Agreed, we must all hang together…

Reading your post I am reminded of the contempt I felt for the priority police.

Lemmy isn’t exactly “the left”

I’m sure I wasn’t the only one not disagreeing with the genocide that made the calculated decision to vote straight ticket dem anyway.

Damn, that slaps.

If another jan 6 happens the capitol police should join in.

And the DC metro.

I doubt they would, but they should.

Lefties supported Kamala. I dunno where you are getting that they didn’t.

He took way longer to do it, but that’s a good summary. He left office because the prez could only serve two terms but had congress transfer most of the power to the prime ministership and he got that job, so they had a puppet president for 4 years. Then they said he just can’t serve more than 2 terms consecutively so they restored the power of the presidency and he returned to office and they modified the constitution to remove the two term limit and here we are.

The current head of the national intelligence service is a Russian Asset. She’s probably feeding Putin approved information to Trump, along with Putin himself in their private phone calls.

Military power and wealth have an irrisisatable pull. China can still make deals and do diplomacy. Even North Korea can cut deals with Russia. Russia and Iran work together. One nations pariah state is anothers opportunity.

The rest of the world will hedge their bets, but if the US negotiators start talking sense again after the trump admin they will attend the meetings and make agreements hoping for the best. International law people live and breathe the hypocrisy of tyrants and democrats alike.

The optimism of the 1990s is dead, but that was a lie even then. The US reputation as the “leader of the free world” is dead. It was a self appointed title anyway.

The world will keep spinning and deals will still be made by non idiots.

If the predictions in this thread of a hot civil war in the US prove true, then deals will be made with whatever comes out of that.

I hope not, but I am not optimistic about the next few years/decades

20 years of progress?

12 years is optimistic. Every Republican has been a mistake going back to Nixon, but the US is a fundamentally conservative country, we want corruption in the highest halls of power, and our voters will keep coming back to it.

Thank you for the clarification.

They don’t realize that… Yet.

“electric vehicles factories were built” “the government had nothing to do with it.”

These people deserve trump, Amazon, and poverty if they can’t see the connection between the inflation reduction act and electric vehicle factories.

That’s the only good thing about democracy. You generally get the government you deserve.

Americans are pissed as all hell. Michael Moore said in 2016 “the American people will throw Donald Trump into Washington like a Molotov Cocktail.”

We do not agree who is at fault. 40% the voters think it’s brown people and queer people and about 30% of them think it’s the wealthy.

Millennials voted for trump and Republicans more than zoomers. There is plenty of blame to go around.

Too late by all accounts.

This author assumes that anyone gives a crap about “the truth” or what bills do or don’t pass.

Do nothing/break shit and lie about it delivered the Republicans a trifecta. Why would it anyone expect that to stop working?

If that were true, trump wouldn’t have won his first term or his second.

Republicans can rest easy, they will forget by 2028, 2030 at the latest.

That’s not what the science says.

Trans women are, on average, taller, and tall athletes do better, on average, than shorter athletes, but there differences stop there, so long as HRT has had it’s chance to run.

And cis women can be tall too, that’s not a trans advantage, it’s a hight advantage.

But even HRT requirements is the compromise position. It’s an easy compromise to make because the effects are dramatic and bring us slightly below cis averages and nearly all trans women desire to undergo hormone replacement anyway.

Underneath that though, is an argument from principle: are trans women… Women?

If we are women, and we enter women’s competitions, and we win, then where is the problem?

A woman competed, and a woman won. Tall women are not banned from basketball or track despite the obvious physical advantages they have over their shorter competitors. Michael Phelps was not banned from swimming, he was celebrated, despite having physiological advantages over nearly all his competition.

Banning trans women from sports is an implicit threat to our identity. We are not women. We are something else. When a trans woman wins a sporting competition, it is somehow not fair to the… Real women, the cis women.

That is the point is this. Anything else is window dressing.

I can’t deny there are dirty jobs that nobody would do on a lark or as a hobby or even a calling.

A busted sewer is a community emergency. You can ask the infirm, the pregnant, the elderly “what are you willing to do to support our efforts to fix the sewer?” And the answer might be cook some large meals, care for the children, or take someone’s regular job for a week

Yes, everyone will be side eyeing young, strong, men (and maybe women) to take the lead on fixing the sewer. There might be promises to make it up to them later. A fifty year old with carpentry experience might offer to expand a house install new cabinets if they will help with the sewer. I do think there are things that others can do to support a major effort like that.