And let me be clear. I’m sick tired of all this “he’s the one bad guy” idea. He’s the shitty tip of the massive shit-iceberg of what is happening in the US. The Rep are stealing the whole fucking country and turning the population in legions of ignorant bigots.
If this keep going. History will be what they decide.
Lots of people don’t understand where Trumpism comes from so they believe (or delude themselves through wishful thinking) that once Trump is gone, everything will just “return to normal,” the anomaly will pass just as it came, and it’ll be like a bad dream.
This is obviously nonsense. The conditions that created Trumpism are still present and worse than ever, and there’s a large segment of the population in this radical right-wing media sphere that propelled Trump to power in the first place and isn’t going to disappear just because one person retires or dies.
But this is why these people are so invested in upholding the status quo, because they don’t understand how the status quo brought us here.
It will be, but not only from them winning. This aittitude is a big part of the problem.
You won’t win via a violent revolution, and you wont win via a third party (anyone who understands the basic forces involved when a system has winner takes all or first past the post), so instead you win by slowly taking over the democrat party with increasingly progressive candidates.
Its literally the only way a slow system like the US can be changed, and this “why didn’t they fix it in one term!!!” attitude seeks to attribute blame rather than problem solve.
I think the smart take is to understand the DNC is antagonistic towards our goals but simultaneously is the entity we need to slowly change (through primaries, state and local politics) and continue to support while that happens to avoid the massive harm of having republicans win.
The huge problem here, is a bunch of people who arent maga, will refuse to fight together, making any civil war a trivial win for the magas who are ready to fall in line.
Here we are on a decentralized platform filled with idealists who literally hate any other leftists or center people who don’t align with them 99.99999% on every single issue under the sun.
Division is often a bullshit word to encourage compromising with those that cannot be compromised with. Its super fucking relevant here though.
Thats not what happened in Germany. They seemed to be picking up steam until outer forces stopped them, and the 50%ers fell in line with the nazi regime.
More than that, any negotiation with a side whose primary goal is to hurt outsiders, especially marginalized people, will be to weaken yourself (by sacrificing some demographic) in the hopes that they don’t continue to attack your newly weakened self.
That’s an optimistic point of view. I think world war 3 is far more likely. Trump has been testing the waters internationally with the talk about invading Greenland. He wants to invade Poland, if you know what I mean.
Pretty sure a US civil war would bring in a bunch of other countries at this stage. Possibly more like Europe before WW2, since a civil war here seems likely to smart with an invasion of red state national guard in a blue state, then California/cascadia fighting back maybe?
And Russia or China would potentially be helping the right, or at least stirring the pot to make it worse for us all. They might help fund the obvious loser to keep it going and more permanently damage the country. China would want to wreak California to finish off the Tech oligarchs so they can dominate that I’d assume.
Then would Europe come help out blue states, they seem happy with Mamdai’s win and policies, but probably wouldn’t want to be a part of it until MAGA or its allies attack them (like Pearl Harbor). Canada would have to join the blue states pretty early on or they wouldn’t last long.
Meanwhile he’s still there.
And let me be clear. I’m sick tired of all this “he’s the one bad guy” idea. He’s the shitty tip of the massive shit-iceberg of what is happening in the US. The Rep are stealing the whole fucking country and turning the population in legions of ignorant bigots.
If this keep going. History will be what they decide.
You missed a golden opportunity to say “shit-berg” just thought you should know
Shit birds of a feather…
That was my exact thought.
Truly. The delusional people online chriping up about “wrong side of history” grind my fucking gears.
Talk about premature celebration.
Yall literally do not have a plan to stop him yet. The fuck you mean he’ll go down in history books this way or that way.
Bitch he’s your president right now.
You need to deal with that, and the fascist republicans first.
Right now, they’re winning and robbing you blind simultaneously.
Lots of people don’t understand where Trumpism comes from so they believe (or delude themselves through wishful thinking) that once Trump is gone, everything will just “return to normal,” the anomaly will pass just as it came, and it’ll be like a bad dream.
This is obviously nonsense. The conditions that created Trumpism are still present and worse than ever, and there’s a large segment of the population in this radical right-wing media sphere that propelled Trump to power in the first place and isn’t going to disappear just because one person retires or dies.
But this is why these people are so invested in upholding the status quo, because they don’t understand how the status quo brought us here.
Yeah sure it’s a “party” problem. It’ll all be fixed by democrats winning. jfc.
It will be, but not only from them winning. This aittitude is a big part of the problem.
You won’t win via a violent revolution, and you wont win via a third party (anyone who understands the basic forces involved when a system has winner takes all or first past the post), so instead you win by slowly taking over the democrat party with increasingly progressive candidates.
Its literally the only way a slow system like the US can be changed, and this “why didn’t they fix it in one term!!!” attitude seeks to attribute blame rather than problem solve.
I think the smart take is to understand the DNC is antagonistic towards our goals but simultaneously is the entity we need to slowly change (through primaries, state and local politics) and continue to support while that happens to avoid the massive harm of having republicans win.
right you are… which is why I see no way out of this for Americans without a civil war
there can be no reasonable negotiation when one part says “let’s negotiate” and the other one says “no, you die or we kill you, end of discussion”
The huge problem here, is a bunch of people who arent maga, will refuse to fight together, making any civil war a trivial win for the magas who are ready to fall in line.
Here we are on a decentralized platform filled with idealists who literally hate any other leftists or center people who don’t align with them 99.99999% on every single issue under the sun.
Division is often a bullshit word to encourage compromising with those that cannot be compromised with. Its super fucking relevant here though.
The infighting will mean an instant loss.
Then the fascists will win and implode if left along long enough… or the remainder of the non-MAGA crowd will finally fall in line to oppose them
Thats not what happened in Germany. They seemed to be picking up steam until outer forces stopped them, and the 50%ers fell in line with the nazi regime.
Part of why Germany kept invading places was to spur on their failing economy with the plunder they got from conquered regions…
Absolutely. You have to remember though, that this is once they had full control and almost completely eliminated certain demographics.
This is not a win state.
and of course that means this is the only outcome possible?
No one said it did, but it seems very likely, because where is the noteworthy resistance?
Currently people are just protesting, but the vices are clamping down.
I believe people protest now because they have some morals and see where this is going, I would expect more once they are actually personally affected
The USA has lived under a “fuck you, got mine” culture for decades, it’ll take some personal harm to undo it
The problem is that if you wait until you are affected, that allows for the old proverb of “first they came for…”
More than that, any negotiation with a side whose primary goal is to hurt outsiders, especially marginalized people, will be to weaken yourself (by sacrificing some demographic) in the hopes that they don’t continue to attack your newly weakened self.
That’s an optimistic point of view. I think world war 3 is far more likely. Trump has been testing the waters internationally with the talk about invading Greenland. He wants to invade Poland, if you know what I mean.
It absolutely isn’t. Civil war is kind of a bad thing. Assuming ww3 is a reality is a particularly pessimistic pov
Pretty sure a US civil war would bring in a bunch of other countries at this stage. Possibly more like Europe before WW2, since a civil war here seems likely to smart with an invasion of red state national guard in a blue state, then California/cascadia fighting back maybe?
And Russia or China would potentially be helping the right, or at least stirring the pot to make it worse for us all. They might help fund the obvious loser to keep it going and more permanently damage the country. China would want to wreak California to finish off the Tech oligarchs so they can dominate that I’d assume.
Then would Europe come help out blue states, they seem happy with Mamdai’s win and policies, but probably wouldn’t want to be a part of it until MAGA or its allies attack them (like Pearl Harbor). Canada would have to join the blue states pretty early on or they wouldn’t last long.
civil war in the usa will be needed… it does not cancel wwiii
the are not mutually exclusive options
Imagine thinking this is a partisan issue and not the history and ongoing reality of the USA.
The good news is that we can vote away the problem and it will all be solved by electing a dem. \s \s \s