Based on what toady Mike Johnson and trump have been saying today/yesterday about how the GOP should control elections, I have a lot of worry that there will never be any more “good guys” elected.
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limer@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
So…. I am going to express my opinion that Trumpism is merely the latest, not so different, expression of American capitalism that has always been this nasty and poisonous. And this includes the raids and round ups currently in the news.
There are some things that changed: the targets and oppressed have changed for some. The messaging has changed.
It’s a fad. This will fade soon enough, and things will still be bad. The good guys will be elected and clean up some of the stuff, but most of what they do will be ineffective. And then the next bad guy will come to power
garretble@lemmy.world 3 days ago
limer@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Many states have elections that do not allow recounts, using hidden methods to count, and flunk the same fraud checks used pretty in other counties reliably.
Given that, I’m not too worried
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
And the ability to purge voter registrations within days of the election. Couple that with reduction in voting locations in heavy blue areas and kicking other methods entirely…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
the stopping counting was pretty apparent in '24, they more than likely saw kamala had votes if they had counted them all.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
those are red states in the last election, they stopped counting the moment trump had some leads.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
bannon already suggested ICE at teh polling stations/.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Exactly.
What Donald is doing has always occurred. It’s just been better hidden, and he doesn’t care to hide any of it. The corruption we’re seeing now is only new if you’ve never cracked open a history book.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Stalin was not capitalist. This happens in spite of the economic system.
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Baffling
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
History
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
The history of the union written by confederates
balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Who are the “good guys”? The only remotely non-evil person who had a serious bid for president is Sanders, the rest are straight up pieces of shit who bankroll genocides, bomb civilians, and empower their billionaire donors. Even then, Sanders is ineffective, somewhat zionist, and old, and I don’t see a viable young replacement even for someone like him.
In the US, the political mainstream isn’t “good guys vs bad guys”, it’s 80% hitler vs 100% hitler.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
And even Sanders parroted the “they have a right to defend themselves” rhetoric when push came to shove
AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
At least he called himself a thing that we could all then google and find something better to work towards
limer@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
I feel like there are not any good and effective leaders or movements. At least not nationally