Trump administration insiders are furious over reporting that the U.S. Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, will no longer classify the swastika as a symbol of "hate."According to the Washington Post, the branch of military service has decided that swastikas and nooses ...
They don’t need to start shooting, but they do need to take it seriously. For fuck’s sake not every problem needs to be solved by violence but every problem does need to be solved by people giving a shit at least. Meanwhile there are still hordes of people in the US just pretending like nothing is all that wrong.
Agreed but I’m not sure what normal citizens can do. They can vote in the midterms but I fear Trump will rig that. Short of violence, I guess a general strike is the best option.
At this point I’d literally take just seeing more people actually caring and fewer people “not being political”. Caring about politics is not a niche interest. You don’t have to be an expert but the lack of comprehension around the subject all over the world, especially in places like the US and Canada where information is so easy to find, is fucking insane to me.
It would be sick if we could throw out the idea that this isn’t fucking Star Wars and we don’t need to take Conservatives seriously as the only other option outside of the centrists to get some kind of light-side/dark-side balance.
I agree, it frustrates me to no end that people think politics is something that is okay to just not be interested in, like movies or video games. Lack of interest in politics is how America git into this situation. How do people not understand that people’s rights and freedoms are taken away because of “politics”? How are there still people in America oblivious that they’re living in a fascist dictatorship?
I remember one guy telling a story where someone he met was saying that, well into Harris’ campaign, they really hoped the country got togehter and voted against Biden. As in, to be abundantly clear, they didn’t know that Biden hadn’t been on the ballot for months but they did have a very strong feeling about the him getting elected.
Here in Montréal we elected a mayor and party that are full of scandals and who ride developper dick during a housing crisis. 63% of the city rents but only 36% of the city showed up to vote and most of them voted for the cartoonishly bad party and a shocking amount voted for the “more parking garages downtown” party. It was, frankly, embarrassing as hell.