the reaper doesn’t negotiate.
When Fidesz campaigned for getting elected in 2010, they only asked for one or two terms.
Once they got elected, they asked until 2030.
Around 2020, their think tanks claimed we can only think about a “post Fidesz society” after 2050.
Meanwhile I’ve heard that some people within the party wanted to turn the words “liberalism” and essentially “democracy” into synonyms of “chaos”.
The moment mothers scold their children for having a messy room by telling them there’s democracy in their room rather than anarchy, we have finally won, and turned democracy into an unthinkable ideology.
I really need people to start to realize that we’re at least a full decade further into the erosion and decline of the United States than most people seem to think we are. Trump is a symptom of an already sick and dying system. This isn’t a fluke
Europe should invade and force a regime change, liberate the US citizens.
No thank you, why should fixing their mess be our problem? I think the world should impose a quarantine on the U.S. instead, let the U.S. sort itself out.
I do agree travel bans should be used more often. No travel visas for Israels anywhere would be a good start.
Put the Untied States on time out until it behaves
Invading the US would be extremely difficult.
Once again, this isn’t about regime. It’s a systemic issue. The U.S. is a net negative for everyone, especially it’s own people. The only solution is end the whole thing and try something new
And just like every kinda country/ government it should come from it’s own people not from a foreign power.
It will not last if it comes from outside, the one who got taken down before, always goes back to the fake patriotism and put another dictator in same place back in the end, if not the same fucker (see Napoleon for example).
Our government should come from well informed people, not a few oligarchs who tell people how to vote via a controlled media.
We should view wealth as a foreign power. The ultra wealthy are divested from the care and keeping of the country, and the regular people in it. They are openly hostile to the citizens, exploiting them and extracting rent and labor from them; and they seek to usurp and control the government.
True, a few business with over trillions of dollar while the fucking country is trillions in debt, it’s fucking ridiculous. They have money for war, but not for health, they have the biggest corporations in the planet but don’t have any perspective to pay any of their debts. No wonder a con man was elected to represent the people of US.
Funny though. Americans seem to think they can cart Blanche take control of, oh I don’t know: Cuba, Canada, Greenland, Denmark, Venezuela, Panama, and Iran and overthrow their governments with whatever right they seem to think they have. Hypocrisy much?
Edit. I forgot the Gulf of Mexico.
Which they will see, it’s gonna be the biggest mistake of the fucking century. It’s literally Nazi Germany trying to take other countrys as if they have any right.
As one of the people living in one of the neoghbouring countries to the Untied States, I’m fucking terrified of annexation. I almost want them to start invading NATO countries just to see if anything will be done to stop them. I’m terrified Trump’s apparent immunity to all consequences will extend internationally and the world will just fucking let him take whatever he wants
So europeans should re-colonize it?
I don’t think would want that, they barely have colonies in Africa anymore, and the one’s they have eventually will declare independency. Colony are more trouble than worth it.
I’d be alright with the European Commission appointing an interim government here. I say this as a USian
I say we nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Well hang on, let’s send the elites into space first. Then nuke their ships. Then give earth a second chance. If we don’t get it in 20 years, then we can call it a wash and wipe the planet clean.
Can’t we just do pedo’s playhouse?
Nah homie, let’s just vote harder.
I am going to vote so hard
No, thanks. Though I will admit the idea of holding some Nuremberg Trials to see who gets hanged is tantalizing.
Not touching that crap with a ten meter pole, thanks
Get countless of their own people killed to save us Americans from ourselves until the next pedophile president comes along?
If Europe wants to lose, sure.
I’ve been screaming for people to realize that the law doesn’t matter if nobody is enforcing it. Absolutely nothing is stopping Trump from becoming a dictator. Maybe more people will open their eyes after midtetms
Growing up in New Zealand we looked up to the USA as most nations did
It has been downhill since 9/11
Exactly, the year before actually when Bush stole the election from Gore. To me that marks the start of the decline of the US.
Really though Reagan kicked it all off but the actual collapse started in 2000.
Alternative pitch, your politics were under developed in that era - and a lot of people in the mainstream culture were (through things like TV, an uncritical education system, and a lack of information) able to be politically inactive, and fairly unaware.
Because really you should have been sus on America and all the colonial countries and their parent countries for a long long time now.
The internet supercharged political awareness when for a long time we were willfully ignorant, or it seems that way to me
Sadly, Aotearoa has gone down the populist right-wing path with Luxon and his merry band of cunts
I hope everyone who voted for National at the last election suffers a week of uncontrollable dribbling shits and learn to be better people
I sadly think we have another 10 to 15 of this at least, as well.
Sooner we organize and wield our power as a group, the faster it’ll be over, and the safer we will all be. It’s going to hurt either way, at least if we organize we’ll have control over how and with hope of a better future.
The longer we wait though…
Nuh uh
- America
I think the U.S. will decline much more quickly. The Orange Guy has been in office for barely more than a year and a half, again—the damage he’s done this time around is pretty much irreparable.
It’s not falling fast enough
Everyone should absolutely vote at a minimum, but only voting isn’t going to get us out of this shit. It’ll take mass protests, general strike, and [ Removed by Reddit ].
People keep thinking I’m saying don’t bother voting when I say the midterms aren’t going to save them. I guess my brain is wired differently than theirs. I don’t think a hopeless situation means don’t bother doing anything. I think yeah duh, you gotta try what you can
Empire falls predictably, nation pulls a Pikachu face
All empires do.
But again… He’s 80. So…
They pile up everyone past 70, cuz there aren’t many left by that age.
Cmon! Drink up!
It’s a data center. The ballroom is just the cover.
https://thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt-building-a-ballroom
Why would it be a datacenter? We have lots of federally controlled datacenters. And data can be transferred at the speed of light, even if they want a direct line from the white house to a dedicated datacenter it’d probably be built in northern Virginia
It’s not a datacenter underneath, it’s a luxury bunker. Trump alludes to it all the time when he talks about “the ballroom”. He always speaks of the ballroom as a matter of safety
From the article
And this has to be at the White House specifically because location determines oversight. When infrastructure is part of the Executive Office of the President, when it exists at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, it can be classified under executive privilege. The East Wing sits directly above the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the bunker where Dick Cheney sheltered during September 11th. By demolishing the entire East Wing, you create space to expand that existing secure facility, integrate new infrastructure, go deeper underground. All protected by the classification that covers anything related to presidential security.
I know it’s a meme but I really wish they would quote sources. Now I have to look it up. The burden is on the one making the claim.
EDIT: Ok, I looked it up and it seems like BS. It may be true and would be easy to believe but White House maintenance is not a line item that is broken out. The amount spent is divided into many different buckets appropriated by Congress (probably on purpose) and is difficult if not impossible to determine. The term maintenance would need to be uniformly defined. Does it include secret service infrastructure, for instance? There have been a number of instances that have exceed $2.5M. It also seems pretty clear that Trump’s “maintenance” budget is the highest ever. But Bush and Obama both spent hundreds of millions of dollars to essentially reinforce the aging structure.
You’re welcome.
If you’re going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS. The source took took me about 3 minutes to find. From the Washington Post:
The Executive Residence, which employs housekeepers, curators, calligraphers and carpenters, has not previously managed major construction efforts, experts said. In recent years, Congress has appropriated $2.5 million annually to its maintenance account, known as “White House Repair and Restoration.”
Since Trump took office, the administration has directed $875 million to that account, public budget records show.
THE BURDON OF PROOF IS ON THE ONE MAKING THE CLAIM! You should have included the link in the first place. And I DID do research, where do you think the entire edit came from? Are those points covered in the Washington Post piece? I don’t know because it’s behind a pay wall and I’m not paying to verify a friggin meme on the Internet. According to the research I did, there simply is no line item that refers to White House Maintenance. It has to be derived by culminating a number of other allocations to come up with that answer because yes, other construction projects have been done there. They just weren’t funded the same way. So you wind up getting apples and oranges.
MORE CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE! Do you bitch about every Political Memes post that lacks footnotes? That must keep you very, very busy, professor. It’s hilarious that you first complain about no sources and when one is provided you then expect to be given a WA Post subscription so you can verify (and undoubtedly complain about) every word.
Why are the people who never post anything the same people who want to police what everyone else posts?
I want sources because I use them in arguments against people who support the crap that’s happening. So yeah, I’m going to bitch when someone posts something I’m interested in without one, but instead puts the burden on every single reader who also wants to prevent the spread of misinformation.
And no I don’t expect someone to give me a subscription to WAPO to verify the article. That’s just you throwing around yet more hyperbole. And I’m pretty sure you know the vast majority of lemmings are not going to try to get around a pay wall, just to verify a post that already supports their opinion.
Also, get bent!
What a truly enormous ego you have there, professor. Only a raging narcissist would end an error-ridden comment with “You’re welcome”. Even so, responding to you at all was a bit foolish on my part. You started out mildly entertaining but quickly progressed to boring, pretty typical for someone making demands of random people on the Internet.
Ultimately I don’t give a shit about your insults, your capitalized demands, or anything else you have to say. I’ll continue to post exactly as I please, and you can continue to whine bitterly every time you see a post on Lemmy that doesn’t meet your standards.
You know, the really silly thing is, we probably align closely in our political beliefs.
While I would like you to include legitimate sources in your posts, I certainly don’t think bickering with you on Lemmy will actually change things, so…yeah, pretty much expected.
If you’re going to complain about the lack of sources, you might take the time to do accurate research before calling BS.
What? Not how that works. Thanks for ultimately providing a source though.
Thanks for looking it up
but I really wish they would quote sources
This vinyl is really hard to find.
EDIT: I’m sorry. I seem to have accidentally and totally not on purpose posted this image of a rare vinyl in the wrong community.
Just don’t let it happen again, over and over.
Violent revolution is the answer, but it won’t happen.
Neither will a general strike.
Neither will midterm elections.
I am not blaming anyone, we’re all living in survival mode in some way, shape, or form - by design - and things will happen as expected…by design.
A general strike is the only thing that would actually work though
Actually, no.
See, the ultra-wealthy are really rich. More so than they’ve ever been in history.
And a lot of economists, including Nobel laureates, are saying the only way to fix this situation is to redistribute all the wealth at the top.
Anything else may kick the can down the line for a couple of years.
And what is happening in the US is going to happen to all the industrialized nations. (It’s already happened to all the undeveloped nations.)
How bout this? Let’s do a general strike and test it out.
I welcome the attempt. A general strike takes a fuckton of organization, and we struggle to even get small workforces unionized. We will be working against efforts by strike busters and the massive far-right propaganda machine to disrupt our efforts and to divide us.
And then, we’d need someone to chart out the comprehensive demands, and then figure out a way to enforce them when the ownership class decides nah and retaliates with paramilitary force instead.
It’s going to be very difficult, and there are going to be a lot of setbacks.
For the moment, the way I see it, Americans are glad to be miserable and have ICE killing Americans for a little bit longer so long as they get to verify their masculinity, own the libs, put immigrants in torture prisons and deny to trans folk gender affirming healthcare.
But I would be delighted if the people of the US, who totally betrayed me (and themselves) in 2024, are now willing to fight back by the tens of millions.
Why does the majority not simply seize wealth from the minority and redistribute it? Why can’t society just collectively decide money from billionaires had no value? It’s so frustrating seeing the majority allow a minority of rich people ruin everything when money is a social construct, meaningless if we all collectively decide it is
That would take collectively seizing power from the governments and the banks.
It would take an immense amount of organization. Tens of millions of people coordinated across thousands of task forces.
Strike busters are effective at disrupting the organization of hundreds of workers on a few task forces. Strike busting is so effective, it’s regulated in the US. The owner class hires strike busters anyway and aren’t investigated.
It’s not impossible, but it would take a sociological miracle. More so given the coordinated efforts by the far-right propaganda machine to sow division among the population.
We’re going to have to suffer and die a whole lot before we bust out the guillotines. But maybe someone will get creative and innovate a new technique.
There was another option on the ballot which meant this wouldnt have happened.
And I assume she got there via popular democratic choice, right?
With that weird laugh though???
/s
He’s pocketing the whole thing. He’s gluing fake gold onto WhiteHouse fixtures to make it seem like money is being spent but mostly he and his family are just pocketing the majority of it.
Fools gold, so to speak.
All because some stupid, ignorant bigots wanted to “own the libs”
They’ve been conditioned to want to own the libs for a while now, and FOX News has gotten super good at it.
The fear and outrage and open bigotry are the hook that pulls people in. Then the red-pills (the conspiracy theories) invite the viewer to disregard all other news sources that run contrary. They’re being gaslighted the same way an abusive spouse isolates their partner so there is no where else to go. Soon the viewer is in an information silo, just them and FOX News, alone together.
And then every story confirms the MAGA ideology.
I don’t know if there’s a counter for it. Reagan got rid of Fairness doctrine in news media, and our education system long decided that critical thinking skills beget disobedience.
And the White House has never been in more disrepair and parts of it literally look bombed.
1812 British burned the white house
It’s been awhile guys, wanna maybe do it again? Whomever has to move in there next will thank you.
to escape from and distract from krasnovs dear friend, epstein, and to keep ms maxwell quiet.
He moves in, and immediately tears up half the place, and now he has to spend his entire term staring out at a big muddy hole. He’s such a redneck, the next thing will be wrestling matches in the front yard.
Naw, he’s doing this for the next guy. /S
I’m sure voting will change things! /S
If he’s raping America so bad and a criminal than why hasn’t any government agency done anything? Yet the same agencies can pin point a crack head from space and figuratively rape their life to death?
This is happening on purpose.
