When the news has segments covering tweets and Trump won in 2016 partially because of his social media presence, politicians have no choice but to use the platform until it loses the majority of it’s userbase. Or until it gets officially declared no better than 4chan by the mainstream media.
It sucks, but this is our reality
I’m sure it doesn’t help that he’s letting the military slaughter the Israeli hostages that were taken on 10/7 as well. That alone was the end of his rulership. He should fear his next election. If he’s not removed before that.
The only thing that’s changed is all the good modetators have left and the default subs have gotten worse.
God forbid you say anything mildly positive of Palestine on the main politics site. The AIPAC hired mods immediately permaban you.
If someone invaded your home, locked you in a cage, and then started casually murdering your loved ones while calling it “mowing the lawn”, you would also be doing anything you could to make it stop.
Yes, Hamas knew this would happen, but for most people in Gaza, choosing to die hiding or choosing to die fighting is the only choice they get in life.
It’s been a genocide since the Nakba. The US just refuses to call it that because we’re funding the damn thing.
Republicans only understand the politics of cruelty these days.
And Florida’s answer to this, along with so much of the country, is more guns. Absolute insanity
Because they’re considered safe loans because they are very hard to discharge. So your student loans are funding your parent’s pension funds and 401k’s
You can socialize more than one thing at a time. Student loan debt affects everyone too. We have an entire generation right now who can’t afford to buy a house, and who are putting off marriage and having kids. That effects the entire economy. Not to mention they can’t save for retirement if a good chunk of their income is going into student loan debt.
Fascists don’t care about and won’t respect governmental norms. The only way to stop them is preventing them from getting onto power in the first place and we’ve been failing miserably at that since Reagan.
The founders dropped the ball when they gave us no way to recall a supreme court justice.
Granted their massive failure of imagination has ended us up with the shitshow that is congress today