MortimerB 🇨🇦

I can totally imagine heavyweights like Kid Rock or Jordan Peterson being sympathetic to the idea 😂

No guns?
No (subtle) rascism?

But traditional Republican voters?

I think there is actually some truth to this.
If you grew up influenced by a doctrine of hate, gun culture and rascism would you expect anything else?

I'm almost certain many of these people grew up with domestic violence.

I hope it will be enough.
I hope America can turn this around.
I hope I'm too pessimistic.

And I wish you all the best! 🤞

I can agree with that. Point taken.

Irony is dead.

For context:
Not a single far-right party in the world (of a democratic country) has approval ratings as high as Trumps, but everyone is (rightfully) worried about right-wing parties in Europe.

So these numbers need context.
Hitler only had an approval of 33%, for example.

Alright. Yes, you should celebrate your wins and I guess there are reasons for optimism.
Sorry for being so negative about it.

I personally see the data from a non-american perspective and don't share the same "excitement" about it as you do.

But they are not precipitously declining.
They are almost the same as 4 months ago, despite all the outrageous things that happened.

This is extremely worrying, but everyone is celebrating a 1% drop in approval as if this is a football game. These numbers are presented in a totally wrong way.

I don't get over the fact that America keeps celebrating that more than 1/3 of them vote for fascism.

None of this is good.
It should terrify everyone.
Tens of Millions of Americans want a fascist regime that kills people at will.
This is nothing to celebrate.

It will be short lived most likely, but there will be celebrations all over the world and the right will be so pissed, it will be glorious.

My question as well: How exactly does this explain the bombing of fisher boats?

As if she would be some kind of bad apple.
In reality she's the perfect reflection of the entire GOP: arrogant, ignorant, self-righteous and I would argue consumed by violence fantasies.
Despicable people all-around.

Fair point.

Unfortunately I will get a firearms license instead, because I need to be prepared if your country decides to invade mine.

The opposite is true.
Everyone and their mother should voice their hate for ICE.
It needs to overwhelm them.

Censoring yourself is a win without a fight for them.

No offense, but Americans did this since I can remember.
I was more than once lectured about the laws in the country I lived in my whole life by arrogant Americans.

You're right about the lesson here, but Americans are the ones who missed the class. I will not let an American lecture me ever again.

We stopped laughing a long time ago.

Canceled my NYT subscription long time ago.

It's just another propaganda-arm of fascism now.

Honestly, it doesn't really matter.
Whoever falls for these lies still at this point is so deeply indoctrinated, nothing will convince them of reality anymore.

In my view, anything that makes the propaganda obvious like this, helps to make the passive masses more aware of the dangers the US is in.

Interesting little anecdote about the last name 'Hitler' in Germany (where I grew up):
Obviously nobody wanted to keep that last name after WWII so most families changed to 'Hiller'.
There are quite a few Hillers in Germany - I went to school with a girl with that name without knowing the backstory.

70 Million brain-dead Americans (that's just 0.8% of the world's population) make an idiotic choice during an election and the rest of the world has to suffer the consequences.

I hate MAGA with every fiber of my being.

That would be plausible if there would be a noticeable variation between the polls, but the established polling agencies showing a consistent approval rating around 40% (with a maximum variation of 3 points in both directions).
There is simply no way to manipulate polls consistently this way.

And yet, millions of innocent people are paying the price (and I'm definitely not refering to Americans here).

Yeap, still 40% approval rating for the fascist in chief.

Let me know if any real change happens.
So far it's the same meaningless pearl clutching as usual.

Yeap, Trump will veto it - this will change nothing.
Thanks for the symbolic gesture, though.

We are the profit.
The aim is to own our skills, our thoughts, our free will.
The investment will be recouped by taking our freedoms.
If they can't replace human labour with AI (which they try desperately), they will use AI to make us slaves.

And everyone cheers them on. Happy slaves everywhere.