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[–] daydrinkingchickadee@lemmy.ml 36 points 9 months ago
[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 28 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'll just tell that to my brother in law who just got released from ICE custody. Like I know this picture is probably true for Gaza, but it isn't for many of my neighbors and family.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Wait until you find out Obama deported twice as many immigrants(could be just Mexicans, I can't remember) as Trump did. Or when you find out Obama dropped more bombs on Muslim countries than Trump. Or that Hillary raised twice as much money from corporations in '16 than Trump (same with Harris in' 24)

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It went over your head didn't it. When he is taking about ice he is talking about erosion of law and norms. Ice has always been a thing but they were not like this.

But go on.

[–] DaMummy@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Always is a stretch. Since 2003 during the Patriot Act days.

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[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Hmm, red makes it go faster so you kill more people faster but they don't suffer as long but blue gives you better team mates in matches... wait is this competitive trolley slaughter? I wasn't expecting to need a team I guess I'll choose blue because they will be carrying.

[–] Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (14 children)

With democrats at the (wheel?). Its the same trolley, the same track and the same people on it.

But they mostly abide by a legal speed limit and in general go much slower.

Sometimes they get to a full stopt and get out to clear some people manually to get back going.

The gop sees this and cries out that these slow speed limits are the problem. Go fast, get there quicker.

Neither party wants to talk seriously about where we’re going.

Neither wants to stop.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Shit none of them talk about where theyre at. The bleeding edge of late stage capitalism.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I touch grass for one full day and miss this thread? Oh well...

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

The supposed democracy advocates within the democratic party continue to refuse to fix the First-past-the-post voting system.

Dont worry, you can count on them to point out all the flaws of the voting system during the midterm while doing nothing to fix it before or afterwards.

Trump was inevitable under such conditions. If you capture one (or more) political parties in a two party system, clearly you can undo every single check and balance. Wake up blue MAGA, your continued use of the FPTP crutch is a national security threat and will cause the nation to crumble.

Was it worth it keeping those safe blue states? Was it worth the easy elections against the worst of us all?

America last, party over country at all costs.

Electoral Reform Videos

First Past The Post voting (What most states use now)

Videos on alternative electoral systems

STAR voting

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[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So much focus on the lever that nobody is trying to derail or cut power to the trolly

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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well I voted for it to be green

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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This thread is being targeted by a lot of no-content "correct the record" fediverse accounts, upvoting pro-genocide US democratic party and Israeli talking points. Please report them so we can ban them ASAP.

Thank you to all the posters below doing great work debunking them.

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[–] HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (13 children)

Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that's been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

Hell, go tell a bunch of drag queens and trans people.

While you're at it, go find some under aged girls who've been impregnated by adult men and tell them the Dems are just as bad as the GOP.

I'm sure it'll resonate with all of them /s

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hey OP, you wanna go ahead and go to any neighborhood that’s been raided by ICE and tell them how the Dems are exactly just as bad as the GOP?

I'll tell you.

This shit was already happening. Yes, it's taken another step under Trump, but the incrementalism occurred with Democratic fascists as well. What Trump is able to do now would be impossible if Democrats hadn't seized on the illegal powers dreamed up by Clinton and Dubya and ran with them.

Clinton, while fucking his interns, invented 'Don't Ask Don't Tell' and did nothing about persecution of gay people, and in fact, he was the one who signed DOMA. He invented "peacekeeping actions" so he could make war without calling it that, and he did just that. He cut the social safety net wholesale, making Americans poorer, and doubled down on poverty with his 'free trade' policies that helped usher in the era of companies moving offshore and killing US jobs. Oh, and he was a regular on Epstein's island and the Lolita Express.

Obama let police run roughshod in Ferguson and New York City, brutalizing victims of police violence and people who lost their homes and decided to participate in Occupy. He appointed Tom Homan and put kids in cages. He made torture explicitly extra-legal. He walked into Flint and performatively drank a glass of water. He dropped 26,000 bombs in the last year of his presidency and left office with American wars brewing in seven countries. We also learned under Obama that police departments in the US have black sites and his presidency was ~~kidnapping~~ renditioning people to black sites in foreign countries. He also ordered drone bombings that killed American citizens.

We knew Biden was going to be shit when, in a time people wanted federal police reform, he mocked the change people wanted in his State of the Union address by calling for greater police militarization, and his presidency gave rise to 'cop cities'. Even worse, it's now possible for cops to hang out in a school that's getting shot up, on camera, with zero consequences. After January 6 he did nothing meaningful to slow the evident rise of domestic fascism, showing a greater interest in keeping his scumbag son out of prison. He deported undocumented immigrants by the millions and continued the policy of caging kids. Biden earned the moniker 'Genocide Joe' for aiding and abetting the genocide in Israel, even when Israel escalated it into a manufactured famine, which is a war crime. Then he ran for president knowing he had dementia, paving the way for Trump's second term, prioritizing his own ego over the country's well-being.

This isn't a 'Democrats are better' scenario. Most people just haven't really paid attention to what Democrats do or have the short-term memory of a goldfish.

And before you try to argue they were powerless, consider that all three of these men had the presidency and control of Congress, just like Trump. They had all the power they needed to make real change. They just didn't care.

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] AoxoMoxoA@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

I'm here for the comments 🍿

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