The headlines over the past few weeks have been unrelenting. The Trump administration is activating the full power of the federal government against perceived enemies, from liberal groups to elections officials to a former FBI director.Meanwhile, autocratic powers like China and Russia are running i...
  • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    4 hours ago

    Have you forgotten that this is about Trump,

    To you this is about Trump. To others it’s about the injustice they have suffered their whole lives that got worse under Trump but did not originate with him. Being able to laser-focus on Trump is a privilege; it assumes that the politically relevant parts of your experience before Trump were if not good then at least tolerable. This is not the case for a massive chunk of the population. I mean, hell, for example ICE kidnappings are nothing new; Trump is just performatively cruel about them. You can’t take a stand against some injustice and expect the people experiencing the chunk you’re letting go to help you. As a wise man once said:

    First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Communist

    Then they came for the Socialists And I did not speak out Because I was not a Socialist

    Then they came for the trade unionists And I did not speak out Because I was not a trade unionist

    Then they came for the Jews And I did not speak out Because I was not a Jew

    Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me

    • FaceDeer@fedia.io
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Yes, we get it, you don’t want any allies in your fight against Trump that aren’t perfectly aligned with every part of your fight against Trump. You don’t need to keep on driving it home now, you’ve amply demonstrated why Democrats just can’t seem to get it together to oppose him.

        • FaceDeer@fedia.io
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Yes, the party that is literally the only party that can possibly remove Trump due to America’s two-party system. That party.

          You don’t support them removing Trump? Then you’re fine with Trump. That’s the reality of the situation, and your insistence that only some magical fairyland third party that happens to align perfectly with your ideals must be allowed to do it is - as I have repeatedly said - exactly the problem that this thread is about.

          You really can stop illustrating it now, we all get it.