The simple reality is that it is not possible to maintain good relations with the US. Donald Trump is an idiot and a fascist whose agenda is driven by his whims as much as anything else. Starmer could bend over backwards to appease His Orange Majesty on every issue and Trump would still fuck the UK just because.
And nobody who refused to accept it the first time will accept it now.
Unless there’s a coup when the Supreme Court finds against Trump and he ignores them and Republicans keep Congress from holding him accountable the only way the Court will let them.
This reflects one of the many flaws with the logic of people who thought Trump was only going to go after the criminals.
The thing about criminals is, they don’t follow the law. It’s in their interest to not be easy to find.
So, ICE, whose job it is to make Trump look good to his base by deporting brown people, don’t go after murderers or rapists, because that is hard and they’re barely qualified to begin with. They go after the people who are abiding by the law, whose exact legal status is unclear because our whole fucking system works against its own interests. They go against the people who are legal who Trump has stripped some status from. Because it’s easy to find them and they’re less likely to put up a fight.
They will continue to die and let their children die to spite the rest of us.
Why? What other reading is there?
With all the screeching Republicans do about Democratic corruption, you think Trump would treat prosecuting Adams like a slam dunk.
It really is like Trump is embracing corruption as a matter of policy.
Two thirds of Americans voted Trump or didn’t vote. “Most Americans” don’t appear to give a fuck.
Also, “failing resonates with Democratic voters” does not have the makings of a great slogan.
We didn’t have 4/5 of state legislatures when we had Congress.
If they don’t get that it isn’t acceptable now, nothing is going to convince them.
I don’t get why failing even more would make the Democratic Party look good.
Do the people in these comment sections not grasp how Constitutional amendments work?
It requires two thirds of the Senate. Which Democrats have not had in the past half century.
That is why Democrats didn’t try it when they had a majority. Because it would not work.
People really just want an excuse to blame Democrats for everything.
Reddit being popular is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy.
When you get right down to it: people don’t care that Reddit is selling their information, that the site itself is a piece of garbage, that running the site requires a bunch of no-life weirdos whose numbers will only increase going forward and whose power will likewise, or that the design actively encourages bots to the point of disincentivizing actual human beings from using it.
They want their memes, they want their news, they want their niche little interest subs and they want their porn. The simple fact is that lemmy is a smaller version of Reddit with fewer options and to the majority of people who don’t care about their data or the objectively dogshit running of the site, there is no reason to cross over to Lemmy.
Until Reddit takes a Musk-type turn into being totally unuseable, lemmy will only see a trickle of users who are burned by Reddit.
Either Trump will boot Musk out because he can’t stand the perception that someone is giving him orders or this will be literally the only time that he has not done the stupidly petty thing, because the one thing you can rely on Donald Trump to do is the worst possible thing.
Donald Trump isn’t just evil. Donald Trump is stupid.
Not only does his agenda not further the interests of America, it doesn’t further the professed values of the Republican Party.
The sole guiding principle of the Republican Party is: Hurt the right people.
I never thought leopards would eat my face!
I was banned, so I cannot.
Does being rich turn people into rapists or do a disproportionate number of rapists get rich?
It’s like one of those Disney rip-off cartoons that somehow has a thousand sequels.
As someone who only recently joined Lemmy (as a result of getting booted from Reddit) it ultimately comes down to it being bigger.
You can talk regularly about series have been over for a decade. Just about any niche interest has a vibrant community. The reality is the average person doesn’t care about it selling our data, putting a fingerprint on our gear one step above spyware, it being overrun with bots, every level of administration being dominated by megalomaniacs. If you just want to look through some stuff you’re interested in while you’re bored, it serves a purpose that lemmy unfortunately can’t at it’s size.
Because it’s harder to kill someone by hitting them with it.
But in all seriousness, you can go a lot farther, a lot faster, across much worse terrain and weather in a car than a bike.