The Democratic Party won’t allow any leftward motion. It’s always and only, stay in the center and reach out to the right and, whoops, we’ve gone a little further to the right. …

Trump & Musk can’t be adequately explained by stupidity. It’s malice.

That was my feeling. It’s not a PhD thesis on economic justice or revolution, it’s just something I’m hoping might make my Uncle Herb and nephew George say ‘Huh’.

That’s what she said.

Ugh. Yeah, it’s an annoyance. Here’s a great piece of politicking, a great moment, a great video, but like about 95% of homemade vids it’s marred by unnecessary and distracting effects.

At least it wasn’t introduced by some wacky influencer mugging for the camera.

Books.

It was like that in Germany, too.

We’re going to be hearing that a lot.

Yeah, my reply was too brief & misunderstandable, so let me 'splain.

We need to stop deluding ourselves into thinking there’s a political solution to what Trump, Musk, and the Republicans are doing. There’s not.

Most Americans have been thoroughly misinformed and won’t care about the destruction of democracy until the repercussions smack them personally in the face, but by then the coup will be completed. Dems in Congress will not spontaneously evolve spines. I’m out there picketing, but only for my conscience and mental health, not because I imagine the fascists will hear us and yield. They won’t.

Politics as usual is finished in America. We will be left with whatever rights Trump & Musk decide we should have, which won’t be much and won’t be up for ‘debate’. The current dismantling of America will lead to violence, which I neither want nor call for, and which I’m too old, weak, and generally chickenshit to participate in. The violence is going to happen, though, with the police, the military, and the un-regulated militia against we the people who hope for freedom, and we will lose. After that, reconstructing democracy in America will take generations of struggle and bloodshed.

It’s moot and silly to talk of ‘fixing this’ via elections or reforming the Democratic Party. That ship has sailed and sunk. America, 1776-2025, RIP.

There will be no ‘fixing this’.

To my semi-surprise, ‘feck’ is a word.

It’s the old LIHOP vs MIHOP.

Upvoted for feckless. I love that word in general, and it’s perfect attached to Democrats.

This is my #1 long-running frustration with Lemmy, and what you’ve suggested would be the solution. In the software’s innards, personal blocks should be ignored in the communities a user mods.

I don’t want to bother with creating an alt, then switching back and forth several times daily, which means … I can’t block anyone.

It’s not for me, but it sounds cool for those active on both sites.

Sounds a lot like, “Biden & Harris support genocide, so let’s vote for Trump.”

Google is awful, but any other company that could afford to buy and run Chrome would be worse.

Ha, that’s what I said, too, just didn’t post it.

Follow-up: Details of British comic creator R.E. Burke’s detention by ICE emerge

She was staying with different host families, helping with household chores in exchange for lodging. To immigration authorities, this means she was illegally working in America, and thus “she’s in an orange prison jumpsuit whilst the paperwork gets sorted out.”

How was your vacation to the United States?

There’s so much insanity, I’d need advanced software to rank the levels of nuttiness among Trump’s cabinet and inner circle.

All true, but Vance is not God Almighty to MAGA people, and he wouldn’t have absolute support on everything from the Republican Congress.