Fuck Ralph Nader. If it weren't for him we wouldn't have had Dubya and the Iraq war. Hell, we might not have even had 9/11 and the Afghan war because the administration would have heeded the intelligence that showed Al Qaida was planning the attack.
Guns were a protection from the government in 1800s, not anymore. Arm the unions with missile launchers.
They are. Just only the police unions.
Well yeah. It takes violence to stop violence, and we've been brain washed in schools with the "Zero Tolerance Policy" that retaliating is worse than being a bully. Kids who defended themselves from aggressors often were either the only ones punished, or punished far worse than the instigator. That's been going on for at least 2-3 decades in said schools. It has obviously made a bunch of adults too afraid of doing the right thing.
It's why we hold parades instead of protests with the threat of escalation. If we really wanted to make changes, Republicans and their minions(ICE) would not have homes to live in, or comfortable lives. Same for their enablers.
We would have taken them off the board and held special elections as populace. Still can, and will still need to when we have finally had enough. That or a foreign power will do it for us, but then they get to make the rules instead of "We The People".
To assume that humans en masse are weak is quite foolish, but I suspect their intent is more prodding for people to 'do something'.
We're aware of the issue most of us didn't cause. Just as other countries are currently dealing with their own artificially placed authoritarians (à la epstein and bannon).
To attempt change in the public eye immediately puts you in danger and as such is unwise. Furthermore, many people are not made for such things.
Eventually there will come a time for most of us where a normal life cannot exist, but it's a slow burn, not an explosion.
We need to put this into perspective and compare it to how Hitler turned an entire country into dumbly complacent followers & murderers & enablers. We look back at that and ask, "Why didn't somebody stop him? Why was everybody following his orders?"
"Why didn't Feudal Peasants rise up against theie Feudal Lords? Were they stupid?"
-asks the modern day corporate indentured serf from his company-provided cubicle residence.
Yup, this presidency has killed my faith in our supposed system in record time. Congress's inaction and complicity were the final nails. I have no faith in this country or its people. Hard to not come to the conclusion that we're entirely motivated by greed and schadenfreude. We the people have the government we deserve.
What you are seeing is the end result of a fifty year long class war against the middle and working Americans that the rich have waged, and won.
Warren Buffet was making this known two decades ago and no one listened.
You can't expect sixth graders to push back against fascism.
Piss off a bunch of french and you got a mob hunting you down.
Piss off a bunch of americans and they will still go solo at you, like minions in a movie, because grouping together is considering an evil socialism there.
For a country with so many guns, they're not very good shots.
France isn't willing to bankrupt themselves again for the colonies.
I don't understand why people are acting like half the country didn't want him. Present them with any other option and they will still choose him even today.
Edit: To those who keep discussing how people didn't vote, please realize that is still a choice. If you didn't vote then you may as well have voted for him regardless.
If you didn’t vote then you may as well have voted for him regardless.
You can't convince those people of this. Similarly, it's damn near impossible to get people to understand that you can vote your conscience in primaries but you need to be strategic in the general.
Im still trying to figure out how people like you think half the population voted for him. He won a plurality, which means more than his opponent. A majority is over 50%.
Only <65% people of voting age even voted (including 3rd party candidates). He didnt even win a majority amongst only those who voted. And who of the remaining 35%+ is fascist or anti-fascist? They're pretty vocal, now.
Any other option lmao. Dude, he's the least popular president in history. What are you huffing?
Regardless of supporting someone who attempted to overthrow our government, he is surrounded by convicted rapists and pedophiles. Why would he do that?
Regardless of his fascination with dictators and his love of rapists and pedophiles, his Iran war BS is being used explicitly for stock market manipulation. Presidents are not allowed to manipulate the stock market for profit. They actually have some pretty specific rules about what kind of money they can gain, use, and their possession of property is typically very scrutinized for a variety of reasons.
A rapist and pedophile loving, dictator admiring, stock market manipulating, genocide supporting and threatening, wonderful president.
Let me ask: Who won in 2020?
There’s been multiple assassination attempts in his first year of this administration
Last I checked all of those people were right wing chuds. Make of that what you will.
They had better aim when JFK was president.
Stop him? American society created him.
Not really sure how to fix this.
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