And if the anti-Trump crowd could stop broadcasting “Peace at all costs” and start growling a bit, Republicans wouldn’t be brazenly pushing through 50% of Project 2025 in the first year of Trump’s term. We probably didn’t even need to fire a shot… except now, where Republicans Know we aren’t going to do shit. Now with the surveillance networks like Flock, I doubt this administration will show any hesitation ever again.

Instead we get people chuckling “Oh I hope it won’t be that long” and going on their day… It doesn’t have to be, but it will be if you let it.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great speaker; but it was the Black Panthers and the rioters that got the Civil Rights Act passed. Non-violence has a place, but it can’t be the whole picture. Especially when people are being tortured in Alligator Auschwitz.

In the USA in an area where open-carrying is legal, a person holding a gun is not a reason to shoot into a crowd them. Only the “security volunteer” shot their weapon; and someone was killed.

The jury will do what they want with this. I wouldn’t be surprised if they acquit because of the tension inherent to the march, and the fact the shooter was a volunteer. Gamboa was fully innocent. Still, there needs to be some trial, or else “I saw someone with a gun” will become a de-facto excuse to shoot anyone you want.

That’s some Reagan speech rage bait NGL. What you wrote is eerily similar to what Trump and Republicans are pushing against homeless and “mentally ill” people.

Also, after all we’ve been through, I’d let people do drugs and porn with their money. Fuck it, we’re all hurt and traumatized. I’m not going to funnel broken people into the psychiatry complex. Just do a bit of research into mental hospitals in the present-day USA to see why this loaded “get help” is a really dangerous demand.

I really like this idea on its own. Multiple public options providers for multiple different products. Water/Electricity should be government run imo; but for Food? Household items? I’d love to see a multitude of government-stamped collectives that we could support. Actually… this was exactly what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was attempting with his National Recovery Administration.

People keep ignoring this fact and it really irks me. How many of those Biden voters who didn’t turn out in 2024 would have actually voted for Harris? Every leftist and liberal I heard from were all saying we needed to stop Trump.

For some reason, political analysis keeps glossing over the fact that most USAmericans live in the day-to-day. The country sucks right now, and if you even begin to get into why you lose 40% of your listeners because our social spheres fundamentally curate ignorance.

In a nation as divided and selfish and stupid as the USA, the most popular position is opposition. That’s how Obama beat Bush; how Trump beat neolib Dems; how Biden barely beat Trump barely in 2020 by a few states’ electorates; and how Trump beat the Biden/Harris pairing in 2024.

Even Bernie Sanders, who I would have loved, was running on an opposition platform in 2016 and 2020. Bernie just lost because corporate Dems got the majority of Democrat voters to support Biden, by turning their opposition to Trump into fear that Bernie “just couldn’t win” like an establishment Democrat could.

Republicans gave Trump his “Big Beautiful Bill” which included his ICE budget. Republicans could impeach Donald Trump at any point. A minority of Republicans could join Democrats in the House and Senate, and remove this entire administration from office, permanently. Republicans are following Trump because their Speaker of the House and Head of Senate say to. Speaker Mike Johnson and Head of Senate John Thune are supporting Trump because former speaker Kevin McCarthy was miserably removed by MAGA Republicans in part because he did not support Donald Trump’s Big Lie

It sucks to thnk about, but I prefer truth over ignorance. Trump is the symptom, not the problem. If Vance, Trump, Miller, etc. were all shot dead, it would help by striking some fear into our reps, but it wouldn’t solve the problem.

Good to see Gamboa is free, and the “security volunteer” is being tried. Liberals - listen up: Just because someone has a fancy title, doesn’t absolve them of wrong doing.

Trump had a primary that he led in consistently. Kamala ran a weak campaign, but in the end, Kamala’s name was on the ballot. Also, neither Kamala nor Trump could impact policy without the permission of Congress, which is occupied primarily by Republicans who each ran for that seat.

This is what I value most about UBI – the leverage on workers; the flexibility to take time to rest and explore other, more fulfilling careers.

UBI is great, but First there’s gotta be separate publicly-funded social nets for essentials like food, housing, water, electricity, heating…

Giving everyone $5000/mo to buy everything you want and need is far too volatile, and with poor budgeting people will end up trapped in debt spirals, needing microfinance loans to survive. I’d rather the government give $1000/mo to buy everything you want, then having public services to provide food, rent, and other necessities.

I fear that giving free-range UBI on its own will spawn a bunch of extreme examples that get disseminated en-masse by reactionary outlets to breed resentment of UBI and “handouts” in the eyes of the people. You’ll have folks who are physically and/or mentally ill, who spend the whole allowance on drugs or gambling or porn or other controversial expenditures; then have to turn to charity to survive until their next UBI check. I’d need to know people would have that stable base before I’d feel comfortable with them being thrown that rope.

This is coming from seeing decades of USA arguments against welfare, then watching the “For The Children” fearmongering against the open internet. I just don’t want a few extreme examples to have us all strung up.

The list of votes is here

This is far from an appearance issue. 18 Republicans also opposed the budget. If every Democrat had joined the 18 Republicans in saying no, this budget would not have been approved. Every politician – Democrat or not – who approved this budget needs to be voted out, no questions (if we get the chance). Primary the Democrats who voted “Yea”.

“There’s always money for bombs” but $900 Billion is absurd; and Democrats are screwing everyone over by encouraging this war. We do not want MAGA to have Wartime Powers. We do not want JD Vance, Stephen Miller, and Mike Johnson to have Wartime Powers.

Many Free-Birth propaganda pieces promise that they will make birth “orgasmic”. In their view, medical childbirth is painful because the doctors are doing it wrong. Some fear that medical intervention may hurt the baby. That point is more popular among husbands and in-law grandparents who don’t care about the health of the woman.

This isn’t to downplay how painful standard childbirth can be. I fully understand that it is extremely painful to push a 8-10 pound baby out of your body.

Sometimes I’ll pop open Mega Man 1 when my blood pressure is too high to focus on anything. I plan to no-hit it one day (without major glitches)

And it’s the 3rd month of Charlie Kirk abstaining from bigotry… truly astounding how the worst of the worst can change…

*the War on Terror; but, yes

Most discourse about Zohran Mamdani is a ploy to get the left to argue with the left; much as the culture war is a ploy to get the working class to argue with the working class.

People talk a lot about Hillary Clinton infamous “Pokémon Go to the Polls” remark, but she repeatedly suggested banning “violent” video games through her 2015-2016 campaign. That was undoubtedly a factor in GamerGate/ the alt-right shift among mainstream gaming and internet culture at that time. I found out that Hillary held this position from mainstream internet memes.

I don’t think the significance of this issue can be understated, given Gen Z’s rightward shift in 2024. Feminists are gonna vote Dem, Bible-Thumpers are gonna vote Republican; it’s the politically-indifferent population that decide elections.

Third time’s the charm!

It’s very disappointing how far removed from reality American politicians with only a few exceptions are.

They’re not ignorant. She’s not ignorant. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State under Obama, and occupying Israel (“America’s greatest ally”) was brutalizing Palestinians during that administration, too. She absolutely knows what’s been going on.

Statements like Hillary Clinton’s are meant to make Palestinian support seem infantile to the public, because pro-Israeli folks Know they’ve lost control of the narrative. Israel and its supporters can’t beat the facts, so they’re making absurdist claims like these to discredit their opposition. Don’t get cocky, though. This is a page exactly out of the Trump campaign’s playbook, And it worked for his campaign. Our fight doesn’t end until Israel does.