• wakko@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    2025 was the first time since 2017

    Your timeline is misaligned by at least a decade and missing the forest for the trees. In 2025, we’re on the brink of WWIII. The DNC has been hand-in-iron-fist with the GQP since 9/11 and the Patriot Act. Both parties merrily marching us to fascist authoritarianism. The only disagreement being who’d be the eventual Fuhrer.

    But shit changed, and if Martin paves the wave for FDR 2.0

    This is the problem with Dems. They’re fixated on repeating the mistakes of the past because they’ve only read the sanitized versions of history used in public schools. FDR 1.0 caused the double-dip in the Great Depression with his New Deal. Friedman’s Economic History of the United States covered it thoroughly. Maybe try reading some more modern economics strategies, like UBI, or wildly crazy shit like re-enacting the prohibition against Congress owning securities, enacting anti-gerrymandering legislation, and open-auditing of all electronic voting machines, plus enacting a general cap on all campaign expenditures of a nominal value with any remainders automatically allocated to the federal treasury to restore impartiality to our elected representatives.

    The anger you’re seeing is because not only is the process long, but the outcomes are stupid and not worthwhile. Biden put on a demonstration of what competent leadership looks like. It was impressive to watch the things his cabinet was accomplishing. If it were any other yesteryear, it would have been an administration lauded for its competence.

    But literally the one thing they didn’t touch was any of the linchpins to their lucrative kleptocratic establishment. All of the mechanisms that could have prevented allowing a known pedophile a second term in the oval office would have required addressing systemic corruptions that would have disturbed their seats of power. Instead, the Biden administration had other priorities instead of preventing what did happen - a rigged election. Thanks for the “assist”, Elon. As a reward for his help, Elon gets to rummage around in federal databases destroying evidence of this and other crimes. And Dems get to watch once again, as the minority party plays them for the fools they are.

    You might not think this is the time to quit. I don’t think you should have ever started because you’re still pulling for the wrong team. There is no evidence to suggest your efforts are anything but too little, much too late.

    At this point, I am incredibly skeptical that America has a peaceful way out of the current situation we’re in. Dems are very much not anti-authoritarian. They will not give up the executive powers that the GQP has so graciously secured for them. That’s the one thing you can always count on. Power, once centralized, is only ever decentralized through violence.

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      1 day ago

      Europeans are so desperate for the schadenfreude of watching America collapse and fail, without any regard to how badly that would go for THEM. America being swept from world power would cause far more problems than it would solve, and it would take years to recover.

      And self-righteous Europe doesn’t have any moral ground to stand on, anyway. What America is going through is happening in most European countries. While they’re bitching about America, the far-right influence is quickly increasing in their countries, too. Stop giving us bad advice, and fix your own house.

      Hungary managed to kick out their well-entrenched far-right government, proving that it is possible. We’re going to to do the same thing in America over the next two elections, deal with whatever post-MAGA nonsense those traitor pedophiles cook up, and then we can start pointing fingers at Europe, and demand they deal with their far-right issues, before we end up with another WWII situation.

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        Who’s european in this conversation? I’m not.

        Projection ain’t just for the cinemas, my guy.

        Maybe instead of making assumptions, try asking questions instead. You don’t know as much as you assume.

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      2 days ago

      Your timeline is misaligned by at least a decade and missing the forest for the trees

      You’re confusing me describing reality, with me saying that should be the way it is…

      That’s the same reason medicine women were burnt at the stake.

      I didn’t read anything else you typed, and I won’t see anything else you ever type again…

      Shits too important to waste effort on lost causes.

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        2 days ago

        Shits too important to waste effort on lost causes.

        If you really believed that, you’d be focusing your efforts elsewhere.