You’ve made a potential error in underestimating just how horrible some peoples’ lives are and how filled with hatred they are over that fact.

What fact? People's lives are horrible BECAUSE of ICE. They're so horrible that I considered that nobody would be "on the fence" because either you drank the Fear-Of-Crime Kool-Aid or you are horrified at what ICE agents are doing to children and poor people. The entire reason there are people who don't think ICE needs to be abolished right now is because Fox News and other right-wing grifters have pumped out propaganda making it look like there is a "crime wave" like it's the Reagan Era, and people living in the Suburbs not knowing what the outside world is like. Not only do they choose to portray a crime wave, they have to do it, because otherwise people would see their president as the power-hungry maniac he is rather than a savior of order. No riot is actually making people miserable, only the police-reported, sensationalist coverage of protests.

This is really what drives so much of politics in the world–disgruntled people with no future who choose to hate others who have nothing to do with it.

That's just the American Suburbs. I hope American states can secede to change this. Meanwhile, in Vietnam, there is a high-speed rail being built. This is not driven by disgruntled people, people with no future, or people who choose not to hate others who have nothing to do with it. Neither is Iran defending itself from an imperialist regime, nor Australia having their left-wing Labour party completely outdo the right-wing Liberal party. America is the villain here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenacious_Unicorn_Ranch

All of a sudden, so many things are "not protected speech". I find it tempting to be as ignorant as a Republican, but I'd certainly be caught off guard in that case.

And share them with your friends. Learn from Lenin, learn from the Vietnamese, learn from Alpaca farms.

You jest, but even though I hate a lot about the Trump regime, I'm glad that it is eating out its own military capacity like this. It's like when you're incredibly sick in bed, and then it gets a little better for a while.

I mean, I certainly support Bernie. He will do a lot of good, but I'm tired of people worried about Stalin when Trump is worse.

Lemmy should be a place Bernie’s policies are celebrated

Make another instance. You have a Bernie community. I also do support Bernie Sanders, it's just that we all know Trump is bad and saying so is redundant.

Lemmy is complicit in our march towards fascism and their lack of action is telling of their motivations

First of all, a social media site has no action. Regardless, I have seen tons of articles shared on here about how awful Trump is. Secondly, I have been working at food banks and engaging in protests. I've been emailing my senators, and getting people to support Cascadian Separatism, if not Bioregionalism, and letting them know about other ideas that would help. I am also disabled with PDD-NOS by my doctor when I was a toddler, despite this; I do my best to regularly meet people, learn from them, and tell them about my ideas. In fact, I've been voting in State elections and County elections for the candidates that I want, working my best at the State level if not the National level.

You had the perfect "marketing/advertising" and it didn't work because people hate their government.

In an ideal scenario the US would have actual candidates that don’t want to dismantle democracy

In an ideal scenario there would be no federal government and all states would be split apart.

I agree that people should at least check the box, but leftists who are fed up are not the entire reason for "what we have now". A lack of mutual aid alongside politics is also the problem. There is also the whole problem of Suburbia and its culture: one of these problems is a fear of crime and "stranger danger" (this is only a problem when making sure you aren't talking to a federal agent). There are people still watching the same cable television that the internet supposedly replaced wholesale, and most of it's Fox News. These people completely outnumber the people who withhold their vote.

I honestly just hate the United States. I cannot find any other country on Earth that represents such a grave threat to freedom, aside from Israel which is of course a client state. I'd get rid of the "world police" no matter what "terrorists" run rampant because they will never be as terroristic as the U.S. anyway. I will vote for harm reduction, but I really, really want the American Union to break up.

No, it's more of a Mussolinist party. Stalin wasn't that bad.

and from there to mugshots of the 9/11 attackers. Though the narration was inaudible, I believe that 9/11 was cited to justify the deployment of the men who appeared onscreen next

No way they're still worried about 9/11. That was over 20 fucking years ago.