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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 84 points 6 months ago

If anyone cares to read "Project 2025," it's a blueprint for creating a Judge Dredd universe, where the only people still living in it will be the Super Rich and the Super F*cking Poor.

That's a bad thing, by the way.

[-] Lightsong@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

For us folks who doesn't know Judge Dredd, got any summary, links or whatever?

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

Universe where an armed police force are Judges, Juries, and Executioners.

Following a nuclear war in 2070, the United States is reduced to MegaCity 1, covering the Eastern Seaboard, and MegaCity 2, covering the West Coast.

In between is a nuclear wasteland called "The Cursed Earth".

[-] doc_dish@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

You forgot Texas City

[-] halferect@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://youtu.be/4NCtpXG6Az4?si=DzjmTdT87Jl3Jfrp

Basically insane authority and complete corruption

[-] ours@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

If you have the time, watch the movie "Dredd" (2012). It's Karl Urban being fucking awesome.

[-] Lightsong@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

I'm sold. Sailing tonight.

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 64 points 6 months ago

Fetterman is a good person to go on Fox because he looks like a significant portion of their viewers

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 78 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He also shares a very large portion of the core beliefs of the old Republican party. In the 1960s he would've likely been considered center right.

It's crazy that endorsing medicare and social support structures makes him a Democrat now.

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

It's not crazy, it's intentional. Poor education combined with the lack of social structure creates a voting population ripe with anger over the shitty system and looking to blame someone instead of learn why it's like that.

Conservative media is specially made to take uneducated and rage blind voters and churn out Republican candidates who pretty much only hold office because of manufactured spite towards democrats.

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[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago

Yeah he’s no democrat anymore. Since he hit his head he’s been sliding to the republicans

[-] evranch@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago

This is a ridiculous viewpoint, the Democrats are a center right party. Here in Canada they would be considered conservative.

He supports healthcare and workers' rights, he's a Democrat.

Or at this point the Republicans are so cracked that straight up "if he doesn't support Project 2025, he's a Democrat"

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[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Honestly for his region in Pennsylvania, he's to the left still.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

Are people actually still listening to 'I had a stroke now Im right wing" Fetterman?

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago
[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

He's full blown Zionist, so yeah

[-] Zomg@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Doesnt make him automatically right wing.

[-] anticolonialist@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago
[-] Zomg@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Maybe lead your claims with a link in the first place.

Either way, people are nuanced.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

That would be a much better argument than your prior one however your link isn’t about policies. It’s about your previous point

[-] demizerone@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Fucking dude had a stroke, got brain damage, and became republican.

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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 21 points 6 months ago

It's a shame he went full Zionist over donor money.

But Project 2025 is just basic conservatism. It is a wishlist that should shock no one for existing because it's pretty much verbatim what right wingers have demanded since pretty much ever.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

And it's not like it's trump specific.

They've wanted to do this shit longer than even Biden has been alive.

If trump dropped dead right now, the replacement would do the same stuff. Whatever republican running in 2036 will still want to finish up what hasn't been done yet.

trump is a symptom, he might be the symptom that kills us, but just removing trump doesn't solve the underlying problem.

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[-] Lightrider@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah, why talk about the ancient brain mush guy who is going to lose to the fascist when we can talk about how fascist the fascist guy is?! Look at how fascist he is! I know we're going to lose to him but we'll yell about the fascism the whole time!

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 106 points 6 months ago

Maybe if we talk more about how facist the facist is, ppl won't vote for the fucking facist...

I rather have a hot glass of bird piss be president than a dictator

[-] thegr8goldfish@startrek.website 42 points 6 months ago
[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago

So, which would you honestly rather have? Someone who may or may not be in cognitive decline or someone who wants to become a fascist dictator?

I'm not saying that Biden is in cognitive decline but I am saying that Trump is a wannabe fascist dictator.

[-] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When people talk about that Biden is going to lose and blame it on him, I really wonder if they understand what our system is and what the stakes are. We only lose if people decide not to vote for Biden. There are things that a good candidate can do to excite their voters and motivate people, but at the end of the day, anyone can see the options that lay before them and choose regardless of what the campaign does.

You can wish that the campaign/candidate were better so that it made the job of motivating people easier. But if you are worried about the consequences of Trump winning this election, then you should be trying to motivate people to vote Biden. The article is to remind people that while Biden fared poorly at the debate, Trump was actually worse and is always worse. It seems to me that this is an honest point that underscores the need to vote Biden in this election, despite any of his shortcomings.

We are driving down a road and a semi is coming straight at us at 100 mph. We can either veer off the road and damage or even total our car on whatever is there, or we can say “I shouldn’t have to veer off the road, there should be a shoulder”, or even “I didn’t even want to take this route in the first place but my wife insisted” as the truck hits us head on. There’s no good option, but there’s a clear survival option.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago
[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Give Fetterman a break. He had jet lag and a cold. /s

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[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

The part where he mentions "project 25" is basically an attempt by Fetterman to get out of the confusing word salad he was in. Dude is doing a Biden impersonation during that section of the interview.

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