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but what about my precious bodily fluids?!?

Half of all people are dumber than ~~average~~ the median.

Shhh... you'll wake up the pro Putin tankies. They're worn out from gaslighting Americans to vote for Trump...

90% of them were Russian/ Iranian/ Chinese/ North Korean trolls or bots. They got what they wanted, so it's on to the next thing. Probably undermining support for Ukraine.

What we do in 2026 and/or 2028 will basically seal our fate. If MAGA thrives after our neighbors see what they do while unrestrained, then America is definitely going to become the next Nazi Germany.

If the elections of '26 or '28 get canceled or otherwise don't happen, then it's too late. (I'll go ahead and include typical autocratic tricks like jailing opposition candidates.)

Since MAGA has a trifecta, they are able to go full ham. They will show their whole ass to America, including our neighbors who think they're just another political party who will do just another political 4 years. And the neighbors who think MAGA was mostly just blowing hot air. Or that MAGA wasn't so bad for 2017-2021.

Yeah I'm on Lemmy and Mastodon. I also still watch YouTube. They haven't passed whatever my threshold is for suckitude, yet. I'm sure it's coming.

FWIW there's a way to bridge Bluesky accounts to Mastodon

https://fed.brid.gy/

if something like this works (I am guessing only if many EU countries follow suit) then maybe us Americans can suffer 4 years of Trump in exchange for Ukrainian freedom.

hmm unfortunately for this plan everything nuclear is a bit more difficult for the President to do willy nilly.

less dangerous but more funny would be for him to resign and let Harris be the 47th President. you know Trump and his cult have plowed millions into "47" merch that would suddenly become worthless to them.

(there are a lot of things that he can do that SCOTUS has preemptively granted him immunity for, though...)

This is an inaccurate claim by Sanders. Biden was the first President to walk a picket line with striking workers.

With union negotiations, he was pretty balanced. He did come down on the railroad strikes some after both sides got stuck, but they did get improvements beyond what management wanted to give. With the ports, though, he stuck with the workers and forced management to negotiate by refusing to override the strike.

Could the Democrats do more? Sure. But they're still recovering from the fever that took the party over with Clinton in '92. There are a lot of people who believe that win was a meaningful approval of the pro corporate but not racist Democratic Party platform, when in reality Clinton only won thanks to Perot.

I don't know that there was any magic messaging that Harris could've deployed this time around. I'm not sure there was any likely alternative even from a short post-Biden primary that could've done better than her.

Trump has everyone thinking he has some magic way to boost salaries and lower prices. And he railed against the elites more stridently and apparently people believed him.

On the other hand Google saw a lot of traffic with people asking if Biden dropped out so who knows what could have been done to avoid Trump 2.

considering how stridently the Republican Party has been attacking public education for the past 50 years or so, this is a predictable result. They don't need every American to be incurious and shallow, they just need enough to tilt elections in their favor.