politics
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive. Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
view the rest of the comments
I am in the same boat as you and basically left/lost all my former friends over it.
I had the combo of being an internet dork who used to go on 4chan long ago, followed some of its derivative nonsense, and also has a degree in poki sci and econ, and years of data analysis work.
Nearly all my friends mocked and scorned me for being extremely concerned with this dubious yet growing trend that can roughly be summarized as all the /hopefully/ ironic racism/nazism of the terminally online crowd of the mid 00's gradually becoming less and less ironic, talking points and memes migrating over to other platforms, being espoused by actual politicians...
...the whole process mirrors in many ways how fascist movements have grown in other societies.
But nobody wanted to hear it.
By the time I was openly calling out various rhetoric as literally fascist, all these idiots with no understanding of political science did the exact thing that is the next step in the social process: viewing this as alarmism and /me/ as extreme.
This even happened to my own family members. My dad thinks Jan 6th was done by Antifa, except for when he thinks it was an inside job by the FBI.
And he makes fucking ghost guns with no serial numbers in his garage, and is the most stereotypical mediocre white man you can possibly imagine.
Oh well. Fuck em all, I am better off without their constant belittling and ignorance.
Now more than half of them just actually are fascist in everything but self-identification, 90% of their rhetoric and positions they support align with either Nick Fuentes or Fucker Carlson, or the goddamned Praying Medic.
So, hooray, I was right. Sucks losing nearly everyone to the fascist mind virus, wish they would have listened seriously to anything I said, but by now I hate them from how abusive they were toward me.
Anyway, yes, also likewise, I could not possibly have predicted how utterly incompetent the leaders of this movement would be. The... the shit that Trump has done is truly mind bogglingly moronic, an even further indictment that in general American 'conservatives' may actually be more stupid and cruel than literal actual Nazis in some respects.
Anyway, I await the theocratic republic of america commiting pogroms against lgtbq and non christians, as well as infighting between various christian sects in i dunno 5 to 10 years, regardless of whether or not they won or lost the next civil war or if it somehow does not happen.
That sucks. Sorry you got cut off for being right. I'm hopping the UK is about to kick out our mad conservatives. They never actually get a majority, but the majority is split over multiple parties. In the US, it worse, both in being a two party system and undemocratic. Democratics can win the popular vote but not power.