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- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 3 hours ago:
Plenty of answers here but I don’t think anyone has answered this part:
Surely they would have a much easier time pushing their rhetoric and establishing their agenda by keeping a purposeful distance from that sort of indefensible imagery and symbolism.
So here’s my take …
Musk did the sig heil as a fuck you to everyone that doesn’t like him. That’s it.
They just won the election by basically lying, ignoring, and playing for time. They can literally do whatever the fuck they like for the next n years with impunity.
Imagine if Harris had won and in her victory speech said something like “Don’t worry Don, I’ll make sure they give you diapers in jail.” It would’ve been a low blow but we would’ve loved her for it because it’s poking fun at the conservatives for no other reason than to stir them up.
I think there’s another, longer conversation to be had about why racism (and by extension nazism) resonates with voters in 2025, but I’m too weary for that I think.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 day ago:
Yeah it’s just bonkers.
A criminal tried to seize power in a violent coup.
Not only was nothing done but voters elected him to be fucking president because they were confused about Palestinians and concerned about the price of eggs.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
It’s not real, but it’s concerning that it sounds like something he might say.
- Comment on Don't trust the picture on the label 2 days ago:
See, this really bugs me.
Kiwi, pomegranate, honey, jojoba, macadamia and strawberries, are not good for your hair. They’re just things that reference groups responded positively to.
It’s just bonkers that it’s so hard to find soap with no fruity-na-na bullshit.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
It’s a good point and deeply concerning.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if Trump decided to invade somewhere just because he can.
Especially if his economic measures start making him look bad.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 days ago:
My global political history isn’t great, and maybe others can correct me here, but it doesn’t feel like the US has had much of a stabilising effect in the last 30 years.
There’s plenty of conflicts that just don’t make the news that the US just isn’t interested in. Poor places with no oil or other resources. Presently Burma comes to mind. There always seems to be somewhere in Africa, last decade there was genocide in Congo IIRC.
Also it’s not really clear whether their involvement in the middle east over the last few decades was positive or negative.
It’s nice to have them hovering around South China Sea to keep China in check I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You can describe someone like this as a socially conservative democrat.