archomrade

Yea, it's definitely not gonna happen, but the libs love pretending it's the end of democracy and take that possibility very seriously

Except Trump won't be on the ticket again (barring a literal fucking coup that re-writes the constitution without state ratification), so both parties would be running a 'not Trump' candidate.

I can totally see that.

Maybe it's how lemmy mixes posts from many instances by default, but sometimes I wander into a thread that I expect to be more stereotypically 'progressive', and it ends up being shockingly establishment.

Maybe that's a strength of federation: that even if your instance is locked-in to a particular perspective, you'll still get exposed to a wide range from other instances.

There haven't been any popular defed protests lately, maybe things are settling