I wonder, do people like you apply this morality to other unhealthy behaviours? Like do you defend people against shaming a porn addiction? Or smokers? Or any other self-destructive behaviour?

What about trying to extort Ukraine into fabricating dirt on his political opponents.

While I have my strong doubts and nothing will erase the harm of what’s he’s done already, I think we should encourage anyone that says something like this, especially if they are in a position of power. Sincerely hope shes able to make these words reality.

Hey remember when musk did his Nazi salute and they came out in support of him.

I like to think that in his personal life, Bush doesn’t read or watch any news at all, but just keeps some guy on hand to inform him of major events exactly like this.

Yeah that’s kind of my point, some 40% of people in New York would still rather vote for the rapist because racism against Muslims and socialism fearmongering

Maybe him saying “barely” is hyperbole, but a candidate as good as Mandami only being 9 points ahead of an openly corrupt rapist without official support from a party in New York of all places doesn’t fill me with hope going forward.

Yeah and I can pirate a movie faster than I can get a prostate exam, what point is this trying to make?

Oh there will be an election. But it will be one of those where Trump gets 103% of the vote and anyone that doesn’t vote for him gets a visit from ICE.

I kinda agree, but crucially I think it’s less that the country isn’t ready to vote for a female president, it’s that after Kamala and Hillary, the Dems think the issue is with them being women.

Also the republicans would have no issue voting in a woman if it was one of their own.

And also, Bernie is way too old to be president. I think the most realistic thing would be to put a “”“moderate”“” dem on the ticket to help ease the pearl clutching from corporate Dems you would get by running AOC so someone like Waltz or Newsom.

New account and all you’ve done so far on it is argue semantics to defend republicans and Israel by saying “um akshually, that doesn’t fit the strict definition of the word”

And just generally the argument of “you can’t call someone a Nazi until they have gassed their 6 millionth Jew” is a horrifically bad faith argument that only a complete and utter dumbass or someone arguing in bad faith would make.

Anyone else noticed a rise in right wing/troll accounts on Lemmy recently?

Well I’m not American so my government hasn’t gone fully fascist yet.

But to answer anyway as part of Just Stop Oil I’ve participated in shutting down LNG depots, crashed a fossil fuel investment fair, shut down shell offices and allegedly some criminal damage to a sea floor survey vessel used by BP. and I’m currently waiting for trial date for supporting Palestine Action.

Okay, sorry. I’m sure holding up your witty sign about how it’s so bad even the introverts are here will totally make the fascist reconsider their ways and free all the people ice has illegally detained

Hope of what?

A peaceful protest isn’t going to do shit. No protest, no matter how big and how widespread is going to make fascists not be fascists.

Anything that isn’t direct action is just an excuse so people can say they “did something” then go back to doing absolutely nothing whike Trump and his cronies do whatever they want to The US and those people can say “well I went to protest, so it’s not my fault, I did something”

No yeah I’m pretty sure that title is still pretty firmly Taylor swift.

Please just got back to Reddit.

Honestly, as much as i dont like the “Hillary and Kamala lost because theyre women!!” Narrative, i think enough people have convinced themselves that its true that the safer bet is just to run AOC as VP and have someone more appealing to your average old white guy democrat as the PoTUS. I think Waltz would be a pretty good pick in that regard, but hell i would take Newsom (or anyone really) at this point.

Im not an expert on ww2 by any means, but i dont thin Goebbels directly ordered any deaths, he put out a lot of propaganda that incited Gernans to murder Jews, but he didnt directly order any killings.

If they need help they can always ask the Brits/Canadians, since we have a lot of experience in that.