Pelicanen

It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to convince his base and that’s a low bar.

I stand corrected. But still, that would include 100% of democrats and independents voting in unison, which seems unlikely (think Sinema, Fetterman, Manchin).

The democrats (including the independents who caucused with them) had a 58% vote share in the senate and 58.8% in the house of representatives in the 111th congress. A supermajority requires two thirds, i.e. 67%.

That isn’t true, and even if that had been true, Obama left office 9 years ago, how is it even remotely relevant?

Let me just start by saying that the overwhelming majority of victims from Israel’s genocidal warfare are innocent civilians, many of which are children.

However, the other side of belligerents in this conflict is Hamas, who are unequivocally terrorists. Yes, Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people has pushed a lot of people towards Hamas, and yes, Israel has made sure that Hamas has received ample funding and support as a way to weaken the Palestinian Authority, but that doesn’t make Hamas less bad.

Hamas hasn’t just terrorized, kidnapped, raped, and murdered Israeli civilians, they have waged a campaign of oppression and terror against the Palestinian people in order to remain in power. They are a symptom of the national, regional, and geopolitical situation that exists in that region, but they are horrible nonetheless.

It is very real and I seem to have been wrong in initially believing it was satire.

To be fair, they’re already part of the Union whether they want to or not, it’s more a matter of if they get to have political representation or not.

Unfortunately, a large percentage of the voting population seems to support them, which is part of how we got here in the first place. The best argument for a free and open democracy is what happens with any of the alternatives, but people have a tendency to forget, and opportunists are great at using difficult times to garner support.

If this continues unopposed, yes, but asking individuals in specific situations to sacrifice their own lives without an organized community does not sound reasonable to me.

Making large groups of people that all agree with you spontaneously appear at a location is typically not super easy.

And lose your jobs, your homes, and your freedom in the process as you get prosecuted for assaulting federal agents where the authorities have an incentive to make an example out of you to deter future incidents.

I’m not expecting the world to change from holding hands and singing hymns, but insulting people (who already started confronting them instead of just pretending not to see) for not sacrificing more than I’d have to seems rather narrow-minded to me.

I think innovation is easier when you’re not constantly preoccupied with survival, having to spend every waking moment worrying about starvation or predators or disease or freezing to death probably puts quite a bit hamper on what creative new ideas you are able to come up with and try.

The “both sides” argument is one of the fascists’ favorite ways to inspire voter apathy, maybe take a second to think about harm reduction instead of focusing only on your own moral superiority.

Also, I’m not American, I have never voted in a US election.

To remind people that their actions have consequences and that they need to take an active role in the democratic process if they want to preserve it.

This is the worst thing I’ve seen all week.

I love it.

But it still plays into the narrative that everyone should be afraid of supporting Ukraine because you never know what Putin might do, with the added bonus that it make it seem like Trump isn’t his lapdog.

When has Putin shown disdain at being called crazy? If I remember correctly, a lot of world leaders have instead claimed that seeming crazy has been one of Putin’s tactics to avoid being challenged as people are afraid of what a crazy person might do, especially one that rules a country with one of the world’s largest armies and the largest nuclear arsenal.

If you look at the timeline in the article, post-2030 the act states that it would be indexed.

That’s probably the next step of this for the alt-right: When nazi symbolism has been normalized, it’ll be “Most nazis weren’t bad, only the well-known ones”.

He’s not going to win a third term. And he won’t be able to cheat into a third term. I’m not concerned about that.

Oh buddy, haven’t you been paying attention? Disenfranchising voters and rejecting unfavorable election results has been one of their biggest priorities.