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[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

They have all this control but the only box these guys have ticked is removing some brown people from the country (who they are very likely never crossed paths with). Everything else is getting shitter for them, so what's to celebrate?

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago

Also the law that froze the number of house seats (and this number of electrical college votes), screwing everything up and allowing both Bush and the pedo to "win" was passed in 1929.

It should be triple by now.

[–] jenings@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Tankies will continue to say both sides same

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Tankies really follow the will of the despots.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm not a tankie, and I agree with "bOtH sIdEs SaMe" in regards to being pro-military, and pro-corporate, and anti-labor, for example.

Sure, they have some differences, too. But really not that many.

The major parties have another "sAmE"... they are both less than 30% of the voters now. Independents are now 40% of the voters (pick your poll, there are many). So... of course your party machine surrounds you with "both sides" disparagement and talking points.

Good, it's to be expected.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 0 points 22 hours ago

Which side is against genocide? Which side is against war?

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Allowing presidents to pick your justices and then giving them jobs for life is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

What so bizarre is SCOTUS has always been conservative. We get a couple of judges who are not hardcore conservatives and they help make a couple of rulings that aren't just one sided conservative nonsense and suddenly "they are taking over the judiciary with activist judges".

So the conservatives do exactly this, they start stacking their already suck ass conservative courts that always rule for big business with even more extreme ideological fucktards. Every accusation is a confession I suppose.

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 0 points 22 hours ago

A country built on the back of genocide and slavery is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They have to get approved by our Congress too it's just that they're also not doing their jobs well.

[–] garbagehead@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Remember when the Dems controlled all three bodies and for all that non stop hysterial talk about gun control what happened?.....crickets ..... no change. Why would anyone expect change from either side is always my question.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

I’d rather take no change than chaos. What do you expect will happen?

[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry when was this that dems had filibuster proof control of house, senate and presidency for a while?

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Probably when they put through romneycare.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 128 points 2 days ago (5 children)

a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal..... republicans wouldn't win the white house back until 1952.

Ranked choice voting can help mitigate this issue

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 84 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And only 6 years after they finally got the Whitehouse again, they started plotting for the next massive fuck up era by founding the John Birch Society (which is a major cause for the GOP's current psychosis.

[–] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Don't forget about the McCarthyism of the late 40s and the 50s. Ronald Reagan was involved with that particular movement since the beginning when he testified in front of Congress (specifically the House Un-American Activities Committee) saying that communists were taking over Hollywood.

[–] adarza@piefed.ca 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

that wasn't ike, though. those nutcases thought he was a commie.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I agree. As conservatives go Ike was pretty reasonable.

My point was that almost as soon as the party got the Whitehouse again, influential portions of it started to plot for the next Great Depression like catastrophy.

As an ideological movement, they've proved many times that they cannot be trusted with power.

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[–] big_slap@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

fingers crossed history repeats itself lol

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I don't want another world war, or Jim Crow...

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think we're already in the middle of both of those.

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[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah but the Democrats were competent back then. I don't have confidence in most of the modern Democrats. There are only like 3 of them who seem to get what's going on

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[–] Mordred_85@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Roaring 30s

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In their view the Great Depression was probably started by a bunch of lazy woke activists who didn't want to work, thus spurring the dust bowl with their uh, inaction. Dust everywhere. No one dusting.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 days ago

They should sweep the forests, like they do in sweden

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 51 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The Trump depression is going to make 2008 look like a picnic.

[–] NOPper@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But I'm already very depressed!

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[–] n4ch1sm0@piefed.social 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's what Republican's do best; fuck up the economy.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

Conservatives are – and have always been – the enemy of the people.

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[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There will be inflation and you will love it.

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[–] Pulsar@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There is higher than 0% chance that DJT won't reach a deal with Iran "Soon", the possibility of oil crisis and economic recession are still very real.

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I want the price of gas to be $25 dollars per gallon

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I want the collapse and dissolution of the United States.

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I want the balkanization of the United States and $65 dollars a gallon!

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Tomato / tomatah!

[–] Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

The chance is 100% lol, have you been paying attention?

[–] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right now, prices and availability are being kept semi stable by draw downs on strategic reserves, but that won’t last forever.

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Hell, it probably won’t last another month.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago

Definitely not the flex they think it is.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago (1 children)
  • Massive amounts of what effectively amounts to gambling on the stock market.
[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Luckily, we have nothing like that today.

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[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That was before the Southern Strategy

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[–] shittydwarf@piefed.ca 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Somehow screwworm has returned

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[–] Dryad@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Knowing what happened in 1929 would require reading and thinking…

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Hey, at least this time the republicans aren’t jerking off to nonsense tariffs, right?

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