Wah, it’s so crazy, it’s almost as if whenever you promise “no war” and “Epstein files release”, and then you go to war and sit on the Epstein files, you lose.

Who knew?

Just wait until you read about The Terror! You’ll discover the vast majority of victims were just regular people. The odds are much better that you will be guillotined than an Apple tech bro. That neighbor that you pissed off 8 years ago will see to it.

Disgusting. I always turn it off when I can find the setting, it should not be the default.

Those days aren’t coming to an end, if congress, the senate, and the President are all thieves, Jared is just another thief.

Investigate him, but don’t even bother charging him until Trump is out of office, because he will just pardon Jared.

Wait, does centrism ever win an election?

You need their votes to win any election.

You can’t even get your own voters to show up (2 million Ds sat out the last Presidential election).

You need independent votes to win anything. There aren’t enough Ds or Rs (28% each). Without independent support (of which centrists are the majority, two thirds) you lose. Every time.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/fact-sheet/party-affiliation-fact-sheet-npors/

Math never lies. Partisans do

Democrats are only 28% of the voters (just like Republicans).

Independents are 44% of the voters (of which centrists are a significant part, over 30% alone… still a larger segment than D or R parties)

Centrism wins every election.

D and Rs are shrinking, and have for years.

(Independents are very rare on Lemmy, but not in the real world, which is the exact opposite of Lemmy)

Wrong. We just care about domestic stuff more than international stuff.

Just like your country… and every other country.

They won’t, so there is no reason to trust America again. Trump’s a tool, he’s not the boss. He can’t even clean his ass.

I don’t think the world trusted America before Trump, they’re not stupid.

They hope for the best, but they’ve all seen what we do at home and abroad. I still wince over how we have betrayed the Kurds (repeatedly, since 1920s).

On the other hand, we have been a bit better than the prior world police heavyweights (UK, Spain)

If you don’t want “bOtH sIdEs” on the table, stop doing the same thing.

D and R leadership are BoTh 100% supportive of Israel. The USA founded Israel, and it’s our bulwark in the Middle East.

I don’t agree that we should control the Middle East, but I’m not the Pentagon. BoTh SiDeS remains just as true on this now as it was before the election (100%). Israel is the number one benefactor of foreign aid regardless of who holds office.

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Fun fact: The President is not in charge of naming gulfs, lakes, oceans, continents, islands, or even people.

They can name their own children and pets. That’s it. Thank you.

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I do this often, but it does make people mad.

Oh well, can’t make miserable people happy

Don’t get cocky.

Do better than Biden, please. Every election you have new voters who were raised in your policies. Give them a reason to vote for you.

Remember when he used to spray paint “hair” on his head?

He is bucking for a vice presidency, I think. He’s in my opinion the most dangerous man in the White House.

bOtH sIdEs are crap, but you must pick your favorite turd.

It’s not pessimistic, friend, it’s realistic. Why ever would you expect our political system to stop being as it has been for our lifetime? It’s just dumb. You can work for change, but some cynicism is healthy.

I’m politically active, I’ve run for office, volunteered, and vote in every election.

Re those who want to stay uninvolved, you’re just going to have to deal with it. Some people are taking care of their sick parents. Some are raising crazy kids. Some are fighting mental illness. Some are working three jobs. They’re doing their best, if you don’t like it you can lump it.

It is though. See Charlie Kirk’s murder. He wasn’t the state, he didn’t kill anybody, yet his murder is openly relished.

He disagreed with their “state”, so his assassination is celebrated.

It’s a Lemmy thing. Just like how they can laugh uproariously over Charlie Kirk’s murder whilst making death threats about not including pronouns in emails.

Murder of a political enemy? HAHAHAHA

You didn’t include a pronoun in your own email? YOU MONSTER!!! How could you oppress me?

A great thing about Lemmy is that you can see what the mods have deleted and why they have banned users; they can make a hug box, but they can’t hide that they’ve made a hug box.

They used to wheel 90+ Strom Thurmond out in a wheelchair to vote, he was like a corpse.

What sucks though is that now she will be in office for the next 50 years. Term limits sure would be neat-o

You’re right, it will be at least 20.