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This is a brilliant article because it is summarising how bad it is. They don't want you to know how bad! Lots of paper cuts and hopefully no one sees the amput

This is a brilliant article because it is summarising how bad it is. They don't want you to know how bad! Lots of paper cuts and hopefully no one sees the amputation. We need one on attack on working class including all the loss of services esp. education and inflation caused by tariffs.

TheBlight 2y ago
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- petesergeant 2y ago
  Which bits do you think are wrong?
- forgetfreeman 2y ago
  Food for thought: elimination of basic rights impacts all citizens regardless of their political affiliation.
  - shermantanktop 2y ago
    Similarly, expanding executive powers benefits whoever has the position, not just the guy who is in there right now. The self-defeating behavior of the legislative branch, across both parties, for decades led to the risks going up invisibly. And it turns out, risks usually go up without people noticing.
    - forgetfreeman 2y ago
      Pretty much, yeah. I hold both major political parties and their partisans responsible for the current dumpster fire in Washington, and all of the dumb shit that's preceded it over the last 40-odd years.
      - wredcoll 2y ago
        Wow, what a brave and inspiring position to take. Thank you for signalling your virtue so loudly.
        forgetfreeman 2y ago
        They (the two major political parties in the US) are consistently and provably full of shit and you're mad at me for pointing it out? Not sure what that means. Likewise I reject any claims of virtue signaling when what I'm actually doing is expressing life-long disappointment and frustration at a very nearly complete lack of political representation.
        wredcoll 2y ago
        I mean, I'm mostly criticizing your post, since I'm not allowed to downvote it, I have to use my words. But it's the definition of virtue signaling. There is absolutely a group of people who think it is virtuous to be "above the fray" and "smarter than everyone else" and it's represented by loudly denouncing "both sides" and implicitly positioning yourself as better than them. I mean, ultimately I would have preferred you just not post that so I didn't have to read it, but then I went and replied to you and replied to your reply so now I'm hypocritically adding more garbage to the thread. All that being said, since I'm writing something at all, I am genuinely frustrated at people who say things like "lack of political representation". America has an absolute ton of representation at every level and if you want to be heard, you absolutely can be. But beyond that, this is a representative democracy which means you need to compromise with other people in order to move forward. Those compromises are called political parties. You're never going to have a massive country wide political party that represents the exact details of your needs and wants, but what you can do is influence the existing ones to move closer to your goals. So, you know, the next time you're given a choice of people to vote for, think about which one is going to move you closer to your goals and which one is going to move you further away.
        forgetfreeman 2y ago
    - danaris 2y ago
      > Similarly, expanding executive powers benefits whoever has the position, not just the guy who is in there right now. That is why they are doing their level best to make sure there is no chance they will ever lose the position. The attacks on freedom of speech are part of it. So are the attacks on voting rights, and the attacks on the legitimacy of voting results.
- blatantly 2y ago
  If a different party did the same thing it would be the same.
  - TheBlight 2y ago
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mptest 2y ago
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-new... Everyone should at least watch this video. Taken in America. "Land of the free." That this is only one of many such videos is terrifying if you know the history of fascist regimes. I hope everyone here is familiar with the "first they came for the communists..." poem.
- andreygrehov 2y ago
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  - sorcerer-mar 2y ago
    Based on the content of the op-eds they wrote? That's awful Or are you just referring to the more normal (yet still awful) concept of a draft?
    - andreygrehov 2y ago
      I don't think this is normal: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0iiww5KFTg https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0iiww5KFTg
      - deleted 2y ago
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      - nozzlegear 2y ago
        The US is not at war, isn't being invaded by an aggressive neighboring country, and doesn't have an active draft. That is the key difference that you're obtusely refusing to acknowledge here.
        andreygrehov 2y ago
        I never said the US is at war with anybody. I said: "that reminds me of what's happening in my hometown in Ukraine". > isn't being invaded According to the White House, there is an invasion: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...

TheBlight 2y ago

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petesergeant 2y ago
Which bits do you think are wrong?
forgetfreeman 2y ago
Food for thought: elimination of basic rights impacts all citizens regardless of their political affiliation.
- shermantanktop 2y ago
  Similarly, expanding executive powers benefits whoever has the position, not just the guy who is in there right now. The self-defeating behavior of the legislative branch, across both parties, for decades led to the risks going up invisibly. And it turns out, risks usually go up without people noticing.
  - forgetfreeman 2y ago
    Pretty much, yeah. I hold both major political parties and their partisans responsible for the current dumpster fire in Washington, and all of the dumb shit that's preceded it over the last 40-odd years.
    - wredcoll 2y ago
      Wow, what a brave and inspiring position to take. Thank you for signalling your virtue so loudly.
      - forgetfreeman 2y ago
        They (the two major political parties in the US) are consistently and provably full of shit and you're mad at me for pointing it out? Not sure what that means. Likewise I reject any claims of virtue signaling when what I'm actually doing is expressing life-long disappointment and frustration at a very nearly complete lack of political representation.
        wredcoll 2y ago
        I mean, I'm mostly criticizing your post, since I'm not allowed to downvote it, I have to use my words. But it's the definition of virtue signaling. There is absolutely a group of people who think it is virtuous to be "above the fray" and "smarter than everyone else" and it's represented by loudly denouncing "both sides" and implicitly positioning yourself as better than them. I mean, ultimately I would have preferred you just not post that so I didn't have to read it, but then I went and replied to you and replied to your reply so now I'm hypocritically adding more garbage to the thread. All that being said, since I'm writing something at all, I am genuinely frustrated at people who say things like "lack of political representation". America has an absolute ton of representation at every level and if you want to be heard, you absolutely can be. But beyond that, this is a representative democracy which means you need to compromise with other people in order to move forward. Those compromises are called political parties. You're never going to have a massive country wide political party that represents the exact details of your needs and wants, but what you can do is influence the existing ones to move closer to your goals. So, you know, the next time you're given a choice of people to vote for, think about which one is going to move you closer to your goals and which one is going to move you further away.
        forgetfreeman 2y ago
  - danaris 2y ago
    > Similarly, expanding executive powers benefits whoever has the position, not just the guy who is in there right now. That is why they are doing their level best to make sure there is no chance they will ever lose the position. The attacks on freedom of speech are part of it. So are the attacks on voting rights, and the attacks on the legitimacy of voting results.
blatantly 2y ago
If a different party did the same thing it would be the same.
- TheBlight 2y ago
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mptest 2y ago

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-news-ice-immigration-student-rumeysa-ozturk.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/03/donald-trump-new... Everyone should at least watch this video. Taken in America. "Land of the free." That this is only one of many such videos is terrifying if you know the history of fascist regimes. I hope everyone here is familiar with the "first they came for the communists..." poem.

andreygrehov 2y ago
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- sorcerer-mar 2y ago
  Based on the content of the op-eds they wrote? That's awful Or are you just referring to the more normal (yet still awful) concept of a draft?
  - andreygrehov 2y ago
    I don't think this is normal: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0iiww5KFTg https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Y0iiww5KFTg
    - deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]
    - nozzlegear 2y ago
      The US is not at war, isn't being invaded by an aggressive neighboring country, and doesn't have an active draft. That is the key difference that you're obtusely refusing to acknowledge here.
      - andreygrehov 2y ago
        I never said the US is at war with anybody. I said: "that reminds me of what's happening in my hometown in Ukraine". > isn't being invaded According to the White House, there is an invasion: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-american-people-against-invasion/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...