#Political talk

[hoasens]

western politicians are some of the most evil and spineless people on earth

[marshgremlin]

the us military is built on genocide, murder and greed and it will do anything to maintain that, including murdering any member of the us military who dares to speak out about it

[acgames]

Political rant incoming, so I am putting it under "read more"

Lately I have been sucked into wormhole of American politics, with whole Trump assassination attempt and Kamala being put as still non-official democrat candidate after Biden pulled out, y'know same old, but I also cannot help but notice how these events made some americans finally snap and pull off the "perfect america" veil off their lives and just show gritty and shitty reality online: delusional democrats, drug pandemic, housing crisis, economical collapse, their healthcare system being corrupt to hell and such and as Eastern European I am actually kinda disturbed by all this shit and while I could draw comparisons between americans and people in post-USSR countries, I won't. Not this time.

I had spoken few times already that I hate libtard democrats, because most insane ones really turned the whole american left movement into insane tiktok zombies. Still I bet some democrats with not dead IQ exist who want their country to return to normalcy without woke agenda, and without new generation of citizens having mouth foaming epilepsy-like induced shock everytime they hear Trump's name, but they also can't admit they are afraid, because how wokeness cult works.

Also as European from east, with Russia's aggressive acts and constant gaslighting due to Ukraine conflict in our region, I should care who is at the helm of one of the most powerful countries around the world, because, agree or not, European Union specialises in following command of USA and if Biden administration decides to give billions to Zelensky to steal for Ukraininian rich and his own personal needs, oops my bad, I mean to buy weapons to fight for freedom against evil Russia. Have you ever questioned why exactly everyone gives billions to Ukraine to fight for freedom, but not a dime for Palestine? Political gain and corruption is your answer, because on Gaza conflict, Biden administration already have ball on winning side, while in Ukraine conflict they don't - that's why your American Billions are filling pockets of neoN*zi skum like that Ukrainian dwarf.

Returning to USA politics and my rant you probs think I am a Republican Trump supporter, but no I am not, the thing is, I prefer the man who is not yet a senile puddle with human goo in place of brains or his VP who changes her racial background from Indian to African-American once it's convenient for plot and can't make a single sentence make sense.

I don't know: I would like to ask my fellow americans what good Biden administration did for you people over 4 years, well apart allowing to drug and castrate underage kids just because they parents are narcissists with Munchauzen's by proxy and setting apart POC and white communities than ever before pushing whole country to next civil war? Did Biden administration fix your country's inner problems, like rotten healthcare system? Did they do something for your declining economy? Did they attempt to regulate housing crisis? I haven't seen any americans talk about that at least being attempted to be fixed online.

But yeah sure, what do I know? I am from Eastern Europe, my parents were born in USSR, my grandparents saw horrors of WW2 and N*zi occupation and my great-grandparents lived fearing banishment to Siberia at hands of Lenin Communist Party. Maybe that's why we value what we have: our lands, our language and our culture, even so it's slowly being americanized here too. The saving grace is that some of us have been through heaps of generational shit and we are too fed up with weakness and fluffyness american wokeness are trying to imply on us, and as ex-woke myself, I say good riddance. We do not need to exist in a fluffy self-centered "Me, me, me" bubble: we need to exist in gritty reality, so we could try to fix it for better.

Or maybe I am just getting too old and I have no more fucks left to give in being polite and politically correct so not to offend the snowflakes... Because God sees me, being woke is leading us straight to dystopian future, Biden administration and every of their cult followers are trying to desperately paint as perfect utopia.

[total-drama-brainrot]

hi ophe :) im giving u an explanation on kosa

The "Kids Online Safety Act" (KOSA) is a bill introduced in the United States Senate by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) and Marsha Blackburn (R‑TN) in February 2022[1] and reintroduced in May 2023; the bill establishes guidelines meant to protect minors on social media platforms.[2] The bill charges individual state attorneys general with enforcing the bill.[3] The bill has been criticized by civil rights organizations for potentially enabling censorship, including of material important to marginalized groups.[4]

I got this from Wikipedia btw

Ah, so it's pretty much just yet another attempt for the US government to control and censor social media. I doubt it'll work- just look at how COPPA turned out.

There'll be enough backlash both from the people it affects and the many, many companies that market themselves to kids on social media, and the whole thing will be quashed as a violation of human rights or something (given it's impeding on 'freedom of speech' and all).

We might get a YouTube Kids 2.0 out of it, though!

[gourde]

Woah... so I see all these posts about what's going on in Texas and the UK which is good to see! We need to be aware of these things! But also. HERE IN ONTARIO THEY ARE PRIVATIZING HEALTHCARE. NO JOKE. I haven't heard ANYTHING about this!!! 60% OF THE PROVINCE DIDN'T VOTE. WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT???? AHOHORUOOHOHSDOHOFHZIHA

[ribombeee]

[boxxed-juice]

y’all are gonna vote Kamala now that she’s called for a ceasefire and has condemned Israel’s actions, right? you’re going to vote for her because she’s said she hears the calls for a ceasefire, right? or will you find another excuse to now do your civic duty for this country that directly affects you and everyone around you. i am begging you to please vote in this election because we are literally between a man who has been charged with 34 felony counts, had more on the table, and wants to become a dictator if hes elected on day one and a woman who is sane, rational, and competent at her job and supports everything this man is against. if you want Palestine to be free, you’re going to get off your ass and vote.

[vaspider]

I cannot stress enough how important it is that whatever you think of anything else, Trump Cannot Be President Again.

The "rip apart democracy and install an autocrat" group was not Ready for him in 2016. They didn't think he'd win.

They're ready now. They're teeing up for a second Trump president. Whatever your favorite current Thing, it would be worse under Trump, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they're going to try to make sure that they stay in power forever, by any means necessary.

SCOTUS basically just said, "If Trump sends the Army in to murder protestors, that's okay. If Trump assassinates a political rival with the armed forces of which he is the Commander In Chief, that's an official act, and there's no recourse."

Anything he can even vaguely justify as "an official act" - including installing people in the Justice Department to support his coup, including pressuring his VP to support his coup - is no longer a crime.

This isn't just me saying this, btw. Here's Robert Reich, lifelong public servant (and yes, dad of @samreich, since I know what's important to y'all):

Finally, the Republican-appointed justices have given a dangerous amount of discretion to presidents — broad enough, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in her dissent, to protect presidents from prosecution for bribes and assassinations. A president already has the authority under the Insurrection Act to order troops into American streets. After today’s ruling, those troops would be under the command of a person who would almost certainly enjoy absolute immunity for the orders he gives them.

This is unbelievably terrifying.

[dubious-dice]

(more political talk)

"you liberals wouldn't like it if it was Biden" nah, I wouldn't mind, honestly- it might be putting him out of his misery. Who's behind him? Probably his wife. Oh, she's power hungry? Yeah of course everyone that rich is.

[gumy-shark]

made a beautiful google slides infographic in 60 seconds on why u should Fucking Vote

[the-rainbow-flavored-university]

in relation to mr. rump getting shot

[hoasens]

there’s something so dystopian seeing palestinian-american politicians having to ask their colleagues to not continue to support a genocide of their people and family, and for these same colleagues to incite violence and accuse them of being terrorist sympathizers

[marshgremlin]

'make america great again' always seemed such an awful political slogan to me, because when has america ever been great??? when has the settler colonial state america ever done anything other than commit genocide, support slavery, and aid colonialism around the world??? wheres the good bit. where's the fucking good bit. riddle me that.

[emotional-moss]

sorry for resorting to a meme about this but people are making me mad 👍

[qqueenofhades]

I feel like it's important to point out that in the last few days alone, in the middle of the ongoing flap about How Old He Is, Biden has announced two MAJOR pieces of progressive legislation/priorities for his second term: a) major SCOTUS reform, term limits for SCOTUS justices, a constitutional amendment nullifying the "president god-king" ruling, and b) legislation to cap/stabilize rent costs nationwide and financially punish landlords who raise their tenant's rent by more than a certain percentage (the news I saw had it as no more than 5%) in a year.

It is important to note that aside from these both being necessary and needed (the SCOTUS reform alone, holy shit) Biden's response to challenges to his candidacy is to go MORE left, not LESS. The conventional wisdom for 800 years has always been that Democrats Need To Go More Centrist, a mainstream and longterm Democrat like Biden has absolutely heard it over and over, and we have heard so much about how we need to court Republicans who are tired of Trump by being more conservative. Biden is not doing that. He is making the electoral gamble that the way to win is by going even more left, which would also have implications for his policy agenda in a second term, especially when he was freed of re-election concerns and could just go "fuck it."

Now we, and I cannot emphasize this enough, need to reward him for the move leftward and incentivize him to do it more. When you shout endlessly at politicians to be more left and then just bitch at them for not being even more left even when they move in that direction, you discourage them from doing so and make the hoary old Move To The Center narrative come back yet again. So:

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.