You’re confusing rich Republicans who benefit from Trump, and the poor/middle class who get absolutely nothing but racisim and Christianity.

The super wealthy bankroll everything and get all the rewards + power.

But the votes that put him in office are 95% from people who will be hurt by deregulation, crushed by increased taxes (that pay for the racisim and forced Christianity), and want the freedom to openly hate anything they don’t like (which they believe was woked away from them).

The idiots who will be crushed by Trump the hardest are his biggest fans.

Hey now, the stochastic terrorists have never been busier!

Oh, you mean consequences for bad behaviour? That only happens to poor people

A Republican isn’t gonna read that wall of text and neither am I, because it doesn’t matter.

Everything and more you listed Trump does doesn’t matter to his voters, because he’s gonna be super racist and super pro Christian and that’s literally the entire Republican voter Christmas list, so anything else is irrelevant.

It’s a shame they missed the (imo) significantly more poignant joke of having the guy painting from the roof to cover up “Don’t”.

It’s not just Republicans, but Republicans are notorious for their universal double standards that only one without shame can have.

To varying degrees, every single person has things in their life that they like, and no amount of accurate, undeniable, objective, information about it being bad/wrong/inefficient etc will change their mind unless they decide they want to.

There’s plenty of disqualifying traits for Republicans, which is a large part of why they now have a God king who wears diapers and has more fingers than functional brain cells.

What a shame the assassin missed.

There would undoubtedly be fallout, but the public really needs to remember that we are the ones allowing democracy to be shit on and destroyed in front of our eyes as Media across the country only cares about engagement.

It turns out letting America be held hostage by Fascists makes for good TV, and the 6 people who own almost every media outlet never forgot how great enslaved populations were for their bottom line.

Yeah, saw that after I posted, but I’m on mobile and lazy

I don’t think you can put the Clinton’s and the Trump’s anywhere near each other.

They may both be wealthy, self serving elites, but Trump is a classless slob of little substance who gleefully sold out America at every possibility.

Trump and his ilk are scum of the earth, and actively trying to oppress you into slavery.

The Clinton’s may suck, but it’s like comparing a dust buster to a black hole and calling it the same.

And with some damn wiggle room this time.

We had multiple Democrats Peel off and stymied loads of progress (Manchin, Sinema etc).

We need enough room for the wolves in sheep’s clothing to not make a (D)ifference in the progress we need to shut down authoritarianism.

The supreme court being public enemy #1 means we need everything else to be operating seamlessly to be able to prevent every single goal for project 2025 line by line immediately and permanently.

Undoing regulatory capture will also be a monumental feat, as will reforming media’s ability to platform lies and disinformation that are objectively false.

Huge fucking task list and we haven’t even talked about running the actual country yet. We’re gonna need one hell of a blue wave to drown the fascists and drain the swamp.

DOJ should go after right wing media for intentionally espousing disinformation.

Pull a scientology and file individual lawsuits for every instance of lies, disinformation, false narratives, inciting violence, pushing agendas of enemy states etc.

The biggest problem isn’t police, it’s that entire government’s and media apparatus are solely focused on destroying America and are getting away with it consequence free.

Once we drain the swamp, the police rats won’t have full political and media support for hiding their crimes and we can start making federal police reforms that actually have teeth for going after all these bad apples.

Throwing some Rapey, murdery police in jail is a start, but the national corruption runs way way deeper, and until that cancer is removed, real progress cannot be made as there will just be another game of musical chairs shuffling the problems around.

Didn’t they March in with victory day parade attire in their backpacks instead of a second round of ammunition, or rations?

Said or unsaid, even if the war was going exactly as planned, it’s a shit war that’s executed poorly and will destroy the Russian economy and likely end up losing everything they took, even Crimea.

While I wish Biden did more, he did get a ton of fantastic policy through.

Anything that helped the people too much was stymied by Manchin and Sinema (arguably the list would continue with centrists peeling off from Democrats) and the supreme court.

Hopefully a landslide win happens and meaningful legislation is quickly passed. Bringing gov’t programs up to speed for helping the middle class would probably cement democratic leadership for at least a decade

What a stupid comment.

OP was illustrating the effect of total media control and propaganda, the local culture it generated with the loss of local resources, poisoned land, and jobs shipped overseas.

Yes, it’s sad that people were able to be brainwashed over generations with 100% captured media giving people a false culture built on lies and deceit.

It’s also sad that people who come to a revelation that they have been taken for a ride, they no only have to accept they were wrong for a large part of their life, responsible for voting to make it worse, and would likely lose their friends/family by rejecting the false narrative that’s been embraced locally.

Even if you hate these people for their situation, you’ll still have to deal with them as voters and members of the population. Hating/confronting them will only push them further right.

We really need to bring the country together, and remove the us VS them mentality the wealthy use to divide us.

You are coping out by literally writing off half your country, refusing to understand the problem, don’t want to address the root causes, and have no interest in resolving the issue.

Do you have any kind of plan aside from blaming the others for all the problems? Because that’s exactly how the wealthy maintain the status quo.

You underestimate how retard-angry Republicans are.

All someone has to do is call that carrot woke and it’ll get legitimate death threats by days end.

Less chat bots on Lemmy, and they seem to be easily identifiable and ignored/reported.

Lemmy isn’t quite at that sweet spot where there are enough daily users to get niche content and information from a group of knowledgeable people - but some communities seem to be quite active and helpful already.

I’d love to get to the point where we have a big science/history community and get some non-celebrity AMA’s that have genuine interaction.

I’m more than happy for Lemmy to stay “underground” for a good while, slowly building communities. Once things hit a critical mass and wind up on corporate radar, lemmy will get swarmed and another migration will happen with the same core groups that joined lemmy early.

“The only shared reality that society is allowed to have is Trump’s subjective interpretation of reality.”

The crazy part is, that MAGAts want Trump to be the sole source of truth probably more than even Trump does.

Probably the same mentality as taxes/healthcare

It’s always “I shouldn’t have to pay for everyone else’s healthcare 🤬🤬🤬”

But never “everyone pays less than they already are into healthcare and the actual service becomes free for everyone but wealthy people don’t make billions of dollars off your need to live”

I doubt it’ll ever actually happen, but I’d love to see news/media stop using ® for Republicans and change it up to (W) for weird.

Similar to when (probably satire) Ted Cruz was listed as as (R - Cancun), can’t seem to find the image I’m thinking of, so if anyone else has it please link!

Even if he had suspicions, he’d been in service for 24 years, which is huge.

If I worked for someone for 24 years and they looked like they wanted to go fight overseas, I’d absolutely consider retirement as well.

Service to your country isn’t accomplished exclusively by going overseas to shoot people.

Republicans are literally speed running a 100% completed anti-christ identity. Not even in the specific ‘end of days antichrist’, but like literally, specifically, the complete opposite of absolutely everything their Christian deity Jesus stood for.

Trump saw how much traction JFK got with admitting he had brain worms, so Trump switched out his Ivermectin bleach formula and started a diet of parasite filled meats that are now taking hold

Seems like a weird thing to do.