What hes aiming for is destabilization.

He’s already talking civil war.

Which I think is his ultimate goal. and the goal of his masters.

Civil War 2 on a horrific scale, that knocks America out of any meaningful global position for years, if not decades afterwards.

Which only works until you tank the country by pissing of your customers (aka other countries) enough and tank your currency.

Everything en route!

That’s what he’s doing: he crashed most of his businesses.

Probably also the child beauty pagents where he had dumb parents personally bring them for some reason

How about this: rent should be abolished, housing prices should be controlled through a planned market economy, and property should be taxed through a land value tax. It’s time that Americans see the cat.

You mean additional properties?

Oh, those poor idiots. Flexibility + housing (+ too good to be true) is how we got into a housing crisis in the first place.

Same here. The only winning move is to not play.

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To strike a balance, home values should go up at the same rate as general inflation and/or wages (ideally the latter, really), or at least stay the same over time.

You really don’t want to find yourself in a situation where you need to sell and you’re underwater. At the same time, they obviously shouldn’t be the investment vehicles they are now.

Also some people use the equity from home appreciation to take out an extra mortgage for improvements. I don’t personally think it’s a great idea (as it can put you under water if the market takes a wild swing), but it’s something people can use to get a cash injection for potentially expensive home improvement work.

I’m not saying it’s a good thing, per se, but it is uniquely an “American thing”. Unlike most other places in the world, most people’s wealth is tied up in their home in the US. That’s just how it is right now and if people can’t afford them, they stay poor.

Yeah it’s bullshit. Unfortunately, it’s how people gain wealth in America. It’s one of the many reasons redlining largely black districts, for example, is so fucked. It’s kept black people in poverty and is one of the main reasons why there is such a wealth disparity by race.

Assuming you still have a job/income.

We’re more likely looking at deflation.

I have come to also realise that there are a lot of people with below surface level understanding of who or what they are voting for. I assume going through their lives blissfully unaware of the current shit show.

Otherwise intelligent people (in my orbit UK based) think Trump is doing okay because he’s tough on China and China is not our friend. Seemingly absolutely no awareness of how fucked up America has become in under a year and what that means for the UK I side eye them still, as I wonder if there is more going on there views wise.

Just leaves me thinking those fuckers from Reform will get in because Farage likes a pint down the local Wetherspoons.

Oh no. lemmyshitpost is leaking.

As long as there is someone eating a BIGGER shit sandwich, they chomp happily.

Yes, not inspiring and entirely unproductive. Demonizing and pushing those who didn’t vote blue further to the right isn’t helpful, and I’m not saying “both sides are bad” or that we have to compromise with Republicans (I voted for Kamala too).

As fucked as things are, we can either whine about not getting our way until the end of time, or we can do something about it. Comments like OPs push the needle in the wrong direction.

Voting for Kamala was the only sane move. That’s all we were asking for.

We all want Bernie, but the nation is what it is and we’d have been streets ahead with Kamala even. Hopefully AOC someday.

LOL, you must not have much dealings with the type I’m talking about. They are rubbing their high-horse ideals in my face all the time, saying that Taco is more or less the same as Kamala would have been.

Propaganda’s a helluva drug

Yes, but also who is controlling the polling info?

I’ve been struggling with this for a while. I can understand and respect the moral dilemma that comes with participating in elections. I think, though, too many people look at it in a black and white lens that creates blinders.

I’ve never in my life voted for a candidate that I agreed with on everything. Yes, the moral importance of some issues weigh far heavier than others, but the ultimate goal is to do the least bad. I will continue to vote for the candidates I believe offer the most harm reduction if voting is available to me, because these are the options I have to work with. We have to make decisions in the moment that reflect the reality of where we’re at.

We’re living through the consequences of inaction that presents itself as protest. Had Kamala won, do we think we’d be seeing the absolute fucking insanity we’ve found ourselves in right now? I’m glad this moment is pushing more and more people to action and resistance, but at what cost? People are being disappeared, deported, and murdered in the streets by our government right now. And Gazans certainly haven’t benefitted from the current administration. This is a level of bad I never expected to see in my life, and I think there are a lot of terminally online people who are seeing this in a romanticized way that obscures the severity of the situation we find ourselves in.

We likely would have had more ability to push things to the left without the levels of harm, destruction, and violence that we’re seeing now under just about anyone but Trump and Project 2025. Instead of activism and outreach, now we have to play defense and protect our neighbors and communities. Not to mention the roll acks of rights to the health and safety of women and queer people are more passively costing lives and creating suffering.

Yes, the status quo was terrible. Democrats offer pretty words and little action. They aren’t going to save us or give us the futures we deserve. I’d give just about anything for us to be out of this, though. Humiliation and disgust on an international scale, the daily violence, and reading new horrors every damn day is absolutely the greater of two evils, though. I can’t see a scenario where anything is worth what’s in store.

Non voters aren’t the sole reason we’re here, but I’m sick of pretending that those people’s choices didn’t play a large role in our current situation. These times demand we all do some soul searching, take accountability, and work together to get out of this in one piece. Because, again, we have to live in the reality of where we’re at.

without actually having any policy that differs from republicans in any sort of meaningful way.

For all that the dems really do seem to do their best to alienate the left, I’m fairly sure their policy did not include having barely trained, masked, goons running around American cites executing people at will, kidnapping others, and facing no concequences, and yet, trump was clear that it was what he wanted. I’d call that a meaningful difference.

Do you honestly think that if Harris won there would be armed agents on the street murdering citizens, driving your economy to historic lows, alienating your closest allies, tanking trade routes, invading Venezuela, kidnapping anyone with a skin colour darker than snow white…

I could go on.

So, who else to blame for voters that think Taco and Kamala are the same and that Taco would be “better for 'conomy”? That’s the fault of the Democratic Party?

People keep blaming them for anything and everything and how they have to “message better”, but the Democrats don’t really have any kind of media to get that message out on.

Immigration was a huge debate issue during that time and something just kept saying not enough was being done to combat a bunch of lies and made up stories. So yeah, they went all in an said “see” but gumball in chief just kept lying and swindling and y’all ate it up.

I’ve never heard about forced gene modifications? Are they referencing GMOs, or…?

Are you seriously saying you can’t see the difference

JFC

I feel like this requires some explanation.

Um, what?