The best part is these idiots are economically drowning and they're still just shrugging.
Americans are too self-centered to care about little things like, oh, what kind of world we're going to be.
FYI, most non-US citizens of Lemmy wants US citizens to fight and die to secure the marginally better rights they have but didn't have to fight for because it was won by their ancestors who were weighting them against must grimer fates. They know they wouldn't risk death in the same situation. However, they think we are stupid enough to get bullied into it by them.
They will also do exactly nothing to help and will provide no useful suggestions. If it is any consolation, the US is large and influencial enough that we will all go down together.
If by "self-centered" you mean working class people just trying to survive while we have no control over what the wealthy people do above us to keep crushing us down, then ok.
Smart people didn't shrug, they voted against it. Idiots and republicans shrugged and let this happen.
My partner's parents when we explained some of Project 2025 to them:
Oh, Trump wouldn't do all that. You know, he used to be a Democrat.
Yep, that's the idiot segment.
Something being written down in a planning document doesn't exactly make it precedented. Or am I misunderstanding something?
Fair, but Mein Kampf was a historical precedent.
Hitler wrote what he is going to do. People didn't take him serious and everyone thought oh I get an advantage. Oh this doesn't happen to me. Later when it happened to them it was too late as the people who it didn't happen to didn't wanted to help because it didn't happened to them.
Conservatives (Germany ca. 1933): Hitler will only throw the enemies of the German people in jail, so I'm safe. Gestapo, some time later at their door: Hallo. Conservatives: Oh no, who could have seen this coming?
Moral of the story: The leopard bites every face.
Conservatives (Germany 2026):
"You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth"
Churchill took him very seriously after having read it, and it served him well in the long run.
The only egregious part of the carnival is that people think the shit show will end once trump dies.
He is just a puppet mouthpiece and clown face of the hidden puppet masters who are hiding behind his megalomania.
Trump didn't win, he was put there because he was useful to the real people in power, even if he doesn't know it himself.
from a guy paying for twitter, eh?
It's on Threads
I am amazed every day that people willingly use a Nazi website.
"if you read project 2025..."? The faq makes you think maga voters can read? How were they to know?
Democrats still be gaslighting people who did not want to vote for their 5000th corporate stooge.
"Project 2025 is fine because democrats aren't great" - that's what you sound like. You can hate FPTP and fight to get rid of it, once you've turfed the fascists out.
You can get rid of it by voting for corporate stooges who love it?
This entire idea is based on a false premise that you somehow hold any political power AFTER voting.
You're an idiot if you don't vote, you're a robot if you do, you can't win either way.
By not voting, you're giving up your rights before you've even lost them, all cause you've convinced yourself that you're gonna lose anyway
This entire idea is based on a false premise that you somehow hold any political power AFTER voting.
You do though - and you have less power again if you let fascists come in and take away even that. Your defeatism is pure stupidity.
I don't understand Americans, there must be appetite for a third option and yet whenever a third option is presented virtually no one votes for them.
Yeah, clearly you do not understand the basics of our electoral system.
Because of the way our voting system works, voting for a third party usually votes against the voters interests.
For example...the 2000 Election was a huge hubbabaloo over the voting results from Florida...was a very narrow margin between Democrat and Environmentalist Al Gore, and Republican George W. Bush.
Ralph Nader also ran for the Green Party, one of the larger and more well-known third parties. Green is very left, and very environmentalist.
Nader didn't get very many votes...but he did get enough that had like half of those voters just voted for Gore, Gore would've won the state and thus the election, and the world would be a much cooler place today.
I'm certain that if we had a preferential/ranked-choice voting system, the runoff process would've revealed Gore as a very clear winner.
But instead...we got George W. Bush.
American voting behavior is entirely controlled by the media and their oligarch owners. Americans believe so thoroughly in the myth of their free press that they outsource their political analysis to whatever media outlet triggers their specific fears/hatreds/desires.
The voting system is fucked. It's not called a two-party system for fun, but because systematically that's what happens with a first-past-the-post system. It's the spoiler effect.
This is why I interpret candidates who support FPTP as hostile. They fucking know, everybody has known since the 2000 presidential election.
Trump: We're going to do project 2025.
Trump: It's a good plan but we might have to workshop some things
Trump: I've never heard of it before in my life
Media: He's never heard of it before in his life.
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