tabarnaski @ tabarnaski @sh.itjust.works

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Huh. I just saw that you need to be 30 to run for Senate in the US...

Please ignore my first comment :)

You'd have a hard time to demonstrate this is not discrimination against old people.

You may be right... I just wish I could be as optimistic as you are. The political opposition to Trump's changes is very, very weak, and with all the money ICE has now, I'm afraid any popular movement will be swiftly repressed.

Let's hope US citizens are as resilient as they believe they are.

There are many counterexamples to the third reich. China and Russia have been police states for a long time, with no end in sight.

This is actually a good argument, but the problem is that the other side don't give a dick about rationality, the rule of law or anything that looks like a coherent political opinion. Democrats are still trying to win using rules that were thrown out the window by the GOP in January.

Dude had a burnout before it was cool.

"Championing the status quo" is not how I would describe what Republicans are doing right now.

Aren't there primaries for the Dems?

I'm guessing librarians know how to read more than many other categories of federal workers.

Those are two different problems.

Years and years of politicians moving the goalposts further right, letting the rich get richer, allowing more money into politics and disenfranching voters is not something you reverse in a single election, and it won't change until ordinary people get into politics more and at every level.

But if you vote for Trump or abstain from voting, you're encouraging it.

I think his top priority was to avoid confrontation. He has experience with dumb politicians from his time at the bank of England.

Carney had to use a word Trump understands.

But remember folks, calling this a genocide is antisemitic.

They're more afraid of MAGA than they're afraid of ordinary citizens. Nothing will change until it's the other way around.

Same logic with antivax people.

There is nothing, nothing in the US news cycle from the last 2 months that don't point to a totalitarian regime slowly infiltrating every aspect of civil society.

You guys need to fight back harder. Bullies are cowards, they will backpedal if they feel resistance. Harvard understood this.

Never underestimate the destruction that stupid people in position of power can do.

This, 100%. Fanning the flames of outrage only works on people who are already on your side.

"This is not what I voted for"

This is why anti-American rhetoric is being pushed to you

As a Canadian, I can assure you the anti-american sentiment does not come from any rhetoric being pushed. The actions of trump and co are quite enough.