If the US had Defensive Democracy, then maybe they could do something.
But instead, we have whoever wins (aka: gets the most rich doners) gets to become president, even if they want to violate the very oath they are about to take.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
460 points (85.0% liked)
AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND
919 readers
560 users here now
This is a page for anything that's amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound.
♦ ♦ ♦
RULES
① Each player gets six cards, except the player on the dealer's right, who gets seven.
② Posts, comments, and participants must be amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound.
③ This page uses Reverse Lemmy-Points™, or 'bad karma'. Please downvote all posts and comments.
④ Posts, comments, and participants that are not amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound will be removed.
⑤ This is a non-smoking page. If you must smoke, please click away and come back later.
Please also abide by the instance rules.
♦ ♦ ♦
Can't get enough? Visit my blog.
♦ ♦ ♦
Please consider donating to Lemmy and Lemmy.World.
$5 a month is all they ask — an absurdly low price for a Lemmyverse of news, education, entertainment, and silly memes.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
Yeah Trump won the election. That is how democracy works.
Reporter: "Would you ceded the election if you lose?"
Trump: "If it's a fair election."
The reds prepped for MONTHS if not longer to fight democracy if Trump lost. They had loads of active cases up until the election on loads of bullshit interference. Which all promptly disappeared when Trump won.
Democracy isn't the issue. It's the corruption of these rich assholes.
load more comments
(1 replies)
how it should work. we saw 4 years ago how that is not how it works under said fascism
load more comments
(1 replies)
Don't blame them, blame the people who didn't vote
But also blame the DNC for running a de-energizing campaign yet again.
load more comments
(9 replies)
load more comments
(10 replies)
What are they supposed to do?
The majority voted for Trump. What more is there to discuss?
They could at least stand behind the messaging from the campaign.
If you call someone a dangerous threat to democracy for a year, and then when they get elected you wish them well and act civil, it really undermines your point about the whole threat to democracy thing.
Exactly. I believe Trump truly is an existential threat to the world and American democracy. To Biden and Harris, it was just campaign jargon.
load more comments
(16 replies)
The majority didn't vote at all.
Like in the Trolley problem, not making a choice is itself a choice.
load more comments
(4 replies)
The majority voted for Trump in a country with voter suppression, gerrymandering, and even terrorist threats against voters / poll workers. I don't know what to think of that statistic in light of... many exhausting decades of bullshit.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(14 replies)
In speech this week, Biden boasted about making the US so much stronger militarily that sets up Trump for "success".
In another speech, or maybe the same one, he patted himself on the back for leaving Trump the strongest economy evah!
Didn't Eisenhower or some president warn about the dangers of the burgeoning military indistrial complex in his farewell address?
And Eisenhower is remembered for it, respected for it, 60+ years later.
Biden and Harris will say nothing.
They are silent because the democrat party wanted all of of the power they refused to curbed. You wanna call Republicans fascists, well the leadership is, but so is Democrats leadership. We desperately need to remove both parties from all aspects of OUR government.
Good thing we didn't vote! We might have changed this!
If enough people voted, the Democrats would have given people free health care, stopped financing wars, torture and genocide, close Guantanamo, improve public transit, boost public education, and lowered the cost of groceries. If only enough people voted for the Democrats, they could be in power and bring change. Of course!
load more comments
(22 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
What do you want them to do? Barricade themselves in the Oval Office and go out in a blaze of glory?
Maybe arrest the criminal that was literally about to be sentenced?
Maybe not invite the dude over for cookies and tea.
Politicians are all on the same team against humanity.
load more comments
(2 replies)