TotallynotJessica

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You misunderstand Trump. He might be a symptom, but he is not a sustainable strategy. He rode the wave and no one else will be able to; that is how strongman dictatorships tend to pan out. Everyone from billionaires to normal people will be sick of fascism after this. The billionaires will want a yes man who doesn't extort them or make business volatile, while everyday people will want peace and safety.

In that environment, everyone will want the return of liberal democracy, only US institutions will be permanently weakened. We can't know how the situation will unfold, but oligarchs will seek to solidify their gains while only restoring what benefits them. I personally think a feudal era will occur, with a weak central government that eventually allows for fiefdoms, which could eventually lead to actual civil wars.

I say this shit knowing full well the cost of third parties. I know they vote split and I know our system punishes it. Yet I've learned a valuable lesson from the death of our liberal democratic system: the Democrats will never change. They lost the election by ignoring the youth, assuming they would always have that support even if they repeatedly told us that our opinions don't matter. They pretended the economy was fine and that people shouldn't complain because their measure for a healthy economy was far beyond what people could actually tolerate. They chose capitalism over democracy; simple as that.

Call me an edgy kid, but I've been a voter from the day I was eligible; someone who never missed an opportunity to fulfill my civic duty. And yet I'm the now the one saying that the Democrats are not people we can work with. I'm the one saying that they're closer to the Vichy government than the resistance. We need to break from them because working with them will bear no fruit. They only do good things to serve their own interests, not as payment for left wing support.

If you think the Democrats will change without serious challenges to their hegemony, then you really haven't learned. They've taken the wrong lessons from the last election, and doubling down on following fascism rightwards. They kick out people trying to reform the party while dismantling environmental protections at the state level where they still have power. They're increasingly throwing minorities under the bus and serve capitalism harder than ever because they've taken this loss as an excuse to be worse, not a call to improve.

I've been a long proponent of damage mitigation, which is why I don't advocate not voting. Unfortunately, the Democrats' response to this has actively made the situation worse by making people believe that voting for them can change things. Even with a large majority in both houses, Trump is already equipped to override their will using everything from the yesmen courts to his personal Gestapo.

I'll repeat the sad truth of our situation till the day I get shipped off to a death camp: Trump's death is the only thing that will stop him. We're in the endgame, and there is no snapping the people he'll kill back to life.

I guess I should've been more clear: Going to jail and earning less blood money are both extortion, but they're not comparable

Who? Oh, that's right, I actively don't care what a murderer's name is.

Except that the company wants another merger, not simply to exist. They wouldn't go to jail, they just wouldn't pad the pockets of certain execs and/or shareholders

I need more of these edits

no, but it is possible to find them on here

and yet, it's definitely possible