The comments, made on a conservative podcast, follow a string of moves from his administration to try to exert more control over American elections.
Probably has something to do with ICE causing a 30-point swing towards Democrats in a Texas State Senate race.
NY Times, you sack of shit, the word you’re looking for is “an act of treason,” not “an escalation.”
Really goes to show how much a stranglehold the profit machine of capitalism has on the media entities through advertisements and marketing.
Advertising and marketing should be the 8th and 9th deadly sin, respectively.
“We need to nationalize the elections so we can more easily rig them so that they can’t rig them!”
… /wrist
Elections won’t save you, not electing Trump just means someone else would get the bribes and immunity, which is something he would rather avoid.
Oh cool, good to know the shameless fucks who both sides’d in 2024 and helped get us into this mess still have no shame and are here to help make the 2026 midterms worse too.
The world will come to an end soon. There is no need to fear death.
Why are you blaming disenfranchised people? They have no representation in government.
How about biden helping out trump by handling his sedition with tiny baby hands.
We’re doing whataboutism now too? Should I have brought my intellectual dishonesty bingo card?
Yea, but it gets boring after a while. You hit bingo every time.
Oh you mean the accelerationists who insisted we keep a geriatric, unelectable Biden as the candidate as early as 2023? Those shameless fucks who set this all up for failure?
Sigh. Okay, vote still, whatever, but please consider building alternatives to the economic systems in place and stronger, ideally self-sufficient communities.
Pretty sure we can do both things. Like, it’s not an either or situation. We can combat the failures of the system with the rules laid out in that system while also championing local level improvements
Who are you voting for, out of curiosity? A group of people who have been known to be bought by capitalists or some other party? And do you think that group could reach power even if they did win?
No, thinking that the same system that put you here (amongst other things like an ideological and moral vacuum) will in any way serve your interests is silly and a waste of time. Same with protests in America tbh (the biggest protest ever in Burgerland was the one against the Iraq/Afghanistan wars IIRC and that shit still happened, lol): you’re allowed to do so so you feel like you’re doing something, but the people in power have the guns and a third of the country if not more is complete human garbage who are more than happy to enforce state power even if it means shooting their neighbour in the face. Remember: it’s an empire built on slave labour, the founding fathers were white supremacist rapists, so no, nothing is new and the system is working as intended, people were just willfully ignorant until the empire came for them too, and now they’re panicking.
See, your point might have some merit if you assume that’s all that is done which, you may have missed due to some personal perception filter, I explicitly did not say.
Like, I’m not sure what alternative you think is realistically possible. Overthrow the entire system 1776 style and start fresh? Burn it all to the ground and replace the power vacuum with… Nothing?
Nihilism and anarchism are great and all. No, really. I do adore them and spent a lot of time with them. I wish I could spend more time with them but if I want to have any kind of change, I have to focus on things with a layer of realism.
Realistically, the overall population of the US, due to decades upon decades of propaganda and selective teachings of history, does not realize how shitty the system is and how much is either completely broken or otherwise stacked against the common person.
This means that real meaningful change will either take radical shifts to the government and people with outside intervention the likes of which haven’t been experienced in the west since around 1940 (there are other examples that may be better but it’s readily available in my head) or gradual shifts of the populous starting at the local levels.
I hate the system in the US. It’s built on slave labor and when that was removed legally, they just changed the name and worked around the issue.
It’s built on stolen land and the destruction of entire peoples histories. There is an entire side of my family’s history that we can’t trace because the records were destroyed and it wasn’t passed down orally.
It is still designed to fuck over the poor and improve the lives of the richest people despite its supposed calling of equality.
These are all things that I know about the system. I can’t change the past but I can affect the future. I can encourage people to be proactive with improving things starting at the most immediate local levels and up. Co-ops, local markets, actual evidence based educational programs, a community for the community. But these shifts are cultural at this point. We’re still dealing with idiots who fell for the red scare and don’t know any better (see previous comments about propaganda based education). It’s difficult to affect culture in ways that it’s predisposed to actively not go. Not impossible but requires enough effort to actually change that most people give up and say “nah, it’s a lost cause. Just give up and forget about trying to improve the system from within”
So, in summary, I choose not to give up. I probably won’t make a meaningful impact but if I can at least nudge it in the right direction so others have even the smallest chance of fixing things, I’ll do what I can. I choose to plant trees that I’ll never be able to enjoy the shade of.
You’re a more hopeful, prosocial and perhaps overall better man than me, then. Were I in your position, I would’ve just gone somewhere else, somewhere a bit less crazy, and planted the trees over there. I cannot think of a viable alternative to the current system, no, and I think many people are too far gone for us to engage with them and try to build something together. Maybe in some decades, but not today. I guess Americans need Americans like you? Anyway, what an informed and invigorating post. Hope things go okay for you and your loved ones. 🙏
Oh, don’t get me wrong, even with all that said and in the works, I still have to think of my immediate family and am working on plans to get the hell out of this specific hellscape. I currently live in one of the states that is completely governed by sycophants of the regime so every day I have to worry about my wife and daughters futures and see their rights erode away despite my best efforts.
The process is not fast and we’ve only just gotten to the point of seriously looking at where we’re going and gathering documentation so until we actually do the move, I’ll be doing what I can to change the cultural narrative.
Thank you – the person I replied to – for actually being the only reasonable reply. I profoundly agree with anticapitalism and self-sufficient, grassroots communities (of which I participate actively in several), and I appreciate that solely voting is no longer a viable strategy. I just don’t like your defeatist message tacitly saying that people shouldn’t vote because anyone else would still be bad and/or part of a flawed system. We have to acknowledge that Trump has proven himself a uniquely horrifying threat to humanity, and that has to be reflected at the ballot box in 2026 and 2028.
I don’t think he’s the reason for things. The American empire has been in blatant decay for a decade now (due to corruption at every level, mostly) and other countries have been rising as regional powers. The anational capitalists who control America and have politicians of both sides of the false dichotomy/bad cop good cop routine in their pockets understand they have to play a different game than the one championed by the MIC if they want to maximise profits. As such, America will change from a heavily propagandised, hedonistic and amoral consumer base and arm of Western imperialism to a heavily propagandised slave base and arm of anational global capitalism. You just can’t exploit foreigners as easily as you could before. Donald Trump, the great white hope, the comedian, is simply the right man for the job so he was supported by everyone except the neocons/MIC dickriders (Biden is here) because everyone benefits from American collapse (the Russians and Chinese included, ofc, not just American oligarchs) besides the American population. And this happened not because Trump cast a spell on people but because enough Americans are stupid, amoral, self-centered and overall horrible human beings, that’s all. All your villains are your neighbours! You’re not getting colonized by an external power, you’re getting colonized by Bob and Jimmy, lol. So no, Trump is not the reason, the people, the state of the American empire and the desire of the global controllers of financialised capital are. Trump is just the distraction and scapegoat, a distracting and disorienting clown, the actor given the lines he needs to say to keep spinning it all.
And, btw, nothing that’s happening in America is even 1% of what it has done outside of it, or what it did to the natives and Africans. Expect more, because the empire has learned well, throughout the years and “different” administrations. This is nothing but the empire going hungry and cannibalising itself because those it used to feed upon can now fight a little.
And, finally, If you’re just gonna pass the ball to the Dems because you think “well, at least when they were in power the deaths and uncertainty were happening mostly outside than in” you’re both silly and immoral. This project will continue, there’s no stopping this train, because the people truly in power have enough money to buy any politician and the blue ones don’t have any more morals than the red ones, they’re just whores waiting for a good payday. At least tell me you’re going to vote for a group with proven morals and no support from big corporations and asset management firms (if they exist). 🥲
