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Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees
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Am Not an American . Are the Democrats now doing something to be more appealing in the future, or they just rely on Trump to keep being awful?
At the moment, our fiercest Democrat just voted for the new law to allow The government to censor anything on the internet they don't like. I think it's fair to say it's not going well.
And people expected Kamala to be different why?
You have to admit, we wouldn't be in a useless trade war threatening to tank the economy right now. Or threatening to anex Canada or Greenland. And they wouldn't have just voted to make it legal to deport US citizens.
I think now is a good time for third party too get going. I'm sure a bunch of left leaning Democrats could take a good chunk of the vote and tea party the Democrats.
Political IQ Exam: Do you think voting for a third party candidate is a viable option in a First Past the Post system"
The answer to that question is the simplest way possible to identify a complete lack of political intellect.
Wow you're really committed to that user name .
We've passed a line, sans drastic things happening, there won't be any meaningful votes anymore.
Funny, why don't you name the law and let people look it up and read what it actually says? Are you talking about S.146, a bill to prohibit the nonconsensual online publication of intimate visual depictions of individuals, and requiring platforms to remove it upon request?
So in other words, if someone posts nudes of you online and you object to it, this law would require the site to take it down upon your requesting it.. is THAT the censorship you are crying about??
You mean the one that's so vaguely worded that it can be used by the government to silence anything and remove free speech?
Why didn't you publish the entire full text of the bill here and all the possible outcomes along with a bunch of news articles listing pros and cons of such thing?
Christ, if you think that's crying please don't ever have kids.
The Democrats are probably praying that Trump lives till he's 1000 years old, otherwise they would need to do something more than not being Ttump
The only thing not being Trump has gotten them so far was one more term of an old white guy who was barely left of the right.
I think this is hard for people from other countries to understand. Our Democrats are not an opposition party. We don't have that concept in our system. I'll admit I was naive to it before Trump started Trumping. Even after the first Trump I was thinking, "Well, that was fucking dumb. Glad we found our sanity again." And I was wrong.
I wouldn't have been able to articulate this before. I credit my time on Lemmy for some of it. But in reality you can't explain any of this shit show UNLESS you accept that our entire political system is now structured to serve the rich at the expense of the peasants. Universal healthcare is a no brainer. Infrastructure like rail and renewables is a no brainer. Affordable childcare and reasonable wages is a fucking no brainer. UNLESS the incentives for those in power are not aligned with the good of the people.
Democrats don't care that they're not in power, as long as the establishment keeps getting paid.
Now, of course, there can be those like AOC and Sanders who buck that trend. Leaders with those types of values do tend toward the Democratic party. But those are the exceptions. And they can't save us.
InverseParallax is right, my friend. The Republicans aren't paying you by the word. Next time, just say something stupid like "Both Sides Are The Same!" and keep it down to a single paragraph.
Jesus, somewhere there's a GOP party operative that's literally wondering whether or not he paid for that whole screed to depress turnout.