unironically, he ought to be next, and he better know it, and he better go quietly

I don’t think the fascism would exist if it wasn’t profitable to give it a platform.

That’s stupid!

I am shocked to see this pseudofascist apologia so highly upvoted.

It’s not the media’s coverage of the fascism that’s the problem.

You would rather deflect blame to the media than point the finger at the fascism. Shame on you.

learn to write.

But fair enough, I can see how that might have been misinterpreted.

Yeah speak more carefully.

idk man you said we didn’t know if Trump was going to be like Sulla and give up his power and that’s a stupid fucking thing to say.

You’re an idiot because you think that Trump would ever resign like Sulla did.

These are not problems I have. I do have the problem of pseudofascist apologia being literally everywhere. You emitted trash nonsense. We already know what Trump is. Shut the fuck up.

If Trump is elected to a second term it will be a disaster and there is no ambiguity as to the nature of Trump for he has already declared civil war against the will of the American people. You are an idiot.

It is idiocy and I am not obliged to respect it as anything but idiocy.

I guess what I’m saying overall is Trump might, even if elected to a second term, still turn out to be the American Sulla instead of the American Caesar if you catch my drift.

This is stupid. You are an idiot. Shut the fuck up.

son

there is a fascist movement

this is an emergency

I will hurt who I will hurt.

you should shut the fuck up with your ‘well actually’ de facto dictator apologia

Rome didn’t have that many ‘dictators’ give up power

the vast majority of societies with authoritarian dictators are dysfunctional

again: shut the fuck up.

solid troll

you’re simplifying a complex situation

the ‘right wing’ believes climate change is a hoax. you’re struggling with a failed conception of ‘both sides’ politics. please receive a plot update.

acting like going through post history is discourse, like this, should merit a sitewide ban for 36 hours

As one of said assholes, the biggest problem I have with Lemmy is that it’s stuck trying to be both the Old Internet in which directness was prized and encouraged no matter how acerbic, and Comfort Internet for nonpartisans.

When these two crowds mix there’s going to be discomfort.

And freedom from participation in politics is hiding in privilege to some very real extent, so in some ways I don’t know how to be sympathetic to your plight.

But all politics is ragebait, isn’t it? I’ve come back to this general feeling that we need more rage, not less.

The doctrinal conflicts on the Internet are yet to be resolved. We still have the disaffected rightwing types who haven’t really had it sink in yet that they failed and their loser is and was always a loser. We still have moderate idiots who think that ‘both sides’ need to curtail their extremists.

It’s an irony that one of the Left’s strengths is dogmatism, because I do think there’s dogmatic leftists here that I find insufferable. I didn’t used to dislike male feminists as much as I do now, but let women represent women’s issues.

In the meanwhile, the leftist dogma of No Platforming Stupid Rightwing Shit needs to be more formidably advanced.

There’s no point continuing this if you can’t read.

This isn’t about their values at all. You keep on mindlessly returning to your algorithm for evaluating candidates assuming that people can make a decision as to whether or not an old person is healthy. But we are living in the aftermath of people failing to make that decision.

If you don’t believe this, you’ve failed a basic political awareness test. If you don’t believe that Trump was unhealthy for this country and that a vote for him is a vote against our civilization, you’ve failed a basic political intelligence test.

Your model of how well people make these decisions is flawed, wrong, and irrelevant.

If what you care about [is] in fact [their] health then their age should be irrelevant.

This is wrong. Health and age are deeply connected. If you can’t accept that, you’re failing a basic biological intelligence test.

Hint: There’s nothing about a 28 year old that would make them unfit to be President. But our society has made the decision to set an arbitrary line at 35. There is no reason not to set a corresponding arbitrary line at 65.