Well this is what I was waiting for. We’re boned

It’s like not standing for anything and sacrificing your party’s morals in the name of “compromise” isn’t a solid strategy

I’m hopeful this will all lead to America’s farmers breaking from the republican party.

I fear american farmers will go bankrupt and all their land will be bought by corporations.

I made a comment self censored to “Mario bros” on reddit. Got a permanent ban. They’re going scorched earth on anything moderately inflammatory

Ignores my statement of active action

Claims point was proven

Refuses to elaborate

Leaves

Bold moves

Okay so we’re going to have to define words.

Reason:

1. a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.
2. the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic.

Please refer to definition 2.

Sure we can spend all day defining words, but that’s obtuse. You very well know what I meant. Not turning an active flight around is magnitudes different than continuing arrests and deportation after a court order.

A justification requires at least some pretense of a reason. Just because you want to is a statement.

Once again, it’s not a cope to acknowledge that things are bad now and they can get worse. I’m going to protests, I’ve stopped all discretionary spending, and I tell my story to anyone that will listen (my work has been directly impacted). Hell I haven’t spoken to my Trump voting father in months. Short of taking arms against the government there’s not much left to do, and frankly to get to that level the milestones on the way to the bottom do matter a lot.

Saying I felt like it is not a justification. Wouldn’t call this a cope either. I know things are bad, but there’s still room for them to get much much worse. I think they will reach that point. It’s just watching the milestones pass now.

There are words and there are actions, but we’re not far off

At least they’re still working under pretense and condition. They “can’t” turn them around because they’re already in route.

It’s not good, but they are using a contrived reason. I’m afraid for the day they stop trying to justify it and keep doing it.

Things are getting to that point rapidly

If they arrest more people after the court order. That will tell us for sure.

I’m not saying things are good right now, they’re pretty bleak

The pressure the DNC seems to exert over it’s canidates is insane. There was probably a lot of pressure on her to toe the line. I heard they reigned in Walz quite a bit too.

Maybe one day the DNC will learn

They’ve broken the law blatantly and have not reversed some things that they should have, but typically they have stopped doing the action when the courts have ordered it.

So they have sorta, but not outright

Once this administration defies the courts democracy will be over in the US.

It won’t be a one off either, he will then begin doing whatever he wants. Congress will not stop him.

Postponing it won’t matter. Unless he announces retirment we’ll be there

This is the truth and you should be outraged, but calling truthful reporting “instigating outrage” is insane

And to keep the private tax filing agencies afloat

Oddly enough it kinda does. OT can make you pay out more taxes on that one check since withholdings are calculated by check. Basically the government/payroll system thinks you’re going to be making that every week so more taxes will be taken out.

In reality this only effects the size of your tax bill or return at the end of the year.

I liked my karma back on my old reddit account (before being banned from supporting Luigi), but that is because I had the account for 12 years and invested too much time into it.

So far I’m enjoying the laid back nature of lemmy. Hopefully there will be more engagement, maybe some UI updates too. But overall I’m liking the switch. The conversations and posts feel more real.