Political Discussion and Commentary

The person in question is an elderly aunt. She’s a decent, caring senior citizen and loves me very much, but she’s also a devout Christian (as is the rest of my extended family), and anyone familiar with that demographic will know how much they’re targeted by right-wing propaganda. At this point I can observe the state of the disinformation meta by the stuff she posts in our family group chat. Zionism, Christian homophobia, Islamophobia, the works.

You might have heard that with the government shut down, SNAP benefits for November (you might know them as “food stamps” though that’s not technically accurate anymore) are at risk:

So I’m trying to kick a bad doomscrolling habit I’ve developed around political news specifically. I’d like to find a balance between “constant low-grade desensitized misery from watching a burning world” (where I’m at now) and “ignorant bliss indifference interspersed with periodic shock followed by deep depression at how bad it’s gotten” (how I ended up when I tried to cut out the news completely in the past).

Then we lose Obamacare, leading to backlash against Trump who is then never reelected?

I was reminded today that Israel has space lasers. Why do they need to buy anyone else’s weapons? Shouldn’t they be selling their space lasers to the rest of us? /s (I hope that’s obvious)

Asking this here instead of asklemmy because its a political question

This is a strange post, but I’ve noticed a strange shift in the last week or two. It felt like people are more tense, things are ratcheting up in different ways, and it’s hard to describe besides “the vibe is off.”

Liberalism arises historically with the bourgeoisie, promising universal rights, free markets, and political representation.

They're readers and also like to watch YT quite a bit so I'm curious if anybody has any good suggestions on YT channels and/or books I can send them that'll help ease them to the left. Even better if there are books and videos that specialize in converting Republicans to the left

Trump is infact the man who won the popular vote in the US. Yet a majority of the mainstream is anti trump. His fascist tendencies are now influencing the media landscape. The liberal politics are overrepresented in media.

I'd make a political satire in a single frame where people are led away by government forces while another group of people were cheering for them and yet another group in the foreground would be making smug internal quips and clever takes about what is going on.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41ACqHS2KGA

Posting this here so that in 3 years I can point to it and say "I told you so!" from a reeducation camp.

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

There are multiple arguments for this:

If you found yourself transported to early 1788 Philadelphia, say about a year before the U.S. Constitution was signed, an if the Founding Fathers were all willing to hear you out, what would be some of the first things you'd say specifically to warn them and try to prevent some of the bad things that have happened in the real-world timeline since then? Basically, what differences would you want to see made to the U.S. Constitution from the beginning and how would you impress specifically on the Founding Fathers the necessity of diverging from their instincts in specifically those ways?

Maybe Epstein is the one who set up the hookup for Trump that Putin video taped. Not saying one way or the other if Epstein planned for that, but that would actually make sense as a reason for Trump to be pissed. Unlike the other reasons that have been given.

Preamble We are in the midst of a Gerrymandering war, and it seems to me that the simple solution would be to switch from FPTP to Proportional. Current politicians should want it because they wouldn't have to survive primaries anymore and be able to keep their seats in the party or be influential in the new party structure. Citizens should want it because it would break apart the 2 party system, make every vote count, and finally make us represented.

I don't see why he wouldn't simply lie

Assumption: There is another federal US election. Assumption: That election is legitimate. Assumption: The Democrats win that legitimate US election.

It will start with "lying" on forms, "incorrect" asylum claims, "concern is over" asylum claims, and soon enough people born to illegal immigrants. Slow boiled frog and all that.

In 2022, Chris Jones, a nuclear engineer, ran for Governor of Arkansas

Democrats are all upset over Mamdani because he’s a Democratic Socialist? Why? I don’t get it. What’s wrong with being a Democratic Socialist. It seems like a good thing to me. I thought Democrats embraced socialism.

Just that.

The second a ceasefire was mentioned I called it and said, "Ceasefires in general never work". Because they don't.

I posted this article on c/politics and it was quickly taken down by mods. I was informed that the reason was

Discuss?

Imagine yourself pre-2016, and this presidency (2016/2024) is the subject of a movie.

i'd imagine party block where 1 large party is in an alliance with many small parties, the main party gets increased support in areas where it's close and the smaller parties get influence in politics

Assuming that you (magically learn) know Mandarin to a native level if you pick China

I was struck by the Trump Always Chickens Out (TACO) moniker, as in addition Shumer and many of the Dems deserve a similar tag line. Few seem to be standing up during this upheaval nor being the leaders we need. They also seem to be chickens. Newsom, AOC, Sanders, Buttigieg, etc seems to at least be speaking out if not acting with an appropriate response.

I copied this back and forth from there: