Criticizing essays violates free speech… She’d fit in well with the racist gamers banned for violating TOS by yelling slurs in online play.

They are, by definition, stereotypes based on gender :P

Good to know any college student can skirt the usual consequences of half-assing an essay if they’re willing to whine about “Muh Freedoms!” (Assuming this goes her way… which it definitely won’t)

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This is talking about the Democratic Primary. What you’re saying is definitely true if we were changing the allocation of Electoral College votes for the general election – for that, we need Congress to pass an Amendment (or maybe a regular law would suffice?)

Run in the primary for your House of Representative seat to do everything Formfiller said.

That’s why we NEED progressives in the primaries. The real battles will be in that race. If establishment Democrats keep control, Republicans will sweep again from 2028 or 2032; just like what happened after Trump’s first term.

I hate that we have fight the Democrats to keep the Democrats alive, but we do.

This is exactly what the billionaires buying up all this farmland want. Cut the red states loose, then Amazon/Microsoft/Alphabet/etc sweep in and establish company towns nations.

the mainstream right: Racist bigots but they like Israel and white Jews.

Watching the establishment freak out at younger generations rightfully laughing off their 9/11 fearmongering and unwavering dedication to Israel is the one bit of brightness dragging me through 2025. Some high school teen can post a 9/11 meme, denounce capitalism, and yell “Free Palestine” and it instantly rolls natural 20 for psychic damage to everyone neolib or farther right.

I hope more rebellious teens catch onto this. I want the next Tinker v. Des Moines to be on a Twin Tower collapse TikTok thirst trap compilation.

Nothing a $20 million dollar consulting deal can’t fix!

Thank you for this response. The temporarily-embarrassed millionaire is absolutely the blinders on our working class. Stepping back before Trump ran for his second term – Politics felt like a solved game that people were refusing to think about for exactly that reason.

Most people can’t afford healthcare. Most people can’t afford childcare. Everyone wants more money. Why can’t we all get behind one random person that says “I’ll tax TF out of the top 0.1% and get us healthcare and food and raise your wages.”

The answer is that people don’t want to see themselves as helpless, even if to stand together and help ourselves. They feel less shame excusing their state as temporarily-embarrassed victims; and blame some secret conspiracy or invasion or what-not.

Insane, overwhelmed, fatigued, afraid, and baffled by the stupidity. I presume some combination of those factors is why we have let things get this bad.

Mamdani could write that into law; but he has so much resting on him; he needs that team in place in advance.

In terms of percentage of the Libertarian population, you’re probably right, but there aren’t staggering numbers of Libertarians, period :P

I meant, hold up. There is no better example of how depriving people of the rights to basic necessities exposes the most vulnerable to exploitation.

these are the types of stories we need to hold when we push for medicare care, housing, food for ALL

I’m not “ok” with any of this, but that ship has sailed.

People here are really saying “don’t” like ICE isn’t going to be terrorizing your town anyways…

This is Lemmy, not Reddit. You can say “shoot Republicans” here :)

and they might not get into heaven if they don’t

That’s it. That’s the entire reasoning. This is why MAGA had that mass-psychosis about the “Rapture” late last September. This is the stated reason our Republican Senators and house Reps echo when supporting Israel. Because the Bible says those who support Israel will be raptured… except the Bible doesn’t actually say that. MAGA just wants to be free of this world.

Even with their politicians in office, MAGA hates this time as much as the most devout leftist. We’re all suffering, everywhere, unless you have Big money. Republicans just think that suffering under their Dear Leader is how they ascend into the afterlife, so they can finally be free of their pain. Rather than support actual policy changes, they’ll try to unlock some “secret ending” they heard about in their churches.

It’s actual insanity. You’d have better luck quoting scripture to getting these people to believe different nonsense, than to get them to touch base with reality. Fuck… I can’t really blame them. The last year has made me lose my mind, and I don’t want it back.