The CIA literally spent decades attempting to dissolve the Soviet Union and usher in free market capitalism - which led to oligarchy and Putin.

If nothing anyone does could possibly matter, what avenues are there to get rid of Citizens United?

In what way has this Taco truck charade been “effective”?

PJ, I just want to say from the bottom of my heart, you are the biggest dork I’ve ever found on the internet.

fellow LARPers on the back for successfully killing so many marginalized groups without interruption.

Ah yes, like the Arab and Muslim Americans in Dearborn who decided they wouldn’t vote for a candidate who promised to kill their brothers and sisters in Lebanon with the utmost lethality. These people are the ones who are killing marginalized groups. Sure.

God, the sick and twisted knots libs can twist themselves into trying to explain how fascism takes rise. I give you 1 year before youre calling ICE on your Muslim and Arab “tankie” neighbors.

In 2 years, when ICE will be going door to door doing blatant curb stomps, pug Jesus is still going to be whining about tankies not voting for genocide, as he posts bizarre memes about the good old days of the Union beating the confederates. Absolutely bizarre.

The defeat of German Nazism was not a foregone conclusion. It was the Soviets behind 70% of Nazi casualties that defeated German Nazism - at tremendous cost I might add.

Fascism isn’t some fad that inevitably falls out of fashion because people magically start seeing the contradictions, but a cancer that has to be militantly suppressed with utmost prejudice.

And after you leave a voicemail, the rep will task an intern with spending 15 minutes clearing out all messages.

If Bernie would’ve been warning about this in 2023, he would’ve been called red fash.

It’s not fair to characterize jellyfin as being unable to scale, and it’s just downright wrong to cast it as being built “for one single local user”.

Jellyfin has great support for setups that include numerous users. The entire dashboard is basically designed around this concept of an admin keeping track of dozens upon dozens of users.

You seem like you have many reservations about specific functions in Jellyfin, but you were vague in explaining thrm - what specific things are you worried about?

Lmao, the psychologist is telling us we can halt fascism by “setting boundaries”, “having faith” and “saying no”. Lmao. This article is like concentrated liberalism.

Buy a gun.

It will be challenged and Trump is going to capitulate

How’s that blind faith working?

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/22/trump-harvard-students-international.html

If you can look at how every single dem senator voted to confirm Rubio, and still not buy into the idea that the democrats are controlled opposition, I don’t know what to say to you.

Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the senators who stood with Schumer and folded as they voted for the republican spending bill, was literally the AOC of yesteryear. You can push populist candidates to your party of capital until the cows come home, but special interests will swallow them up every single time for eternity. You need to think beyond the democrats and American electoralism in general for that matter. The devolution into fascism is well underway. It’s time to abandon the democrats that helped achieve it.

Are you sure you aren’t describing America’s education system?

If you want to play with AI slop, maybe log off lemmy and start doing this on your own… Not a single source cited.

Could I leave my job at the factory to go to university?

Yes… as is evidenced by an entirely free education program.

If you’re making the claim that “factory workers of the USSR had no freedom to go to college”, then supply some evidence please. Stop beating around the bush.

Higher education was free in the USSR as stipulated by its constitution.

Soooo, was there “standing” to weaponize ICE and start deporting US citizens? Was there standing to weaponize the DOJ? Was there standing to cut funding for NPR and PBS? Was there standing to pardon all the Jan 6 rioters? Was there standing to cut all government programs via DOGE? I could go on and on.

Taking the stance of “well, Trump won’t be able to do this because it is illegal” is naive as hell given what we’ve seen in the past 100 days.

This utterly blind faith that the liberal institutions will somehow halt Trumpian fascism is exactly the same blunder as was made by liberals in early 30s Germany during Hitler’s meteoric rise.

Take a step back and realize the American political experiment is over. Given how it’s gone genocidal and incinerated the planet, we have a duty to dismantle it from within.

“American genocide is a forgone conclusion, so I will give full support to the genocidal regime whether the color is red or blue”

This is why people call you blue maga. There is no red line. There is no amount of evil that would make you all start to consider the legitimacy of the US empire. You all will sacrifice however many Palestinian kids it takes to bide time till the next election cycle. All under the guise of pragmatic utilitarianism.