If you couldn’t figure out what Trump is in 8 years, then you’re either a fucking moron or just an evil asshole who is after personal benefits.
My mother still thinks he’s basically harmless. We have a no politics rule because his first term nearly made me cut her out of my life.
That might be the right way to deal with someone who supports ending democracy.
This is basically the same for me. During covid my parents driftet into the conspiracy theories and never got out(tbf I also kinda got into that shit, but somehow got out of it, a bit after it was undeniable, that the vaccination was safe). After about 1.5 years of constant discussions they stopped talking about that shit in my presence because nobody of us liked the constant fights. Nowadays I also always try to stay away from their “friends” (they now almost exclusively have social interactions with other conspiracy theorists), because its much healthier for me to not be forced to listen to their dumb bullshit.
Don’t forget hateful racists
They’re prob in the Evil bucket of trash
Sadly the world is full of morons. As the late, great George Carlin said:
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
There are a lot that just want to see others hurt, too. Even if they get zero benefits.
I don’t understand how military people support republicans. It’s their faults we lost so many children in the Middle East. As well as their fault for how little we are taking care of our soldiers who come home.
War and using the its personnel as cannon fodder is fully bipartisan
The Iraq war would not have happened if Al Gore was president. Bipartisan my ass.
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Is that all you got? Really though, it was a pet project for bush and cheney. There’s pre 9/11 statements that suggest they were brainstorming ways to go to Iraq. The fact the WMD shit was never prosecuted is simply a failure of our political and legal systems.
There also pre911 data showing the government was aware of the potential threat of destroying WTC during Clinton. Gore would have gone to war
Are you talking about this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_World_Trade_Center_bombing
No wars were started after the first WTC attack
In Afghanistan? Sure, I’d accept that any administration faced with the successful WTC attack would likely have ultimately reacted a similar way. Though there is some data suggesting that intelligence agencies were a bit off due to the delay in transition from the Florida indecision, so a more decisive election either way might have caused the agencies to prevent the 9/11 attacks. Maybe there’s a case to be made of it being handled better, but I can’t think of any data to suggest either way how that hypothetical would have gone.
However, the thread specifically mentioned the Iraq war, which was a distinctly Bush/Cheney adventure. Even in the vague “Middle East” starter, it would have been fewer, by virtue of at least limiting the engagement to Afghanistan. Iraq would have been left to its own devices in a Gore presidency.
There was the option of going in with special Forces units only; essentially hunting and killing bin-Ladn without attacking the Taliban directly. Bush chose regime change because he wanted to build a pipeline across the country.
Gore would not have gone to war in IRAQ. That is ridiculous.
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Removed, civility.
Look at the vote counts. 🤷
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These guys claim Trump is ill-informed, but how many classified documents do they have?
I’m pretty sure he hasn’t read any of the ones he’s had piled up in the bathroom.
You don’t need to read them to sell them.
I’ve yet to see evidence trump can read at any comprehension level, so while he has many documents, only Kid Rock and a handful of foreign spies have been able to read them.
Wow, the RINO population has exploded. All that so called climate change is obviuosly good for plants/grass that they eat.
/s
They are being a lot more polite than i would
“he dumb”
How do you convince regular folk who’re just trying to get by and make sense of the world? They don’t even know what they stand to lose by voting in unsafe people like most Republicans
By making sure they do not need to try, but can be sure they can get by.
It is not that he’s ill informed, it is that he is willfully ignorant and utterly dishonest when the truth and facts don’t benefit him. Which given how much he lies, is pretty much all the time. It must be so be some miracle he didn’t try to bomb an ally (that we know of) and I can’t think of one good thing he did while in office that he wasn’t compelled to do so by laws, precedent and his few remaining competent staff preventing him from fucking it up.
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700 more reasons to not vote for Harris.
☐ Trump
☐ HarrisPick one.
no
Then you get Trump.
I got Biden-Harris last time, and I voted for Howie. does it only work when I vote for women?
That is a bizarre assertion that has nothing to do with what I’m saying.
You get Trump if you manage to convince enough people on the left to vote for third parties.
if they wouldn’t vote for Democrats, then it doesn’t matter how many people vote for a so called third party
if they wouldn’t vote for Democrats…
…then - again - they get Trump for president. Like it or not, split the left and that’s what you get.
Cool democracy you have there 🙄
That’s the fucking POINT. We don’t have a great democracy. We want one, but we’re currently fucked by the undemocratic electoral college, a system specifically designed to winnow our choices down to two.
So your options are a member of a rather pedestrian centrist party, or a deranged and demented monster.
If you’re not American, as implied by your comment, then you may be used to functional democratic systems. Well, we’re currently stuck with what we’ve got. So as an outsider looking in, who do you want in charge of the world’s largest military? Harris or Trump? Pick one.
No citizenry is ever stuck, at any point with the government they have. That was the entire, exclusive positive lesson to learn from the american experiment.
And “the American experiment” took place in a world that didn’t contain mass surveillance systems, automatic firearms, remote control attack drones, EMPs, radar trackers, and god knows what other military secrets that can be brought to bear. A second American revolution is guaranteed to be extremely bloody, has a much lower chance of success than the first one, and nobody wants to be on the first wave of it.
Besides, the stakes are different now. The American Revolution succeeded largely on the back of the fact that the rebels in question were all the way across the ocean and not taking land from Britain directly. That’s no longer an option.
I see the point you’re trying to make here but you’re ignoring an awful lot of context both for the original American Revolution and also for the modern day.
No, I wrote american experiment. The concept of america itself is rotten and worthless, except the idea that citizens control their government, not the other way around. If we abandon the only good lesson that america has given the world then the hundreds of millions of people the us has tortured, murdered and oppressed were hurt for absolutely no reason.
Democrats aren’t centrist, they’re right-wing. Harris is talking about making the most lethal military in the world, cracking down on asylum seekers at the border,.and giving unlimited support for genocide. Under Biden the number of people killed by police went up every single year and under Harris that trend will only continue.
If you want democracy you need to think outside the ballot box, because elections in the US are fucked and both parties are in on it.
What actions would you propose? Be specific.
organize locally for direct action
Define “direct action.” I asked for specificity. Don’t dance around what you mean, say it clearly.
That is only one of the actions. Voting is harm reduction, and done in tandem with other actions.
I think we should be working to organize the anti-genocide caucus of Democrats away from the Party and form a revolutionary party that can challenge the two right-wing parties for power. I think we can do this within the unions too, the rank and file are much more radical on this issue than the leadership. There’s a huge political movement right under our feet.
Ah, so just divide the Democrats up to destroy their power. Typical.
I know I’m not going to convince you, so this is for everyone else reading this thread. Because of our shitty electoral college and FPTP system, calls for third parties on the left translate into more political power for the right. Here’s how it works…
Let’s say you have two main political parties, the Snuggling Puppies party and the Kicking Puppies party. The Snugglers usually win, because the Kickers are violent weirdos.
Then the Kickers get the bright idea of helping out fringe parties that also love puppies, like one called the Worshipping Puppies party, which takes their love of puppies to the extreme. They secretly fund and promote these other parties, and it’s very effective. In the next election, it’s so effective that the Kickers win.
Wait, what? How? It’s simple. With the people who love puppies dividing their votes between multiple candidates who love puppies, the Kickers get a plurality.
Let’s keep it simple and say the Kickers clandestinely supported three parties that are ideologically opposed to them, meaning people who love puppies divided their votes up four ways. Each of the puppy-loving parties gets 19.5% of the vote, for a pro-puppy total of 78%! But the Kickers didn’t divide up their vote, so with a 22% plurality, the winner is… The party that everyone else hates!
It’s a classic divide and conquer strategy. It only works when astroturfers manage to convince
people on the leftpuppy lovers to divide themselves up, rather than consolidate to fight back againstthe rightpeople who hate puppies.None of that is incompatible or inconsistent with a Harris victory. If this is your expressed goal and desired outcome, it is MUCH easier to do under Harris than under Trump where any action you take is more or less guaranteed to be met with responses from any number of empowered supremacist groups.
Also, I only EVER hear these revolutionary ideas and pushes during the last 6 months before an election when people proudly virtue signal about their intent not to vote for the Democrat. Just like with third parties, where is all of this political will and activity during the off-years when there’s time to actually BUILD a grassroots movement?
I’m with you. Our choices suck. The time to start doing something about that is November 6th, after the election is won and a backslide has been prevented. Build out a movement and come back in 2028 with a platform, a base, and a candidate.
I don’t think equivacotion is realistic here. The GOP is actively hostile to democracy while the dems are just ambivalent to it.
Obviously I’d prefer us to have a better voting system, but that’s unfortunately not on the table. Right now, there’s a candidate who advocates dismantling our democracy all together and has tried to overturn the results of the last election. I’ll be voting for his opponent for the sake of our nation.
They deny that this is a fascist country while also refusing to acknowledge that there are no choices. They treat politics like WWE wrestling, they cheer for their favorite wrestler when both wrestlers work for the same company
Hey, remember when you said you’d vote Dem if Biden was replaced? Good times! How’s that going?
Explain the endgame here.
Left sits out the election. Either Harris wins and can ignore Left concerns or Trump wins and starts mass arrests of his enemies.
Where’s the upside?
