I started looking through my post history to see if there were any swarmy posts I could use to meme about how all the support for Palestine has virtually vanished.

The best I could find was this one post

It was close but not worth the vitriol I would get for it. I was curious about what the person I was arguing with was up to, though.

Here's a link to the entire argument:

https://lemmy.world/comment/13093272

What I found was better than any meme. Turns out I was arguing with a Harris voter. Despite the fact they wanted to get in the mud with me, on election day, they were at the polls fighting fascism. I don't think anything I said or did contributed to this outcome but this election cycle made me think all people were straight up, dumb. Turns out I'm dumb, for not having more faith in people.

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I wasn't fully convinced before that Putin has Trump in his pocket, but after that stunt, I am convinced that he is under Putin's thumb. Trump and co. could have had marching orders from Putin to do exactly that. Also, this is something that Putin have done and would do, publicly humiliating someone on live TV.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26567894

The AP had one too.

I don't believe it. I don't believe the federal sector is responsible for the bulk of the black middle class. That's absurd.

So many black people in so many professions, every profession possible, and this kind of article comes out? It gets those Trump/Musk idiots crowing. And it's so obviously wrong.

I gather that congress required the creation of USAID and provided funds for it through the Foreign Assistance Act. Through that act the President is given power (and requirement?) to execute the mission, with a lot of rules to guide the execution. So if the USAID agency is being dismantled, is the President not still required to fulfill the mission of the Foreign Assistance Act?

Some examples from the text of the Foreign Assistance Act:

Title I — Development Loan Fund

The President shall establish a fund to be known as the "Development Loan Fund " to be used by the President to make loans pursuant to the authority contained in this title. (b) The President is authorized to make loans payable as to principal and interest in United States dollars on such terms and conditions as he may determine, in order to promote the economic development of less developed

I think it has become pretty clear That corporations have completely taken over the U.S.

I have wondered what their end game was, and now I got it. They don't care about politics or policy. All they wanted was full complete access to the most powerful item America has.

It's Economic power.

They see how America "controls" most of the economies of the world. THAT is the power they crave. They HAVE to add that extra zero to their balance sheet no matter what. Tariffs against Mexico, Canada and China are a test run. To see how well their expectations are met, after all nobody who matters is gonna suffer right?

Unfortunately, they forgot one thing. Most other democratic counties are still democratic. Sure we all have corporate penetration at some level, but WE don't have their personally chosen puppet master standing behind our world leader. And we especially don't like it when someone is telling us what to do.

Canada is now officially looking to break as many financial ties with amer

We can try a criminal case with the slimmest possible amount of information. Why is bad faith action not criminal in modern democracy. It amounts to fraud of the highest degree. To me the most blatant form is those elected representatives who changed political party after election, but includes any elected official acting contrary to the platform they were elected on.

Democracy cannot survive this kind of fraud.

The Democrats are still playing old-school politics and it cost them the election. The Republicans have apparently given over to the oligarchs. A party that actually represents the working class could break the stranglehold that the two-party system has on us.

I remember the Hilary PUMA voters protesting Obama’s victory in 2008, but I don’t remember them saying it was rigged.

We’re years removed from 2016 and 2020, and yet both the far left and far right are accusing democrats of rigging elections. NOBODY cares about who dropped out and endorsed someone, or the media wanting one candidate over the other, or Dominion Voting Machines, or the fallacy that illegals are voting. It’s getting ridiculous, the people who vote are ADULTS who can think for themselves.

If anything, you could make an argument that the system was rigged against Hillary, she got more votes than Bernie, then went onto the general and got more votes than Trump, and didn’t become president. If this was vice versa, you’d never hear the end of it from the Bernie or Trump cults online.

If it gets america out of the war trade I'm for it but this is just another example how russia has perfectly positioned itself to deconstruct america as a global power.

Republicans cozy up to them thinking they are like minded and if things got bad america could never fail. Except by every indication Republicans are morons and putin knows so he's robbing them blind. The greatest threat to America is it has given all its power to the stupidest people on the face of the planet.

Recent events in #politics triggered me to write a manifesto on the values of #Democracy and what we can to do preserve them.

Title. It seems like the police just chose a random person to have someone to prosecute.