Congress looses more power and relevance doing nothing than if they fight tooth and nail to uphold the constitution, even if it means they die trying.

Not my downvotes by the way; just hoping to convey the importance that symbolism, resilience, and messaging are in politics. It’s the unfortunate reason the right wing and their bigotry took center stage in the 2020s; because their brand and messaging was cohesive and on point. Something that bested the Democrats because it’s what they’ve lacked for a long, long time.

About fucking time. Even if it’d be veto, Congress should’ve been pushing for this among other things on a daily basis since the pedo in chief took office

Beyond “dumb as a rock” for this. People really just take whatever the fuck was is spoonfed to them. At least he did wake up, but by a miracle IMO.

Not how world works as right as you may be. Biden, aside from that poor performance (key word) , was an uninspiring candidate that fumbled politically along the way before this debate, and this was the final straw for many people. Politics isn’t as simple as a logical deduction.

That’s without touching on the good things he did nobody heard about, economically speaking, and the bad things he did a sizable amount of people knew about, that being the failure to uphold international law because of a double standard held for “our greatest ally”

You misunderstand. I agree Kamala represented everything the wrong the party has and still does. But there’s no doubt the vibes shifted initially when she first entered the race, and had successfully gotten people for a moment to think we had a real shot at winning. That’s what I mean by revitalize.

It did not last long. I do not sympathize with the diet-maga apologists who put the blame on the voters in a representative democracy. Hence:

for a while until Biden’s fuck-up campaign team got her to be almost as flat as Biden.

Edit: unless you mean it should’ve been Buttigieg and Shapiro or something. If that were the case, I’d kindly say go fuck yourself.

It doesn’t take a bigot to know that Biden’s performance that night was piss poor and though Trump was, as you said, farming sound bites and nonsense one-liners, appeared a lot more confident and coherent than Biden.

It’s politics; that shit does matter despite knowing what we know. I felt that we were doomed that night.

Enough of us felt that way that they got Biden to step down for Kamala to continue the race; it revitalized the democratic party for a while until Biden’s fuck-up campaign team got her to be almost as flat as Biden.

I’m reading this within two hours of setting up and playing around with my own local SearXNG instance. I’m glad people are utilizing a more privacy respecting platform, but too bad it’s more about “God! Fuck this AI shit, get it out of my face!” more-so than people taking control of their own privacy.

Don’t get me wrong though, “God! Fuck this AI shit, get it out of my face!” is the appropriate response.

Replace “HOPE” with “CHOMO”, and I believe we got a winner

He’s consolidating more power, gutting the people who aren’t the utmost loyal to him, and gathering more people he knows will commit violence on his behalf. The ballroom is turning out to be more of a doomsday bunker than just a ballroom. He’s getting cornered as dissent begins to grow from within and from the public as his approval rating continues to tank. They’re moving faster and faster on goals they intend to accomplish, and are now beginning to talk about Cuba the way they were beginning to talk about Venezuela before the capture of Maduro; this suggests another invasion is coming. There are warehouses getting bought intended for immigrants and probably “domestic terrorists” by the standards of NSPM-7, intended to occupy up to 100,000 people in each one. The Republican party has decided the future of the party is more vital than the future of this country, and they and Trump are willing to cheat in the upcoming elections to maintain power and control, while the opposition is currently failing to maintain the aggressive poise they need fight against this and counter gerrymander. Mass economic hardship projected because of the Strait of Hormuz, with the possibility of famine ranging throughout the entire globe, and is most definitely a matter of time before it hits home.

People are sleepwalking into this and need to wake the fuck up; be ready and give it everything you got. Tell your friends and family. Your participation is fucking vital.

I always wished I had an eye for that kind of thing; no I haven’t noticed that!

I always assumed the point of the movie was to show how stupid the idea of the “White Man’s Burden” and white persecution complex was, with some critique of American exceptionslism thrown

Throughout the movie, I wanted it to be satirical, and wanted to believe that it was exactly this because of how ridiculous and exploitative aspects of this movie are. But there so many moments where the film was intentionally trying to get me to sympathize for the character and made it feel very sincere.

I shouldn’t be surprised that some people took the exact opposite from the film and empathize with the MC. Kind of reminds me of Fight Club in that sense.

Absolutely this, and in more extreme cases with movies like American History X too. But American History X’s message is obvious to me and I really believe you’d have to be pretty moronic, as neonazis usually are, to believe it’s a pro-white supremacy movie and feel empowered by it. Fight Club is more subtle, but I believe it gives more opportunity for people not to identify with the opposite of the message, even for those that don’t know or get it. I just didn’t feel that way about Falling Down.

But I don’t know man, you’ve actually inspired me to want to rewatch it; see if I feel any differently.

Falling Down (1993). The main character attacking minorities, saying American conservative shit, and enablement of urban paranoia was pretty unsettling. The black comedy undertones did get me to chuckle once or twice, but overall just an upsetting thinking of some people sympathizing with the MC in a way that led conservatism to what it is today. The fact that he killed a neonazi does not balance it out.

For real, I hope OP his their metadata in this photo lol

He said “kindly”

I don’t get why news outlets take Trump’s announcements and make them headlines as if were the sole truth of the state of affairs when it’s been repeatedly proven to be complete bullshit. Framing it in a way that they’re claims is one thing, but leave it up to news outlets to be this fucking dishonest too.

Building the minds of the contemporary Hitler Youth of America

Treasonous pieces of shit who need to be flushed down the drain with the rest of the administration.

The thing is, the joke was at the expense of contemporary America at that point in time. These are all things the US does and has done over decades and decades post WW2.

Only difference now is that Trump swung the pendulum to the far right of what was average everyday neoliberalism in the US with immense incompetence, making it more unquestionably obvious than ever.

AOC included, but overall this criticism best applies to the Democratic party. In the game of politics, despite of what we know about MTG, yes, she outflanked the Democratic party on the genocidal Israel issue.

It’s true; she did vote last year, and openly stated, that she for funding Israel’s defense, and received a lot of backlash and criticism for it. Thankfully she’s started to take the right response to the issue now, but it was super poorly handled at the time because she doubled down not realizing that’s about as good being open to funding the defense for Nazi Germany.

I like AOC, and think she’s a great fit for the senate, but I often criticise her political instincts at this point in her career.

That is the point exactly