people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’
One day after saying this, the former speaker of the Minnesota house is gunned down by a pro-Trump extremist.
people were telling me in December, ‘You know, you’re overreacting.’
One day after saying this, the former speaker of the Minnesota house is gunned down by a pro-Trump extremist.
The time for 'strongly worded letters" was over the day they stormed the Capitol.
Conservatives have made it abundantly clear that they have zero respect for our Constitution. They are traitors to the United States and enemies of the American people.
It is past time that we start treating them as such.
And legacy/traditional media... All of them. Full stop.
The Great Experiment is over. We had a good run. Time to start thinking about what comes next.
What if I told you there was a German philosopher who already did a lot of thinking about that
What if there were places that have tried to do such things and we could try and learn from their experiments.
Pfft...
There's only one thing that "comes next"...
It ain't pretty and it ain't gonna make any reasonable/rational folks happy.
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Ok, so what time is it, Tim?
Now it's time for sternly worded protests.
I was chastised by a random person at my local protest for joining in a chant of "Fuck Donald Trump".
Many of these people are still so attached to the idea of civility politics that they don't even want anyone to curse.
I find that mimicking their gestures to show that I understand their pain helps start the conversation. If you are not wearing a pearl necklace you can clutch, you can and should carry a fancy handkerchief and bring it to your nose as if to ward off a bad smell. Thats my goto when someone uses uncouth language when talking about cancelling SNAP, deporting children, or expanding our support of racist genocides.
It's time to start putting your state police to work finding more terrorists.
Might be the time for Minnesota to join Canada, Tim. Think big.
If you want to end politically-motivated gun violence becoming normalized, time to leave the USA and ban guns not used for hunting or within shooting ranges.
time to leave the USA and ban guns not used for hunting or within shooting ranges.
Respectfully Canada has been taking it too far with their gun control.
Canada has rightfully banned assault rifles/firearms for personal use back in the 90’s however, recently they’ve been banning guns solely based on appearance calling them “assault style firearms”, just because a firearm looks like it belongs in the military does not mean it was designed for such use.
Edit: I made a post a while back about the Crusader Arms Crypto rifle entirely designed to comply with the recent ban’s on firearms however, the Government of Canada had it reclassified as a prohibited rifle.
I can attest to the fact that these current bans effect people like myself who enjoy sport shooting at ranges or in the wilderness on crown-land, if a criminal has possession of an illegal firearm there is no chance they’ll lawfully turn it over.
I totally understand that overreach makes hunting and recreational shooting activities a lot more difficult.
On the flipside, it means that assembly in Canada is peaceful by default without the constant threat of escalation into gun violence as can happen in the USA. It means that in our cities, 19 times out of 20 we only have to worry about pointy objects being potentially used as weapons by people walking down the street rather than guns.
The styling of firearms is just for show over safety I agree. But maintaining a culture of responsibly using firearms as a privilege of partaking in the sport, rather than as a right, is a distinction that gives us Canadians a better quality-of-life overall. There's far fewer grey areas in Canada as to where and what guns should be legally used for.
I absolutely agree with your entire comment and have little to rebuttal against however, with our current governments overreach I fear that we’re being treated unjustly given that the recent bans were enacted via an Order In Council by the previous PM and not through Parliament or the House of Commons.
I understand public safety is the primary concern here but it’s not licensed/registered firearms causing the increase in our crime, I’ve preached this numerous times on Lemmy, it’s illegal firearms smuggled across the US/Canada border that land in the hands of people intending to commit crime.
No person is going out of their way to pay & complete the CFSC, apply for a PAL/RPAL, agree to daily background checks from the RCMP, purchase a firearm that has to be registered to them to then commit petty crimes.
I should note that StatsCan does not differentiate firearm crime from illegal firearms and legal firearms which is ridiculous, we need this data for this debate.
Tim Walz for president?
I'd love to see him run, and I hope he gets a meaningful debate in before the DNC stacks the deck for Newsom
"Israel has a right to expand" immediately DQs him.
Shit, you're right. Guess Trump 3rd term it is.
My dude if y'all allow Trump to run again or the DNC to survive you frankly don't deserve democracy. You're smackdab in the middle of a revolution so don't fucking compromise in advance with the idiots who aren't even lifting a finger to help you. You run the show now, so act like it.
About 36% of eligible votes sat it out last time, a not so insignificant voted based on a single topic... "Kamala isn't vocal enough in supporting Palestine" was a big one.
Remember folks, every vote counts. We did this to ourselves.
I've said it before elsewhere but it needs to be heard...
It's just wild to me continually seeing posts not understanding how this all works, and how it would play out. It's like the people who thought China paid the tariffs...
The house is almost tied. That's who passes bills, handles impeachments, some of the most powerful committees are, and who impeaches Presidents...
218 Republicans, 213 Democrats.
Let's see, take New York for example.
26 representatives total, 19 Democrat and 7 Republican.
5 of those were within 2 points last time their seat was up.
People who think that New York is blue, their vote doesn't matter, skips the votes for the House and Senate and end up losing a Blue house seat but later complain that nothing changes are literally the fucking problem.
Every. Fucking. State. Is. Like. This.
Apathetic morons who don't realize that the president is only held accountable by the other branch of government then wave their hands around when they did jack shit to help put people in place to, are the fucking problem.
District 3 of California was lost by 24,000 votes. District 22 was lost by 3,000.
Those two seats in the house, along with the close ones in New York, Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, Washington, hell every state... Are what makes the House of Representatives or breaks it.
So, if you think that your vote for president doesn't matter, so you skip voting and let these other seats slip, yes, you're a fucking moron who can't grasp basic concepts of government that are taught in 4th grade.
And don't get me started on the State House/Senates, how they define voting laws and voting zones and engage in gerrymandering.
Every fucking vote counts.
And until the country realizes it, and starts acting on it, we'll keep getting the shit we deserve.
House needs a simple majority, and two thirds of the Senate.
Democrats would need ~18 seats.
First, that won't happen in 2026.
Even the best cases make it hard to win enough by 2028. Which is why impeachment is just not something we can hold out for.
Gerrymandering is part of why this is a problem, which is done at the local level, and again why every vote counts.
How could it play out? Assuming some absurdly weird upside down world just opposite of what we're living in, this is the only path just looking at the numbers...
Again, Democrats would need to gain 18 net seats. Seats Potentially in Play (Republican Incumbents): This requires looking at seats up in upcoming cycles.
It's going to take an absolutely historic level of pain to both drive enough people to vote MAGA out to make this change though.
The amount that's being excused, sanewashed, and just drowned out with other absurdities...
We're on all on this shit ride until some new wildcard comes into play.
No impeachment, no Supreme Court, no guardrail is going to change that.
Something new and unaccounted for is the only feasible catalyst.
“Kamala isn’t vocal enough in supporting Palestine” was a big one.
No. It was "Kamala actively supports Israel". If Democrats are going to continue trying to rewrite history to deny their role in genocide, they deserve Trump for a dozen terms
Perhaps Democrat leadership deserves something or other but the country and the world doesn't deserve this.
..Because even now, before the primary we are locked into Waltz or trump?, is that right, smart guy?
What are you going to do about it if the DNC does their thing again?
I draw the line at genocide. I dont vote for anyone who does it or supports it. So that will limit my choices in participating, voting, or donating. I dont want to tell other people what to do, but if everyone adopted this rule we wouldn't be in this mess and the dems would have run someone better because they'd know they couldnt win otherwise. But they'll keep trying to shove a zionist down our throats because we let them.
We're locked into whatever the system permits.
No more support for zionists. Waltz is a zionist.
Ah, so you only care if one group gets genocide. Everyone else can get fucked, right?
No, we should strive for a candidate who is against all genocide. Let's not compromise in advance.
And who would that be?
What a sad question when you remove the snark from it.
Like honestly, the reality behind that is just sad.
You have a myopia that makes you incapable of looking past a single election. It is that myopia that has gotten us to this point here. Cycle after cycle of blind, zero-thought "blue no matter who" has made the democratic power-brokers completely disconnected from the base. You're going to vote for them no matter what, so your opinions, thoughts, and desires are absolutely irrelevant. You do not matter to the political process at all.
I'm not American (but we do get a lot of US Pol foisted on us), so forgive me if I'm missing something... I thought the US democratic party was basically everyone more left wing than Joe Manchin. There are 'third parties', but in general the broad church argument applies... Anyway aren't USians able to actually pick the candidates that stand for those parties? So wouldn't you use the generals to vote 'against' Republicans, but then use the primaries process to vote for the shape of D you wanted? Here that's not an option, the party puts up candidates. But you have the ability to pressure the candidates even after they are elected. Might be a long shot, but is inherently less fatalistic than just giving up, or even (as seems disturbingly popular these days) calling for some form of civil war.
Outside of all that garbage, who would you choose as a perfect American politician that would take a hard stance against Israel? Has to be a real person and has to be an American politician, no pipe dreams.
Edit: C’mon folks, if all you’ve got is downvotes then maybe your political idealism is stupid and you need to apply situational understanding and realistic solutions to your approach rather than waiting for your own personal Jesus to come save us all.
If they don't care about brown people in the Middle East, they don't care about you. Y'all's inability to understand this got you Trump, so don't repeat that mistake. Fascism abroad tends to be the preamble to fascism at home.
We got trump because people like I ke you stayed home.
We got Trump because people like you thought supporting genocide was more important than winning the election
I am sure the people being sent to death camps are very grateful.
You lot considered continuing to operate the world's largest death camp to be more important than stopping Trump.
And now we got new ones. Thanks buddy
Guess you shouldn't have prioritised committing genocide
Oh. I am talking to a republican. Okay good bye now.
I struggle to see how proto-fascism now devolving into better-prepared fascism four years later would've been better than fascism now. And don't give me the "it gives us time to resist" spiel because we both know that's not how that ever worked; time to prepare only benefits the far right.
So what's your solution? Just keep fucking losing?
No, stop following the neoliberals while they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I still remember the "progressive" reaction to Uncommitted and to calls for Biden to step down. If you're not willing to coerce the DNC neoliberals into doing what you want, you'll always be stuck doing what they want. And do you know what they want? Proto-fascism with rainbows and glitter.
Coerce them. Sure. But almost any but the most backward dem would be better then Trump. You are just being asked to fill out a circle people have died to achieve less.
Hear my stern words about how the time for stern words is over
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