And the mention of his ribbon. I know many here sympathize with that, but peoples who care about the Palestinian cause will see that poorly, and react poorly indeed.

It’s a poor choice in his public relations to do that after such a successful speech

after much bad his approval should sink 5 more points.

The true news story will be when there are no follow up filibusters

It’s Ironic the United States will be hoisted on its own petard. The unchecked powers that helped allow financial dominance for years is now a weapon against itself.

But can’t be helped because there is a lot of money to be squeezed out of this country. Which now that I think about it, resembles a piggy bank ready for slaughter

Or if ruthless native oligarchs were trying a power grab to control the country for the next generation.

I honestly don’t understand this

There are conservatives lemmies; the fact you are not on them means you are probably not mega but just old school conservative.

I think a lot of old school conservatives are going caught up in this later in unexpected ways, quite to the surprise of many I am sure, not least to yourself or people here

Few things are as violent and shitty as forcing births on people.

Two takeaways I noted was that the majority of people censoring these cartoons consider themselves part of Democratic Party.

Every large party has their extremists, I am not attacking them on that.

But people who oppress one group find it easy to change their targets, historically. This is very well documented in many languages and histories.

Which is my second point: many of these will join forces with authoritarians should that happen to their government ; and do it openly, some will have what the them are good arguments.

And it’s not only anti Palestinians, pro Israeli.

There will be a lot of new political bedfellows, and it’s going to surprise many.

King wrote this in the 1960s, but it applies equally to fascism today

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice

Controlled opposition and an apathetic population be like that when the crises strikes.

The literally only way this will change in Texas is lawsuits

What should happen in lemmy is that other places grow and accommodate practical and realistic responses to American politics.

The news section there is great, and while there are a few comments that echo Russian stuff, that is easier to ignore than the massive USA liberal (conservative) views that dominate some other communities.

In particular I like the middle east coverage .

It’s a planned disabling of ss.

The trepidation of news sources, or even most social media, to call it deliberate sabotage, gives them cover.

The majority of the American public does not deal at all with this level of tech. And the small percentage of people who understand can not influence anything.

Fled the country after family harassed by ice, and this is retaliation ?

It’s a sneaky way to shut down social security. Everyone in Doge knows it will break the system. Really break it. And that is bad, of course ( there is a but here)

But I think it’s brilliant to do it this way because 95% of the people reading the news do not see the ramifications. And will not see it later, they will know it’s gone but how? Why? It’s so complicated!

The American public is really gullible, and this gives enough political cover to avoid the oft stated “gone too far” mantra about disabling social security.

Bad people can have good plans to do wicked stuff

This will also help lessen the monopoly cloud flair has in Spain

I don’t understand egg-xactly how that would work? Eu standards are different. Would the new administration change fda rules out of hand, eliminating the wash and change mandated ( because USA eggs are so nasty in the factory farms this is required); or would someone connected make bank in a new scam to “process” them? Either way, there are not enough eggs to bring down prices, so all this is just a demented publicity stunt, with Americans being egged on about it

More like the department will be crippled for years. The replaced code will not work, corrupting data. I fully expect them to make it hard to replace the new stuff with the older systems which has tens of millions of moving parts.

The damage will be so great that people applying for social security a generation from now will still feel aftereffects