Just fucking die already Donny!
If over half the world wakes up and checks the news, hoping that you’re dead, you might be a piece of shit.
I’m checking every hour, can’t come soon enough
I’ve said it many times before but when this pos finally dies I along with many many others will be drinking and celebrating like it’s new years. The 2nd American Independence Day will be the day Donny is dead.
We’re just 7 months in to this term. 7.
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Not if I can help it
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
Conservatives are fundamentally bad people. Hypocritically supporting your in-group while harming your out-group is bad person behavior. Someone admitting they are a conservative should elicit the same response as someone saying they kick puppies or punch babies. It’s inexcusable and has no place in polite society.
“Kill puppies and kick babies” is more accurate to this current bunch
“Torture puppies and murder babies” is even more accurate to the current bunch.
Yep, and I’ve been tired of the both-siderists and so-called “moderates” making excuses for conservatives and Republicans and talking about “true” conservatives.
“Us vs. Them”
The problem is we’re Americans. Conservatives are traitors.
Funny thing is, California has to go to the people to vote. Texas just did it. Who is more in the wrong here? Orange idiot strikes again.
After the California courts approved it to go forward. Everything by the book. That’s an incomprehensible concept to him.
That’s the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. I feel America is going to be broken up like this.
It already is.
If only. My fondest wish is that this kind of brinkmanship further stresses the already weak systems and further drives the most disillusioned to complete despondency and we usher in a complete and total collapse of the country. I’m further hoping that the knock-on effect of having the world’s biggest economy go tits up is enough to strain and stress the other capitalist states and help usher in something new. While the revolution won’t be bloodless or televised, the hope is that when the dust settles we’re finally in a place to deliver on the promise of a better future.
Ugh. Just…stop with this. Such a ridiculous thing to wish for.
Accelerationists always make me laugh. They wish for a thing and then when they get it, they whine as if they’re a victim of the very thing they manifested.
They’re like the nome de plume of fuck around and find out.
And the Texas democrats had to be held at gunpoint to go to the special session
GOP just rubber stamps everything they want and we have to swim against a torrent of old man feces and ICE agents to pass basic tit-for-tat responses. Fucking toddlers don’t understand how to function in a civilized society so now they stomp their feet on our necks.
which would create precident to undo the texas redistricting if successful? right?
Precedent*
It should, but they won’t see it that way
And of course the courts are in his pocket so guess who will be allowed to go on their merry way and who won’t? I fucking hate it here. Keep fucking around, Don. The find out is coming.
Keep fucking around, Don. The find out is coming.
Me:
walls are closing in on him now!!!
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I fucking hate it here
I know it’s not for everyone, but emigration is an option. I left the US 25 years ago and never regretted - and that was when Dubya only barely started turning the country fascist, and it was still normal and somewhat pleasant to live in. So just imagine how much better life is outside the US today…
If you have the possibility, you should consider it.
I really wish I could but I’m just a worthless uneducated factory schmuck. Nowhere worth moving to would have me :/
If you are fully literate, you can look into teaching English as a second language.
You don’t need to speak the language of the place you work, they even sometimes prefer you don’t because they teach through immersion after a certain level.
They handle visas and housing and stuff most of the time, too, and it’s not just Asian countries, like most people think. Like you could go teach in Greece if you want.
I’m looking into this, myself. I may just do it but I have to give up my solo homestead dreams so it’sa last resort.
Don’t sell yourself short. You never know… You might have some skills that are in demand somewhere. Or if not, but there are welcoming countries that only require one to be motivated enough.
At any rate, it doesn’t cost anything to look around for the minimum requirements for immigration into the countries that might interest you.
Leaving the usa instead of fighting to fix it will only mean the entire world is doomed since the worlds strongest military is the united states, so itl only be a matter of time untill wherever you move is captured.
The Wehrmacht thought they were the most powerful military force on the planet, but piss poor leadership, THANKFULLY, starting from the top. The Little Fucking Austrian Corporal wrecked the strategy by replacing his best field commander with “yes” officers. Guess who is repeating the identical mistake.
Well, like I said, it’s not for everyone.
Even in the best of times, the United States is a country that requires a background level of stress and paranoia to live in. You realize that when you move to another developed country where you don’t have to lock your door or wonder whether the next person you meed is armed, mentally unstable or up to no good.
Even before this whole fascist shitshow got started in 2001, I considered the US a lost cause that’s not really worth fighting for. Dubya and the USA Patriot Act was the thing that finally pushed me to leave.
I only have a finite number of hours on this dirtball and I fully intend to spend them as best I can with my family and my children, and offer them a good life. I don’t have time to fight for lost causes.
It’s a choice ultimately. Emigration isn’t for everybody. If you want to stay and try to make America better, more power to you. I just want people to know that life is sweeter elsewhere.
Where did you move to?
Originally Canada. Then the UK, Australia, then back to Europe where I lived in several EU countries. Currently I’m in northern Scandinavia.
How have you navigated the visa and residency issues? I’d like to settle somewhere and stay, but in a lot of the places I’m considering residency and a path to citizenship are potentially challenging.
In many countries, your best bet is to get sponsored, or otherwise helped by your employer in the country of destination. If they won’t help you, you simply apply for a resident visa.
In Canada for example they have (or at least they used to have, I don’t know if this still applies) a system of points whereby you get x percent for having this or that skills in demand, x percent for speaking both French and English, x percent for having found an employer in Canada already… and the visa is granted automatically if your total is over 80% or something to that effect.
In Australia, I got a visa by proving that I had a bunch of money on my bank account. Again, I don’t know if it still applies today, but at least back then, all Australia was interested in is whether you could take care of yourself financially or if you were a bum coming to leech off welfare. I didn’t really have the money, I asked friends and family to lend me as much as possible to make my account fat enough to enter the country, then I gave them the money back.
As for Europe, I had dual citizenship (not anymore, I gave up my American citizenship). So I didn’t have to do anything to enter the EU country I have citizenship with. Once in the Shengen area, you can relocate anywhere you want without asking permission.
Fantasy Land
Yes, the U.S. has the worlds strongest military today. However, nothing is ever static. Warfare evolves quickly, and can render past strategies and weapons systems obsolete. Consider trench warfare, which was the most important tactic of World War I. The French dug massive trenches, and its Maginot line was considered a formidable defense against German aggression. When Germany attacked France in WWII, did it throw its troops into the meat grinder of trench warfare? No. Germany leveraged the growing sophistication of air power into its Blitzkrieg strategy, and easily crushed France in weeks.
We’re seeing the same thing play out in Ukraine today. Russia went in with its “Special Military Operation” expecting to take Ukraine in days. Now, over 3 years later, Ukraine is still in the fight, and Russia is still expending resources trying to take Ukraine. Moreover, drone warfare has evolved at a rapid pace, and Ukraine has used sea-going drones to nullify Russia’s Navy.
Yes, the U.S. has the most formidable military in the world, even given the recent changes in the way wars are fought. However, the assumption that the U.S. will remain able to dominate the world militarily indefinitely is dangerous. The manufacturing capacity of the U.S. is not nearly what it once was, and being able to crank out inexpensive drones is likely an area where China could outclass the U.S… Moreover, if the U.S. continues along its path of bullying the world, it weakens its alliances and induces other countries to ally against it. Can the most powerful military in the world stand against the entire rest of the world fighting together? Further, one of Germany’s biggest weaknesses was the leadership at the top. Having a narcissistic psychopath at the top that thinks they know everything is not conducive to effective military strategy, especially when they punish those who tell them what they don’t want to hear. Trump is constantly shutting down dissenting voices, rather than listening to see if what they’re saying has merit. When you surround yourself with yes-men, sooner or later your fantasy bubble runs into the cold, hard reality of the actual world around you.
Finally, you state that it’s “only a matter of time until wherever you move is captured.” This simply isn’t true. There are lots of places in the world that don’t hold significant resources and/or strategic value to make them worth expending resources on to capture and hold. The coming fight isn’t going to be everywhere, all at once. There are many small, insignificant corners of the world where it will be relatively safe to live while the powers at odds fight it out.
Russia has also shown us how quickly a shitty narcissistic leader can utterly waste a formidable military and reduce it to being meat waves of confused prisoners and immigrants who thought they were going be factory workers. With people like Trump and Hegseth in charge with no experience and no ability to be reasoned with, paired with their insane lack of opsec and abundance of comprised personnel, the US could run out of expensive toys very quickly in a global conflict.
Our allies, NATO, and the general support and acceptance that we were the “good guys” (or at least generally better than the alternative) was a far FAR greater asset, and those wheels are already falling off.
Our allies, NATO, and the general support and acceptance that we were the “good guys” (or at least generally better than the alternative) was a far FAR greater asset, and those wheels are already falling off.
It’s incredibly sad how quickly we’ve squandered what took an incredible amount of blood, resources, and time to build. We emerged from WWII as the most formidable power in the world, and instead of using that power to conquer and exploit, we instead used it build allies and good will instead, and created the Western World Order. We helped rebuild Japan and Germany and made them into staunch allies. Instead of using military threats and coercion, we used soft power to bring countries around to our way of thinking. As a consequence, we made ourselves and the rest of the world wealthy. Now we have spoiled children with no understanding of how things work or the precarious nature of our prosperity making ham-fisted changes and bullying the world, using threats to try to coerce nations that we should be treating as allies. Before we were the benevolent giant. Now we are a dangerous threat to be dealt with.
and instead of using that power to conquer and exploit, we instead used it build allies and good will instead
lol
I wish I did but I really don’t, along with countless others. It just doesn’t make fucking sense to me. The globe could be fucking nice. There’s no reason for all of this bullshit. It is the definition of insanity. /rant sorry
This is my plan. There is literally nothing for me in the United States anymore, and I don’t want to be a party to what comes next. I think I need to get out before the clamp-down on leaving comes.
This is such a stupid take. “Don’t like the way things are going? Move away and pretend it’s not happening! Make your problems somebody else’s!”
Our grandparents came to the states in search for a better life for their kids, now it’s our turn to do the same for ours and find a better place with a brighter future.
Everybody wants the fascists to die but nobody wants to kill them. It’s OK, I’m sure someone else will take care of it.
I am 100% for everyone that can leave to leave. America needs to be abandoned and it needs to happen immediately.
I say this, and I also happen to be one of those that would be left behind as I don’t meet qualifications for visas pretty much anywhere.
No one is pretending it’s not happening. But when your landlord starts to raise your rent, starts yelling legally acceptable racist slurs at you, threatens your children, and tries to have you illegally deported-
You leave.
You don’t stay and try and fight a battle you cannot ever win. Trump owns America. It’s his possession. You have little rights to speak, let alone act. All four branches of the military are his fucking toys.
A federally mandated martial law is closer than you think. And if you think he can’t do that….
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This goes for everyone: If you can leave. I’d advise that you do it. Especially if you have a family that depends on you for their wellbeing.
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Federal Government has no say.
Sure they do. If congress passes a law preventing gerrymandering, it can. And I’d support it.
Any law against gerrymandering passed by this congress will only target democrat states. I live in Missouri, a state completely run by Republicans, and in the last decade we have passed referendums on independent redistricting only for us to pass another referendum that gave the authority back to the governor before any independent redistricting could happen. We also recently had a referendum on banning ranked-choice voting. It had a provision that said only citizens can vote, something that was already a law, but because this state is full of fox news addicted morons it passed. Republicans have no interest in improving elections. They’d get rid of them entirely if they could, which they’ll be able to soon the way things are going.
