adespoton

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It’s all a matter of perspective; when you’re that far right, ultra-conservatives are way more liberal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Only problem here is that Trump is famous for not paying his debts.

He doesn’t play bureaucracy games; he just stops spending money in certain areas and lets the bureaucrats scramble to make it OK.

In other words, I see the US stopping all engagement with NATO and a EU/US tariff war in the future — IF he can pull it off in four years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, he’s fine with OTHER people paying his debts.

Notice he’s not calling for his campaign to pay Harris’ debts — he’s calling for the American People to do it.

And I think you’ll find there will be a lot of strings attached to that money, and it will pass through a lot of friendly hands before some would ever make it to Harris.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

“Perfect teeth” to me look an awful lot like bad dentures.

Give me a nude tooth any day.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’d settle for Congress doing anything beyond squabbling and trying to pass bills that are unconstitutional. Setting the budget would be a good start, and then possibly taking some government “traditions” and encoding them into law.

Passing a law banning omnibus bills would also be great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

…with even less of a personal voice on the global stage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

That’s great! However, if you move to Canada, that’s one less voice to resist a US slide into fascism.

Think about what happened to France when Germany took a turn for the worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well, how has it been done successfully in other countries?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

We’ve seen how that works out with marijuana legalization.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Canada currently has over a million vacant homes. The housing crisis isn’t a lack of homes or even jobs… it’s purely a matter of inflated value vs income.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

As someone outside the US who’s reasonably centrist from a global perspective…

The Democrats have been inching further right for decades. Every four years, the party picks one or two “progressive” topics, dials them back a bit, and campaigns on change, while supporting a general platform that is similar to conservative platforms in most countries.

That said, the population seems to be shifting along with them, so campaigning on a centrist platform would get them branded as pinko commie socialists and result in the majority of the population abandoning them.

The problem is, they’re the “not Republicans” party, which covers a huge swathe of political opinions that usually aren’t in agreement with each other.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

People are buying these books while they’re still allowed to.

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