HUD. Its always “Put the Brown person in charge of the housing projects… They know those people.”

Not many people who never served would know, tbh.

if only…

A pack of smokes in NYS is ~$15US right now.

Marketing. Bsky got the venture dollars. That’s all.

Its not an insult, per se. Its a categorization of the individual’s beliefs, and also an understanding of what, exactly, our system is, in the US.

And yes, folks on the left don’t like liberals all that much, ie:

“The White liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the Black man. Let me first explain what I mean by this White liberal. In America there’s no such thing as Democrats and Republicans anymore. That’s antiquated. In America you have liberals and conservatives. This is what the American political structure boils down to among Whites. The only people who are still living in the past and thinks in terms of “I’m a Democrat” or “I’m a Republican” is the American Negro. He’s the one who runs around bragging about party affiliation and he’s the one who sticks to the Democrat or sticks to the Republican, but White people in America are divided into two groups, liberals and Republicans…or rather, liberals and conservatives. And when you find White people vote in the political picture, they’re not divided in terms of Democrats and Republicans, they’re divided consistently as conservatives and as liberal. The Democrats who are conservative vote with Republicans who are conservative. Democrats who are liberals vote with Republicans who are liberals. You find this in Washington, DC. Now the White liberals aren’t White people who are for independence, who are liberal, who are moral, who are ethical in their thinking, they are just a faction of White people who are jockeying for power the same as the White conservatives are a faction of White people who are jockeying for power. Now they are fighting each other for booty, for power, for prestige and the one who is the football in the game is the Negro. Twenty million Black people in this country are a political football, a political pawn an economic football, an economic pawn, a social football, a social pawn…” - Malcom X

And of course, Reich Wingers don’t like liberals all that much, because they are the less authoritarian (Not un-authoritarian, mind you) than they are.

Nah, the DNC’s choice to run with Harris, and doing it last minute, coupled with a focus on trying to convince hungry USians that the economy is great, so they should stop whining did it.

Contrary to your belief, posting on Lemmy isn’t the only thing everyone does…

Like, I’ve been posting a lot to lemmy… This Saturday, I’m going to the range with a close group of family. Before shooting time, we’re doing a STB refresher course. Sunday, over dinner, we’ll be planning out the garden plots on the street.

We waited to long, and welcomed them to often and openly, for the alternatives to work now.

Which is why we need to be, as well.

Oh noes! A group of neighbors goes to the range weekly, grows food in gardens, and learns first aid… You’re right, they’ll drop firebombs on us like the did to MOVE.

I mean, it is what it is. My activities have been pretty openly discussed elsewhere, and apparently, it never tripped a background check. Not with the IRS, Dept of Education, Dept of the Treasury, TS-SCIF clearances, etc etc…

Wny do you think we are doing weekly range days now?

Enjoy your evening. I mean that honestly.

They are going to do that regardless of a pardon happening or not. Remember, they tried it 4 years ago, in our own little Beer Hall Putsch.

I already am… My community, and myself, have already started putting into action plans to help us through this: Bolstering our mutual aid network, doing first aid classes, hitting the range weekly now, planning our block gardens, etc etc.

The “public’s opinion” is of very little concern without a threat of violence to back it up.

Ok, now I see you just wanna argue. Have a good time then.

For all the failures of the US, or other liberal democracies… Yes, they can vote fascism right into power, and we have, in the US, and in Germany in the 1930’s too.

However, let’s not pretend this is exclusive to liberal democracies… Lest we forget how quickly the oligarchs captured the socialist movement in Russia in the 1910’s. Not even two years post-revolution, the Soviets were also murdering the working class for high crimes such as “Doing a labor strike” or “Daring to use a system other than Leninism”…

Literally voting for your reps is not what the government of Russia is, though… So, yes, representative democracies are sub-optimal, but they are better than a straight up oligarchy, which means “People with money and power have all the say”.

There’s always profit to be extracted, especially from slaves.