NoneOfUrBusiness

He’s actively being aggressive to allies, now. Big(ger) difference.

Who almost all happen to be white people. My point is that to the vast majority of the planet, Trump’s bullying is how America always acts. Trump is just bringing that to the people who thought they’d always be on the evil empire’s good side, and their response to that is to hypocritically cry about the monster they helped create. When you look at the wider world, the US is as evil and domineering as it has always been.

I wish I was delusional enough to believe this.

now that he’s making the US an aggressor too.

… Now? The US has been an aggressor for a good eighty years at this point. The only thing Trump is doing different is that he’s pissing off white people.

I love this man('s incompetence as the leader of American imperialism).

I mean fair enough tbh; it is none of America’s business as long as nukes don’t fly.

Fewer bodies for the American war machine is always a good thing.

Okay admittedly that wasn’t as clear as it could’ve been but I meant shitshow in terms of viability as a democratic society, so for example democratic norms, rule of law. separation of power and public faith in democratic institutions. Obama and especially Biden left those in shambles, which is why Trump has been able to get as far as he did.

The point I’m trying to make is that Trump managed to make things so much worse because he came at the end of a chain reaction that started around Nixons era. Nixon was restrained by a robust democratic system and society and therefore his shittiness was aimed at sabotaging that system so his successors would have a free hand to ruin everything, so while the shittiness was much less obvious that doesn’t make Nixon better than Trump, just less flashy. We can’t understand Trump without understanding the more than half a century of sabotage of the democratic system by both sides of the aisle (more so by republicans) that led up to him, with special attention to Nixon, Reagan, GWB and Obama.

Both have nuclear weapons.

Because he inherited a mostly functional democratic society and not the shitshow Trump took over from Obama and later Biden.

Uh… What did you think conservatives stood for again? Conservatism has always been about putting wealth in the hands of the few and scapegoating vulnerable people to distract the masses; everything else is camouflage.

You’re welcome to go take it up with the devs on Lemmy.ml.

Don’t forget to praise Stalin first.

We don’t have time for that.

Why? What’s the deadline? If you mean to stop fascism then either way fascism isn’t going to be stopped at the ballot box; parties and elections are day after stuff.

Wait what? Who did Liz Truss assassinate? I’m also not aware of Trump assassinating any heads of state.

I’m talking about a hostile takeover, we make a big enough faction and we can take the party, along with the infrastructure and less involved voters

That’d be nice, but my point is that the party will fight you tooth and nail if you try to do that, and if you choose to work within the party they’ll have a lot more leverage over you via party bylaws, appeals to party unity, etc, and they’ll use that leverage to, for example, dilute your political program and drive a rift between your base and leadership and between more and less dedicated members of the movement. These aren’t trivial concerns; handled improperly (or maybe even if handled properly) they could very well spell the end of your attempted takeover.

Why do you think they’re trying to kick out Higgs? It’s not because they think he’s more dangerous as an independent

Because he has a high-ranking office within the party and doesn’t have wide national appeal. Also note that Hoggs isn’t a leftist; he’s a liberal who simply wants Democrat gerontocrats gone. He’s running a completely different path from the one we’re talking about here, and still there’s a good chance he gets kicked out and proves my point that the DNC won’t tolerate change from within.

The Democratic party is right there, and it stands for nothing.

That’d be nice, but no. The Democratic Party stands for keeping leftists out of power and, if possible, keeping neoliberals in power. It’s a shit platform, but it’s there and it means they’ll fight you tooth and nail (or simply kick you out, as they’re trying to do to David Hogg) if you try to bring even center-left politics to the party.

Another neoliberal.

And both she and liberals will still keep defending the party after it.

K.

*Too bad Democrats suck. Let’s not forget who caused this.