Leopards and faces
“We cut our healthcare!” - seems more appropriate, given they voted for this mess.
And the crazy thing is they check voter registration and only let republicans into their town halls now.
That’s not even a town hall anymore, it’s just an echo chamber.
Every time the right’s followers complain about what their elected officials do to them as a consequence of the officials doing exactly what anyone with half a brain expected them to do I don’t hear it as a general injustice to society at large, I hear it as “Your’e not hurting the right people!”
They’re fine with wrecking other’s lives, but the thought they’re being harmed or inconvenienced is intolerable.
I mean, they’ll complain, yet will still vote for them because if there’s not an R next to the name, they couldn’t care less.
I’m a big advocate for removing party affiliation from ballots.
Whenever I hear about these town halls, I’m really unsure if it’s actually Trump voters turning up. Chances are, if the cult “won” they’re celebrating and believing every paper-thin lie, right up until they suffer direct personal consequence, not attending town halls with a list of questions and concerns.
I figured the ones who experienced the greatest “injustice” turn up. “You hurt us and we supported you!” Certainly anyone harmed and concerned could show up, it may not be all conservatives.
Same people will still vote Republican
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
Legendary quote that’s timeless.
Especially the fact that the part where he calls them morons was ad libbed
Love to see it. Now release the Epstein Files!
Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.)
Time to gerrymander those California Rs away!
I understand the current context, but I hate seeing people cheering for gerrymandering.
Can’t fight fascists who don’t play by the rules by playing by the rules.
Nobody seems to give a fuck that doing it without having a bill introduced in Congress to eliminate it is just normalizing it. Temporary fixes become permanent solutions.
If only that word “combative” were literal
This story again? For a minute I thought it happened twice this week…
I’m with you. I couldn’t understand why they listed California.
And then it dawned on me - it’s exactly what you said: It’s happened twice this week.
“Let’s look on the bright side. We defeated wokeness!”
dodges a tomato
And yet they have no clue what wokeness is.
No, they’ll say, “we defeated woke” because they’re fucking illiterate morons.
As they promised they would. Yet they voted for it. You don’t get to complain afterwards for something they announced in big bold letters
No, they should still complain. Not complaining would be worse.
The fuck is going on in the states?
Right wing fascist takeover. Propaganda extreme, etc. It’s going to get way worse.
They’re pushing everywhere, including on you.
Yeah, we’ve seen it coming for a while but now it seems to be accelerating.
Dont think they’re not coming for you too @FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
What’s happening in the US was unthinkable just 10 years ago.
And worldwide they are getting stronger. And helping each other. This isn’t just a US problem. They’ve just been working harder on us, and we were more susceptible to fall early.
Yeah, for a long while now it’s been the case that the US exports its culture. Trends in America don’t always reach us here in Europe - gun ownership and military fetishisation being the first examples I can think of that didn’t make it across the pond. But a lot of stuff that happens in America seems to kinda osmosis into our culture after a few years.
That’s why many of us have been watching America with growing horror. Yeah, some people over here felt a bit superior, like we’d never fall for populist, nationalism, fascism. But brexit proved just how fuckin dumb our electorate can be, and that people who think they’re not vulnerable to propaganda are very vulnerable to propaganda.
More recently we have the online safety bill in the UK, which is an abomination. It’s not fully come into effect yet but when it does just one consequence is that we’ll need to identify ourselves before using social media. And, so far, people are swallowing it. Likewise the designation of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation (They’re not at all, a non violent direct action group).
Elsewhere in Europe we’re seeing similar trends towards right wing authoritarianism. It’s difficult to discuss overall trends in Europe because we’re a bunch of different countries - but the general trend in seeing is fuckin scary.
I don’t like to be a conspiracy shouter, but it almost seems like a conspiracy, this global lurch to the right. The only thing that makes me doubt conspiracy is the incompetence of our political leaders. That said, there’s plenty of competent people at the top of the capitalism tree, and politicians do what lobbyists pay them to.
You’re right, they are getting stronger and their program is accelerating. By the time we realise what’s happening it may already be too late.
