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I mean, I get it, but come on…
What democracy? Lmao
What do you mean you dont have a democracy? You just aren’t allowed to vote on,
-Corporate taxes
-Gun and militia rights
-Getting rid of mass surveillance
-Ownership of your own data
-Workers having time off work
-Grassroot prosecutions of the rich and powerful by citizens
-Anonymity online
-Free speech
-The right to access information
-The foreign policy of the U.S
-How many cops and prisons your country should have
-Locally run elections and rational districting or abolishing the electoral collage
-Not having 500 separate taxes for the honest and poor working man
-Whether you should be allowed to buy medicine outside the medical cartel
-Immigration
-Transparency in the state process
-Reinstituring the constitution above laws and executive orders
-Removing controversial or dirtbags politicians from office
-Banning corporate lobbying, making the electoral process public and transparent.
-Not having tracking devices forced into every device you own and even your car.
-whether you have to get skin cancer by not having window tint so CCTV can pick up your face as you drive by
-Dmca and copyright
-banning HOAs
-Getting rid of state backed paper currencies
-Owning and rooting devices you own.
But don’t worry you can vote to take away each others human rights every election depending on how many of you are loyal and show up to vote for your elections. You are free to vote to strip trans people of rights one year, and Christians of rights the next year. You can strip hispanics of rights one year and white people of rights the next year. You can always vote for less corporate taxes! And more taxes for yourself. You can always vote to make your neighborhood safer by having policecorp tm and Black Rock come manage your security! Lots of homeless people out there these days. Policecorp would like to remind you to watch 15 minutes of advertising four times per day to get 15% off your security package from all those pesky homeless people who are too lazy to work 12 hour shifts in the papermill for snack money like you God fearing patriotic Americans.
Oh no, the president is fash, we elected him democratically. Time to give up without doing anything I guess, there is no way to elect anyone democratically.
I’m gonna stay posting this. We didn’t elect this mess. This is what we actually voted for.
nope, 400 days in the past you mean. the chance was NOV 5. and its already been more than 1year to this day, since biden dropped out of the election.
the midterms and next presidency is largely less effective, because of the BBB, and the damage and blame would be placed on dems.
its already been more than 1year to this day, since biden dropped out of the election.
Switching out the incumbent has been a feature of losing elections in 4 of 4 attempts. So you’re not wrong, here.
But I still blame the morons who voted for a sure loser, against harm reduction, because they disliked the amount of meddling the US needs to do abroad – because it’s apparently too low. Those people made the difference, and the Russian backers are pleased at the results.
People need to get it through their head that there will BE NO MIDTERMS.
Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again. He’s already got his Reichstag moment with the Charlie Kirk killing. He’s already declared that democrats are going to be investigated and that “left wing violence” is the enemy. Why the fuck do people think he’s done all of that if not to pre-emptively get some bullshit excuse to “postpone” the midterms?
Get your heads out of your asses, Americans.
It’s wild as a Canadian watching for sure. All international news sources are still in on the koolaid as well because they have to be. For all intents and purposes midterms will happen but behind closed doors I bet all journalists would tell you it’s gonna be like a Russian election. The fix is in. What’s laughable is no one is saying it out loud yet and Americans aren’t fighting for their democracy.
- 1/3 of America is full in on fascism
- 1/3 of America doesn’t give a shit
- 11/36 of America sees it and sits on their asses
- 1/36 of America is actively trying to stop this
Even if they do have em it doesnt matter with election fuckery like gerrymandering and other corrupt bullshit the ussa will pull
If midterms happen it will have to have people in the streets prior. We really need the various military/police to step up by standing down.
There will be midterms, there just won’t be fair or accurate results.
…If Republicans are overseeing them.
There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively. I don’t suspect he’ll actually cancel the election so much as make it even less fair that usual to avoid the risk of losing, but either way, convincing everyone that this is what he will do, before he does it, just means that when it happens people won’t get as mad about it because it’ll be “old news” in their heads anyway.
There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively.
There is: If you know there will be no fair elections, you know you need to find another way of resisting fascism. It seems many are banking on a blue wave to come and save the day in the midterms, so the knowledge that this won’t and can’t happen is important.
Blue wave in the midterms is just one sandbag in the wall that would need to be built to stop the flood of fascism.
Blue wave is a possible (and frankly, terrible) day-after plan. There will be no midterms in any real sense of the word unless fascism is stopped.
And giving up is way easier, too. Don’t forget that. I know I’m exhausted just watching from afar.
If voting for The Democratic Party was going to fix anything, there wouldn’t have been a second Trump term in the first place.
Just because one doctor doesn’t fix all your issues, doesn’t mean you go home and shoot yourself in the foot.
There’s a distinct difference between not fixing all of one’s problems and making those problems worse.
it will probablay a blue wave, but it will be so weakened by all the cuts, tariffs, that the dems will just take the blame for trumps damage , and then it will be right back where we started. plus the BBB will soon be in effect.
he already installed a election denier to head the elections infrastructure nationwide. also there s a subset of people that dont register on purpose, because they dont want to be called for Jury duty, which can be potentially financially devestating for people.
Hold the fuck up. Am I getting this right?
You have to register to be able to vote. If you register, you might have to work in court, losing out on pay. You don’t get any compensation for that. The lost pay can ruin you financially.
What the fuck?
Some states dont pay you on the first, day even if they do its like less 5-15/day if your selected. and federal court might pay you more , and this is seperate from your cities JD, so some people have gotten both JD summons in one year. and Commuting by car is partially reimbursed, lol. i do hear alot of people skip JD, but most are dismissed anyways.
Most middle class jobs tend to give paid leave for jury duty. If you can’t get that or can’t afford the lost income, you can usually get out of having to appear because of that.
So the poor might not be able to participate in the judicial process?
You get paid about 3.50 and hour in my state.
As in, 28 per day of work missed? Or even less than that
In my county we get paid 35 dollars per day for jury duty.
in cali its 15/day if your in JD(in person)
Depends on the state. In CT you can get called for jury duty of you have a driver’s license, no voter registration required
Oh yea, here in cali they get you first by voter rolls(registration) and driver license, or state ID. im not sure about utility bills, or other kinds id, but thats what i heard. aLSO, noticed those that were in JD before is more likely to be called in the future. thats why i alot of people think its not-partially random. and also how recently you voted too. note, it almost happen in 6months of voting in any election, while people i know that dint vote, or registered gets one every few years of JD. and some people never get Summons at all. like if you go to any other "fourm/site talking about JD.
There’s really no reason to not have midterms. Even if there is a blue tsunami, and Congress impeaches Trump, that just empowers him further. It would finally precipitate the Constitutional crisis that solidifies his dictatorship. The Executive is the enforcement arm of the government, and it’s already been purged and filled with cultists. They will not remove him, they will not stop following his orders.
Cancelling the midterms would surely cause a Constitutional crisis, earlier, and there’s no reason to be hasty. The longer that event can be put off, the less likely people will resist violently.
Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again.
Small correction: He still has 14 months before the elections themselves, and another two and a half months before those elected take office, to figure it out. In other words, he’s still got ~65% of his pre-Midterms term to destroy democracy.
Phew!
The Americans did not get their heads out of their asses
He implied this’ll be his last term at the state visit to the UK
OK, lemme get this straight. This is a group project for 340M people with a deadline that is more than a year ahead. How do we think this will work out?
- People will do nothing for another at least 10 months or so, then panic and do anything to at least have something to show for.
- Most people won’t participate at all and hope that the rest will hand in something that they can claim ownership of.
- When the deadline arrives, they will try to copy the democracy of neighboring nations, even though it’s far too late to change the outcome.
We will smugly decry that nothing can be done, and continue sharing memes about death of direct action
excuse me i like cheese and wine
Well not sure how much babies and toddlers can do, so that shrinks the amount of people involved at least
Dumbass freeloading babies…
It’s no secret they all shit their diapers in solidarity with Trump.
No they fucking don’t. They have zero fucking days. Time is up and they DON’T CARE, they - the country of freedom - demonstrably want this.
Lol, these trolls are so obvious. Hate bait.
They have no fuckign clue what to do. Nobody teaches you how to oppose a fascist dictatorship and there are zero leaders doing so. It’s an entire damn education and skills training regime that people are too desperately poor to afford to figure out individually.
Have you seen how people online react when you float the idea of strikes (or really anything beyond parades masquerading as protests) as a method of resistance? The vast majority of Americans demonstrably don’t care enough about fascism to do something about it. By the way the word isn’t “oppose;” it’s “overthrow.”
The inability, for those who do want to act, to get together is a major hurdle. We’re all surrounded by people who don’t care or can’t care. People wouldn’t feel so helpless if they actually found each other and came together regularly to talk, share info, suggest ideas, teach each other. There’s no reason a portion of the dem party cant self organize and start demanding real action, no party lines, no acceptance of the status quo.
and big tech is censoring off the places they would be able to do it online.
zucc can’t let facebook be the spark for another revolt can he?
the reason that portion of the dem party isnt doing it is because they are part of the system. democrats will not save you. you gotta save yourself.
It’s these fucking organizers ISTG, I haven’t seen anything serious planned except a protest at a park every 3 months. We saw how many people showed up to no kings yet the organizers behind no kings cannot be bothered to call for a strike or more frequent protests.
I mean, what makes those organizers special? They’re just people who decided to do a thing; none of what they’re doing can’t be replicated by someone else. If the problem is the organizers, then you or someone you know should be able to organize something better.
They have no fuckign clue what to do. Nobody teaches you how to oppose a fascist dictatorship
France taught us well. Americans love their lumberjacks, you can make a lot of guillotines with that.
I’m sorry you are already so defeated about our chances. Why don’t you just stand aside and collect yourself rather than try to demoralize the rest of us?
America demoralizes every friend and former ally and threatens WWIII.
We are aside, watching America do nothing after decades of bragging about how free you were and how willing you were to stick up for it.
There is no “rest of us” for us outsiders. America is doing this just like Russia invaded Ukraine and Israel is committing genocide, not some of their people.
Is America all one person to you or do you just ignore all the people fighting?
Where the fuck are you from passing such harsh judgement?
I wish you wouldn’t generalize the whole nation like this. Yes, roughly 1/3 of people voted for trump. Of those, a smaller number actually knew what they were doing and the ramifications of it, the rest just watch fox news and never leave their house. Not a good excuse but also not exactly willful hate.
Then there about a third who don’t have time, money, or mental energy to drop everything and try to start a resistance full time. They still have too much to lose and just want to wait this out.
Then there’s the rest of us actively trying to improve things as best we can through community organizing, resistance efforts, protesting and counter protesting, etc. We aren’t professionals, we aren’t perfect at it, but we are also not lying down and taking it. Sure, we could all just leave, but I don’t think anyone in the world wants to see what America would be like without ANY resistance to this, even assuming we had the funds to move and would be accepted by any other country.
It is depressing and often feels powerless to live here right now. We hate it and want to fix it however we can, and some of us are ready to sacrifice everything to do it. America is NOT (and never had been) a political monolith, and we extremely all do not support trump (look at his approval ratings if nothing else). The sane people here are largely ignored because our views aren’t really represented by either main party and don’t make the cut of the billionaire controlled news media who wants to keep it that way.
Beyond all of this, no one deserves to be personally blamed for the actions of their countries worst politicians simply for existing in the same physical space. Especially those of us fighting against it however we can
America is NOT (and never had been) a political monolith, and we extremely all do not support trump (look at his approval ratings if nothing else).
America is the monolith. Russia is the monolith. Israel is the monolith.
United Russia isn’t invading Ukraine, Russia is. Likud isn’t performing genocide in Gaza, Israel is. The Republican Party isn’t waging economic, military, climate, and human-rights warfare among its former allies and fostering a world war for profit - The United States of America is.
So I’m sorry you get lumped together while in opposition but I ask what people outside the US are supposed to do while we wait for the bombs? Smile on Lemmy and save our complaints for people who clearly identify as Trump supporters? I ask what you think of first when you think of a 1930s German, and then add on top decades of freedom fanaticism and foreknowledge in the form of basic WWII history.
Guilty until proven innocent? Sure, but in the setting of a confession (the (second) election) I think the world can be forgiven for assuming the flag stands for what it’s doing when commenting.
Again, I’m sorry. I don’t want to be mean to people or stereotype either but I really don’t think Americans on either side understand how fucking scared we are, and it will be under one flag that you come to kill my family for minerals or some shit just like it’s the Russian flag bombing Ukraine and the Israeli over the ruins of Gaza. Our bestest friend and the kid who took all the equipment because he was “the bestest” has joined the bullies and taken all the shit. Punches are next and I think we can be forgiven lashing out.
America is the monolith.
This is someone who knows nothing about America. You either don’t know what a monolith is or you’re just grossly misinformed. You seem to think the entire population just agrees with everything the country does and you hold the people accountable for everything bad the county does.
but I ask what people outside the US are supposed to do while we wait for the bombs?
If you’re so scared and are demanding so much there is plenty action you could take. You could volunteer, you could donate, you could do things if you are actually that worried. But you won’t. You just want to complain online, which ironically is what a lot of America is doing.
Again, I’m sorry. I don’t want to be mean to people or stereotype either but I really don’t think Americans on either side understand how fucking scared we are,
How the fuck do you think we feel? Everyone is yelling at us to fight and where people fight they are disappeared. You’re afraid the US military might come after you? They’re already after us and all everyone is doing is telling us to fight the military they are scared might come for them while doing fuck all.
Either help or move on, whatever this is you’re trying to do, isn’t helping anything.
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Of course you can be forgiven, and believe me I understand your fear. It’s scary being here too, my political ideology was basically declared a terrorist ideology yesterday and met with calls from our government for mass violence against people who hold my views.
That said, I dont hold all Germans responsible for WWII. I don’t hold all isrealis responsible for Gaza or all Russians responsible for Ukraine. I think the people who dissent against those regimes living in those countries are the best positioned to meaningfully do something about their governments, and even if they haven’t done enough to fully end the problems yet they are impactful. At least Russia and Ukraine today have active protests and civil disobedience that help if nothing else push back against the internal propaganda engines in their countries
At a time when everything seems bleak, I think finding allies where you can is more important than ever. Some of those allies will come from within. My understanding is people living in Germany who didn’t like hitler were instrumental to his downfall once Germany was meaningfully being invaded.
You can and should be worried about what the fascist USA is capable of, but I promise whatever there is that can be done against it I will be there to help (for whatever that’s worth as a non military person who is also trying to provide for my family while resisting fascism). I wish it could be more.
Yes, roughly 1/3 of people voted for trump.
You’re forgetting the portion who sat at home and chose not to vote.
Those people were ok with whatever the outcome had been.
Indirectly, they voted for whoever won.
Id say directly helped trump, Who tf sits out an election when a shitstain rapist might win?
Lets look at the grand opposition to trump:
the democrats
your country is cooked my friend
Demonstrably? Care to demonstrate?
That’s at least 2000 miles away so no.
You’re not helping. You might be worse than the idiots. You have the awareness to see what is happening, and this is how you respond.
TBF, the alternative is to wait a bit more and see how the situation evolves and if the midterm change something.
Everyone’s telling you: react now. The close future/midterm won’t change anything.
The message is more a call to action, rather than anything… Stop waiting.
the call to action, was nov 5, but people refused to vote.
Right. So let’s keep bitching about the past instead of trying to protect what can be protected… /s
Hahaha you think it matters if they care or not
That’s adorable
The whole reason we’re in this is mess is people’s apathy and insisting the only thing they can do is vote for warmongering Democrats. Everyone is just working their jobs and living their life normally, when they should be out in the streets demanding heads on spikes.
Oh I’m pretty sure we’re already too fucked to recover.
Oh yeah 4 more years of him trying to go harder than the “casinos”. Your best chance is to immigrate
nov 5 was the only chance last year, so much damage has been done, and DEMS will likely take the blame with no push back, even if we win some of the elections. plus some of the BBB cuts are set to activate next year.
It was over the night he won. We traded it for slightly cheaper eggs.
Actually Democrats won, if you discount proven cheating like purging legitimate voters. What was that word again for a government that doesn’t have fair elections?
Correction: For the obviously false promise of cheaper eggs.
its not even that, trump dropped the issue the moment he found out he coulndt lower them, MSM never followed it up.
You traded it for tiktok and other shiny things. The last nine months has proven that modern humans as a whole will go out of our way to not do a damn thing about a LOT of bad shit as long as we still have access to our ipads, smartphones and streaming services.
Americans (and yes…Westerners in general) are so addicted to their creature comforts that we’ll excuse almost anything in order to avoid the inconvenience of not having them if we stand up and actually revolt.
It’s utterly disgusting.
It’s funny, because the eggs got more expensive.
Some traded fascism for their own moral certitude.
Because allowing the Nazis to seize unanimous power was apparently better than voting for someone who was vague about one genocide.
Or worse: voting for a woman!
Calling Harris “vague” really does you no favors here, because while she thought she was being vague everyone knew exactly what she was going to do.
well you voted for trump, who was pretty much far worst.
No, but you Trump propagandists likes to pretend you did, then applaud Trump for doing 10 times worse things than you accused her of.
*Russian eggs of poor quality.
(Hint: If you subsidize eggs, you can make them cheaper.)
Why didn’t Biden think of that? /s
Maybe Trump will outlaw the Democrats by then.
More accurate would be “Most Americans will find out that the United States is run by fascists in no earlier than 400 days”
we arnt already, im pretty sure it was clear, the moment doge started cutting, and he was cancelling things left and right.
Correct, look at any dictatorial regime in history, half the population will but the propaganda without an ounce of critical thought, most of the remaining will shrug and keep their head low to survive, and a tiny portion of the population will resist, which makes them easy to target and eliminate.
And nothing will improve until there’s a critical mass of resistance, which the average American has no interest in.
Democrats are going to force another establishment elite that nobody wants as a leader and fuck it all up again, I bet.
they want NEWSOM, yuck. after seeing ZOHRAN and madhami could do, they arnt taking any chances,. the DNC is pushing newsome quite heavily, newsoms little “social media spat” is so not useful.
It’s already too late
More like -740 days.
Fuck it. Burn it down.
