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UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyz•The Roberts court just put Trump in charge of independent agencies, vastly expanding his powersEnglish
32·7 days agoLiterally all dems are different from republicans.
Anyone living under Trump’s rule can see through your disengenuous lie that “both sides are same”.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyz•The Roberts court just put Trump in charge of independent agencies, vastly expanding his powersEnglish
93·7 days agoSo we should blame all progressives for the actions of Sinema and Fetterman?
Blaming the entire party for the actions of individuals is disingenuous.
Dems give plenty of reasons to vote for them. That is why they win so many elections and progressives can’t have a platform without them.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse@sopuli.xyz•The Roberts court just put Trump in charge of independent agencies, vastly expanding his powersEnglish
133·7 days agoThey can’t do anything because the “both sides are same” people convinced enough voters to stay home and not vote.
So now Trump becomes king and we lose our right to vote. GG
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Democrats campaigning on "affordability" are cutting back on their anti-oil rhetoric but they should be focusing on removing the red tape surrounding solar, which could be much cheaper!
1·25 days agoAssuming the political leanings of the populous are measured in a vacuum, sure. But they aren’t.
Right, we also aren’t measuring political leanings worldwide. We are measuring them in the United States.
In the United States leftist have very few voters and candidates because of its lack of popularity.
When your only options of votes are “guys who have a hard-on for fascism” and “let’s appeal to those who aren’t entirely sold but are willing to see where the fascism goes”,
The reason these are the two options are because these options win in the primaries by the majority of voters choosing them in a democracy.
Leftists run in the primaries and lose fairly, even to AIPAC candidates.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Democrats campaigning on "affordability" are cutting back on their anti-oil rhetoric but they should be focusing on removing the red tape surrounding solar, which could be much cheaper!
2·26 days agoIf the majority of voters are centrists then shouldn’t the policies reflect that?
Do you think leftist policies should be forced onto voters that don’t want them and vote against them?
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
Green Energy@slrpnk.net•Democrats campaigning on "affordability" are cutting back on their anti-oil rhetoric but they should be focusing on removing the red tape surrounding solar, which could be much cheaper!
41·26 days agoI read the article and don’t understand your comment. How is this an example of democrats trying to get “center voters”?
Not that they shouldn’t be trying to win over centrists, they definitely should because there are more centrists than leftists by a lot and those centrists are constituents.
Not to mention that is how democrats have won the majority of nation wide elections in the last several decades.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Hard-right groups have expanded their influence across US government, report finds
201·28 days ago“Both sides are the same so I’m not voting”
-Leftists
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
11·1 month agoBiden locking up the coup leaders on day one without the support of voters would be the move of a dictator and would require Biden to pull off a coup first because the president otherwise doesn’t have the ability to do what you are suggesting.
Trump is only able to get away with his crimes because of the support he has from voters, billionares, Russia, the GOP and all the corrupt judges and Judicial roles he has filled with loyalist (just to name a few examples).
Biden never had that kind of support.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
1·1 month agoThe point was that in the example of the terrorist attacks that there wasn’t anyone to hold accountable because as far as the majority was concerned there was nothing to be held accountable for.
With the example of Jan 6th U.S. tried to hold Trump accountable but was prevented by Trump himself with the help of a majority of the voting populous.
In a democracy it’s the voters that decide if there is something to be held accountable for. In both examples the voters decided there was nothing to be held accountable for.
In addition to that there are plenty examples of the U.S. holding the powerful to account. Here’s what I found in just a few seconds:
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George Santos: The former New York Republican Congressman was arrested and indicted on a 13-count federal indictment in May 2023 for charges including wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements.
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Chris Collins: The New York Representative was indicted and arrested in 2018 for tipping off his son to confidential corporate information regarding an Australian biotechnology company. He resigned and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and lying to law enforcement.
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Duncan Hunter: The California Representative was indicted in 2018 and eventually pleaded guilty to misusing over \(\$150,000\) in campaign funds for personal expenses, including family vacations, movie tickets, and extramarital affairs.
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Larry Householder: The former Ohio Speaker of the House was arrested and convicted in March 2023 in a \(\$60\) million federal racketeering and bribery scheme—one of the largest public corruption cases in state history.
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Steve Watkins: The former Kansas Republican congressional candidate and Representative was charged with three felony counts and one misdemeanor regarding voter fraud and illegally registering his residence at a UPS store ahead of the 2019 election.
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David Rivera: The former Florida Representative was arrested in Atlanta in December 2022 and indicted for federal charges including acting as an unregistered foreign agent for a Venezuelan national and conspiracy to launder money.
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UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
1·1 month agoMAGA is made up of people with systemic power like judges, cops, military leaders, the billionaire class.
The occupy Wall Street movement never had members with that much power. Or anywhere near the same numbers.
The majority of Americans were ok with the reactions to 2001 terrorist attacks.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
1·1 month agoIt took that long because Merrick did things by the book. Because any other way would increase Trump’s chances of winning.
In the end the timing didn’t matter because U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon permanently blocked the Department of Justice from publicly releasing Special Counsel Jack Smith’s final investigative report regarding Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents.
Starting earlier would not change that outcome.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
11·1 month agoIn the aftermath of the 2001 terrorist attack the court of public opinion was in agreement that it was justified as exigent circumstances. No Americans were defending the terrorist.
In the aftermath of the nation’s democratic institutions being attacked, it was a large portion of the voting populous that was actively contributing, primarily due to psyop campaigns from Russia and the Trump administration that convinced a large amount of the populous that the election was stolen. The people that were victims of this campaign were judges, politicians, military leaders and many other roles that allowed them to do things like Judge Cannon when she dismissed the 40-count federal indictment against Donald Trump and two aides, ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution.
The difference between these two scenarios are so obvious they shouldn’t need explaining.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
24·1 month agoThe January 6th insurrection involved tens of thousands of people that had to be interviewed, interrogated and investigated. It involved people from across the country and mountains of evidence to be processed. Everything from social media posts to surveillance footage. To top it all off there was no room for error because Trump has always used corruption to escape consequence.
Trump loyalist that were involved did everything they could to help Trump by slowing the process.
When you attack someone for trying to hold Trump accountable you discourage others from trying to hold Trump accountable.
Trump is old as fuck and a lifelong criminal pedophile felon rapist that has never been held accountable and that has nothing to do with Biden or Merrick Garland or Obama.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
53·1 month agoTrump stalled the trials until he became president. That is why Merrick Garland had the same success as everyone else that has tried to hold Trump accountable.
UsernameHere@lemmy.worldto
news@lemmings.world•Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kremlin says French seizure of tanker ‘bordering on piracy’ as it vows responseEnglish
3·1 month agoRussia: “Invading another country? Totally legal and ok. Seizing oil tankers that fuel the invasion? Totally illegal and bad”





You claiming both sides are the same only benefits the GOP.
This is why GOP shills use the talking point.