US Politics Thread

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Due to be visiting SF four days after the country becomes an autocracy headed up by a criminal. I’m wondering if he’ll have closed the borders by then or declared war on the UK to relieve us from our “tyrannical government”.

 

[WT86]

Perhaps stop the people jumping the guard rails and make them pay the fair? I guess that would be racist tho.

That would be nice for many reasons but the authority would still need more revenue.

 

[Dax777]

Social media websites removing fact checking facilities probably because the technology can't keep up with Mango Shitgibbon's bullshit.

No, because the fact checkers were in fact the equivalent of brown shirts who were trying to install a narrative rather than actually fact check for truth.

I used multiple examples to express this point long ago. Theh were wholly biased and useless.

 

[Aphex]

That would be nice for many reasons but the authority would still need more revenue.

So it's not about saving the planet then?!

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Theh were wholly biased and useless.

The joke writes itself.

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

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Literally my commute home every day:

 

[west didsblue]

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Thanks for the reminder what to pack.

 

[Damocles]

No, because the fact checkers were in fact the equivalent of brown shirts who were trying to install a narrative rather than actually fact check for truth.

I used multiple examples to express this point long ago. Theh were wholly biased and useless.

So are Community Notes. It's a flawed system because it is inherently based on populism

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Thanks for the reminder what to pack.

Chances are it's pouring here when you come so I'd leave the leather behind TBH.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

So are Community Notes. It's a flawed system because it is inherently based on populism

Community notes can also be 'moderated' by site owners.

 

[TinFoilHat]

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YMCA started playing in my head as soon as I saw this picture.

 

[Dax777]

So are Community Notes. It's a flawed system because it is inherently based on populism

I don't disagree. Fact checkers were just worse.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Google has gone all Grey over here in the US. Trump will be fuming, and I guarantee he'll soon be on the blower to Google HQ demanding an inauguration day tribute from them.

 

[Vic]

Because they never actually believed this and it was always an election scare tactic.
If they REALLY believed that Trump was the next Hitler and was going to end American democracy, they'd be talking about armed resistances. Instead they'll wait 4 years for a populist and vaguely ineffective President to burn himself out and then carry on as usual like they did in 2016.
The messaging of the left in the US (and thus has been imported everywhere else) since about 1995 is that everybody on the right is a racist either openly or secretly. As messaging becomes more sophisticated and the cultural shock of that wears off, it gets more extreme and extreme to provoke the same response in people. So now people aren't racist but secretly Nazis and fascists too. None of it is actually real and they know it.
The right does the same thing with a variety of issues which can be vaguely amalgamated into a broad categories of "communist barbarians". Every policy the left comes up with, every action, is painted as dogwhistles (and similarly as messaging became more extreme, outright accusations of) barbarism or communism.
Nobody on the right GENUINELY believes that Kamala Harris is a Communist or that elite pedophiles control Washington, it just helps them to pretend because it whips their base up. Same thing.

Last sentence... nobody believes it, just uses it to whip up a base that believes it.

And Trump's "poisoning our blood" speech is pure Nazi.

 

[Vic]

the ones closest to calling Trump the next Hitler was his inner circle including his former chief of staff from his last time in office and they are all right wing republicans.

And the VP elect

 

[BlueHammer85]

And the VP elect

Yep... i see Damocles never come back on this point.

 

[Vic]

Has something changed between election day and today to cause the worriers to say "Oh well, nothing to worry about anymore?"

No, nothing has changed.

Did something change between election day and a week later when Biden received Trump in the White House, spoke the words "congratulations" and "welcome" and promised a smooth transition of power? Imagine yourself a black graduate at Howard University before the election listening to Joe Biden tell them Trump is going to take away your freedoms only to see him glad-hand Trump a week after the election.

Joe Biden and Harris are turning over power to someone who they said quite clearly is an existential threat to democracy and a fascist. "Worry" is your new framing because you just cannot admit for one second they lied about what they believed to drive people to the polls. They spoke in bad faith and unreasonably - as did Trump when he accused Kamala Harris of being a Marxist.

I see. You want a chaotic and unruly transfer of power so you can say both sides are the same.

 

[Vic]

YMCA started playing in my head as soon as I saw this picture.

With Trump leading it?

 

[Vic]

Does every club's football forum have a handful of Trump apologists?

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I see. You want a chaotic and unruly transfer of power so you can both sides are the same.

Yeah. I just don’t get it at all.
Do Americans not want a peaceful transfer of power like what normally happens or are some trying to normalise what happened last time around?

Really are a strange bunch.