Franklin

You can label me with whatever epithet you want, but the reality is that voting Democrat was the correct choice to minimize damage. Is that where it ends? No. Should the Democrats be raked over the coals for their current and past inaction? Absolutely.

The reality is, if anyone who is upset with the Democrats truly wanted change, they would understand that change is slow. "Teaching the party a lesson" has historically only resulted in a shift to the right. Direct action is the only thing that works. But while that effort continues, I’d certainly prefer if the checks and balances of the government weren’t being actively weakened and exploited.

it sure is and yeah i was being exagatory for effect but if you're just going to pretend there isn't some very real damage being done that could have been prevented then the .ml brainrot is real

What I constantly hear is deflections about how voting doesn't matter, but it fucking does, yes the Democrats suck but they are better, it's not even close.

Fight back and do everything you can to change what's going on and blame Democrats but don't sell out an entire election cycle to literal Satan to make that point

all that does is irreversible damage

I hate to break it to you but I've definitely heard that on Lemmy a few times

Nah we didn't bend to jack shit, Trudeau did what we were already doing and Trump called it good enough and now Trump's changing his mind because he's pulling from Putin's bag of tricks: soft power projection by questioning our sovereignty. Trudeau made the right call but unfortunately it doesn't matter.

Americans are about to learn why the Geneva convention gets longer every time we enter a war.

I'm a dude but i generally don't like traditionally masculine things or hyper masculine people but I've never felt discontented with being a male.

not that there's anything wrong if you do. just doing some self examination.

The Conservative's rhetoric absolutely has tilted fascist since Pierre took over. They want to start us down that road.

mistakes is a very charitable interpretation

oh yeah it's very true but I mean the US Russia and China are definitely on the wrong side of history now

which distro is this? asking for a friend (the friend is me)

hard not to with Putin's hand up their ass questioning our sovereignty just like he does with Ukraine.