They might have some things to say about that if they could read

Are they wrong?

Welcome to Lemmy. Outside of niche subjects and local content I think this place has everything reddit does but with less bullshit. If people keep making the switch in large numbers we’ll build all those communities too and be better off for it.

I don’t think phrasing is the problem. I think the problem is a lack of leaders willing to stand behind it. Democrats are trying to pander to rich people while simultaneously tapping into the anger at rich people and that just comes off as disingenuous at best. I think voters will turn out if we give them a reason to. I think Democrats know that too and that’s why they fight harder to stop progressives from gaining influence than they do to curb the existing influence of the rich.

They may be unrealistic but that says more about this administration than it does about the protests. That’s pretty basic shit imo

That may be true. Still, don’t let them make you afraid. That’s the goal. They can’t arrest all of us.

For posterity, fuck you Donald Trump and fuck you Elon Musk. Send the goons after me and prove you have thinner skin than an apple.

I’m not worried about someone showing up at my door over upvoting posts on the internet. We all just need to decide that if they start doing that we shoot them in the face on the porch. Sooner or later guys will stop showing up. There’s way more of us than there are of them and that’s the realization they want to suppress more than anything. Don’t let the ones who really should be afraid make you afraid.

Good. Gentlemanly warfare is a ridiculous concept. If someone invades your country you fuck them up in every possible way you can. Send those Russians home with chemical burns and nerve damage. They’re not going to stop murdering civilians so why play nice with them?

You think you’re as embarrassed as you could be? We’re just getting started. You can’t even see rock bottom from where we are now.

Do you think this is new information to me? I don’t understand what your point is.

Will they? They should but I’m not convinced the EU has the will to make that happen.

Ask a Palestinian how they feel about your sympathy

They won the election and made large gains with pretty much every demographic so in a very real sense, yes it is.

Get your army guys off my side Kevin. Mom said this half of the room is mine.

This issue is a great example of the insane double think that most of Europe has about the US. We are too involved in world affairs until someone needs to take military action and then all of a sudden we’re the only ones who can address it. Ukraine is your neighbor, not ours. You should be the ones funding Ukraine’s defense because if you don’t Russia is on your doorstep. Ukraine should have so much money that it doesn’t matter what the US does but instead all of Europe is looking on like “it’s a shame a country on the other side of the world isn’t doing enough to stop this”.

Edit: lots of people proving my point for me below. Downvote if you like but Europe is gonna have to step up or watch Ukraine fall. There isn’t a third option no matter how much you wish there was.

And yet accelerated genocide is the option that was chosen.

Look, I get the argument you’re making. The problem is that it hinges entirely on accepting a premise that isn’t based in reality. Progress, specifically as it relates to harm reduction, doesn’t happen instantaneously. It never has. You take the wins you can get and then push for the next step. You can be mad about that, and I would argue that we all should be, but it’s not going to change the way things work. In this case you’ve let idealism get in the way of actual tangible improvement. Even if you disagree with that characterization you can’t dispute the fact that you’ve at least helped shut the door on the potential for improvement. If you can find a way to rationalize that in your head to make you feel like the good guy then I understand why you would want to take that path, but do you honestly believe the people of Gaza take solace in the fact that you had good intentions? I’d wager they don’t give a shit how you frame this in your mind. They’re just thinking about what a Trump presidency means for the future of this conflict and that isn’t good by any stretch of the imagination.