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Somebody please just nuke this whole country into a crater and put us out of our misery. We're all going to die either way; might as well make it quick.

Because they're the ones who started the fire and will do anything to try to distract people from it.

Immigration, sure, and let's just go ahead and say that Europeans are on the whole pretty lousy when it comes to race relations in general. But surely not abortion. Even accounting for the large Catholic populations in most of the Western world, there are plenty of countries that are too...

I'm still not sure what the distinction between "being part of QAnon" and "being part of Trump's fan club" even is, exactly. Nor whether the distinction, whatever it is, is of any real import.

That might have been useful advice before, but Trump is now going to have the power to pardon them both. And while I know he doesn't reward people for their loyalty, he is in the habit of using pardons to send a message and to put people he likes back into power; see Joe Arpaio.

Well, assuming he didn't declare himself dictator and cancel the 2024 election.

The first time around, there were still intelligent people willing to work for him. Especially at the very beginning when all the major appointments were getting made. He's going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel now. Hell, in that respect alone, we're a lot worse off than if he had just...

OK, next time someone says the US is the most economically backward country in the developed world, I'm pointing to South Korea and saying "second most, at least." Yeesh.

There was a poll last year showing somewhere between 60 and 70% of Americans wanting universal healthcare. Meanwhile only a minority of Democrats in Congress (and obviously 0% of Republicans) said they would vote for it. If that's not a clear sign of what's wrong with the Democratic Party and...

Including him. If he was actually interested in having a discussion, he would have attempted to contribute more than that. But like most of Trump's base, he's so convinced that he's right and that it's so self-evident that he's right that it would be a waste of time to go any more in detail than...

This is ridiculous by the way. All the way through the first Trump administration, there were self-identified conservatives regularly posting here. Just not conservatives who supported Trump. It's down to just Teufel these days, although I think the others disappeared when the forum reset (along...

Even Roddenberry knew the path to utopia isn't through peace.

Honestly, I've been avoiding even bringing up what Trump allegedly intends to do to "undesirables" because I still think whatever opinion he might have of minorities, immigrants, etc. takes a distant second to his own ego, the singular reason he wants to be President. If anyone's going to get...

No, you didn't. A Trump presidency will be good for Trump, and maybe those at the top who kiss his ass the most, and everyone else will be left to fend for themselves, at best. The man has no idea how to govern, nor does he care, because everything he has ever done in his life has been solely...

What a surprise, what the people actually want as an alternative to right-wing populism is left-wing populism. Now if we can only find more than two or three politicians who actually support such policies and are capable of winning an election. And, so long as I'm wishful thinking, it'd be nice...

Unfortunately the far right are also the Nazis. And everyone in between is spineless and ineffectual at doing anything about either problem, at best, and enablers of at least one of the above at worst. *shrug* What can ya do.

I have made my position clear in the past, but just to reiterate: Every single person who participated in putting Trump into power in 2016 or 2024 has committed what I consider to be a capital crime and, in a just universe, would be treated accordingly.

So, are we expecting him to confess that Trump won because of voting fraud? Or to be so petty as to accuse us of fraud because he didn't win by more?

Define "get away with." Hard for there to be consequences when the people you're pissing off no longer have a way to remove you from office.

Unfortunately the marketplace of ideas is like the free market itself. In the absence of any system that forcibly stamps down any players who become too powerful, the natural tendency is toward consolidation of power from the many to the few. People often speak of late-stage capitalism; maybe...