barrbaric [he/him]

Oh, the dems definitely can’t. Their whole thing is a continued erosion of quality of life for the general populace, while occasionally being physically dragged kicking and screaming into passing some meaningful social legislation (gay marriage and the like). But people still like Obama despite being an empty suit whose job was to ruin their lives because he played the role well. The fact that they can’t even do that anymore is quite worrisome.

Agreed that Trump doesn’t really want to do anything because he’s a lazy fool. The real concern imo will be the guy who comes after Trump who is an ideologically committed fascist who is able to capitalize on the shift in the overton window. The dems will do nothing to oppose this, as you pointed out.

In 2020 there were like a dozen candidates who represented the establishment, but none of them were doing well during the primaries so, in order to stop a possible Bernie nomination, they all dropped out (possibly due to Obama interfering directly) and the DNC coalesced around Biden as the pick. Harris was chosen as VP for the inverse of why Biden was Obama’s VP pick: a woman of color is good optics when compared to the racist cracker who was going to be president.

Any dems with a national profile atm tend to be from the extremes of the party (Bernie or AOC vs Manchin or Pelosi etc), who are widely hated by large segments of the population and seen as non-viable. They haven’t elevated any of the candidates from 2020 to a higher profile either (Pete the Rat is secretary of transportation but that’s hardly a sexy post). This is why the like third place candidate on betting sites is Michelle Obama. The dems have consciously chosen to do nothing and have fucked themselves over in the process.

He’d be allowed to do them, but his views are much closer to those of the republicans (opposing abortion, pro-racism, genocidally zionist, etc) than to a typical voter so he’d never want to. And that was before his brain started leaking out his ears.

Wouldn’t work. Just think about all the religious Trump supporters who think he’s a “good christian man” in spite of his many obvious unchristian qualities. Their religion is downstream from their bigoted political views, and they don’t care one bit about being called out as hypocrites.

On top of that, the media those types would consume would only ever use it to show dems in a negative light. You have to dismantle that entire media apparatus first, which means mass arrests, targeted assassinations, political purges, and, the biggest issue for the dems, not respecting the private property of fascist billionaires.

That’s easy, woke is identity politics is virtue signaling is political correctness is…

Partly (the article does refer to it being the language of NATO), but it looks to be more about joining the EU.

Gommunism

Yeah, I bet he runs a concentration camp the size of a city, which is made up mostly of entirely innocent children, and that nobody is ever allowed to leave.

Oh wait, that’s what the US is doing in Syria right now.

Yes of course, Mongolia will conquer the world once more under the reincarnation of the Great Khan.

Out of all the formerly Soviet states, Ukraine is the closest to the US, is portrayed as being the most “western,”

Not to take away from the rest of your comment (which I agree with), but surely the most “culturally americanized” would be one of the baltics?

It needs your bones more than you do

Y’all heard of COVID?

The best examples of a democratic state are apparently a state where public opinion has 0% on laws that is actively committing genocide and two de facto one-party far right states set up by the former that are the textbook examples of negative social outcomes resulting from capitalism.

For someone who can’t manage to climb stairs, Biden sure does love climbing the escalation ladder.

Luckily this can’t escalate too far. The REAL cool zone moment will be if Indian and Pakistan get into disputes.

I did this at my work and got a little dongle that displays a string of numbers I have to enter when prompted.

They want the ability to shoot down other countries’ satellites when they go to war with them. Things like disabling communication satellites and GPS (or Russia’s equivalent, GLONASS).

Kessler Syndrome? Never heard of it.

The US government does subsidize EVs (it’s the only reason Tesla can exist, for instance), the problem is that all their subsidies just get used for stock buybacks. Why would a privately-owned company actually create more factories? That’s just not profitable.

The most rational system.

Just FYI I’m 90% sure the guy on the left is a republican. Like fuck Hillary and all but there have to be better sources lol.

To offer some context for the other responses: it is us vs them, where “us” is the working class and “them” is the capitalist class which controls society. However, this is also a clash of political ideologies, namely those that favor the working class (socialism/communism/anarchism) vs those that favor the capitalist class (liberalism/conservatism/fascism).