Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) demanded federal officers vacate the state after agents shot and killed a second person in Minneapolis on Saturday. “Donald Trump, I call on you once again: Remove…
I can assure you that in the US a presidential paramilitary invading cities that are overwhelmingly white and shooting citizens in the face live on social media is indeed a new phenomenon.
Yeah I get it, but I just grow tired of the argument – and it doesn’t solely come from .ml users but is broadly-speaking a tiring recurrent Internet argument – that nothing ever changes and that everything has always been like this even when it obviously and provably has not.
Oh absolutely, the “nothing ever happens” pool of nihilistic, cynical young turds are a huge non-movement-movement. I am not sure what satisfaction people get from discouraging change to systems that they hate, the only thing I can imagine is it’s some form of self-hatred being projected outward.
Reactionary: The contemplated action attempts to change permanent structural characteristics (“laws”) of the social order; it is therefore bound to be wholly ineffective, futile.
I’ll tuck this away to read before bed, I absolutely believe most of our societal problems come from a segment of the population who have a different mental state for dealing with feelings, IE: reactionary feelings dictating what is going on in their head-narratives, and the people who exploit this by supplying these people a narrative to explain their reactions.
I mean the government was hiring Pinkertons to do drive-bys on the camps of mostly-white miners. White privilege is important in America, but if it’s a showdown between that and the interests of capital, capital will win every time.
Trump also ordered the extrajudicial execution of a white man, Michael Reinoehl, in his first term. I have no idea why no one ever talks about that.
Trump also ordered the extrajudicial execution of a white man, Michael Reinoehl, in his first term. I have no idea why no one ever talks about that.
Because we continue to pretend that the police and military always act lawfully, unless there’s incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
Even with that the news media continues to couch the video of the murders of Good and Pretti as “appearing to show” things and provides ample room on their platforms for people to lie and copagandize the American public.
I mean yeah, agreed of course, but I don’t even see if frequently mentioned by people who are aware of what’s really going on.
Guess there have been a lot of corpses produced by America in recent decades and… for its entire existence before then too. Too much trauma to keep up with all of it I guess. Remember when Boeing melted a guy’s lungs and nothing happened? Land of the free, rock flag and eagle.
Sort of. Miller has been involved in developing and test running the concept on years, see Hungary (field test of the fearmongering populism + the “Mike Johnson” special - we had “don’t know, wasn’t there, didn’t hear about it, ask someone else” press conference memes like 12 years ago) and other examples. Definitely involved to some degree with Fico and Putin, and to a lesser extent, Babis, Meloni and Simion. They weren’t sure they could get away with it last time Trump was up there, although if my memory serves, national guard was deployed due to maybe BLM?
I mean really, it’s shocking how fast it ramped up but I cannot say that I’m truly surprised it did happen, and if I look back at the people involved in it, it seems more like a gentle increase of the knob than a sudden twist. It’s also just that the higher you are on the dial, the closer together are the red lines.
They basically spent the last 4 years planning how to make it happen as quickly as possible.
If they haven’t finished within a year, the job risks getting much harder with an uncooperative Congress. So they have to speedrun it, no chance to do it by slow measures.
However even if 2027 swears in the results of free and fair elections, their goals are still doable, since the government said point blank the only group that can possible hold Trump accountable is 2/3rds of the senate, and that’s not happening, and everyone else that might otherwise be more reachable can be pardoned by Trump at will.
So they can get in the way of new legislation, but not pass anything (veto also needs 2/3rds, which they are not getting). The administration has already proven that they don’t wait for a law when they really want to do something.
So unless democrats somehow win every single senate race that’s up for grabs in 2026, they still aren’t going to be able to do anything by the book to actually walk things back.
I mean really, it’s shocking how fast it ramped up but I cannot say that I’m truly surprised it did happen, and if I look back at the people involved in it, it seems more like a gentle increase of the knob than a sudden twist. It’s also just that the higher you are on the dial, the closer together are the red lines.
Yeah I wouldn’t say I’m surprised, and I wouldn’t say it’s entirely “UnPReCEDenTeD” or anything, but it is new and different in terms of scope, brazenness, and certainly technology. We’ve struggled with periods of waxing and waning fascism and fascist-like governance for practically the entire history of the country. The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed into law when the country was less than two decades old. But this is still shocking, smothering, abhorrent and a departure from even ten years ago.
The argument that the US is or was always like this and could only be like this is, in my view, made intentionally to paralyze and further demoralize those of us in the US who wake to a fresh, new hell on a daily basis.
There’s a world of difference between “was always like this” and “could only be like this”.
This is precisely what the fall of Nixon has been building up to, brick by brick. But the fact is that sitting presidents could do literally whatever they wanted since at least the Bush era. It’s almost a wonder it took this long for someone to take advantage of that possibility. In that regard, it has been like this for a long time, they’ve just been very careful about what they do. And the funniest thing is that they still are. I find the claims for example that Trump is doing this to provoke a violent reaction so that the army can be deployed almost comical. Why? If you need to provoke a reaction, provoke harder. If you don’t, well, why don’t you just deploy the army for no good reason. He can, after all. He could literally attempt to murder his political opponent by coughing at him knowingly while having COVID. Bush could gaslight the entire NATO into furthering US imperial goals in the Middle East. Bush was allowed to walk away with what was essentially a stolen election. For all we know, Clinton could’ve been raping children on Epstein Island while he was sitting president. It’s been like this for god knows how long, this is the first guy with the sheer audacity to do it out in the open.
The could be different is then another question, right? I think you see the problem about how far this reaches. Almost everyone with a significant amount of capital in the US is all in on this. Media is playing along the party status quo, the faces of tech can finally come out of the closet and fall in line as nazis, insurance companies have been death dealers for the longest time, and now, a slimy greasy businessman and not politician is in charge of the country. Could it be different - sure. But the house cleaning is effectively insurmountable. Every career politician on corporate bankroll, wall street, CEOs, boardrooms, corporate private militaries, and of course, the human waste who proudly exercise their 2nd amendment rights to serve their oligarch overlords. So yeah, it could be different, but it won’t be, not like this. The system is not set up in a way that you can democratically elect someone that isn’t beholden to the interests of the same people, and is willing to do anything about it. And even those who would be willing to do anything about it will find that all the other branches are long time gone. The same supreme court that gives Trump a complete blank check to bypass the legislative branch can take the same blank check away from any progressive president for reason. You can’t rely on party lines in the legislative to help you out either, if you’re a progressive president you were miraculously elected as an independent - dems are in just as deep as GOP.
So yeah. It’s paralyzing, it’s demoralizing, but it’s also just the reality. The knob only goes way up or slightly down. Up to you how to react to that. In the same situation, I decided to up and leave my home country. It was the best decision ever.
Again, the question is what is the anything you want to fix. Where is your milestone? You want the morons with guns off the street, sure, assuming the Thiel machine catches some rocks in its cogs and there’s going to be elections, you ride it out for three more years, by some miracle Musk doesn’t steal the election again and bing bang boom, you have it fixed. And by fixed, we mean you gently escorted the problem back into the bottle and loosely popped in the cork. The root causes - oligarchic big tech, hostile SCOTUS, far-right thinktank, misinformation centrals - are still there. For all intents and purposes, it’s not like this anymore, but it’s actually still like this, it’s just quieter for a couple of years.
There have been many different eras in America, and although the current one is terrible, there will be another, one way or another.
When you see America as being a single static thing, you view it as an unchanging monolith that has never had periods of time where elements of it were better – making it so that the only choice you have is to “love it, or leave it”.
But these are faulty views, and that is a false dichotomy. We are participants in the history of the country, not merely spectators. Through collective action we can change its direction. We did this before via blood, sweat, and tears in the first gilded age, and we will have to do it again here in the second.
I know the history of the US from many perspectives, I don’t need essays about it, I am educated enough to know that a great many countries have a lot of blood on their hands.
I am more concerned with solving issues here and now that harm people than joining bandwagons or tankie clubs and self-flagellating about it though.
These kinds of lists just serve like incel manifestos for people hung up on nationalist persecution rather than sexual insecurity.
Wild take. You read about the US recently killing civilians in many different countries, and that brings you to sexual insecurity? Another liberal that would rather bury their head in the sand rather than open their eyes. I wish I could say I was surprised.
The US being the largest global terrorist organization isn’t a thing of the past, it’s very much the present. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and basically all before them took part in the atrocities. Yet, the solution to this problem seems to be: “vote blue no matter who.”
Go ahead and march around in costumes then, let me know how it works.
I’ll be organizing community and grassroots work like happened in New York. I know you’re probably offended by optimism but I am still fighting for my country. Not just whinging how bad things are bad.
Sharing information that clearly isn’t common knowledge isn’t whining about a problem. And working towards a slightly more moderate form of capitalism isn’t a solution. It’s just moderately less fascist.
You haven’t even had enough time to comb through a small percentage of what I offered. You instead insisted that you already know everything, and something about your sexual insecurities.
No, you offered a list of bad things the US has done, assuming I’m dumb, for what purpose you never outlined, you have given zero perscriptive statements, you’re just telling people their attempts are futile without providing an alternative. I don’t need that right now, it does nothing for me or others I am trying to actual work to actually help people. Help or get out of the fucking way.
It literally does remind me of when I was working to help young guys and organize programs, and invariably some chud would send me a 20 page manifesto about how bad women are. Okay, fine bro, feel what you want, but why should this change what I’m trying to do right now. Deal with your personal frustrations on your own time.
You referenced liberalism (Mamdani) as a goal for your future. What you’re experiencing right now is all thanks to liberalism. You’re not helping anyone by fighting for the status quo.
A number of people here have no idea what they’re writing about, because they’re not actually from here. I saw some asshole yesterday holding up John Brown as a successful model of how a new American civil war should be fought, lol.
John Brown. If I could find it again I’d screenshot it. This is all just “let’s you and him fight” nonsense.
The number of people on Lemmy alone who will go into frothing rage when you tell them that we’re not about to have a civil war at all actually, at least not this century, tells me a lot about either how uneducated our population is, or how many people really, really get off to cosplaying as Americans online, and think they have even a fleeting idea of what daily life is like here.
Help isn’t coming. Revolution isn’t happening. But we’ve been here before in history, we can turn it around again if enough people work together.
Truth. The fact of the matter is Minneapolis is winning, or ICE would not now be there, Pam Bondi would not be issuing ultimatums to Tim Walz demanding Minnesota voter lists, Gnome would not be issuing faked videos and pictures of big guns with false narratives even as she and Bovino are casting arou9nd the rest of DHS for volunteers to come to the Twin Cities, etc. These cosplatriots are ignoring the finer points, like how ICE has been hitting the more rural parts of MN because the neighborhood networks are making it SO hard to round up anyone at all anymore.
Given the timing of all these comments, I don’t think it’s just a casual effort, but they’re barking up the wrong tree, lol.
You are 100% right: we’ve been here before, and we CAN win this if people work together. Minnesotans learned from GF, and they are leading the way. I literally could not be more proud of Minnesotans than I am right now.
I am seeing a real surge in party-line belligerence emerging everywhere online, once again in an election year. Weird how such a far-left site like Lemmy suddenly has so many people going to bat for establishment Democrats. Makes you go “Hmnn.”
I don’t think it matters either way, I feel like everyone is fed up and the administration has waaay overreached and forgotten about the sheer scale of the US and the states. States hold all the power. When states like Minnesota and others decide they’re done being pushed around by the federal government, they will start organizing a pushback and remind DC that the federal government works for the states, not the other way around. It may be a ways off still, but the momentum is increasing towards a head.
And yes, the administration is absolutely floundering right now, they have no idea how to put this all back in the tube, they thought they would have a future secured by now, it’s why they parade JD Vance around every month, desperately trying to make him seem “cool and bad” like Trump was to the right, but he comes off fake and political and people haaate him on the right. He’s everything they rejected when they devoted their blood and souls to Trump. They know when Trump finally is reclaimed by the loam and topsoil that there’s no safety net and there won’t be immunity anymore, much less electoral mandate.
Everything is racing towards a finale, one way or another there’s going to be a massive shift in the country in short order. I don’t know if it will be after the mid-terms or after Trump is found slumped over his nuggets, but it will happen.
You put it very well. I’ve been feeling the race to the finale for a while now, and of course there’s been January, but yeah. It’s going to blow. And then it is going to be very different.
Beyond what you’ve pointed out, the only new thing I’ve noticed are obviously foreign accounts wanting to talk about a renewed version of the events of 1860-65 (I’m specifically not using the term) while claiming the Constitution allows for this sort of “succession” and “national divorse” [sic] but when challenged they drop right off and refuse to engage on anything but that specific talking point. (Along with weird account stuff, like the language patterns of more than one person posting on it, typical paid behavior.) Going by the way they don’t care what is said as long as anything is said about those events, I’m guessing they just want to normalize the discussion of it. I refuse and start talking about how magnificent Minnesota is, and wonder out loud why we would want to get rid of a great state when the problem is one pedo in the white house. And then I ask about Putin, lol. The last one I asked about the $500 million from stolen Venezuelan oil that rump parked in Qatar and told him I wanted to know his views on that; strangely, I have not heard back.
Yeah, I’ve noticed about the establishment Democrat thing as well. The problem is that they lost my respect when they ended the shutdown, so I haven’t really been paying any attention to comments pumping them, though I probably should be: if they are using the same social media manipulation apparatus as others now it’s worth noting. Whether it’s socially “acceptable” or technically legal or not, it’s a corrupt thing to do, a marker of having left the conversation in favor of trying to shape it. Just in terms of actual candidates my eyes are on the progressives now.
Also in recent discussion, FauxLiving pointed out something similar that could be added to your running list of “Things About to Blow Up” and that is a brewing war over on r/Conservative between the 2Aers and the rest, because they don’t like what they’re hearing out of the administration about how “Alex Pretti lost his gun rights by carrying to a protest.” Even the NRA is shaking in its boots over that one, lol. That too is, as Faux pointed out, playing with fire.
But yes. We are heading toward an inescapable finale of some kind. And while I agree with everything you said, I almost suspect the final crisis will not come from here, as strange as that may seem. I think it will come from the other side of the world, if/when Putin finds his days limited and realizes he will have failed utterly at building his great Russkiy Mir. I think if that happens, the day he understands that he will have utterly failed in the one thing that motivates him, the West will feel a Leviathan’s tail we never saw coming. If we’re lucky, someone sane will just put a bullet in his head first. Or not. But as crazy as the West has become, don’t forget the East just yet.
Your comment is great, a pleasure to read. Thank you for taking the time to write it.
This isn’t new, and it doesn’t matter which of the two parties are in office. The US Empire is a cancer.
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html#imperialism
I can assure you that in the US a presidential paramilitary invading cities that are overwhelmingly white and shooting citizens in the face live on social media is indeed a new phenomenon.
They’re a .ml user, you’re not going to get much in the way of a nuanced and intelligent reply focused on solutions.
Yeah I get it, but I just grow tired of the argument – and it doesn’t solely come from .ml users but is broadly-speaking a tiring recurrent Internet argument – that nothing ever changes and that everything has always been like this even when it obviously and provably has not.
Oh absolutely, the “nothing ever happens” pool of nihilistic, cynical young turds are a huge non-movement-movement. I am not sure what satisfaction people get from discouraging change to systems that they hate, the only thing I can imagine is it’s some form of self-hatred being projected outward.
What is interesting is at its root, it’s basically a reactionary argument.
(From Hirschman’s “The Rhetoric of Reaction” pg. 167) http://pombo.free.fr/hirschman91.pdf
I’ll tuck this away to read before bed, I absolutely believe most of our societal problems come from a segment of the population who have a different mental state for dealing with feelings, IE: reactionary feelings dictating what is going on in their head-narratives, and the people who exploit this by supplying these people a narrative to explain their reactions.
I mean the government was hiring Pinkertons to do drive-bys on the camps of mostly-white miners. White privilege is important in America, but if it’s a showdown between that and the interests of capital, capital will win every time.
Trump also ordered the extrajudicial execution of a white man, Michael Reinoehl, in his first term. I have no idea why no one ever talks about that.
Because we continue to pretend that the police and military always act lawfully, unless there’s incontrovertible evidence to the contrary.
Even with that the news media continues to couch the video of the murders of Good and Pretti as “appearing to show” things and provides ample room on their platforms for people to lie and copagandize the American public.
I mean yeah, agreed of course, but I don’t even see if frequently mentioned by people who are aware of what’s really going on.
Guess there have been a lot of corpses produced by America in recent decades and… for its entire existence before then too. Too much trauma to keep up with all of it I guess. Remember when Boeing melted a guy’s lungs and nothing happened? Land of the free, rock flag and eagle.
Land of the fee, home of the slave
Sort of. Miller has been involved in developing and test running the concept on years, see Hungary (field test of the fearmongering populism + the “Mike Johnson” special - we had “don’t know, wasn’t there, didn’t hear about it, ask someone else” press conference memes like 12 years ago) and other examples. Definitely involved to some degree with Fico and Putin, and to a lesser extent, Babis, Meloni and Simion. They weren’t sure they could get away with it last time Trump was up there, although if my memory serves, national guard was deployed due to maybe BLM?
I mean really, it’s shocking how fast it ramped up but I cannot say that I’m truly surprised it did happen, and if I look back at the people involved in it, it seems more like a gentle increase of the knob than a sudden twist. It’s also just that the higher you are on the dial, the closer together are the red lines.
They basically spent the last 4 years planning how to make it happen as quickly as possible.
If they haven’t finished within a year, the job risks getting much harder with an uncooperative Congress. So they have to speedrun it, no chance to do it by slow measures.
However even if 2027 swears in the results of free and fair elections, their goals are still doable, since the government said point blank the only group that can possible hold Trump accountable is 2/3rds of the senate, and that’s not happening, and everyone else that might otherwise be more reachable can be pardoned by Trump at will.
So they can get in the way of new legislation, but not pass anything (veto also needs 2/3rds, which they are not getting). The administration has already proven that they don’t wait for a law when they really want to do something.
So unless democrats somehow win every single senate race that’s up for grabs in 2026, they still aren’t going to be able to do anything by the book to actually walk things back.
The midterms fixing anything is basically a dream, nothing else. Presidential elections might… but the democracy is unlikely to survive until then.
Yeah I wouldn’t say I’m surprised, and I wouldn’t say it’s entirely “UnPReCEDenTeD” or anything, but it is new and different in terms of scope, brazenness, and certainly technology. We’ve struggled with periods of waxing and waning fascism and fascist-like governance for practically the entire history of the country. The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed into law when the country was less than two decades old. But this is still shocking, smothering, abhorrent and a departure from even ten years ago.
The argument that the US is or was always like this and could only be like this is, in my view, made intentionally to paralyze and further demoralize those of us in the US who wake to a fresh, new hell on a daily basis.
There’s a world of difference between “was always like this” and “could only be like this”.
This is precisely what the fall of Nixon has been building up to, brick by brick. But the fact is that sitting presidents could do literally whatever they wanted since at least the Bush era. It’s almost a wonder it took this long for someone to take advantage of that possibility. In that regard, it has been like this for a long time, they’ve just been very careful about what they do. And the funniest thing is that they still are. I find the claims for example that Trump is doing this to provoke a violent reaction so that the army can be deployed almost comical. Why? If you need to provoke a reaction, provoke harder. If you don’t, well, why don’t you just deploy the army for no good reason. He can, after all. He could literally attempt to murder his political opponent by coughing at him knowingly while having COVID. Bush could gaslight the entire NATO into furthering US imperial goals in the Middle East. Bush was allowed to walk away with what was essentially a stolen election. For all we know, Clinton could’ve been raping children on Epstein Island while he was sitting president. It’s been like this for god knows how long, this is the first guy with the sheer audacity to do it out in the open.
The could be different is then another question, right? I think you see the problem about how far this reaches. Almost everyone with a significant amount of capital in the US is all in on this. Media is playing along the party status quo, the faces of tech can finally come out of the closet and fall in line as nazis, insurance companies have been death dealers for the longest time, and now, a slimy greasy businessman and not politician is in charge of the country. Could it be different - sure. But the house cleaning is effectively insurmountable. Every career politician on corporate bankroll, wall street, CEOs, boardrooms, corporate private militaries, and of course, the human waste who proudly exercise their 2nd amendment rights to serve their oligarch overlords. So yeah, it could be different, but it won’t be, not like this. The system is not set up in a way that you can democratically elect someone that isn’t beholden to the interests of the same people, and is willing to do anything about it. And even those who would be willing to do anything about it will find that all the other branches are long time gone. The same supreme court that gives Trump a complete blank check to bypass the legislative branch can take the same blank check away from any progressive president for reason. You can’t rely on party lines in the legislative to help you out either, if you’re a progressive president you were miraculously elected as an independent - dems are in just as deep as GOP.
So yeah. It’s paralyzing, it’s demoralizing, but it’s also just the reality. The knob only goes way up or slightly down. Up to you how to react to that. In the same situation, I decided to up and leave my home country. It was the best decision ever.
See, this is the problem with pretending that things were always like this, it makes it so that you think it’s impossible to ever fix anything.
Again, the question is what is the anything you want to fix. Where is your milestone? You want the morons with guns off the street, sure, assuming the Thiel machine catches some rocks in its cogs and there’s going to be elections, you ride it out for three more years, by some miracle Musk doesn’t steal the election again and bing bang boom, you have it fixed. And by fixed, we mean you gently escorted the problem back into the bottle and loosely popped in the cork. The root causes - oligarchic big tech, hostile SCOTUS, far-right thinktank, misinformation centrals - are still there. For all intents and purposes, it’s not like this anymore, but it’s actually still like this, it’s just quieter for a couple of years.
There have been many different eras in America, and although the current one is terrible, there will be another, one way or another.
When you see America as being a single static thing, you view it as an unchanging monolith that has never had periods of time where elements of it were better – making it so that the only choice you have is to “love it, or leave it”.
But these are faulty views, and that is a false dichotomy. We are participants in the history of the country, not merely spectators. Through collective action we can change its direction. We did this before via blood, sweat, and tears in the first gilded age, and we will have to do it again here in the second.
It’s only fine when the US is terrorizing other countries, right?
Bring the garbage to our streets and I’ll be forced to make a sign to convey my feelings outrage.
Never said anything like that pal o’ friend of mine. But you are forced to be ever the contrarian like a good 'lil .ml guy, so I understand.
I know the history of the US from many perspectives, I don’t need essays about it, I am educated enough to know that a great many countries have a lot of blood on their hands.
I am more concerned with solving issues here and now that harm people than joining bandwagons or tankie clubs and self-flagellating about it though.
These kinds of lists just serve like incel manifestos for people hung up on nationalist persecution rather than sexual insecurity.
Wild take. You read about the US recently killing civilians in many different countries, and that brings you to sexual insecurity? Another liberal that would rather bury their head in the sand rather than open their eyes. I wish I could say I was surprised.
The US being the largest global terrorist organization isn’t a thing of the past, it’s very much the present. Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, and basically all before them took part in the atrocities. Yet, the solution to this problem seems to be: “vote blue no matter who.”
Go ahead and march around in costumes then, let me know how it works.
I’ll be organizing community and grassroots work like happened in New York. I know you’re probably offended by optimism but I am still fighting for my country. Not just whinging how bad things are bad.
Sharing information that clearly isn’t common knowledge isn’t whining about a problem. And working towards a slightly more moderate form of capitalism isn’t a solution. It’s just moderately less fascist.
You have offered nothing here but whinging and whining, you sound like a whiny kid. I’m not engaging anymore.
You haven’t even had enough time to comb through a small percentage of what I offered. You instead insisted that you already know everything, and something about your sexual insecurities.
No, you offered a list of bad things the US has done, assuming I’m dumb, for what purpose you never outlined, you have given zero perscriptive statements, you’re just telling people their attempts are futile without providing an alternative. I don’t need that right now, it does nothing for me or others I am trying to actual work to actually help people. Help or get out of the fucking way.
It literally does remind me of when I was working to help young guys and organize programs, and invariably some chud would send me a 20 page manifesto about how bad women are. Okay, fine bro, feel what you want, but why should this change what I’m trying to do right now. Deal with your personal frustrations on your own time.
You referenced liberalism (Mamdani) as a goal for your future. What you’re experiencing right now is all thanks to liberalism. You’re not helping anyone by fighting for the status quo.
An easy start would be reading Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti.
The Democrats are not your allies, unless you’re an old, rich, white dude. Then they’re your best bud.
A number of people here have no idea what they’re writing about, because they’re not actually from here. I saw some asshole yesterday holding up John Brown as a successful model of how a new American civil war should be fought, lol.
John Brown. If I could find it again I’d screenshot it. This is all just “let’s you and him fight” nonsense.
The number of people on Lemmy alone who will go into frothing rage when you tell them that we’re not about to have a civil war at all actually, at least not this century, tells me a lot about either how uneducated our population is, or how many people really, really get off to cosplaying as Americans online, and think they have even a fleeting idea of what daily life is like here.
Help isn’t coming. Revolution isn’t happening. But we’ve been here before in history, we can turn it around again if enough people work together.
Truth. The fact of the matter is Minneapolis is winning, or ICE would not now be there, Pam Bondi would not be issuing ultimatums to Tim Walz demanding Minnesota voter lists, Gnome would not be issuing faked videos and pictures of big guns with false narratives even as she and Bovino are casting arou9nd the rest of DHS for volunteers to come to the Twin Cities, etc. These cosplatriots are ignoring the finer points, like how ICE has been hitting the more rural parts of MN because the neighborhood networks are making it SO hard to round up anyone at all anymore.
Given the timing of all these comments, I don’t think it’s just a casual effort, but they’re barking up the wrong tree, lol.
You are 100% right: we’ve been here before, and we CAN win this if people work together. Minnesotans learned from GF, and they are leading the way. I literally could not be more proud of Minnesotans than I am right now.
I am seeing a real surge in party-line belligerence emerging everywhere online, once again in an election year. Weird how such a far-left site like Lemmy suddenly has so many people going to bat for establishment Democrats. Makes you go “Hmnn.”
I don’t think it matters either way, I feel like everyone is fed up and the administration has waaay overreached and forgotten about the sheer scale of the US and the states. States hold all the power. When states like Minnesota and others decide they’re done being pushed around by the federal government, they will start organizing a pushback and remind DC that the federal government works for the states, not the other way around. It may be a ways off still, but the momentum is increasing towards a head.
And yes, the administration is absolutely floundering right now, they have no idea how to put this all back in the tube, they thought they would have a future secured by now, it’s why they parade JD Vance around every month, desperately trying to make him seem “cool and bad” like Trump was to the right, but he comes off fake and political and people haaate him on the right. He’s everything they rejected when they devoted their blood and souls to Trump. They know when Trump finally is reclaimed by the loam and topsoil that there’s no safety net and there won’t be immunity anymore, much less electoral mandate.
Everything is racing towards a finale, one way or another there’s going to be a massive shift in the country in short order. I don’t know if it will be after the mid-terms or after Trump is found slumped over his nuggets, but it will happen.
You put it very well. I’ve been feeling the race to the finale for a while now, and of course there’s been January, but yeah. It’s going to blow. And then it is going to be very different.
Beyond what you’ve pointed out, the only new thing I’ve noticed are obviously foreign accounts wanting to talk about a renewed version of the events of 1860-65 (I’m specifically not using the term) while claiming the Constitution allows for this sort of “succession” and “national divorse” [sic] but when challenged they drop right off and refuse to engage on anything but that specific talking point. (Along with weird account stuff, like the language patterns of more than one person posting on it, typical paid behavior.) Going by the way they don’t care what is said as long as anything is said about those events, I’m guessing they just want to normalize the discussion of it. I refuse and start talking about how magnificent Minnesota is, and wonder out loud why we would want to get rid of a great state when the problem is one pedo in the white house. And then I ask about Putin, lol. The last one I asked about the $500 million from stolen Venezuelan oil that rump parked in Qatar and told him I wanted to know his views on that; strangely, I have not heard back.
Yeah, I’ve noticed about the establishment Democrat thing as well. The problem is that they lost my respect when they ended the shutdown, so I haven’t really been paying any attention to comments pumping them, though I probably should be: if they are using the same social media manipulation apparatus as others now it’s worth noting. Whether it’s socially “acceptable” or technically legal or not, it’s a corrupt thing to do, a marker of having left the conversation in favor of trying to shape it. Just in terms of actual candidates my eyes are on the progressives now.
Also in recent discussion, FauxLiving pointed out something similar that could be added to your running list of “Things About to Blow Up” and that is a brewing war over on r/Conservative between the 2Aers and the rest, because they don’t like what they’re hearing out of the administration about how “Alex Pretti lost his gun rights by carrying to a protest.” Even the NRA is shaking in its boots over that one, lol. That too is, as Faux pointed out, playing with fire.
But yes. We are heading toward an inescapable finale of some kind. And while I agree with everything you said, I almost suspect the final crisis will not come from here, as strange as that may seem. I think it will come from the other side of the world, if/when Putin finds his days limited and realizes he will have failed utterly at building his great Russkiy Mir. I think if that happens, the day he understands that he will have utterly failed in the one thing that motivates him, the West will feel a Leviathan’s tail we never saw coming. If we’re lucky, someone sane will just put a bullet in his head first. Or not. But as crazy as the West has become, don’t forget the East just yet.
Your comment is great, a pleasure to read. Thank you for taking the time to write it.