This may not be a popular take, but it was wokeness that gave us trump in the first place.
Trump wasn’t a result of wokeness specifically, he’s just the logical conclusion to American neoliberalism.
I guess you’re right in the sense that the unique tornado of “ITS HER TURN” brainworms is what made the dems vulnerable to an oaf like Trump, but if it hadn’t been him and her then it would have been two other doofuses. When you have a state in deterioration, and a left that has been completely silenced so the only place critique of the system can come from is the far right, then you get a demagogue like Trump was in his first term. Had Bernie gotten the nomination then Trump would probably have been squashed, since the democrats would have been able to likewise acknowledge the system is flawed.
Bernie could have been FDR 2.0 in that he would have put a band-aid on capitalism and soothed the disenfranchised.
People think being right early is satisfying? They should try it some time.
We refer to it as the curse of foresight.
Second pic is me when I freaked out about the Gaza genocide
My family kinda thought I was overreacting/focusing on the wrong thing, because they were more focused on October 7th itself
Later they realized it’s a genocide which I’m glad about, though I never did hear that I was right all along
Probably best if I just keep my mouth shut
Probably best if I just keep my mouth shut
Nah, you did the right thing. You’ll know it all the way to your grave.
Speaking up for marginalised people is a duty of those of us with less dire problems.Each person’s contribution may feel futile, meaningless, and insignificant but “no rain drop believes itself responsible for the flood” applies to positive things too.
Later they realized it’s a genocide which I’m glad about,
I dont understand what you mean by this?
You can really see the bots flex on the reddit threads about replacing Schumer.
So are they going to try “actually americans hate free healthcare and love war, that’s why Gavin is the most electable” or “Gavin will be the most progressive president since FDR!!”
Somehow both. It worked so well with Harris
They’ve got some dipshit liberals in the rest of the country cheering for his damn tweets, convinced he’s their champion against Trump. The DNC will torpedo anyone else’s campaign to make way for their little princeling. The actual message doesn’t really matter.
Already doing it. Spinning that 2026 was a victory for moderates
It’s always like that. If they win it’s proof they don’t need the left, if they lose then it’s because leftists didn’t vote for them. All the blame, none of the credit.
Responding to second pic: Then when you try to tell them the next thing they still won’t listen to you.
Remember that whole voting thing everybody was excited about last week? Yeah so long as everybody keeps doing that and doesn’t vote for the chode we’ll be fine. If a majority votes for the chode… nothing we can do. But I have a feeling people are starting to listen to more progressive sources of news. I have hope.
Edit: didn’t realize the instance i was on. Btw, voting only works if the population is informed. The US election last week had one of the most informed voting bases in American history. People are getting less and less of their news from corpo controlled MSM… Look what happened. They voted for their own interests instead of some concocted boogeyman.
Thoughts?
The policies and murders you seemingly oppose are driven by people who would prefer you argue amongst yourself about who’s doing the better job of opposing. The people that hold the viewpoints you despise and have promoted the policies that you reference sent hundreds of millions of dollars to stop the rise of progressive thought through elections. Those people wouldn’t give away a single nickel unless they thought it was absolutely necessary. So the more you guys fight about affecting change through means other than elections, instead of trying to ensure that representatives who agree with you are put in power, the more those you seemingly oppose win.
It’s easy to sit on your couch and complain. It’s hard to do the work and get people elected that agree with you. So my thoughts are this: people in the .ml community that have responded to my comment do more damage to their own apparent cause than good.
Thanks for the well written reply. Unfortunately I’m gonna go ahead and disagree. The faster America collapses the better off the rest of the planet and its inhabitants will be.
You literally cannot stop yourselves from doing genocide, illegal wars, imperialism, and climate destruction. You have run out of chances to fix this, because you literally cannot fix this, lol.
Death to America 🤗
The practical implication of your goal is that you want America to become even more fascist and unhinged. You would prefer that they degrade into supervillan levels of depravity as opposed to reforming themselves to become a more progressive influence in the world? That take is like standing naked on a field and screaming at the sun because you have a sunburn.
I don’t care what happens within your own borders when you’re literally genociding multiple countries at once, lol. You need to be sanctioned out of existence and balkanized by the rest of the world. And if that doesn’t work, you need to be put down militarily like Nazi Germany. The faster we all come to this conclusion, and its happening faster than ever, thanks to trumps mask off approach to the normal fascist actions of America, the better.
You think the country founded on genocide, slavery, imperialism, and war can be a force for progressive good? You’ve had 250 years to figure it out buddy, and your experiment was a fucking resounding failure.
Again, death to America ✌️.
DiDnT rEaLiZe ThE iNsTancE i WaS oN!!
Every ShitLib who definitely knew which instance they were on, upon finding out that the commies know more about whatever subject is at hand than they do and it’s not even close.
Crimestop is all they have.
You know, that succinct paragraph from their favourite propagandist fiction writer you can tell they never read because they only quote the slogans.I saw a comment under a "I’m new to Lemmy, " post that said watch out for the communists.
Why? What are they going to do?
Put a thought in your brain you can’t ignore or refute.What are they going to do?
Put a thought in your brain you can’t ignore or refute.A truly terrifying concept for the Lib mind
Your daily reminder that BlueMAGA liberals don’t consider non-Americans human
Astute observation citizen, it is just the one chode that is the issue. Now that you have done your civic duty of Participating In Democracy ™ go back to brunch, The Good Guys (C) are in control and the system is fixed
Anyway Biden expanded ICEs budget and the concentration camps. More palestinians died under Biden. The Biden admin was preparing for the same war with Iran that Trumps admin is pursuing.
I thought the Biden admin was gearing up for a “pivot to China” in terms of their fascist warmongering? I know they would fuck with Iran too eventually, either way.
I think their main thing was doing whatever Israel asked of them
Fair point
