Floon

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[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

We've been sliding this way since the US "police action" in Vietnam. The pre-authorization for Bush to go to war with Iraq was Congress' big final step in abdication of its war declaring duties. Probably won't see Congress ever be required to declare another war.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

AI companies are consuming all the electricity, and will destroy the economy when their bubble bursts, in their quest to eliminate millions of jobs and control the lives of everyone, to profit the global tech elite.

Memes are not-for-profit cultural detritus. They are not the same.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

But lines up with Trump anyway. The GOP are fascists, and Nancy Mace is right on board.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 months ago

It’s hard to believe the US has come to this. Fucking crazy.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 29 points 2 months ago

They just want every intolerable thing Republicans do to be misremembered as something done by a Democrat. Witness so many chyrons on Fox News mislabeling a GOP pol as (D) when they were forced to talk about some current scandal.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 months ago

Trash gonna trash.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The Tea Party fundamentally and radically transformed the GOP. It can be done.

Unfortunately, the Democratic constituency is too impatient and too distractable and stupid to do it. The GOP has been playing the long game since Reagan, and they are good at messaging and good at being happy with incremental wins. Dem constituent groups are great at swinging for the fences every 4 years and failing, and great at circular firing squads of blame and purity testing. They suck at having allies that agree with them on 95% of the issues. They suck at getting on the bus come election time. They have been trained to be this way by the GOP.

Time was, unions were the counterweight to the capitalist forces, and were the effective counterweight. Everyone let GOP/Libertarian philosophy and talking points get a foothold, and that union power has disintegrated. Reagan made union-busting his first priority, and the air traffic controllers were the object lesson; now people think unions can't do shit. Now Dem blame the unions for shit, when really, they should be built back by anyone with a shred of liberal leaning, because that's where liberal power comes from. Liberals pout when their most favored candidate doesn't survive the primaries, and they complain about how The Man is keeping them down.

Naw, dawg. You're just easily played.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Mike Lee is a colossal piece of shit. Always has been.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Because they are sexist and racist, and no other factor has ever mattered. They will claim all kinds of other reasons, but they're lying. We've seen it time and time again: they'll complain about something that a Dem does, but not when a Republican does the same thing or worse, so you know it's all actually about culture war BS, which comes down to racism and sexism with the GOP.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml -2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

So one just lost, and the other lost because of the vote distributions were not in her favor: sexist/racist state electoral votes were needed that she didn't get. I stand unrefuted.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Our nation is too sexist and too racist for AOC to win. I'll still vote for her if she runs.

[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 104 points 3 months ago

128 Democrats join House Republicans to defend fascist dictator

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Just fire him. (i.imgur.com)
 
 

I've read that it should be possible, but my experience seems to show that that is incorrect, that you need a login for every instance where you wish to make a post or comment. Could someone who knows clarify this?

If you need a login for every instance of Lemmy to participate in non-local communities, then that will, I think, be the #1 issue with Lemmy adoption, and the main reason folks bounce off.

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