Donorrhea?
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What a fucking whiny
little baby bitchenormous narcissistic cruel monster he is.
FTFY
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We’re still waiting for a living wage. I can’t afford to donate to everyone who I think deserves a donation.
I live on TERF island, so my limited funds go to fighting against transphobia, then fighting against fascism and tankies. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean much if I am too dead to use it.
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It should be illegal to defame the Great Leader!
Said every dictator ever.
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This.
I wish I could decide where to allocate my tax funds (aside from the obvious “go vote”), but I know that wouldn’t work since everyone I know would be choosing funding climate change, social equality programs, increased education funding, etc. whereas the people down at the waste water treatment plant would be wondering where their cost-of-living wage increase is.
Maybe after the “basic services” bills get paid, we’d get to chose a portion to go to programs we feel worthwhile. Get rid of the tax deduction on your own taxes for giving to “non-profits” and let everyone donate to the charity they feel will help the most. That way organizations like Planned Parenthood would get the same funding from the government as religious organizations.
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I’m afraid your troubles are far from over, even if Biden wins.
- Trump is a symptom. A very nasty symptom, a weeping purulent abscess. But not the disease.
- Biden would be a terrible choice in any normal election. So would any other candidate your political system would actually allow you to vote for.
- Your country is deeply divided along many lines and no party or ideological current involved is willing to do anything about that. It smells like violence.
I would like to gloat over the evil empire’s misfortune, but there are numerous reasons I can’t. Among them the knowledge that there are many good people that don’t deserve what may be coming and the fact that Europe will probably also be fucked when the US go down.
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The fact that this has to be explained pains me in so so many ways. Damnit, I am not that old! Now you kids get of my lawn!!
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My brother, wo lives in a in a lily white wealthy enclave in upstate NY, had to wait in a 2 hour line to vote. He said he has never had to wait 20 minutes before. But the enthusiasm of those who have been chomping at the bit to get a say in what is going on is very encouraging. My other brother asked if they were all dems, my reply was that it doesn’t really matter. As a minority party, increased voter turn out will inevitably favor the majority, i.e. us, and hurt the minority rule party.
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I’ve been advocating this for a long time! You fill out your taxes, so you still owe $20K or whatever. $10K of that is budgeted by Congress, but you can decide the other $10K-- you turn over your tax form, and on the back are the 12 cabinet departments, with a short pitch of what they are doing to make your life better, and a blank where you can fill in the amount you want to allocate to them.
For every godless hippie out there funding the dept of interior, there’s a redneck funding the DoD. It would all kinda work out in the end.
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My President didn’t say "illegal. "
I could say the same things about any far right parties in Europe, Europe’s anti-immigration and racist policies, etc. etc. Yes, the USA has many problems. So do a lot of other parts of the world. I’d love to hear about your thoughts of the rise (rather, constant presence) of a virulent far-right across much of Europe. Or what about a raging extremist left, that burns down Paris for months because of a hint at an increase in gas taxes? Those who live in glass houses…
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That was pretty much the right too. Not urban so always classed as “real people” by the media. The kind of working class i.e. white working class people that “don’t get listened to”. They were protesting that their car centric life which costs us all was going to o have to pay its way. So the centre right neoliberaliam of Macron which introduced a carbon tax triggered the further white/right into protests.
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My main intent really was for non-US folk who can’t look away from this flying flaming dumpster situation! But sure, the kids too have a lot of media to catch up on.
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Ah, so not that different than far-right groups causing problems by starting fires/looting in the midst of progressive protest in the USA. Of course there was some “leftist” violence as well, as well as looting/stealing by organized and semi-organized criminal groups.
I guess my point is, it’s very easy to throw punches at the USA while we’re down. They’re certainly deserved, on many counts. But this idea that the USA has problems that are somehow “unique” to it strikes me as quite absurd.
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Ignore the polls,vote. Assume you’re losing until you win.
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Fascism is, literally, a European immigrant to America. We’re not sending you our best are we?
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I know hating America is basically a sport in Europe (and somewhat in Canada) but before you fall and hurt yourself from that high horse, take some advice from a non-American who has lived in the US for 20+ years- people are trying. The US is so so so much wealthier than you can possibly imagine from any other country. That wealth is concentrated and able to affect change that goes against what most people living here want. That’s a much tougher fight than you have if you were born into an already nicely functioning social democracy. So take it down a notch, okay? We’re all on this lifeboat planet together and we need to make a go of it.
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Well, fascism (and I think we all have our own definitions for the word) strikes me as the most overriding form of human society organization throughout history. Pharaohs were fascist, in a sense. Asian emperor god-kings as well. So it’s not on Europe, really, is my point. We can all succumb to it!
They would be proto-fascist, although I have’t gone through Umberto Eco’s Ur-Fascism to check them.
The obvious proto-fascists would be the Roman Empire, and possibly the Roman Republic. Mussolini was heavily influenced by them, far more than other European leaders were.
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