When the Blue Team of puppets sits at the figurehead of the Global Murder Machine, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside!
Are people capable of just not straw manning? Jesus Christ.
This is the kind of thing that makes it difficult for me to empathize with them. Like really, I need to do some yoga before.
But no, there is this magical third option where there is a structure to run a government as massive as the federal government and actually has plans on how to run the government and not grift to help act as a ratchet to keep politics more conservative.
The only third party I respect is the Working Families Party, and part of that is that they are willing to play the current game of politics to get their policies implemented or at least a version closer to their vision.
Eww I stepped in .ml
Do it again!
Yaay tankie logic… As usual rooted outside of reality.
republicans keep repeating this strawman but no, the democrats want all of them arrested. it doesn’t matter what party they were affiliated with.
although this connection is a reach.
Alright, I need a level headed response to a level headed question, because it’s one the right keeps screaming and I have not been satisfied with the answers I’ve seen. This isn’t a gotcha, or a lame attempt at deflection that the right is trying to do, I genuinely want to know if there is a good answer, because I have yet to hear one.
Why didn’t previous DOJ’s go after anyone?
The government has seemingly had an overwhelming amount of evidence going back at minimum to the days of Loretta Lynch as AG during the Obama administration. And they likely knew far before that. So why does the consensus seem to be that only the Trump administration is covering it up? I need a satisfying answer because when arguing with people on the right, I have no good response.
Unsatisfying answers I have heard:
“The DOJ was independent until the current administration” - Ok but there is a difference between being independent and allowing a massive coverup of this scale to take place right in front of your face. There should have been calls from the very top to prosecute the people in the files, and AG’s should have been removed if they didn’t do so. Or at least fucking something. Not just a “oh well. Nothing we can do. They’re independent after all.” as if the DOJ couldn’t, in any way, be held responsible for not doing their fucking job.
“Well both sides are complicit in all this” - Ok, but that means that when Bondi screams “why aren’t you asking Merrick Garland these questions?” she’s kind of right. I don’t want this to be the answer, because the thought of that woman being honest is laughable to me. But if it really is ALL of them, both sides, then it really does seem like a targeted punishment. Like, if everyone at your job regularly stole pens, and then one day you get called into HR for stealing pens, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to go “why am only I being targeted for this? Everyone was doing it!” And yes, stealing pens is a lot fucking different than covering up child rape, but the point stands. Why aren’t previous AG’s and officials being called in for questioning? Why only this administration?
“Well no one else was involved as much as Trump” - This one pisses me off more than any of the others, it’s not even an argument! So fucking what? What does that matter?! How does him being king of the monsters mean that they couldn’t have done anything until now, when he’s in office a second time? It’s child rape! They had the evidence! As disgusting as it is, it makes MORE sense for the current administration to not prosecute people in the files than previous ones! It’s the main perpetrator’s administration!
that means that when Bondi screams “why aren’t you asking Merrick Garland these questions?” she’s kind of right
That’s just it. Being ‘kind of right’ is what gives them so much license. This is why there’s this whole reactionary movement. They are right in some really key areas, they just offer anything but, if not the opposite of any solution.
Which is why policy matters. Longstanding policy of corruption lets grifters and opportunists have influence. And that’s why we’re here.
Democratic voters do. The party leadership doesn’t seem to care.
If they did care, they would do things like this: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/miller-in-the-dock/ But they are doing literally nothing, they are exactly like the opposition in germany during hitlers rise. So inactive that they might as well be accomplices.
Eh, the Democrat party leadership does not. I’ve heard plenty of Democrat voters say arrest em all, sure. But those are not the party, they are the dupes supporting it.
It’s pretty blatantly obvious the Democratic party is controlled opposition. I mean, it was pretty much fucking confirmed when they tried to say they only take money from “good” billionaires…
Then why aren’t numerous law enforcement agencies in the state of NY working overtime to unmask and mercilessly prosecute Epstein and his associates? Epstein committed crimes across many jurisdictions, many of them in solidly blue areas. And NY comes to mind. Even if Trump won’t do anything at the federal level, and even if Republicans in Florida won’t do anything, what about the Democrats in New York? We’re talking about a class of people that have committed serious enough crimes to get life sentences in prison…in numerous separate jurisdictions. Any of the states his network operated in could nail his associates and clients to the wall.
AIUI, double jeopardy - if a state prosecutes for something, then after the court case is over the federal govt can’t prosecute over it as you can’t be sued on the exact same thing twice. And states don’t have jurisdiction on most places outside their state.
IANAL
Yeah I bet they wanted Tara Reade vindicated too lol sure, it just wasn’t politically pragmatic 🤗 so full of shit!!!
that’s the lamest whataboutism i’ve ever seen.
i fail to see how that’s related to epstein.
you know she lives in russia now, right?Whataboutism is when you remind Americans their guys are also rapists who want complete deregulation I guess
And maga be like, yo, where the kids at.
And what are you going to do about it, you dog? Ask their Ring drones for a badge number when they shoot your neighbor off a bad face ID?
The main issue is the use of FPTP for so long that it does what it was designed to to, cause an unbreakable duopoly
Say, on a related subject, is it possible to not just block the .ml instance but also every user from there?
If anyone at the DNC cared I’m sure they’d be very upset.
But vote blue no matter who.
Vote red until you’re dead.
If you think Democrats should be the worst we can do, we have to stop doing so much worse.
fun fact: the average IQ has gone down over time to 98
POV: You don’t know how IQ works.
IQ doesn’t work, it’s pseudoscience. The only thing a high IQ means is that you’re good at taking IQ tests.
Yes. That as well.
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This is completely delusional by the way. Europe and Japan are key outposts for US extraction. You don’t understand the postwar financial system (asset bubble containing Nazi + imperial Japanese + Southern plantation wealth) at all lol this is why your people are doomed to slide into hell now
Make no mistake. We’re taking y’all with us.
In my vicinity you are at best getting Thailand, which is like if Japan was also Pakistan for some awful reason.
Oh, you’re from Southeast Asia. Never mind then. Y’all gonna be vassals of China.
We already are that’s why things are going so well
Heh. Don’t make the mistake of conflating stability with prosperity. For a long time we thought things were going well too…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I guarantee you this is already a global problem. I’m deeply ashamed to see the country I grew up in spearheading it, but it’s been fermenting worldwide for a long time, I’m afraid.
However, that said, I wish you and everyone on that side of the world the best! Fuck do I hope I’m wrong, too. But either way, the only path towards human society healing from any of this is if us common folk find some solidarity.
If that was true, Vietnam would have high-speed rail and Hanoi’s metro would be more than 1 line.
If China was making vassals, you wouldn’t see the kind of development I get to participate in with my work here. You would see Bulgaria. The only people who will ever buy this shit are people who somehow forgot about the colonial era (westerners). When brother Laos emerged from French occupation there were people in villages a hop skip and a jump away from each other that had little trade activity and no family visits.
I wouldn’t have moved to W. Europe if you paid me. Expensive and stagnant.
How much is the offer? I would consider it.
It would have to be France or Spain. Everyone has a price
I could be talked into Italy pretty easily.
