slickgoat @ slickgoat @lemmy.world

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Because at this time a big argument for reform would steal the air out of what is the most critical election since the 1960s.

Sorry on vacation without glasses.

Yep, Trump is a horror story.

Yeah right. Biden looked lost and uncomprehending. But sure, nobody saw a damn thing. Our eyes were lying to us. Fasenating.

Fair enough, that certainly is an opinion.

For goodness sake. It's not just the MAGA lunatics. The whole world saw the debate. People like you are asking us to disbelieve our own eyes. Being a realist doesn't make you an enemy.

Anyway, chill, the problem has been resolved and the orange ape is going down. Unity is the watchword. The only old fluck in the race in Trump.

Don't know what you are talking about. I think that the issue is now resolved. They just left things on hold for too long.

It's one of those things, strategy. If I point out an obvious flaw in the Dem's candidate, it doesn't follow that the opposition is superior. Trump can rot in hell for all I care. I don't give a tin shit about his plan or strategy. I just want the best person the Dems can find to take him down. Pretty simple really.

This is not the time for electoral reform. This is the time for voting. The only thing that will keep the orange sludge out of the White House at this point is unity.

After this dumpster fire is over, please advocate for reform.

There was a significant effort to hide Biden's disability. The upper echelons in the Dem party have a lot to answer for.

I don't think that you are picking up on my point. It's not what you want, as an American, on migrating to another western country, it's who that country wants to accept. It is extremely difficult to get residency in western countries. Being an American doesn't put you in front of the queue. It's not that we don't like Americans, it's just that you are no-one special in immigration terms. Same as if I wanted to immigrate to your country. I'm nobody special just because I have an Australian passport. I'd have to stand in the back of a very long line.

Best you work on dealing with Trump at the ballot box.

https://www.notus.org/2024-election/biden-heritage-republicans

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/trump-campaign-prepares-attack-plan-for-harris-in-case-biden-withdraws/

Damn it, I was only reading about that this morning. Now I shall have to try and find it. Give me a few.

Well, the Trump team has been panicking in anticipation of this happening. They have already started launching law suits trying to stop it. The biggest scare they had was Biden's age and that may have just vaporised?

That's the dream, maybe. But other Western countries already have a professional class. We already have doctors etc. And, Australia already has niche immigration, but we can't afford to just throw open the doors. No, you guys need to just learn to sink or swim. Or, just vote. 40 million Americans didn't bother last time. You let the hicks and boobs just steal the country from under your feet.

No need for drastic action, just a will to change.

I don't want to be overly offensive, but as someone who has watched the US slowly turn to chum over the decades, I'm not in favour of a mass immigration of Americans to other Western countries. How about you just stay at home and fix things. Most western countries don't experience the same sort of weird and dangerous political problems that are now your way of life.

Just copy what others do. Dump guns as a social artifact, tone down the worst aspects of capitalism, perhaps compulsory voting, adopt a fairer taxation system, and strengthen social security. All other western countries do this to a smaller or greater extent and none of us are perfect or have any less problems in other areas.

I'm definitely not saying that other countries are better, we are not. It's just that you definitely have particular problems and if you can't change them, you better just build that wall.

The game was lost for me when I started getting fingerprinted at certain airports. This privilege used to be reserved for suspected criminals. Now we're are all suspected criminals on a default setting.

Germany, 1933, calling.

Well, from Australia it is both fascinating and yet produces a really sad feeling for you guys. I really wish you well, but don't see a way out for you.

Secondly, what happens in the US hardly ever just stays in the US. You guys are an idea factory. But not all of them are good ideas. I hope that our institutions are trusted enough to whether the coming storm.

He means the road that has already existed in American politics for over a hundred years and now resembles a highway.