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[-] observes_depths@aussie.zone 9 points 1 day ago

The Democrats were been so certain it was they nominated an black asian woman. I like Harris but obviously rednecks aren't ready for that.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

It wasn't the rednecks that decided not to have a primary and run a man so senile they made Trump look lucid.

[-] Soleos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Because sadly, the attitudes and views of people making up Jan 6 are shared by a large proportion of the US population, even if they would not have participated given the means/opportunity.

Jan 6 is viewed by them with analogous sentiment to how the left views civil disobedience for civil rights movements, regardless of the substance/justice of the event.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 day ago

Because half the fucking country is treating it like sports.

[-] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

I thought I understood this as a Canadian until this current World Series. "My team good, your team bad." Then I saw comments from the fanbases of the teams that the Blue Jays faced, and now I understand that people are absolutely deranged. Calling for violence for opposing players for daring to face their team? Yikes.

And this is literally just a game. It doesn't actually have a bearing on people's lives in the long term. (Except the actual teams, I guess.) No wonder American politics is the way it is. Unfortunately, parts of Canada are trying to emulate this here, too.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

There's something going on for sure. For many years, we were able to have sports without death threats.

I suspect it has something to do with the current attempts to manipulate people. We have news and politicians trying to pit us against each other and calling for violence against non-violent people. It's the Jose took your lunch kind of thing, and the conditioning feels like it's running rampant.

I worry about Canada; I don't think your people are emulating it. I think they're being influenced and are the next target.

I'm awfully tired of unprecedented times, but I fear we're setting the new bar for precedent.

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 52 points 2 days ago

I'll never understand how Biden just let that go. He should have made it impossible for Trump or any of the other criminals from the previous administration to participate in politics again.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

A legacy of cordiality and decorum that allowed fascism back in.

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

If I were Biden, locking all those traitors up would have been priority number one. Had they done that, the world would be a much better place.

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 9 points 2 days ago

They all should have been on a plane to Gitmo before the sun set on inauguration day.

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[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

Mine was George Floyd. When I saw so many people stand up and say that man deserved death over a bounced check I knew they lost their damn mind.

[-] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

The idea that death is an acceptable outcome from being suspected of any minor infraction underpins the conversation around basically every police killing, with every single person on the side justifying it being tacitly accepting of that premise.

It's lunacy.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

A few years after 9-11 for me. I grew up watching my classmates sing songs about indiscriminately bombing people in Afghanistan, and news reports of people being beaten or killed in the US for wearing any clothing that appeared Middle-Eastern. It made me sick to my stomach.

[-] joan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Nobody deserves to die... Even if they're.. uh... charlie kirk... No I think that one's ok.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I heard his neck just did that

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

My take on Charlie is that I'm not surprised.

[-] KelvarCherry 2 points 12 hours ago

My take on Charlie and similar killings is that we're in a war, and war is never nice. I don't believe anyone should be assassinated, but I also don't believe we're playing by the rules of civility when we have hundreds of people being disappeared every day by masked agents on our street; and the government is tweeting out Nazi propaganda.

[-] notsure@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago

...me, neither...

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 days ago

There are Americans that believe Trump has never lied. Like ever. About anything. He is truth. Some Americans actually believe this.

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[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 180 points 2 days ago

If the pussy grabbing thing wasn't, nothing ever will be.

[-] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 147 points 2 days ago

Or the making fun of the disabled news reporter. Or the not renting to black people, or the using a charity as his personal piggy bank. I'm sure the list goes on and on

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or trying to have 5 young brown children executed for a crime they were later proven to have not committed.

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[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 120 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I disagree (with the title but agree with you the post), Jan 6th should truly be the dealbreaker. Why? Cause it’s not even politics, it’s simple rules of games.

If you can’t accept when you lose, you don’t get to play anymore.

They had 4 years to jail him over treason and they didn’t. I said it before and I’ll say it again, Biden should have jailed him for Jan 6th.

[-] crusa187@lemmy.ml 70 points 2 days ago

Biden should have used the bully pulpit and pushed hard to prosecute. Merrick Garland is technically the one who sat on his ass for 2 years before getting started, which is how Trump was able to delay through the election then throw out his own cases.

Based on the strong bipartisan coverup of the Epstein Files, clearly there are reasons Biden’s donors didn’t want to prosecute one of “their own.” So they didn’t, because the people don’t get represented in America, only capital owners do.

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[-] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago

Well the answer to "why did people still support Trump after Jan 6th" is actually "Jan 6th."

Those people that came to DC and walked to the Capitol and stormed out are Americans who were a) pissed off and b) willing and able to travel and march and attack on behalf of Trump.

That's not nothing in terms of power and influence. And it's indicative of a BUNCH of people who met condition (a) but not (b). Like probably an order of magnitude or more.

Since no Republican stepped up to steal those supporters from Trump by pointing out how absolutely un-American Jan 6th was, they stayed loyal to him. So the politicians followed, the owners followed, and the media followed.

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

I understand it.

People are paying 30% more to live now than they did before. No one cares about a person's politics if they claim they'll put food on your table.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

This chart is the whole story. Unfortunately people don't understand how the economy lags behind everything and Trumps recent actions are going to make the surge from COVID checks look like a blip.

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[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 35 points 2 days ago

Look, all you have to do is accept my one and only axiom: Most people on this planet are total and absolute idiots.

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[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

January 6 gave the Nazis hope and basically exposed how easy it is to topple the government if they have law enforcement on their side.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 49 points 2 days ago

Why would people think it was a big deal when the entire news media played it down, and then the guy who did it was allowed to run for the highest political office again.

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[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 2 days ago

I don't understand why AIPAC, Citizens United, exorbitant health care and education costs, tax rates for the rich, slavery in prisons, and every other goddamned ridiculous thing that other first world countries don't have wasn't a deal breaker.

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