Advanced tactic for people who aren’t afraid of dumb people and are social enough to make friends: get to know your right-leaning neighbors anyway, make them like you even if you’re a different race or culture. It’s far easier than most people think. Run to them for help. Make them confront the situation they would normally feel removed from. It’s amazing how often these people flip when they’re in the middle of it.

You decided to feel preemptively offended. Don’t play dumb(er).

Our problem here is one that has cropped up in history over and over, which is a huge, stable, liberal, comfortable population benefitting from their state’s imperialism become aware of a schism in their country’s direction, they see two sides:

One side is screaming that the country is collapsing, burning the country’s flag, lecturing about human rights.

The other side is declaring glory and success for the mighty Empire, worshipping the flag that keeps everyone safe and comfortable.

We can argue day and night about what events and specific things started the schism and how aware the population was about the atrocities, but at the end of the day, the majority of a comfortable population is always going to veer away from change and accountability, they will always lean towards the nationalists who basically say “You don’t need to feel bad or worry, our country is fine, we’re all gonna be okay, just go back to work, pay your taxes.”

This has happened over and over, and eventually always has the same end. I wish to fuck more of my countrymen would learn about history.

I don’t play stupid games.

The fantasy that this is all entirely the fault of outside influence gives everyone a nice, comfortable “out” for not having to get involved or feel like they’re not doing enough.

They’re not doing enough.

This is fantastic, part of the reason the right has been so emboldened in being anti-society and anti-humanity for a while now is because they have a tight-knight community who take care of each other. This is what we need to do to cancel that effect out.

For every right-wing piece of shit who screams racist epitaths out their car window and gets fired for it and ends up making a half million dollars, we have to make sure we’re taking care of people who get fired for posting videos of ICE murdering innocent people or quoting Trump’s own words without editorial.

The challenge: not digging into these people’s past and history and finding “problematic” things that make other users hesitate before donating to pushing the needle back where it should be.

The algorithm may only feed us rage-bait and the worst news because it gets the most engagement, but it needs to be repeated that Trump’s efforts have been shot down or blocked over and over, almost every day, by judges and the existing institutions. He can abuse the powers he has, but he can’t bend the entire judicial system or he would stop burning through thousands of lawyers.

You can’t pardon impeachment proceedings. Not sure if anything will come from impeachment, but we need to understand the system even a little.

You can’t pardon an impeachment, it’s not a criminal charge, it’s about misconduct that can lead to removal from office.

Look at the source, MS.now? “Maddowblog”? this is liberal slop meant to make tuned out median Americans who oppose Trump say “Well, looks like it’s falling apart, I can just sit back and wait.”

It’s a tranquilizer. It’s meant to dull your mind and digest an atomized view of the world. I would challenge the average Lemmy browser who is about to say something positive here to go look at some conservative forums and subreddits, they are getting the exact opposite messaging.

Mainstream media is trying to divide us and feed us opposing narratives so we don’t unite and organize. Or at least so we don’t bother doing anything or getting involved in our politics.

He doesn’t just command the ear of conservative males, he commands the attention of America’s largest and most valuable asset and resource, the very thing Trump’s administration is farming and fleecing right now, and hoping they don’t piss off, Liberal Americans.

Most people don’t care about politics. Most people don’t care about social issues. If we really digested this sad fact, we could make a lot better strategies for actually getting better politics and social systems. We keep trying to beat our heads against the same wall thinking “Americans SHOULD care about this!” and lecturing and “educating” people and trying to reinforce our very best politics and values, and ending up losing more and more ground to fascists with dumb, simple messaging and easy-to-digest emotional validation.

Because he commands America’s most powerful asset and our last remaining check-and-balance system, which is tuned-out American liberals who get their news from AM radio or starlink while driving to work a couple times a week. This demographic is MOST Americans, and I would absolutely love if more leftists and progressives with a few brain cells actually read the 2024 exit polling to understand how bad our problem is.

We should care DEEPLY about what Rogan is telling his audience, not Rogan himself. He’s a mouthpiece for a capital system that wants stability, and if that’s what it takes to end or even slow down this plunge into North Korean-style geopolitics, we need to fucking support it and stop lecturing and hand-wringing about who’s saying it.

Seriously, we have to support good things. Good things are good.

I had a small stack of his books of Dilbert from when my siblings and I were younger, it was a silly and entertaining strip.

I couldn’t give those things away, not even used bookstores wanted them. I put them outside on a table with a sign “free” for days and eventually had to throw them away.

The man really cemented his legacy.

Republicans likely have funded putting him away and out of sight in some nice hotel while they figure out what to do about the situation.

They have no idea what to do about the situation. I just watched Kristi Noem basically set herself on fire on Jake Tapper. The emperor demanded she fall on her blade and she’s so weak and pathetic that she did it.

They aren’t nearly terrified enough. They shouldn’t be allowed to sleep, nor leave their car tires unattended, nor get delivery, nor trust what’s in their fast food orders.

Then we continue to build up our communities and homesteading hobbies and primary any Democrat who gives an inch to these fascists.

I really support this. We lost the reins when we checked out of our local communities and stopped looking at our local council leaders, judges, sheriffs and of course mayors and governors with the same scrutiny as we fixed on the annual 4-year WWE EXTREME federal election spectacle.

If we held them to the same standards and created a foundation of people who actually represent us, it would be far, far harder for the higher elected officials to walk all over us. And it’s far easier to actually make changes to your community, it’s actually doable to recall people in power in your state! Many state congress people often run uncontested as well, and if we paid attention to these situations we could mount opposition or even oppose them ourselves.

The thing that worries me is that so many are so cynical that they can’t feel engaged with the often boring and even cringey state of local politics, and will invent reasons in their head to avoid involvement because it feels far, far less rewarding than complaining on the internet to people who will give you upvotes. I feel like this goes hand-in-hand with the social isolation that we’ve allowed to fester on both sides.

Exactly, it’s more kayfabe but on the left. It’s people who rather indulge in a storyline than get active in their community and start fixing things structurally by like, working to elect actual representation for their communities and states.

My problem with America’s leftists who want to violence their way to a better world is that in this country we don’t even have experience doing that kind of thing, we don’t have a plan, and nobody can give me a follow-through for what will happen if we magically end up with our glorious socialist leader who overthrows the government.

What about the millions of people we live next to who didn’t vote for or ask for a coup? What about the military who are not only the largest and most powerful fighting force in the world, but are dedicated to protecting the seat of power in the US? Who exactly are we going to depose? All of congress and senate? What about their aides? What about the various departments and cabinets? Do we have people lined up to run the new government? Or are we gonna raw-dog it like they did in Nepal?

I strongly feel most people have ZERO idea the scale of such things and amount of coordination and planning involved in the kinds of fantasy plans the average lemmy lefty indulges in.

What a defeatist attitude.

No, defeatist attitude is “there will be no midterms, lets instead put all our eggs in the basket that isn’t doing much.”

I didn’t say anything about not protesting and marching, only that there will probably still be midterms, the fact that you see that “defeatist” just tells me you don’t want change via politics and are fantasizing that the protests are going to turn into a coup. There will not be a coup.

People here don’t like reading about the power our legal system has, they want to see drama and world wrestling stageplay. They want to imagine we’re going to have a glorious people’s liberation movement with molotov cocktails and guillotines. Everyone is the same.

This administration is already overreaching, they know Trump is about to die any moment and they’re trying to do way too much, too fast, and have a genuine belief that JD fucking Vance will still be able to hold the party and Trump’s base together.

Yes, midterms still have a very good chance of happening. There’s also a good chance they will try some bullshit to delay them or interfere, but the US is a very, VERY big place and our elections are very simple to keep secure, and they haven’t had enough time and power to really sabotage the entire thing. Yet.