Wait, being convicted ends political careers? Hitler and Trump wore their convictions with honor and used them to gin up support to great effect. Who’s to say Le Pen doesn’t somehow do the same?

Well said. We need to unite to counter this stuff. The right is definitely united. Fascism is very attractive to the average voter.

Yeah, you’re not wrong, that’s another path. Full blown authoritarianism.

Yes, exactly. They used Medvedev as an example.

They’ve already installed a guy that hasn’t been vetted and cleared that is tearing out the guts of our government at his whimsy and without oversight. They’re breaking the law in egregious ways and getting away with it in real time. There is only one way left to hold these people accountable.

Just heard an interview on BBC radio this morning with an American explaining that there are avenues for Trump to do this by abusing the line of succession. It sounds like they want to appoint him as Speaker of the House and then have the president and vice president abdicate.

If you like rap, or well, even if you don’t, listen to Death of a Constable by Brian Ennals and Infinity Knives.

Israel has killed more women and children than any other demographic. They have committed a genocide and the US president has called for an intensification and expansion of the genocide. Even going so far as to say he wants to ethnically cleanse Gaza.

Same thing happened to me. I told a guy to fuck off and got banned for not being nice. I appealed, but before that process completed, they permanbanned my 14 year account. I like that on Lemmy I can say normally uncontroversial things like “Nazi scum fuck off”.

I think the piece that has yet to be tested is elections. As of now, we still live under the pretense that we will have a fair election.

The case can be made that the voter suppression tactics from the far right are eliminating the possibility of a fair election. Or that Elon Musks involvement has led to fraud, or at least, massive corruption to our electoral system. But at the end of the day, we still have a collective idea that the fix for this is an election that will remove them from power.

When the midterms come, that will be the real test.

Same! I’m still a little confused about the way the federation works but I love the decentralization and democratization of the platform. And Boost makes it feel very familiar.

I left Reddit today. I’m not looking back. I’m absolutely done with these organizations that bow to fascist whimsy and demands. Pathetic stuff from Steve and the admins at Reddit. I hope their stock tanks and they lose their ass.