way to generalize half the country

Wood Goblin wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:37 pm

dumbass wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:40 pm I think a right-wing populist winning an election when the country is struggling to make ends meet is literally the most predictable thing that could have happened.

Krev wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:31 pm I think the Dems would have needed the endorsement of some rapey, toxic UFC type to court the Gen Z male vote.

Weird how all the Trump flags were flying over nice homes with F-150s parked in front. Or on vacation homes. Or boats.

Trump supporters aren’t “struggling to make ends meet.” They’re garden variety fascists.

I don’t think things will get better unless there becomes a widespread disregard for following the law for the sake of following the law. Unfortunately people are so far beyond brainwashed in this to the point where they will champion a system that affords vast amounts of power over hundreds of millions of people to a tiny few, then just hand it over to a convicted felon rapist who wants to subjugate anyone who isn’t a wealthy straight white cis man to severe oppression, and who last election encouraged an uprising from his supporters, just because enough horrible assholes voted for him. Harris gave him a congratulatory phone call earlier today, when if he would have won he would have almost certainly called on his supporters to rise up again. These assholes all need to fucking die, and more people need to encourage others to kill them

dumbass wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:31 pm way to generalize half the country

Wood Goblin wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:37 pm

dumbass wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 1:40 pm I think a right-wing populist winning an election when the country is struggling to make ends meet is literally the most predictable thing that could have happened.

Weird how all the Trump flags were flying over nice homes with F-150s parked in front. Or on vacation homes. Or boats.

Trump supporters aren’t “struggling to make ends meet.” They’re garden variety fascists.

Sorry. Half of his voters (the supporters) are garden-variety fascists.

The other half are dipshits.

https://ibb.co/x8Lx1CY

Yet another example of “absolute piece of shit who cares more about decorum and following laws made by centuries-old slaveowners than marginalized people’s lives congratulating an overt fascist”
I honestly don’t understand how people don’t just fucking snap reading something like this

I was doing a lot more driving through the Virginias/Carolinas during 2017-19 and couldn't help but notice that everything was still shitty and boarded up. I don't think they actually believe Trump will make their lives better, just that he will make our lives worse.

Hex wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:55 pm I honestly don’t understand how people don’t just fucking snap reading something like this

ugh yes. "We gracefully succeed to people who joked about putting us in a firing squad days ago, because WE GO HIGH".

Kudzu has consumed everything including their brains.

Hex wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 4:28 pm That has been a severe source of frustration for me. I’ve read the constitution, the federalist papers, seen how the government has operated under it, and there is no fucking way that piece of shit document is compatible with any real kind of liberation of marginalized people. This has been evident for well over 100 fucking years yet not a single major organization with political influence will fucking admit it.

It is extremely odd to me how even some leftists still cling to the constitution as if some kind of transformative change is possible from within it, or that it has been perverted by the U.S. Supreme Court--it has always sucked, and it wouldn't surprise me if more states were created/admitted to the union in an attempt to deliberately close off the amendment process in Article V.

Professor Michael Klarman wrote a great book called, "The Framer's Coup" that utilizes a lot of the convention's notes (which were secret for far too long, can't imagine why..) to paint a damning picture of the constitution's creation.

Let the right wing freaks have their constitutional convention if they want it, I welcome it, for as Warren Burger noted in a letter to Phyllis Schlafly:

...[T]here is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The Convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda. Congress might try to limit the Convention to one amendment or to one issue, but there is no way to assure that the Convention would obey. After a Convention is convened, it will be too late to stop the Convention if we don’t like its agenda...

I love how he's now evading all federal charges. Jack Smith must be fuming. We've truly surpassed Turkmenistan in corruption. Hell, I think Russia is probably less so.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:58 am Always w/the Nazis in Ukraine,

There are plenty of media reports (prior to the Russian invasion) that talked about it. They have statues, at least one street, and a day of commemoration for Stepan Bandera. Attempting to minimise this is not a good look.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:58 am this invented Russian narrative

As I mentioned, this was a widely accepted narrative in the west prior to the invasion.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:58 am To the point where others, not just me, think you're saying that Putin was goaded into invading and had no other choice.

He had other choices, he went with the one he considered to be in the best interests of his country/himself.* (delete as appropriate)

I'm sure that if Russia or China were funding 46 biolabs in Mexico the US administration would be totally cool with it.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:58 am You should be delighted that the president-elect of the United States now has much the same view on Ukraine as you do.

I'm sure he has no idea and is feeding into a narrative about sending money overseas because it resonates with some people. I'm also sure he has no idea how he is going to stop it. Unfortunately he doesn't have the same ideas about the middle east.

OrthodoxEaster wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:58 am If that's not horseshoe theory, I'm not sure what is.

Yeah, you don't.

So how did the left do with this election