I find the whole "making Easter Trans Day of Visibility," thing to be pretty funny.
All it does in lefty circles is provoke memes and eyerolls since they know it's blatant pandering and a desperate attempt to save face with the younger base since they all hate Biden (correctly) for kowtowing to Israel.
Meanwhile the Conservatards are having literal meltdowns over the "demonic government" perverting a Christian holiday, which has been so secularized at this point that a non-insignificant percentage of Americans don't even realize it is one anymore.
This is some high-quality wasp nest kicking, I'm here for it.
@xianc78@icedquinn This is true, but I think that was the idea, kicking the hornets nest on purpose to draw out a reaction. Gives Biden and co. "points" with the the progressive left, if only on a superficial level. They need to get them back on their side right now if they want to beat Trump, it's just funny how nobody's fallen for it this time.
@Indigo@xianc78 i think very few people really want more dementia patients in office. from what i've seen the fedis still voting for the guy are literally just 'republicans bad'
@icedquinn@xianc78 That's the whole Democratic platform right now "it could be worse, so vote for us."
Trump is a grifter hack, we all learned this when he was President, and I think my use of the term "Conservatard" expresses how I feel about them. But at least they're presenting a platform their platform as an alternative, that's why they're probobly going to win.
What we need are age limits of holding public office (maybe mandatory retirement at 65), and term limits across the board. But the people in power right now would rather die than give it up, we're probobly going to just wait for that to happen before we get any real progress, unfortunately.
@Indigo@icedquinn Don't expect successors to make reforms in a shadow oligarchy.
But....despite what I have claimed for a while, there is one way that voting MIGHT still work. Miles Mathis brought this up. It's a write-in-vote. You write your own ballot instead of using the pre-printed ones or any of the voting machines. You can pick candidates that are not on there. Legally, the booths aren't allowed to throw away ANY ballot. Granted, they can throw it away anyway, but if we can get the masses to do it, they won't be able to get away with it. Sure, it will be hard to get a majority on board, along with a presidential candidate that we can trust but it is worth discussing.
@xianc78@icedquinn I mean yeah... but I'm old enough to remember when we were all going to write-in Ron Paul in 2012 and... no dice.
Not saying it's not possible, it just requires more coordination than I think the American people (as they are) are capable of.
@icedquinn@Indigo My ideal candidate for this hypothetical write-in ballot would be independent, though he/she might alienate "mainstream leftists" because I want him/her to expose conspiracies (which are associated with the right these days) to the public.
@xianc78@icedquinn In principle, I agree with that. But the reality is that I don't think the American political system is in a fixable state at the moment. Even if a hypothetical independent president started trying to make real change, I don't think the people in power would really let it stick.
this of course includes no more free money and no more vetoing UN sanctions. they want to be disgusting animals and brag about it on TV they can live withit
@affine@icedquinn This is true, it's really just the last day of March, which has been the case since 2009. Easter falling on the same day is just kind of a coincidence, it's even happened before.
This is just the first time a sitting president has acknowledged it, which in and of itself I don't think anyone would really care about. The way they did it had to have been on purpose though, the topic is just too hot right now for it to have not been.
@allison@icedquinn@affine Interesting, I never knew this.
But I think my point stands, if they did the same thing this year I don't think anyone would really care that much, they had to have known presenting it the way they did would provoke a response with the burger land political climate being what it is right now. Kabuki theatre, and all that.
@Indigo@icedquinn@affine I think it's just a form letter they send out every year and everyone losing their minds over it is whatever, right wing culture war nonsense will always do this and if it isn't chuds exhibiting apophienia over this, there will always be something else
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