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.

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.

you're still operating on the 2014 patch, it's 2024

currently it's a loud and powerful minority that may pull us into civil war.

like it's not that hard. The US is not some special case when it comes to nation-states.

When the murder monkey hate spiral gets going, it keeps on murdering and hating.

if you believe otherwise, you are fooling yourself.

anyone who doesn't expect a regime of brutal martial law to come out of a Trump administration is fooling themselves.

these people have already shown they don't care about law and order to institute their belief system on the rest of us.

what's going to stop them? congress? they'll kick out the Democrats because law and order mean nothing to them in their pursuit of power at any costs.

a full scale state-by-state civil war is increasingly likely.

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.

Age isn't the only risk factor I care about, it's just the only age factor I care about discussing with you.

Age limits are de facto term limits. If you want to make it 60 I'm willing to hear it.

Risk of them becoming unable to execute the duties of the office is a main factor. It's ok to discriminate against adults for the qualities of a high risk of developing age-related degenerative disorders over the course of their tenure.

This isn't that hard to understand. Your line of reasoning is pointless.

A bunch of people are living in the delusional reality of an old person and it's pushing us close to civil war for no good reason beyond boomer mass dementia. You have failed to understand the present crisis, so you fail to comprehend the necessity for this simple preventative measure.

No more people over 65 in federal politics. Ever.

this means that if Unity sends you a bill, you don't have to pay it, and if they take you to court, you prove that you're acting within the terms of the license you agreed to, which keeps your lawyer fees to a manageable level because you already have all the documents you need: the contract and your source code.

I mean right? IANAL.

I'm sorry the topic confuses you but yes, this is why your 14 year old can't have a driver's license even if they might be a perfectly good driver.

every adult has a percent chance every four weeks of devolving back to mush and after 65 that percent chance is just too high

send your 14 year old to the store for some smokes and then we'll talk

you're in here with me, take a break for a bit.

wow you're an easy dupe

your failure to understand is no longer my problem

yeah. because if you hit a controversial point well, you are still net up.

here, have an upvote. that means you're doing a good job.

the plane is broken. some 1 in 4 of our countrymen believe a fascist lie. and you're still bickering over whether or not the senility of the pilots was a factor?

try this rather than handwaving over the airline decision: explain to me how a generation which fought the cold war ended up electing an obvious russian asset into its highest office without concluding that their politics has gone rancid in their old age.

you've never actually advanced to the level of writing beyond "say things, get applause," have you?

well let me tell you, it's harder to make controversial points, but that's the only real work.

otherwise, you're just speaking into a mirror

https://lemmy.world/comment/3335897

When I was young I blamed previous generations too.

This is very precisely the dysfunction of the old: they think they've seen it all so they're unable to listen.

At least you will can rely on Matt Gaetz, Ron Desantos, Elon Musk to always do the right thing.

More old person histrionic dribble.

Are you really this incapable of recognizing the problem that geriatrics face? You're showing me precisely the problem I'm describing.

That's nonsense. But if it's all I have, maybe it's all you left us. The burning need to make sure the old people get out of office immediately.

You can demean it if that's all your old person flailing can do, but you can't shake that burning need.

Neither did I. I’ve been aware of and concerned about the greenhouse effect since the early 70s. I was part of the first Earth Day. I was around and active for a number of anti-monopolistic decisions.

And none of that will save you from your generation's failure. You failed and you're leaving a broken country to your offspring. Don't make that my problem. 65 year olds shouldn't be in office and that's the end of it.

If that hurts your feelings? good. It should. You should have to face your failure, and vote for age restrictions on people in office.

Your leadership didn't work. You led us here.

You want to alienate our allies. You are pushing a hidden agenda or you are a tool of those doing so. I am awake. You are a member of a cult.

This is incoherent old person rambling.

I can't hear your opinion over the upvotes I'm getting for my main comment