NoneOfUrBusiness

I think if this was a rightwinger they’d say liberals. I mean it could be just me but I associate the term neoliberal with criticism from the left rather than the right.

Fewer bodies for the American war machine is always a good thing.

Yeah I saw the company name and was like “wait, aren’t these the Israel AI people”, turns out they’re just universally morally bankrupt.

Okay admittedly that wasn’t as clear as it could’ve been but I meant shitshow in terms of viability as a democratic society, so for example democratic norms, rule of law. separation of power and public faith in democratic institutions. Obama and especially Biden left those in shambles, which is why Trump has been able to get as far as he did.

The point I’m trying to make is that Trump managed to make things so much worse because he came at the end of a chain reaction that started around Nixons era. Nixon was restrained by a robust democratic system and society and therefore his shittiness was aimed at sabotaging that system so his successors would have a free hand to ruin everything, so while the shittiness was much less obvious that doesn’t make Nixon better than Trump, just less flashy. We can’t understand Trump without understanding the more than half a century of sabotage of the democratic system by both sides of the aisle (more so by republicans) that led up to him, with special attention to Nixon, Reagan, GWB and Obama.

Both have nuclear weapons.

However, he’s leaving out that we got to here because shit heads like him

What kind of shithead exactly? I’m not sure what group I’m being pegged as here.

had a fuse blow in their brain when a black man became president.

That’s certainly part of it, but let’s not pretend Obama’s biggest contribution to the march to fascism was being a black man. Continuing the war on terror after Bin Laden’s death handily gets that honor.

I will not dignify that with a response.

I never said anything about the economy. Reread my reply; I said “mostly functional democratic society”. Democratic norms and checks and balances were in much better shape when Nixon took office than when Trump did.

Get your head out of your ass you bootlicker.

Reported for ad hominem.

Every Right wing administration in the last 100 years has sank the economy vs the dem party. That’s a fact.

Did I ever imply otherwise? More relevantly, do I sound like I care?

Trump was handed a gift, TWICE, and turned it into a steaming pile of shit

Yes, the gift of unpopular wars, wildly expanded executive power, a massive surveillance state, backlash to ineffectual neoliberal rule, etc. The march towards fascism started with either Reagan or Nixon, and not with Trump. Trump took a society teetering on the edge of fascism and gave it the final push it needed to fall in.

Because he inherited a mostly functional democratic society and not the shitshow Trump took over from Obama and later Biden.

Your “suggestions” are low effort.

Yes, that’s exactly the point. Again, there’s nothing to suggest because what has to be done is obvious to anyone with a modicum of political literacy; the problem is that not nearly enough people are willing to do it.

Okay fine here are your suggestions, though I’m sure you’ve heard both a hundred times already:

1-Organize.

2-Grow a pair.

There’s nothing to suggest because the answer is obvious and what Americans need is will, not ideas, so I can’t really help you there.

They claim they don’t want that, but every single one of their positions feeds into one or both of these two results.

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you. ― Lyndon B. Johnson

Uh… What did you think conservatives stood for again? Conservatism has always been about putting wealth in the hands of the few and scapegoating vulnerable people to distract the masses; everything else is camouflage.

Organize, push others to organize and go on strike seems to be the most orthodox way to go about it.

And what did you do?

Watch from the other side of the world and get mad at Americans. Not the best CV, I know.

What are we supposed to do?

Well I don’t know but I certainly hoped for more than two weekend parades throughout April. You can look here, here, here and here for ideas.

Tell us what the fuck you did that you get to shit on everyone else like this.

Not be born in America. Seems to have been a wise decision all things considered.

Nope, first they came for the anti-genocide protesters, and while there was outrage nobody did a damn thing.

You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.

Don’t forget to praise Stalin first.

So… Have you given up on all bloodless paths?

No, there are nonviolent paths of defeating fascism, but those require mass civic resistance, not electoral politics. What fascists fear the most isn’t violent partisans or bad polling; it’s workers organizing. Therefore, the people of America must organize and take power into their own hands, not wait for the ballot box to save them from people who evidently don’t respect the ballot box.

In that case, why worry about the Democratic party at all?

Because they act as a lightning rod, sapping the energy of the working class that could and should be used to organize and actively resist (and no, weekend marches don’t count).

We’re not too late to ride the wave to somewhere better.

Fucking exactly.

The midterms are way too late to save us… But the pressure of the upcoming midterms are felt today, they can force resistance today

Not nearly enough. The MAGA rank and file are still very much pro-Trump and will remain so even if his tariffs ruin everything, and Trump will start intimidating Congressmen who don’t do his bidding any day now like he’s doing to judges.