In shock announcement, Trump says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip

[tommysoda@lemmy.world]

I did my taxes the day I got my tax forms because I'm afraid Elon Musk is gonna determine that tax refunds from last year are not "efficient."

My return was only like $300, but imma need all I can get with how things are going.

[grundlbutter@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

America has a FTTP voting system, so time has distilled its presidential election into to 2 real choices. This was one, and the milquetoast status quo party is the other. By that merit, not voting for one party helps the other party, though not as much as voting for the opposite. In our case, the opponent of the milquetoast party is the crypto Nazi party.

I'm not the other person you replied to, but personally I think there was a clear choice between the two candidates in regard to which one was better for the Palestinians given their track records. Granted, maybe not good enough in these voters opinions, given that they enabled a genocide in the first place and refused to swiftly correct that action.

Besides billionaires and straight, white, conservative, "Christian" men, I honestly don't know who benefits from a Trump/Musk presidency as compared to a Harris/Walz presidency.

I get that democrats weren't good enough, they rarely are in my opinion either, but I do consider them better than this. And yep, she and Biden enabled a genocide, no argument there. I even empathize with those that feel adamant that either we have justice all, or justice for none. But I think we are a little frustrated that in the fatalistic protest, Kamala's opponents ensured the doom of not just Palestinians, but women, LGBT+ folk, and likely many more.

But hey, price of eggs and all too, right?

[shawn1122@lemm.ee]

I mean if you're going to dog on minorities then you gotta dog on the white people he has majority support from.

[obinice@lemmy.world]

At this rate I expect their second civil war to have kicked off by April, should be quite an event!

[pennomi@lemmy.world]

You can be vocal about it and still vote for the lesser evil in order to reduce harm and save lives.

[goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org]

Got it. It's all the fault of people, not the inept dnc for this situation.

[drzoidberg@lemmy.world]

Honest question. Are you stupid, or mentally disabled?

[_stranger_@lemmy.world]

Australia is west of New Zealand...

does that make Australia the undying lands?!

[jeebaichow@lemmy.world]

Well, this is involuntary ethnic relocation for the sake of American real estate tycoon wannabes. Not genocide at all. Nosireebob.

[shepherdpie@midwest.social]

"It's a fucking war that's why we need to give them bombs, arms, jets, cash, and our full support. It's our only option"

Look, I get it, and I'd be grieving too if I openly supported such atrocities, and it all turned out to be for nothing, but you're eventually going to find yourself standing alone with the other RadLibs as nobody finds diet-Republican ideals appealing.

[aaron@lemm.ee]

Well, both.

[aaron@lemm.ee]

Just fuck off. This was your choice.

[warl0k3@lemmy.world]

I feel like there's very little chance you intentionally misinterpreted my comment, so in the interest of keeping civil discourse alive: what's happening in Palestine isn't a war, it's a massacre, and I was referring to the nascent civil war and fascist takeover of the US.

[goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org]

Seems to most in this thread dnc is faultless though

[aaron@lemm.ee]

Vote hard? The 'liberal' side was worried about gestures broadly at what's actually happening in reality right this very moment. Lemmy isn't an island, it's a megaphone.

[aaron@lemm.ee]

I hear you... I see tons of dnc hate here too

[gullible@sh.itjust.works]

Full ballot, urging others to do the same.

Dude, this is a trans-positive communist Linux forum. We are far from representative of society at large. Lemmy is as much a megaphone as my mouth is a cup. Take a sip, if you dare.

[snowclone@lemmy.world]

It was a huge talking point before the election. We really needed to punish Democrats for not stopping Isreal.

[goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org]

Which many seem to not want to see or hear

[grimy@lemmy.world]

This is a thread about what Trump is currently doing and the most upvoted comment is blaming voters. I don't know what alienating people after the election serves. It's literally going to make sure they repeat the same behavior, doubly so if the dems feel confident enough to run on apathy a second time.

My point is that currently, most here seem to be vocal about the wrong thing. They voted stupidly but we're goaded into it by a party that clearly does not represent its constituantes anymore. We should be asking the party to change but we are doing the opposite.