arrow74 @ arrow74 @lemm.ee

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Because it makes so much more sense to abstain from voting so now your vote is for fascism as opposed to picking the non-fascist.

It's peak denial of reality

That's exactly why it was insulting. It's basically saying "I'm sorry you can't afford a house, but the stock market is great!"

The economy was/is abysmal for the average American. School is unaffordable, housing is unaffordable, and food is becoming increasingly unaffordable.

When they were saying the economy was good, they were saying stocks were up. Which mostly benefits the wealthiest.

I bet Trump will use this as an excuse to leave NATO either way. He's been wanting to for a while

I still swallowed my pride and voted for her anyway, but I've never been so insulted as when I heard the "greatest economy ever" line over and over.

Don't take all the blame from the US. We didn't have to be Israel's bitch

I'd hope so. I'd imagine at least 100 people are giving a dollar

That's how it was meant to work. The president didn't get to order wars like this until after the 1940s.

Congress should only allow the president to act alone only if the homeland is directly attacked by another nation. Not a terrorist from another country, bona fide military forces. And maybe a handful of limited exceptions that directly impact US soil.

Otherwise we should deliberate and take time to think before getting involved in foreign wars. We have no right to try to police the world and it's a massive waste of resources

So the US, Israel, and Germany have been directly involved in this conflict thus far.

Russia is currently in a war with Ukraine as we know, and has announced their support of Iran. North Korea has been sending troops to this conflict. US and much of western Europe is already involved in some way.

China has been reported sending some kind of undisclosed aid to Iran already.

Currently unrelated but Pakistan and India just had a border skirmish. Pakistan does border Iran.

There's a lot of instability and World Wars worth of countries involved already. It truly wouldn't take much to start connecting some of these conflicts. If that happens it gets much bigger

Obviously he won't do the right thing as Peter's puppet. But he has a very good chance of becoming Peter.

I'm only bringing it up because of how he looked on this talk. Man looked like he was gonna throw up, but that's all speculation

This is true, but I'm particularly interested in Vance's opinions right now. He's next in line if the geriatric bastard ever kicks the bucket.

If he dumps the MAGA grift that would be good news in the long run. I don't expect him to, but at this point it would be nice

Did it look like Vance was actually disturbed by this? He looked off more than usual.

He made his bed, but I wonder if he's having regrets

I'm betting they use the "punishment for a crime" clause that allows slavery and begin selling undocumented immigrants to the highest bidder.

I wouldn't put full blown slave auctions past these people

Usually I agree when it's regular citizens critiquing other regular citizens for not starting an armed rebellion. I find that line of thinking disingenuous.

But we should have higher expectations of our elected officials. Congressmen have power and they are expected to use it to benefit their constituents.

If this was about affordable housing you could easily utilize limited parcels of land adjacent to towns and build a few high density apartments with priority housing for federal workers, since these land management agencies typically already do have employee housing. Allow HUD to manage it for non-employees.

Done, no need to sell anything and they'll likely make money.

This could be done using very little acreage and have a huge impact on affordability in rural communities. Even adding 100 new apartments could be a big help and have such a small footprint.

There are solutions, but these people just want more fossil fuels

Let's be fair only about 33% of the country gets erect.

An additional 15% support him because they are convinced democrats eat babies. This group goes back and forth on whether or not they like his policies, but ultimately support them.

Then about 5-10% cannot make up their mind, and flop back and forth. Typically if this group thinks the economy is good they side with the incumbent if they think it is bad they side with the other side.

I hard disagree with what you said, but you are also correct with the political situation.

A minority party in a normal world shouldn't only be obstructionist. They should ideally all work together to make the best outcomes for the constituents. This is a functional democracy.

Now that our democracy is in absolute decay on the path to a fascist takeover (if not already there), you are absolutely right.

Maybe pedantic, but I feel like it's important to remember how things should function.

It's a bad agreement to make. If a nuclear nation tries to make a deal with a non-nuclear country to not develop a weapon that country needs to double their nuclear program funding.

The US doesn't respect their agreements and Russia clearly hasn't. At best nuclear nations just want to keep the non-nuclear nation subservient