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I thought the Democrats' 27% was bad, but holy fuck.

The Epstein files are a dead end; if MAGA was going to turn on Trump because of them they already would have. It's more than possible for the sane half (more realistically ~60%) of America to stop the fascists, but it won't happen if you keep waiting for the fascists to turn on their great leader because that just does not and will not happen.

PS: Your democracy will be gone by the midterms if you don't act.

That's... man.

Yeah. Even the EU lacks the capability or—frankly—willingness, to seriously intervene, and of course China will take the opportunity to enter Taiwan and eat popcorn while their only real geopolitical rival destroys itself.

https://lemmy.world/post/34282499

It is, indeed, not easy to stop doing something you like. Not to imply all Israelis support the genocide, but most do.

Wow, someone needs to hire you to explain stuff. I've seen people explain how ads work before, but this is the first time someone made me think "oh shit they're actually working." I mean I thought of Nord VPN even though I use Proton what the hell?

Too many would be "because my lobbyists said so."

You can't have no Nazi speech and yes Palestine speech, you can (in the long run) only have yes both or no both, and unless you care more about protecting the Nazi part than the people who are going to be making the rules care about banning the Palestine part, you will have no Palestine part.

You make a good argument for governments and similar entities not banning hate speech, but none of this applies to Substack or any other private platform. To follow your example, you only need to go somewhere not interested in (or not willing to go through the effort of) banning pro-Palestinian speech. It's not like Nazis will reciprocate if you allow them on your platform (and even if they did, nobody that's not a Nazi would want to hang out on Nazi platforms).

This is the case now, but in case of a global-scale war Europe will absolutely be involved in opposition to America, even if as I said they're likely to not send troops. Therefore, supporting America would be helping one geopolitical semi-rival wear down more dedicated geopolitical rivals while pulling the semi-rival to their side, overall strengthening Russia's geopolitical position. Also in the case of war (unless it's a classic Europe + US against China scenario, but that's looking less likely now) US-Europe relations would necessarily deteriorate, lessening the incentive for America to stand with Europe against Russia. It's not like Russia and America are directly competing for anything important now that Syria is mostly settled; Russia's ambitions are mostly a threat to Europe, not America, so if and only if the US-Europe alliance breaks down better relationships with Russia would start making sense. Yes it'd be bad for billionaires, but that's the thing about fascism: The fascist dictator can do whatever the hell he wants and shoot anyone who disagrees. Capitalists tend to (not unjustifiably) count on the dictator to be a benevolent (to them) dictator, but there's no mechanism guaranteeing that benevolence.

I say semi-rival because, even though Trump is opposing Russia, he's not nearly as dedicated as precedent would suggest, so the rivalry is cooling down.

It's getting repetitive saying this every time someone somewhere resists something, but this is how you do it, Americans.

It's not too late, but given how little resistance to Trump's regime is taking place in America, there's no indication that anything will happen before it's too late.

I'd say this is the worst domestic crisis the US has been through since the Civil War, if that. It might "blow over" in the sense that the world won't literally end, but in that sense Nazi Germany "blew over" too.

Given the general trend of far-right everything, fat chance of 1 happening before it's too late. Better hope Mexico is taking people.

Not the entire world, not by a long shot. Realistically the entire third world would have absolutely no problem trading with Trump's America, at least not any more than with business as usual America. Then you have Europe which is ran by pussies who would never go to war unless European mainland territory (i.e. not Greenland) is threatened, which would never happen, and Japan and South Korea are right out. This leaves the only realistic belligerents as Canada and/or Mexico if they're invaded, Venezuela and/or Iran if Trump picks a fight with them and China if and when they decide to take Taiwan. And of course throughout all this Russia would support America, providing easy access to resources and shipping. Point being: Even in a WWIII-ish scenario America will have plenty of people willing to give it resources for the war machine; the "against the entire world" thing is very eurocentric and unduly optimistic. Now that I'm typing this out, I'd honestly bet on America in WWIII.

PS: Europe has plenty of fascists who would trade with America in such a scenario.

Best news I've heard all day.

I'll take painfully obvious things for eleven.

I wonder how many never trusted them in the first place.

Definitely worse than Biden, but the systems they're running are better than the one in America so it about evens out. Which, given how the American situation went, is really fucking bad.