Yes, that is why I said you have to question everything.

I do recall Kamala and other establishment Dems going to a rally a while back and everyone here just getting salty about how she’s riding coat tails. I understand the skepticism but SOME have supported for longer than this last week.

Not everything, but enough that you have to question everything. Which is what makes the process so exhaustive and thus the end goal of those that use those tactics.

It takes zero political will to say that people should be treated fairly by the government regardless of who they are.

He is being tapped to replace another future kicker likely to run for office right wing dork

Its like holding a cup of coffee in your hands but your hands are more likely to smell like balls after

Yeah he’s been openly suggesting a 3rd term for a while now. Selling hats and other merch. There have been multiple officials throughout the past 2 years publicly comment that they are looking for ways around the term limits. Every justification is some weasely attempt at semantics. Every criticism is met with ‘he isn’t serious’ or some such hand wave.

Yet here we are. Some folks still pretending like it ain’t plain as day.

The fact is, one party has an active and stated goal of stripping the US for parts and the people of their rights. The other is headed up by milque toast corpo stooges. I shouldn’t have to write a manifesto detailing the ills and failures of both parties to point out that basic but distinct difference in approaches. Dems are political mercenaries at best, Repubs actively campaign on removing rights.

And I’d love to see the D Party actually run on holding people accountable. Let’s not pretend that is an active campaign goal for the Dems. I’d die to hear basic patter like that from Dem leadership. 99% of the time they run to the middle like you pointed out.

Of all things to ‘both sides’ this is stupid. One group is actually following due process, the other is literally ignoring due process and intercepting any attempt to reign in corruption.

And none of that ‘controlled opposition’ patter, due process was moving forward until Trump was re-elected and every bit of opposition was summarily dismantled and dismissed.

I mean investigations are the first part of due process. I agree the rest needs to follow, but an investigation is the start of things.

We also need to quit electing people who like to scuttle investigations, destroy evidence, and stymie witnesses/victims. That is the bigger hindrance to due process.

And yet he is inexplicably relaxing sanctions on Russia while they are invading our ally, Ukraine (whom we signed a pact with to protect them from Russia when they denuclearized). Russia also supports Iran. So we’re harming our ally to benefit our enemy, who also supports our other enemy who we are also at war with.

So if he can’t be blackmailed, then he’s just doing it for money/love of treason.

Hey sidewalks are public, therefore there is zero issue. Glad that is resolved.

Damn AI bots taking away jobs from paid trolls

Trans Rights are absolutely important. But it is only an issue because right wingers say it is, there is no real substance behind their position. Moral panic and facebook shitposts are the backbone of the anti-trans movement.

Mark of the Beast if you want to go for a biblical angle

No doubt. Propaganda is just wild. Kindness and Unity are woke afterall.

Their crimes aren’t comparable, but the regimes’ actions are.

Nidal may not be being executed for blasphemy/speaking out, but people in the US are absolutely being targeted for their beliefs and political leanings (on top of the classic skin color based arrests). Some are jailed, some are charged and released but still have to deal with the process, illegal deportations, and others are just disappeared outright.

That part is hardly an exaggeration.

Fair enough. Point stands that people don’t understand these terms, have different understandings of them, and are therefore almost never on the same page.

Just like ‘liberal’ means very different things to different people. Conservatives say its like they’re far left revolutionaries. Actual Leftists view them as Conservative lite. And a lot of in-between.

I think there is a big discrepancy between what Captialism is defined as, what Capitalism actually is, and the ‘Spirit of Capitalism’ that a lot of folks buy into.

‘The Spirit’ is the idealistic bit. Competition breeding innovation. The better the service/product, the more successful you can be. Classic American Dream stuff.

In reality, its a race to the bottom where all principles and values are eschewed for profit.

Kinda like Communism where what it Should be or what it Could be are different than what we get in practice. And any given person is going to be thinking about it from a different lens, so you get delusional, idealistic, cynical, and occasionally reasonable takes all talking about the ‘same but entirely different’ thing.

Capitalism just had better PR.

Or maybe you got a local bar with decently priced food, generous drink pours, and regularly attended by friendly neighbors whom you don’t always have to chat up but are perfectly lovely when you do