It’s crazy to me that anybody can see this old washed up orange piece of shit and think, yeah, I’d follow that guy’s orders.
Ikr. If he was crazy charismatic and attractive I could at least understand it a bit. But that guy?? Seriously??
I know someone who has never cared about a non-american before but thinks the Iran war is justified because “those people were killing thousands of protesters”. This person also normally doesn’t speak highly of any protester I’m aware of.
Same with Cuba right now. The US claims to be concerned about Cuba’s democratic deficits and human rights violations. All while ignoring their own democratic backsliding and ICE’s gestapo-like racial cleansing of the population.
I’m convinced that MAGA is attracting many people who live a rough life. Poorly educated, resentful, low income people whose attention is fixed on the next paycheck and the cost of groceries. Again and again, I see that many of them seem to view society as a zero sum game. Meaning “if those foreign looking people get punished now, I will surely be better off next month, right???”
The problem is systemic. I blame the chronic failure of political education across the country. Because of that, I do not expect meaningful political change unless it is triggered by some kind of major rupture, crash, or shock.
People treat him like he’s literally the second coming of Jesus. Imagine living such a sad and depraved life that he’s your model of a perfect man
He’s the second coming of American Jesus. White, violent, racist, and full of shit.
Trump … the Musical!
“I am the very model of an orange racist paedophile!”
Americans still go without healthcare, struggle to pay rent, struggle to buy fucking groceries, but we somehow have more than enough to wage unnecessary war.
We need a revolution.
the subsidies from covid ended it allowed the subsidies to go back tot he pre-covid times(the schumer help end), and customers so a massive increase in thier preminums, it was on various insurance sub reddits, strangely its missing from news subs so nobody really was talking about that, reddit was definitely suppressing the news to prevent alarm.
go without healthcare, struggle to pay rent, struggle to buy fucking groceries
Your nearby US Recruiter may have a solution …
Ecuador? Why?
They just elected a right wing guy playing off the fear of crime, they used to be one of the safest but have had a crime wave. Columbia’s president just said they found a score or so of charred bodies on the Columbian side of the border that were bombed too. The US violated their sovereignty just the other day.
Colombia.
Ecuador? Why?
They voted against a constitutional change that would reallow US bases.
following four questions:
Whether to lift the ban on foreign military bases on Ecuadorian territory;
I’m out of the loop, what happened now?
Nuke Antarctica already and be the first to declare care on penguins!
Seriously though this timeline is so disappointing that it may Happen. Bad time to stop sniffing glue i guess.
Sure, melt the glaciers, cause a rapid sea level rise, great idea
Your right, That may just make them stronger.
He already put tariffs on an island inhabited by penguins, so…
It’s about time those penguins paid their fare share. They’ve been taking advantage of America for far too long, with their liberal Pro-Penguin agenda.
Do you know how many loser penguins are just getting free room & board and medical care from AMERICAN zoos and aquariums? And who pays for that? Americans who just want to see animals in cages. Penguin care and feeding contributes to the high cost of ticket prices, which hard-working Americans have to pay, and it has to stop. These Liberal Penguins must start paying their own way, and stop relying on the kindness of American generosity. That money needs to pay for several important and necessary Genocides.
The entire liberal Penguin situation is disgusting.
I was not even aware of somalia. ugh.
Remove him from office now
where’s all those “Free Palestine” folks that were parroting this bullshit?
Must be so Proud the lesser evil didnt win…
The bots did their job and got sent off to the clouds
but lemmy doesn’t have bots!
/s
People who want a free Palestine don’t and have never supported Trump, I don’t know why liberals keep parroting this.
Also “where are they” in the anti-ICE actions and similar movements (plenty in No Kings), you can easily see Palestine flags and the like if you actually paid attention to local movements
https://lemmy.ml/comment/14779139
The harris campaign decided to be pro-war and buddy up with incredibly unpopular warmonger dick cheney.
She put no significant distance between her foreign policy and trump’s. If you really think lemmy lefties are the reason harris lost then you probably haven’t been outside in a long time
https://lemmy.ca/comment/12663066
Biden/Harris are extremely pro war. Every candidate including and since Obama (gave top 2 spots to HRC and Biden). The worst thing about Biden, beside demonic warmongering on Russia, is how friendly and respectful he is to Republicans and Netanyahu. They just walk all over him in return.
https://lemmy.ml/comment/14842143
Funnily enough the very same argument also can be used for Harris and genocide, immgirant oppression, warmongering and everything else here.
this one is my favorite
https://lemmy.ml/post/21494718
They’re using synpathy towards people suffering genocide to try and coral people to the polls. I’ve seen this before. What happened with Roe V Wade? Why are kids still in cages at the border? Why is minimum wage still so low?
Madam Vice President, too little has been done on issues that were previously promised. I cannot take these people at their word.
Want my vote? End support now. It’s been a year of genocide with you at the right hand of Biden. All those lives lost happened on your watch. I will not be duped into voting for someone who has been complicit in commiting genocide, who is now promising to stop that same genocide because it happens to coincide with their political goals.
I will not support a genocide, on the promise of it being ended, only to wake up on January 21st just to hear 'Well, the situation is more complicated than just simply ending support, but I vow…!"
You’ve had a year to end it, and too little has been done to stop it. I will not vote for a genocidal candidate. I will not say that I support genocide by voting for these people. I will not be an accomplice.
It’s sickening to think that they probably allowed the genocide to continue just to use it as a carrot to lead people to the ballot box, all the while lining the pockets of the military industrial complex.
Fuck off with your promises, you’re in the White House now.
this particular user, halykthered@lemmy.ml, hasn’t been active since March 2025. 🤔 I wonder if they accomplished their mission.
You have, interestingly enough, searched for a random Lemmy user that neither I nor you can verify as anyone at all, and decided they are the Avatar of Palestinian Activists™. If I wanted to waste your time I could easily find a Harris deadend account on any website who says heinous things and ask why they are clearly Literally You.
Meanwhile, you have neglected to mention how the comment of “where did the activists go??” is stupid and easily disproven by existing in reality. Why did you do this?
where’s the proof?
shows proof
not good enough!
I have a feeling I could find whatever “proof” you’re looking for and you would still reject it because you refuse to admit that there were (are) Free Palestine supporters who echoed MAGA bullshit to redirect votes away from Harris in some foolish hope that those votes would go to independent candidates.
A single Lemmy user does not represent a massive movement involving millions of people and you know it.
You don’t want to have proof, you want to slander People Who Do Things by saying that random internet users are the reason for American Fascism, instead of acknowledging that: a) most Palestinian activists voted for Harris (you can see statistics on this, instead of the anecdotes you claim as “proof”) b) like most campaigns, the Harris campaign lost (to an idiot fascist, no less!) because it failed to convince the majority of voters (who aren’t activists at all, but politically apathetic) to vote for it.
You do not care, though, you want to scapegoat and blame anyone except for your favorite genocidal politicians and fascists for the current state of the US, despite the fact this has been building for decades. You are someone who would’ve comfortably ignored most problems under Harris, and are more offended that you might be personally affected by oppression this time, instead of reading about it on the news and shrugging. This is fine; what is not fine is blaming people who decried such oppression then and now, who are far more serious about handling fascism than you, someone who thinks resistance is when you cry about losing useless neoliberal #1000 (nowhere to be seen right now, BTW) on the internet instead of Doing Things.
You claim to care about “echoing MAGA bullshit” but echo their lack of giving a shit for people who are suffering under Your Team. To say there are Palestine supporters who have bad ideas is like saying there are liberals who have bad ideas! Wow, some people in these massive movements are dumb!? My goodness, clearly they are all responsible for Trump! Time to not reflect on the systems I support whatsoever!
I mean, at this point everyone knows Trump lies out of his ass, right?
Actually, if you tune into just right wing news they make Trump look like a 4D chess genius.
Going by Trump’s actions in first term, the “no wars” thing was the rare promise that was actually pretty believable.
Trump first term didn’t start new big wars, and withdrew from e.g. Afghanistan (in a bullshit way, but still). Based on past actions, and yes because Trump promised it, I believed that Trump would be isolationist in his second term.
huh, somehow I missed that we left Afghanistan because of Trump:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020–2021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan
Because the troop withdrawal happened under Biden, I thought it was Biden that withdrew from Afghanistan.
It’s so ironic then that Biden was so criticized for the consequences of Trump’s agreements with the Taliban 💀
It’s so ironic then that Biden was so criticized for the consequences of Trump’s agreements with the Taliban 💀
Trump was responsible for the vast majority of bad outcomes, yup. And the media did not reflect that.
What an underachieving performance. We are better than these numbers. 3? That’s how many days our lord & savior, JC screwed around and then came to his senses before coming back to let us know that it is absolutely A-OK to hate & attack anyone that doesn’t believe for a minute that our boi Jesus here isn’t the most stickitydickitywickitywhackityfliggityflaggityfloggityflamp Thing in the world. Ever.
At this point I’m convinced Trump raped, tortured, killed and ate the babies in the Trump-Epstein files… distractions are wild… and working
But the oil price shock is going to hurt Trump electorally, and normal people’s wallets, way worse than the Epstein files. So in a sense it is silly to say that the distraction is “working”.
DoJ stopped releasing Epstein files indefinitely, because or Iran… so yeah, I think it’s working. MAGA is a cult, it’s not rational. What you think it might hurt him, it might as well make him stronger in the eyes of his followers… After everything that has happened, most of his base still follows him and will vote for him.
Why is Biden such a warmonger?
This is clearly the Dems fault.
What was Obama doing during 9-11?
I heard Obama flew one of the planes.
So… about that Peace Prize…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana
The Pax Romana (Latin for ‘Roman peace’) is a roughly 200-year-long period of ancient Rome that is identified as a golden age of increased and sustained Roman imperialism
“Fighting for Peace is like fucking for Virginity.” - George Carlin
Which is a really stupid thing to say. Should e.g. Ukraine not fight for peace? Should Britain not have fought for peace in WW2?
defense, that’s not what the US is doing.
Carlin’s quote said nothing about “defense”.
And in any case, e.g. NATO’s prevention of the genocide was not “defense”. Was that also like "fucking for Virginity”? I have met some people from Kosovo, and they certainly do not think so, naming their children after Bill Clinton and all… No, Carlin is an idiot here.
If Carlin had to be as specific as you’d like that quote to be then it wouldn’t be much of a joke.
It’s not hard to understand what he was saying.
I actually don’t understand what Carlin is saying, then. “The wars I don’t like are bad”?
An overbroad and often false generalization is not a good joke. So yes, it isn’t much of a joke.
Like the committee didn’t see this coming. The guy changed the name from the Dept of DEFENSE, to the Dept of WAR. You don’t think the Nobel Committee doesn’t understand what that signals? They tend to be pretty smart people, but dummies like MAGA don’t recognize intelligence. It’s an entirely foreign concept to them. So he thought he was getting something over on them, getting the Peace Prize, then attacking everybody, so he could hide behind his Peace Prize, saying it’s THEIR fault, I didn’t start it, I have a Peace Prize. And his idiot followers would actually parrot that, just like they are parroting that Iran started this war 47 years ago.
A constant state of war is essential to fascism.
The reality is, there will eventually be a draft. Will Americans stand for it? Probably.
Remember “terrorist” is an ill defined term trump can apply to anyone who thumbs their nose at him and use as justification for sending our sons overseas to kill them.
Ecuador is in the same continent as the US…
How do you define continent?
“The involuntary leakage of urine or stool.”
