They def will tho. The corpo overlords will demand it

I mean it would be better than now but I really don’t think the plan was good enough to change the outcome. He would have had to be far more radical than he is

The problem I think is that harris said she was going to continue Bidens economic policy when a lot of people really are feeling like the economic policy from both sides is benefiting only the wealthy. If any policy helps the little guy then it is such a minor help that it goes unrecognized.

Inequality skyrocketing, wages stagnating, and then you say you want to continue the policy? Not great campaign. Trump lost in 2020 and won in 2016 and 2024 because he was anti status quo. Most people don’t really care about “all the other” stuff and are too stupid to realize anything outside of “do I want change RIGHT NOW?” and then vote yes or no based on that

Agreed. When people say they lost cuz America is too racist or sexist I think they miss out what bad candidates we had each time. Either bad in who they are, how they ran the campaign, or factors outside them that killed the campaign, or all 3

AOC is fearing retaliation, justifiably so given her colleagues. Just about anyone else? good. honestly a bit of fear of the masses might do good

Can’t they, meaning Dems, just read them on the Senate or House floor to make them part of public record with no barriers?

is something actually stopping them or are they just protecting pedophiles while doing a bit of theater about it?

I mean political violence has always been a feature of American history. We don’t need this to show it

Always has been. Whenever someone says “this is not who we are” they are willfully lying or have had a very poor history education. We can aspire to be better but for all of American history, political violence has been a feature.

Fair enough. I think lots of people talk about it like they were expecting that it’s suddenly open season on em all, but yeah true. This could be a trend. Well have to see.

Idk. Lot of people hoped Luigi would spark a trend and that never materialized. Don’t fret too much

Switzerland requires training courses and other regulations we don’t have have afaik, though not an expert, which likely helps a lot.

America as a non homogenous society, and always has been rife with divisions as well. These divisions easily, even subconsciously stoke fear into people, prompting a bigger draw towards self defense.

Early pioneer spirit also drilled it into the American consciousness. Needed a gun to defend your farm/animals from predators or other people when law enforcement didn’t exist or was hours away back in the day. Also leads to guns being in the family, needing back ups, a gun for every able bodied person etc …

So a big culture of self defense being the only viable defense for much of American history, consistent concerns about the “others” (for a large chunk of time also includes slave revolts), and relatively lax requirements (stemming from the other reasons mentioned) and boom. Crazy gun obsessed culture.

Yeah. Carotid or maybe jugular? Point is dude just had a tap open up in his neck going full blast. Modern medicine is good but it ain’t that good

Yeah morbid curiosity got the better of me. You are making the smarter choice

Of course it was. A substantial, but not the only, piece of idiocy she and Biden displayed. Whole bunch of fucking idiots the lot of em.

I mean shit as an American I have a rising anti american sentiment lol