But isn’t the point that it’s pretty clearly illegal already, which is why they’re now framing it as something else?
As long as rich reich-wingers can just throw lawyers at something that looks like vote buying, they can drag things out until elections are over and then it’ll be too late – can’t undo the effect post hoc.
Well, that’s another thing. How likely is it he’ll ever see any real consequences that affect him in any way?
Not that I’m saying he shouldn’t be prosecuted if this does turn out to be illegal (which it probably is), just that I’m extremely cynical when it comes to the likelihood of it actually having any effect
Even if Musk’s lawyers don’t succeed in making this go away and the whole thing does turn out to have been illegal, it won’t make any difference: the election will be long over by then
Oh yes no disagreement there, but by all appearances it’s probably still going to be a fairly close shave – much closer to 50/50 ballpark than, say, 40 / 60 or let alone 30 / 70. So out of the people who do bother to vote, around half of them are still probably going to vote from Trump
Oh yes, liberals absolutely are way worse about this, but I do see it even with actual leftists. It feels like with “centrists,” the deal seems to be what you described: a sort of “well, certainly the leopards won’t eat my face, and I don’t like messing with the status quo because it works well enough for me.” However, with some leftists, it seems to be more about an optimistic view of “the human condition” and an assumption that people are, by and large, good and want to do good (even to folks they don’t know).
I’m a degrowth anarchist myself, and since I live in Finland, I get to enjoy proportional representation. I vote for a democratic socialist party that is at least reasonably close to my values and actually has a chance of landing parliament seats and governmental positions. Over the decades, I’ve noted that many “actual” leftist voters and politicians are maybe a bit… well, let’s say a bit too upbeat about what sort of animal Homo sapiens actually is. These are folks who genuinely do care about “woke” stuff like intersectionality and put in the work towards really changing things, but who seem to think that deep down, everybody wants a just, more equal society and not a hierarchical hellhole where the “strong” dominate some “lesser” social classes (foreigners, poor people, whatever)
My question is, if it’s sad and shameful, why is Trump still so popular in polls?
Sure, they may say it’s “sad and shameful”, but it’s clearly not bad enough for them to not want to vote for Trump anyhow.
If Trump was just a normal businessman, he never would have gotten elected. His base likes the horribleness. They think he will be horrible only to people they feel deserve it.
So many on the left seem to think that deep down people are good, and that if they just knew all the horrible shit conservatives are saying and planning they wouldn’t vote for them. There’s just this near-total refusal to acknowledge that for a scarily large proportion of the population, that horrible shit is their reason for voting for conservatives, and not only will pointing it out not help, trying to educate them generally just won’t work.
But where are its little fingies?!
Right, but any of those aren’t 10% off, but closer to at least 10 percentage points off – percent and percentage points are not the same thing.
Even Australia is ~23% off, and eg. Germany is 42% off, the US is 120% off, UK is 57% off, and eg. Poland is a whopping 650% off
Yeah that’d be my guess too, looks like it could be something to measure oxygen consumption
What’s that kajigger on the left dude’s face?
Unlike what some people have been claiming, looks like doubling down on the fascist rhetoric and bigotry hasn’t made Trump any less popular.
If anything it’s made him more popular.
When asked what she knows about the European Union, Valentina is evasive: “I’m not interested in politics,” she says.
For some reason it irritates the fuck out of me when pro-Russians use that excuse.
Yes you are interested in politics, you just won’t say your opinions out loud because you’re a spineless piece of shit
I may not have been entirely serious
Ah, thanks, I really don’t speak flounder too well. Really should learn considering how close to Norway I live
Thank you ❤️
Yeah the colors are all there, the buildings in that area have a sort of copper-like cladding on them so they’re pretty funky just by themselves, and people really seem to like wild room lighting. I actually just realized I never did an sRGB conversion of this so I don’t know how it looks on most monitors.
Here’s the original unedited version:
Just looks a bit more subdued compared to how vividly orange everything there is when using the Mark I Eyeballs
Lemmy stalinists are going to enjoy this one
Too cheesy?!
Best legal system money can buy