It will matter. Even if the leadership is backward as shit, those guys still need engineers, doctors and other skilled workers.

Thanks for reminding me why I hate blue MAGA.

It was effective at kicking non-whites out of the country. You know, exactly the thing Trump is doing.

Between 2009 and 2016, the Barack Obama administration oversaw the deporting of a record 2.4 million undocumented immigrants who had entered the United States, earning him the nickname “Deporter-In-Chief” by Janet Murguía, the president of National Council of La Raza.[16][17] According to ICE data, about 40% of those deported by ICE in 2015 had no criminal conviction, while a majority of those convicted were guilty of minor charges.

X. is what Lemmy uses for numbered lists. So
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To avoid that you could write 400\. rather than 400.

Wait, unanimous? As in 100-0? Did Bernie vote for this?

The USA is turning into one of those countries it would invade, to restore human rights and establish democracy get cheap oil and resources.

FTFY. The US has plenty of oil too, so the math checks out.

There’s a distinct difference between not fixing all of one’s problems and making those problems worse.

Hint: Don’t out yourself as a fascist while saying stupid things.

They are worse; the point of the meme is that the difference is one of degree and target, not kind. Trump’s America is just a worse, somewhat more brazen version of the normal America everyone seems to want to go back to.

starts throwing out non-whites all over the nation?

Remember liberals bragging about Biden deporting more people than Trump?

I mean, what makes those organizers special? They’re just people who decided to do a thing; none of what they’re doing can’t be replicated by someone else. If the problem is the organizers, then you or someone you know should be able to organize something better.

MAGA are conservatives. The distinction between a conservative and a fascist is one of degree, not kind, so the military will be radicalized and/or purged until they become MAGA if they aren’t already.

There’s no benefit in ceding ground preemptively.

There is: If you know there will be no fair elections, you know you need to find another way of resisting fascism. It seems many are banking on a blue wave to come and save the day in the midterms, so the knowledge that this won’t and can’t happen is important.

Oh Trump is definitely weak, but the progression of fascism under him is not. These two things can be true at the same time, especially because the issues he flip flops on (mostly tarrifs) aren’t actually necessary for the fascist takeover.

They would be further along if they weren’t handcuffed to a senile narcissist with one foot in the grave.

I’d say the opposite: Trump’s aggressiveness and recklessness has actually been a boon to MAGA (and a bane to everyone else). A more careful fascist might’ve actually had to win the midterms.

OTOH they have only gotten this far riding his cult of personality, once he kicks it I have a feeling the whole party will collapse into infighting and not get anything done.

I see this view a lot, but to be frank I think it’s naive. I mean, up in Canada fascists have rallied around Pierre fucking Poillievre (here’s hoping I spelled that right); these guys will take anyone as long as they can do their fascism. Fascism isn’t an artificial construct; it’s a political phenomenon that arises under certain conditions and no one person is necessary for its success once those conditions are met. That is to say: After Trump dies they’ll just find someone else, probably after a brutal and bitter internal power struggle.

Have you seen how people online react when you float the idea of strikes (or really anything beyond parades masquerading as protests) as a method of resistance? The vast majority of Americans demonstrably don’t care enough about fascism to do something about it. By the way the word isn’t “oppose;” it’s “overthrow.”

Calling Harris “vague” really does you no favors here, because while she thought she was being vague everyone knew exactly what she was going to do.

Trump has done this much in only 9 months, and he still has another 9 to find a way to never have elections again.

Small correction: He still has 14 months before the elections themselves, and another two and a half months before those elected take office, to figure it out. In other words, he’s still got ~65% of his pre-Midterms term to destroy democracy.

Centrists, both rank and file and leadership, apparently don’t care about Vote Blue No Matter Who. I sure hope this lesson will be taken to heart by progressives out there.

Mamdani is where he is because he was out there getting support for his progressive platform and making voting feel like it matters. I strongly doubt somewhere like Los Angeles or Seattle would react differently to a candidate like Mamdani showing up, but they just don’t.

It’s the Bernie-Trump pipeline working in reverse. Because offering real solutions to people’s problems works. Who woulda fucking thunk.

Gestures at 50+ years of imperialist, racist and anti-worker politics.