OK, I have read some evidence that shows how when a level of impoverishment is reached, people are too preoccupied with day to day and week to week survival to bother with voting or much of any other civil engagement.
I won’t waste more time on this, I’m not interested in arguing over the definition of ‘disengaged’.
The fact that they voted means they are not disengaged.
Yours might have just been an offhand comment, but as it might be a genuine question I provided a brief answer.
I doubt it will be noticeable overnight, but at least some of his supporters will be pushed into a degree of impoverishment that inhibits political engagement.
Yeah it is other countries fault, lol.
Do you really want to carry your lifetime supply of honey around with you every time you move apartment?
What other foodstuffs are you going to buy your lifetime supply of? Dried goods? Tins? You could get yourself a winnebago and fill it with all your lifetime’s worth of food or something, which would make lugging it all around with you forever easier. Just hope nobody nicks it.
His name is Trump. Russia completed sidelined America’s military.
MAGA by bringing back US manufacturing, which means creating developing world conditions, thus enabling it to become a sweatshop.
And I guess these four supreme justices think the world should continue to buy US debt lol. You reap what you sow.
pretty on track
lol. SpaceX are destroying Artemis as we type - and America’s prestige as a space-faring nation - and are not going to Mars on any timeline, as Musk well knows. Musk doesn’t care at all, it is helping him get to trillionaire status.
Yeah I said in another post that the Americans I have known irl have been great. I love America’s contribution to stuff like music and literature, and the arts generally. And I take your point it is a minority.
But this oligarchy has taken a while to build but it wasn’t stopped. And I do think this is a watershed moment for the US and Europe, BRICS and the dollar. I think we are entering a global economy that reflects the multi-polar world we actually have.
As a Brit, whose economy is 50 - 100 years past being the global reserve currency, I think the people most likely to suffer over the long term are Americans, after everyone suffers the coming short-term instability.
This total breakdown in cooperation happening just as we roll straight past climate change’s last chance saloon (to butcher a couple of metaphors) is an even bigger disaster. Some of us ‘doomers’ are being proven right. I’d rather not be.
I know that eminent computer scientists wrote to I think Harris a couple of years back voicing their concerns over the security of voting machines.
I think the Democrats are as done as a credible political force as the Republicans are.
America you have switched sides. Expect a European pivot towards China, provided China maintains some degree of pragmatic neutrality.
Foolish bully.
If you accept his shit he will try and get away with more.
The people most at risk from this moron are the American people themselves. They appear to be accepting most of it. They didn’t lock him up, instead they voted him into power.
(Sorry Americans, I don’t want to be inflammatory for the sake of it. I do like those of you I have known irl.)
This might sound daft but I’ve traveled for years and literally found that mime, the more extravagant the better, works fine.
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You are note dealing with reality.
The Democrats have helped construct the explicit oligarchy that is unfolding before your eyes.
It absolutely is about both sides, given both of them are responsible for the current situation. Or it is about the fact that there is only one side: pretty far right neo-liberal corporatists, or fascist far right oligarchy.
And obviously it matters if your only hope is to turn to the other side who are going to prove themselves to be utterly ineffectual. The choice being Trump, or a continuation of the economic-political ideology that made Trump (or similar) inevitable.
But looking at the amount of up/downvotes these two posts have got I guess it doesn’t matter - maybe most of you just aren’t ready to deal with reality, so reality will just happen to you. Trying to downvote it away is what has led you to this point.
we the poor are not a fucking bank for these lazy bastards that just keep taking all our shit for their own personal financial gain
Capitalism is a trickle-up system, so yes, that is exactly what you are.
As are the Democrats, which pretty much means the US political process is completely lost.
EDIT - Who do you turn to? It would appear that the CIA themselves have been subject to a far right coup, which is somewhat ironic, so I can’t see the intelligence services doing anything, but who do you turn to? The military? Is that where America is at?
I mean, they never hid their intentions.
From a European perspective, even though the Americans I have known in life have all been great, the fact is that the American people voted for all this, including the harmful alliance with Russia. It isn’t just Trump.
Unless of course Trump wasn’t lying again when he hinted at manipulating voting machines. No one has mentioned it other than Trump (as far as I am aware), so I assume it is nothing, but there certainly was concern pre-election from experts in the field regarding the security of voting machines.
I’m aware this sort of idea creates conspiracy theories, something I really am not trying to do. If anything I am just trying to find a reason that potentially lets American people off voting for Trump! https://apnews.com/article/election-security-voting-machines-software-2024-80a23479d8a767ba9333b2324c4e424b
I don’t know if there is a plan. But if there is I would guess it is no more formulated than ‘whatever the government now pays for is what we are going to insert ourselves into and get paid’.
So whatever a couple of individuals scrape and place on a free alternative is provided by a billionaire instead of the government.
This is what Canadian and European rivals of the US should have been doing for some time, and should be doing now.