“We don’t like Trump, so we want to go back to the system that produced him, and his voter base.”

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

If they really want change they should lobby for fairer systems with better services and greater wealth distribution.

“we have fun here”

Feeling cute, might go back to the standard model of Neo-Liberal corruption and wealth disparity that voters wanted to destroy so badly that they voted in an orange clown.

The invisible man standing behind him was saved.

Just a question of which tech bros are gonna put their cities where.

Jefferson said something like that when arguing to rewrite the constitution:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-12-02-0248

https://oll.libertyfund.org/quotes/thomas-jefferson-on-whether-the-american-constitution-is-binding-on-those-who-were-not-born-at-the-time-it-was-signed-and-agreed-to-1789

…but that was probably written from France when feeling all bohemian on his trip with his child sex slave.

There’s going to be a lot of land available for Tech Bros to set up their private cities.

Good to set the precedent.

As JD Vance’s Peter Thiel funded miracle run through the Senate proved, you don’t have to be a Senator long to run for Pres. or VP.

Vance had just two years in professional politics before becoming VP, thanks to Peter Thiel’s money and influence.

It’s a pay-for-play system, not a Representative Democracy.

PeerTube seems to have fucked up by being too quick to reject people. Not exactly the best strategy for growth.

That’s how parties that don’t actually serve the majority end up dying. It’s a flaw in democracy that it can be so easily corrupted by the wealthy classes.

It ends up all being a sham, then a shame, then a dictatorship.

I was hoping there’d be a filter in the type of people (because Lemmy requires some intelligence and a preference away from mainstream systems). I was incorrect.

Lacking obnoxiousness is apparently not a collorary.

Not even, it’s just corruption getting too stable ultimately results in voter instability - as people are enticed to vote for ANYTHING BUT business as usual.

This means Obama’s Hope And Change is just as likely to be voted for as Trump’s “Grab them by the Pussy” because they equally appear to be offering a shift from the norms of the Capo-democratic swamp.

Meanwhile they’re both actually unfettered “too big to fail” Capitalism, with all its “make the rich richer, corrupt democracy further” aspects intact.

So Capitalism creates its own threat, and hence marches on oscillating democracy to its own needs like the perfect parasite.

The parasite won’t give you what you want. The corrupt won’t volunteer to end corruption. You have to smash the windows grab the parasite and squeeze the life out of it before you can issue genuine ideological reforms and take back a fairer system.

Sometimes violence is what’s necessary. The “slow fix” of democracy only works when the right radical candidates have the right free hand to make the right radical changes, and corruption tends to prevent that.

I suppose this is a “tough time” but it’s caused by moderate Neo-Liberal freemarket and often nominally democratic Capitalists.

Neo-Liberaliam / Economic Liberalism is part of what got Trump elected. The sense that Capitalism was beyond the reach of meaningful governance, and will always just aid the wealthy getting wealthier - created a hunger for radical change.

People end up just wanting radical change out of frustration, regardless of what direction that change takes (left or right). They just want a break in unrelenting Capitalism.

Which explains why for many, Bernie, AOC, and Trump, were all likable/popular choices at the same time.

Newsome as a moderating figure will prevent any strong shift away from the service of Capitalism as above all else, and hence is a huge danger to the politics of equilibrium. It’s ratchet theory, keeps things stuck.

… Neo-Liberals should be embarrassed to admit who they are, because they caused this, by claiming that Capitalism and deregulation is a moderate position (steering the ship of state between the left and the right) - when infact that’s an economic extremist viewpoint which excuses inept government and the corruptions of money… and when perpetuated infinitum as it is, it becomes the cause of voter radicalism.

Neo-Liberal economic policies create the unshifting corruption and two-tier “too big to fail, too rich to jail” system that people want to vote against.

In this sense Newsome is dead weight, representing Bidenism 2.0. Neo-Liberals should be ashamed of themselves for not just accepting their part in creating the quagmire, but wanting to continue it.

Yeah their offense about Atheism Plus really does seem to mirror later movements in gamergate and the far right in general.

Haven’t looked at that before. Thanks.

Oh he’s been rolling out control over capital cities in the name of “fighting crime” and mirroring what he’s done with controlling DC:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fcWSt6aiHYU

… and then recently he’s compared the effort to “war”:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/09/20/dpce-s20.html

And his actions often start woth the stuff in the OP article. That combined with his recent outlawing of antifa makes his initiating more serious or war like actions domestically, very possible.

He’s sort of, installing a switch that he could switch.

So that’s what Trump meant when he sd he was going to do “the big one”… He meant New York.

He knows that

a) pod racing brings other good stuff (tourism, commerce, street vendors).

b) the pod racing industry are wealthy and can take the hit. Rather than betting against other gamblers he’s betting against bookies (the gambling industry).

c) homegrown hero stories bring the planet closer to supporting rebellion politics.

“The arts are useless and will make you a poor stupid leftist… Do a trade” <----- type of statemet that has been doing the rounds on the far-right since at least 2014.

Yeah, The American Life had an episode on this… Because this is NOT a fictional scenario. It’s what happened when Trump shut down USAID.

Must be hell for the dog.