at risk).
This is bigger than the US. It doesn’t affect me as much, but i also have friends in the US
Also I’m fairly sure I could get a job in the US and residency if i wanted
Shhhh. Some folks are reading the article.
It’s really not. Just fear mongering to turn out the base.
Right? They keep saying that he’ll turn the US into Nazi Germany or whatever democrat staffers are telling them to spam around the internet from their discord server. Why didn’t he do that in 2016? Astroturfers all over the place. That’s the Kamala campaign for you though.
Just because someone failed to rob a bank doesn’t mean they aren’t a bank robber.
Sure, bud.
Discord server?
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-federalist/
Failed numerous fact checks. Do you have a more reputable source you can cite?
Only the media illiterate will let an external source make decision for them. You didn’t even examine the article to see what you’re dealing with. You only rushed to check if it aligned with your political views. Here. This one aligns with you politically, and it’s reporting on the same story. Are you happy now?
What weight do his own words have in this situation? Talking about his rhetoric in general (e.g. ebemy within, send the army to deal with some ppl, dictator from day one, don’t need to vote anymore, etc.)
it’s an extinction level event for a lot of things. we’re already out of time on so many important issues. every living creature on this earth should consider him a threat. we are in self defense mode, or at least we should be. sadly, most of you don’t seem to understand how dire the situation really is.
but whatever. stick your head back in the sand i guess.
What exactly are you going to do about it? Seriously list out the specific measures you’re taking.
Well start by voting. Vote local, vote often and make your voice heard. Then maybe try to reduce your carbon footprint. You really need a cultural shift for this to be effective. Yes yes I know businesses are the major polluters so I revert back to sentence one, vote, and continue to try to shift the culture to a more renewable one
Ok, I vote in every single election, including every primary. I drive seldom, use public transportation often, eat meat only twice a week, and encourage other people to adopt socially and environmentally forward beliefs.
Do you really think this is enough? I don’t, but there is only so much one person can do.
Are you ready to take the fight to the streets? Because that’s likely what it’ll come down to. Voting won’t save you. The constitution is only a flimsy piece of paper. Start organizing now.
The civil servant job thing is an insurance plan disguised as job security. It would enable Trump to fill the bureaucracy with loyal stooges who will keep doing his bidding during the next administration - like his House cronies did when he told them not to pass the bipartisan border security bill so he could use the border as his main campaign issue.
His appointees from the last go round are already still fucking things up. If you’ve tried to interact with the legal system or any regulatory agency, there basically is none. For everything from DHS to FOIA, the government is and has not functioning in many southern states.
Chomsky was right when he properly pointed out that Republicans are the biggest threat to the world.
Donnie is merely a symptom. No Republicans ever should be allowed to hold any office.
I would argue that the Republicans are a symptom as well, the whole USA democratic structure will only enable a 2-party system. The whole systemic structure is rotten.
extinction-level threat to the dregs honestly, it’s a shame there isn’t a politician with a right-wing social policy and a left-wing economic policy, because that is the gold the world needs
That gets one out of two thumbs up!
Right wing social policy and left wing economic policy would be nuts though.
“Fuck the rich! Tax them to hell, spend the money on… um… the military budget!”
I think he’s describing Mao Zedong. Gays, porn, and religion not welcome.
Erdogan once said “democracy is a bus we ride until we reach our destination”. I feel major similar vibes from the GOP.
Is the destination Thunderdome?
Just as violent but much more authoritarian and much less fun to watch.
Even Dems agree Trump will likely pull out of Ukraine. Trump seems like his battle with China will be over tariffs, and less military-focused than the Dem Sinophobia. Though of course, Trump will also continue writing a blank check to Israel.
That’s two less escalation fronts with nuclear armed superpowers under Trump. The Dems are measurably closer to an extinction level threat.
But realistically we need to topple both capitalist parties to save humanity.
Remember to keep your heads buried in the sand! Look away from the horrors! Nothing to see here!!
The real horrors have not happened yet.
EDIT: I have blocked you. Don’t waste your energy
How to let everyone know you’ve tuned out genocide.
Voting for Harris is useful for ending the genocide because she wants a ceasefire. Trump want’s Israel to finish what it started.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905
Would you believe I was trying to stop a mass shooter, if I was in the middle of helping them reload and purchasing more ammo?
Kamala is running for president not Biden, so your argument poses a false equivalence.
I would literally prefer a steaming pile of shit as president than Trump.
GOP is an extinction level threat to humanity
The same two parties have been cycling in power for a decade and you are now voting between a fascist and a genocide supporter. Democracy already doesn’t exist in USA
Interesting. Which candidate is supporting genocide, and which way are they supporting it?
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In fact both parties are fascists and supporting a genocide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Israel–Hamas_war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio
I guess we’ll have to consider other factors, then. Like which one is promising to be a dictator, Blood Libeling Haitians, and promising to deport millions.
Open and read links posted and consider what you want.
Oh, I have already considered. I want the one that is not all but promising to industrial genocide immigrants (what do you think mass deportation is?), guaranteeing women lose more rights, guaranteeing LGBT people lose more rights.
BoTh SiDeS
On this particular issue: yes
On other issues: not as much
Yes both sides are supporting a genocide and both sides engage in fascist practices
Please explain how the Democrats are the fascists here?
The US government (the red and blue party who have been cycled in power for a century) engage and has a long history of engaging in fascist practices. Such as sending billions in aid or selling weapons to far-right governments (israel) or dictatorship (saudi arabia), the creation of a dystopian mass surveillance system capable of peeping at the average person at any give time, or the historical involvement in false flag operations like the bombing of piazza fontana.
Wow you must think pretty much every first world nation is fascist then. It takes more than what you’re saying to be fascist. Far right governments existed before fascism , and while America is far from progressive, it’s not really fascist either.
Well you’re going to end up with one of the two so you can either pick the shinier of the two turds or you can vote to kill yourself. Or you can abstain and by doing so also vote to kill yourself.
If we had a better option we’d be on it. We don’t. This isn’t a complex issue. Trump will destroy America, destroy America’s economy and future, and destroy Palestine completely. Harris will give us more of the status quo. This isn’t even a decision. We can worry about the next steps after we’ve defused the bomb ticking away in front of us. There is no other argument that can be made.
If we had a better option we’d be on it. We don’t.
Plenty of options that you are not even considering because you are victim of propaganda. Bombs don’t tick watch the combat footage videos from ukraine or gaza.
I’ve seen this same disinformation multiple times so I keep posting the refutation. Kamala wants a ceasefire.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13069715
She’s taken a stance, multiple times. The left doesn’t want to hear it.
March - https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1234822836/kamala-harris-benny-gantz-gaza-cease-fire-israel-hamas
July - https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/25/harris-netanyahu-israel-cease-fire-00171315
Biden is complicit in genocide, but people in his administration have spoken out.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/politics/us-government-employees-gaza-policy-statement/index.html
Trump wants Israel to finish their genocide.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/politics/trump-israel-comments/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905
Democrats want a ceasefire. Republicans want genocide. Despite attempts to conflate these two positions they could not be more different.
Do not let anyone tell you we have two fascists parties. We have a neoliberal party and a fascist party. The neoliberal party is terrible on this issue, but they do not want the genocide to continue. The Palestinians, along with everyone else, will be harmed by a second Trump term. Voting for Kamala is harm reduction. If you care about anyone please vote for Harris and Walz because doing so is useful for ending the genocide.
Democrats want a ceasefire. Republicans want genocide. Despite attempts to conflate these two positions they could not be more different. Do not let anyone tell you we have two fascists parties. We have a neoliberal party and a fascist party. The neoliberal party is terrible on this issue, but they do not want the genocide to continue. The Palestinians, along with everyone else, will be harmed by a second Trump term. Voting for Kamala is harm reduction. If you care about anyone please vote for Harris and Walz because doing so is useful for ending the genocide.
Harris is not some random democrat party member she’s the vice president of the current Biden administration. She’s the second highest person in charge in the country, trying to pull her out from what the government is doing is a big stretch. You are claiming in the same post Biden to be complicit in a genocide and the democrats to want a ceasefire, stop being illogical.
Both parties are fine with the genocide going on and with israel fascist government finishing the job, this is not what i’m telling you it’s what is happening live right now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Israel–Hamas_war
The vice president doesn’t have the power you argument asserts she does.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/what-is-the-constitutional-role-of-the-vice-president
stop being illogical.
Stop ignoring evidence that refutes your argument’s central point.