The reason there isn’t any other option is because nobody puts in the effort to add other options.
There’s a Simpsons meme currently in Active on 196 rn from 1994 pointing out how ineffective both parties are. People have had longer than I have been alive to work on a third way.
America isn’t collapsing now all of a sudden. People have been passively watching it die for decades.
First time? If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that normies don’t give a fuck and just want their simple distractions, regardless of what the greater cost to society is.
Lots of countries committed colonialism, not many countries committed genocide on the native population and stole their land to create and expand their nation. The U.S. and Israel are members of a short list.
Lots of countries committed colonialism, not many countries committed genocide on the native population and stole their land to create and expand their nation. The U.S. and Israel are members of a short list.
Except now Trump is starting to play hardball with Netanyahu, and is distinctly unhappy with the the U.S. taking so much flak while being treated as a money fountain.
There is a much more real world where Trump gets sick of Bibi and pulls his support than Harris pulling support from Israel. A fully isolationist U.S. is better for Palestine.
As far as I know, we are still not quite in an Authoritarian state here in the US.
Just wanna drill into this; the United States has been an authoritarian state for as long as I’ve been alive. Deporting people without due process is not new. Supporting genocides is not new. The police state we live in is not new. The rule of law has been a joke for so long zoomers have internalized it. There is a reason why most of the governments we have overthrown have been democracies, and there is a reason the US has mostly replaced those democracies with dictatorships. We are the evil empire, and we have been for decades at this point.
it just means “looking” idk what’s so hard about it.
I went to a public school and got 2/3rds of what you did, so I’m not really sure the issue is public vs private and more an issue of education in general in the U.S.
It’s actually very difficult for them to look up what tariffs are, because they read below a 4th grade level and are functionally illiterate. Most explanations regarding tariffs that I have read seem to assume a European high school level of reading proficiency.
Trump’s opinions are always based on who he last talked to.
Yeah, and I feel like we don’t abuse this fact enough for good. Sure, if he talks to Putin today he’ll flipflop, but right now it seems like Putin is foolishly scorning Trump. If members of the EU can just constantly talk with him, maybe they can try and stay the most recent person he’s talked with.
Really blows my mind that there hasn’t been any push from the left to just manipulate this idiot. Literally the most easily manipulatable president in U.S. history, but for some reason we’ve allowed right-wing grifters a monopoly on his dementia-addled rotten brain.
I honestly feel like Smith gets a real bad rap from undereducated progressives. He would also have hated what the United States has morphed into, and I’m sure he’s spinning in his grave over people using his economic theories as justifications for pure laissez-faire capitalism. “The Invisible Hand of the Market” that conservatives use to justify trickle-down economics and often attribute to him isn’t even really his, it’s from a batshit insane later guy called Paul Samuelson! Smith only referred to it in the context of international investments, never this idea that “domestic corporations will always do what is good for the public.”
I don’t agree with everything in Wealth of Nations, but it seems a lot of people just dismiss Smith completely out of hand. We should talk about him just like we talk about Marx, his work is not useless nor trivial.
Are you really that surprised? I regularly see people even on Lemmy talking about how much they wish they could disconnect from everything going on and live a quiet peaceful life in the country. That’s essentially what all these people have chosen; they have decided the world is too scary for them and they don’t want to process it anymore. Things will continue to get worse for them, and they won’t have any idea why.
He backed down before Trump even yelled at him, this was never going to actually happen.
It always blows my mind that Pritzker seems to be consistently on the right side of history. Have we done it? Have we found the mythical ‘good’ billionaire? 'cuz he’s done a pretty great job as governor of my state and I’ll happily vote for him again if I get the chance.
I’d argue the exact opposite, because I see a whole lot of people who seem to think all we need to do is remove Trump and the American government will be A-okay. Until we recognize and start to deal with the rot at the core of the U.S. we’re just going to keep doing this same ol song and dance again and again. Until people recognize that fascism is not a bug but a feature, we have no hope of moving beyond it to a better system of governance.
It was definitely preventable, but to laud all of this to the actions of one man is foolish. The American empire has been in decay for longer than I have been alive. It’s not really surprising that is now begun to crumble and collaps.
Honestly though, rejects all accepted scientifc logic and reason? Does something incredibly stupid and dangerous, just for money and clout? Nearly kills everyone around them in the process? Only bailed out through dumb luck, absolutely no talent to be found at all?
No wonder Trump loves Columbus, he was the first American!
There actually isn’t in America.
I think if more Americans were honest about how shitty their country has always been, maybe they could understand how Trump is merely a symptom of a deeper rot.
Damn that’s such an insult to Goebbels.