SevenSkalls [he/him]

Oh I see what you’re saying. I thought you were saying 12 different states, as in different countries. I’ve been reading a lot of international news lately.

I feel like the US would take over California again if that was the case. It’s why they like to split up their enemies, to make them easier to control (Korea, China, all the gulf states and parts of the Ottoman Empire, Yugoslavia, etc.).

My personal view is yes, California should leave. I feel like California has the best chance of turning into some sort of Democratic Socialist state without the rest of the US holding it back, and it’s big and rich enough it could possibly actually defend it.

Wtf? Doesn’t he need to do the Insurrection Act to do that?

100% agree with op. Just saw Happy Death Day recently for the first time and was impressed by how fun it was, but it took me a while.

Oh God. I agree some zoning laws can be changed, but everything else in that quote sounds like something a conservative would say.

How? Dem Soc welfare? I’m guessing not because centrist Americans Democrats don’t like Bernie or AOC. Increase production of everything? How? Reducing regulations, like someone else said, I’m guessing?

Well you see, the problem wasn’t them, they think the problem was that Trump associated them with trans people and immigrants. Harris tried her best to say Biden enforces the border even better than Trump, but it didn’t work. So clearly, they need to be even more exclusionary with trans people and even more bloodthirsty with Palestinians and immigrants. They’ll get reelected in no time!

Not super surprised. I figured it was something similar to “If we increase the GDP enough, we all end up good! A rising tide lifts all boats!” But because GDP can go up with just rich people doing good, then it sounds a lot like trickle down to me. But I also don’t want to mischaracterize their argument if they meant something else.

Wtf is the abundance politics? Trickle down with a new word?

I hope it’s coming, but first people need to be educated about why the Dems suck. It’s like the sunk cost fallacy.

People keep asking why the left is attacking Democrats as if it’s disrupting unity, but I think the truth is that even though they’re okay with gay and black people, unlike the Republicans, until we tear ourselves away from that billionaire focused party, we can’t build an alternative movement without it being sucked up and dissipated by the Dems. And if we can’t build a new party or movement, we’re doomed.

These people clearly don’t understand the problems or needed solutions in front of us and are willing to throw anyone under the bus, which is absolutely horrible for coalition building.

What propaganda is lemm.ee spreading? Are you thinking of lemmy.world?

Took them long enough. The government is still too stupid to deal with technology if it took them this long to start realizing back doors are bad for security.

Thanks for answering. That’s a great reply and I’m going to save this comment.

How do you get past the initial brainworms even bringing up the word communism? Like someone else said above, I feel like I can’t even bring up an alternative path or get them to pick up a book without them yelling about China and Tiannamen Square, or Stalin and his killing a bajillion millon people, or how “communism has never worked”. It’s so annoying to have to go back to these basic, first-grade points every time.

Lol good luck

That seems to be what they’re figuring out. The right wing candidate didn’t even submit their voting tallies to the Supreme Court or participate in any of the investigations while everyone else did (including other anti-Maduro candidates). What are they supposed to use to determine popular will? Screenshot of papers printed in Machado’s basement?

I wouldn’t be surprised if some shenanigans happened until they publish their results by polling location, but until then all we have to go on is uncooperative opposition and US-based think tanks (the country that’s tried to coup Venezuela basically every other year since Chavez).