I mean, yeah everyone is saying it but there’s no consequences so that makes it pretty apparent that nobody actually cares.

The US has broadly held up the so-called fight against racism as a purely performative, liberal status-quo exercise, but has barely actually cared about equality in any regard in their personal lives as a population, or we wouldn’t have had all the contention we’ve had, with almost nothing being done on a legal level to combat it. There are public figures who have said and done things that would have landed them in PRISON in other countries that we just finger-wag in the US and forget a day later.

These kinds of posts are deliberate, they’re not even dog-whistles to racists because again, nobody actually cares about racism in the US. They’re signals about “following the rules.”

Trump/Miller posting this and all the other ones we’ve already forgotten about was about demonstrating to their base that they don’t care about the rules, that they will break the country before they submit to the constitution and individual rights.

They are the kid screaming the N-word in the playground not because he knows what the word means, but because he knows how much attention he gets for it.

I grew up in a conservative area, in a conservative household, survival preppers even.

I was raised my whole youth with the narrative that we were collecting guns and supplies for the day that the federal government starts taking away our rights and interfering with democracy.

For my entire younger life, growing up in the cold war, it was the back-country, blue-blooded American way to push back against Russia, against threats to our vote, against government overreach and intereferring in both people’s personal lives as well as the business of other countries.

I changed ideology as soon as I escaped and got a taste of reality, but I still do believe we need to protect our democracy with force, and now that’s the opposite of the conservative stance and it’s like living in the Upsidedown. I understand how we got here, but I am constantly astonished how fucking stupid everyone is. Everyone.

I know this will get some reactions, but IMO conservatives change much easier than progressives, particularly leftists.

Conservatives have no consistent values, no coherent mental value system, they are reactionary and will shift gears like the wind changes. A good, charismatic leader can easily set a new tone for a whole nation that calms down a large percentage of them, as I’ve seen a few times in my decades. They don’t have to even agree with the new leadership, they just have to feel like it’s their time to sit in the time-out box and they will remain quiet and grumble to themselves about imagined slights. They are children and have the attention spans of children.

I’m more concerned about the many, many progressives and leftists who are thirsty for retribution, because everything is remembered, a score has been kept and it drives a need for validation, for even a shred of recognition of the harm that the conservative movement has done over the years. These aren’t un-relatable feelings, but it’s going to start pushing the pendulum again, add to that the large number of sabotaging forces who work tirelessly to amplify the worst takes on both sides, fanning flames, trying to stoke contention.

Anything in media has to make it past his cabinet of Wormtongues.

It’s well known in the administration that Miller and Rubio and others actively filter his media so he doesn’t see what people are saying about him and the administration.

It was reported that when he was traveling he turned on the evening news by himself and saw the footage of Alex Pretti being murdered and that’s what led to a sudden shift in course.

Not because he gives a shit about people like Pretti or anyone really, but because of the outrage and hate directed at him. He’s a very simple monster, he wants adoration, he has no morals past that.

Nah, we’re done trying to placate and please demons. They don’t honor deals, they don’t want better outcomes, there are forces at work here literally using this “ICE” thing as a way to divide Americans, because as long as we’re divided, we won’t unite against the authority.

Fuck negotiation. We demand not just an abolishment of ICE but the people who enable it, in the DNC and GOP alike. Flush them all.

Not enough people are calling him a grown, bald reincarnation of Elliot Rogers, he’s like a scarecrow built from the dead remains of the world’s weirdest incels.

Listen to a clip of Rogers talking in his car or some shit and then a clip of Miller screaming about migrants. It’s uncanny.

The last several federal elections have had the highest voter turnout in US history. Our problem isn’t laziness or lack of voters, our problem is the people who voted fucking hate democrats. They largely weren’t all MAGA turds, in fact if you actually read the exit polling many of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 were Obama voters or Bernie supporters.

They didn’t vote for Trump because they’re racist monsters, most of them voted for Trump because they’re dumb and they don’t watch the news and when they do they see Democrats acting like pathetic losers while corporations drive our prices up. Millions of people voted for Trump because bird flu had driven egg prices up, and they associated that with Biden and Harris.

Dems don’t want “more voter turnout” they want more of their own idiots and boomers to vote for the status-quo.

If we want to fix this situation with our only actual funded “opposition” party and have a chance of taking the country back for citizens we have to flush ALL incumbent representatives out of the legislative branch. We start this in the States. Each state is a nation, those states have great power. DNC is a container, we pour out the contents, replace it with something new and use that to reform the federal government.

They can’t sabotage every election, they can’t put fucking ICE agents around your local school board voting in new management, they can’t be in every town electing a mayor. This is why Mamdani and other progressives won powerful state positions recently. Don’t be apathetic, don’t burn out because the dems are weak and awful and fake, make new politics. Get involved in your community, go to progressive victory and volunteer to help actual progressive candidates and ignore the paid DNC shills.

It’s fine, no looking back, lets just cross our fingers, toes and everything else for a special election in his district.

We will never repair even a fraction of the damage done to our country by him and his ilk, but I will still be happy to see him go and have a chance for someone, anyone new having a chance of seizing representation.

We can’t just wallow in misery, we have to celebrate good things and even just potential good things or there’s no point to life at all.

Oh noes! Not another stroking-out geriatric retainer of the status quo about to need a special election in his district! That can’t be good for the powers desperately trying to claw some survival plan out of a burning railcare of dumpsters heading towards a cliff!

Yup, and the reason he’s minority leader is because he’s helping coordinate these efforts and collecting israeli donations for the whole lot of 'em. They’re all funded by the same people funding the GOP.

The opposition is an illusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe

We would need the entire Democrat establishment in senate to vote him out as minority leader, then they would need to have a majority vote to impeach. It ain’t happening unless we primary a large number of sitting senators this next midterm.

So yeah, lets primary these fucks.

It seems very much on-brand for this admin to pull a stunt like that.

I doubt it would work. No court in the world would see that case through.

But it just takes ONE story being blown up by media to make millions of paranoid, tuned-out people scared to even touch the Epstein files, much less look at them for actual evidence and data.

It makes more sense to get people to like your idea than pushing them away, unless you think you’re going to do it with force.

I’ve seen incels do this online for decades now. They’re not really looking for better outcomes, they want to feel that “normies” hate them so much that it validates all the hate and cynicism they feel. You can’t feel bad about not doing the actual hard things in life to organize and be liked by others if everyone else hates you and thinks you’re a monster, right?

It’s creating an environment of alienation so they can justify not wanting to change or help anyone.

Take your tribalism and shove it.

For every person who wants to help that you sneer at online (because I know you couldn’t face them in reality) I will be working in the real world to help bring real people over to start working for better outcomes, secure in the knowledge that even if I can’t change the whole world and make everything better, I can reduce harm here and now and continue to push the needle towards a better world. I’ve been at it for years, and seeing cynical little shits on the internet whine and cry about seeing other people nurturing unity only makes me more committed.

You can just stay in that basement and whinge while real people do real things.

The .ml users are really out in force today working hard to not beat the allegations.

I’m convinced to get the .ml suffix you have to prove you’re, white, 14 years old, hate your liberal middle-class parents, and feel overwhelming resentment towards people who actually care about better outcomes because Mom didn’t let you get a tattoo of Lenin on your shoulder.

I’m admitting something about this country and myself that I don’t want to admit.

Don’t feel bad, a lot of us have been down this road. I’ve done it several times.

We never stop learning difficult truths about the world around us.

I think the day you stop having these shifts in your attitude is the day you’ve finally stopped caring enough to actually self-examine, so it means you’re still alive and conscious if nothing else.

I hope if nothing else, you and your grandfather make memories together. We don’t always get to choose how and what kind of bonding memories we make with family, but take what you can when you can. It will be over soon enough.

Trump already defused the whole idea of allegations against him with his base, he’s dodged so many accusations and consequences for so long that his loyal base assumes everything is fake.

Major conservative spaces didn’t even cover this, and what they did report on was neutered or downplayed. The vast majority of Trump supporters believe the “epstein files” are as boring as they sound from the title, like a dossier of intelligence names and places and abstract sorts of legal accusations being spun to make Trump “look bad” but they’re not making any mental effort to look at it realistically or even glance at the actual files with anything but skepticism and doubt.

They, willfully in many cases, don’t let themselves examine the reports and consider that it deals in human lives and a lifestyle of cruelty and abuse that would be at home in the most brutal prehistorical settings.

The 2020’s broadly is the decade where a lot of people learned you can succeed in life by sticking your fingers in your ears and going LALALALA as you barge headfirst into entitled demands that the world bend for your wants.

And since we atomized as a society, abandoned community and the social pressures that come with it, these people largely succeed with this tactic because nobody stands up to them long before they gain power and money.

A federal judge, one of our last barriers against actual, literal fascism and authoritarian takeover and our last hope for turning this around, signs an order for an objectively good thing in a predominantly christian region, with two verses referenced, an obviously defiant stand against literal evil forces trying to capture the country.

Lemmy user:

> Religion doesn’t belong in the courtroom and they should be disbarred

Fucking hell, someone tell me these jackals are AI bots or something sent by Mossad to destabilize our country. If I knew I lived next to someone who had this kind of attitude I would drop everything I’m doing to devote the rest of my days to sabotaging and annoying them in the most vexing ways possible.

This isn’t just a US issue you clowns, if you’re not in the US it’s coming for you next. We need to celebrate wins against bad things or you’re part of the bad things.

I feel like the people balking at the christian tone and quotes in this order haven’t actually paid a single moment of goddamn attention to anything for the last several centuries in the USA.

he should be punished for this

Why our country is doomed and its downfall will wreck the whole world along the way, summed up in one sentence.