Global Politics - General Chat

[Aragorn]

The problem with the United States is that, collectively, voters have a very poor memory.  Look at how many people have already forgotten about "SignalGate", or, more importantly, that Trump just straight up bombed innocent civilians in Yemen.  Didn't even last two weeks because there's always something new and horrible happening, and even the pain of these tariffs will be forgotten by voters sooner or later.  So even if democrats take over in 2026 and in 2028, I would bet that it's not going to be actual, transformative progressives taking over, but more status quo warriors like my dear publicity-seeking governor, Greasy Gavin.  None of them have the will or desire to finally stop arming and funding monsters like Netanyahu or the Saudi Prince.  Nor do they have the desire to actually address the issues back home.  And because the establishment liberals only want to do incremental change, voters will get dissatisfied and immediately vote republicans back into power.

It's going to take someone with policies that are actually transformative, like raising the minimum wage to a living wage, genuinely punishing price gougers and restoring a robust middle class to finally break this cycle of nonsense.  But so long as the establishment has its way, that's never gonna happen.

My hope is that, come 2028, either AOC or Tim Walz is our nominee because they're the only ones with the records and rhetoric of actually doing good by people.  But anyone else, and it's just a bandaid, and not even really that, since most establishment dems are almost as bad on foreign policy as the right is.

I'm honestly past the point of giving the people the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the status quo, in that people ''don't know'' or are being swung around like a baseball bat with no agency. The American consciousness knows, and is well aware of what America is. Most are either some form of content or apathetic. Democrats don't have their hands tied either; people often say that the Dems constantly try to play ball while the republicans do what they want and it's because they are closer in goal and agenda than they are painted as. America has no left, not even a true center (centralism in politics is bullshit anyways but different subject).

There is no solution within the establishment.

[Revolver_FOX]

America is currently fucked. The democrats need to grow up, have a voice, and stand for something. We're on a very dark timeline rn and RIP my 401k.

[BULUPTAX]

There's an election coming up in Australia in the next few weeks. One of the candidates, Peter Dutton, is pretty much a massive Trump ass kisser who wants to do a similar thing in Aus that Trump is doing in the US. The dude's been around for a while but this is the closest he's been to being PM. Very scary times indeed...

[Aragorn]

The US has always been inherently fascist but the shift in the past 10 years to open demagoguery has enabled other countries to follow suit with ease in terms of messaging and openly reactionary platforms e.g Australia, UK. We're all in a bottomless spiral bro god knows what things look like on the other side.

[tr0nic]

I made close to 500 calls for Bernie back in 2020. This was after I sweated my balls off and almost passed out from dehydration marching around Manhattan in full body armor. And when I saw that go nowhere, to me the writing was on the wall. Not that Bernie was going to make America not-fascist, but I truly believed enough "normalcy" could be restored that we'd march some of the right wing extremism backwards. He would do just enough for the American Working Class that some of the worst among us would go back to mindlessly buying shit instead of pointing their fingers at brown and black people. The Democratic corporate octopus had its chance to prevent the worst from coming, but polite fascists are still just that.

I still greatly appreciate people like @"Departed" actively engaging in harm reduction where they can. But at this point, I personally don't have anymore room for navy blue suit-clad background characters from the show The West Wing trying to get my vote with their dorky little fuckin American flag pins on the lapel.

I don't mean to be unnecessarily crude and inflammatory, but they had YEARS to do something to prevent this and did nothing, so each and every one of them can go screw themselves imho.

Trump said he's going to gladly send Americans to the El Salvador death camp. Right now average Americans should be preparing to directly prevent their own deportations, by any means necessary, and stop worrying about electoral votes and caucus numbers and whatever bullshit. Ending up there is a fate worse than death, being gunned down in the street by ICE is a better solution than whatever El Presidente Numnuts has in store for you.

I'm sorry for all the gross language, I'm just scared outta my fuckin gourd rn.

[Bread]

Reform UK won a seat near-ish me in a local by-election this morning. A seat that Labour won by over 14,000 votes just under a year ago.

Not gonna lie, I am deeply concerned.

[Null]

Reform UK won a seat near-ish me in a local by-election this morning. A seat that Labour won by over 14,000 votes just under a year ago.

Not gonna lie, I am deeply concerned.

Yeah, that is nuts.

The way Reform swept local elections is super concerning to be honest.