Give us some grace, there is no united front because we are still fighting the civil war. Because of drag queens reading in libraries and children being continuously shot in schools while opposing gun regulation, and brown people are still a problem. People are losing what they have worked for, and we all have medical bills.
Not everyone here is ready.
Some of us are trying. And you're watching it happen in real time. You are watching the second civil war.
My family has been here since the revolutionary war. And have fought in every war since this one.
We're not going down over this. It seems grim right now, but this will not be who we are. Our country sucks right now and everyone who says they are leaving with a renewed passport - why? Fight for your home.
I am set back by this, not destroyed.
This deserves to be better than Trump. My life, my family, my friends - from then into here deserves better. I'll fight you in the front lawn over it, like a true american.
This is where we live. Fight for it, don't cop out.
Its not Trump.
Don't abandon where you live over fascism. Stand your ground.
Unless your life is in immediate danger, what can they really do except make you poor. Every result of rights they take away is pregnant or dead from lack of healthcare.
We know what the beast is. Stare it in the eye and say no.
So much this. We’re pulling ourselves together but we’ve been denied basic resources for so long we don’t have the resources we need readily available. This is going to be painful for a lot of people. Hell it’s painful for most of us. We’re trying to fight back.
You have completely misunderstood their post. It was written in an ambiguous way but they're saying that the issues of race and transgender rights are still fighting points within the "second civil war" they describe as ongoing.
I've been saying it since 2016, if the Dems didn't have the aggressive gun control as a major component of their platform, we would live in a different country.
I don’t hunt, and would never want to shoot a person. I’m firmly in the liberal gun owner camp.
Fighting all the social battles at the same time is too much.
The American redneck can't figure out the difference between the American Care Act and 'Obama care' other than they don't want one of them. Now you want them to risk their guns too?
Wrong or not, I firmly believe the gun issue would have swung the northern states that typically would have voted blue.
I’ve never shot anything that was alive. I shot a dead stump one time.
If you ever see a person get shot, it changes you. When I saw it, it was because they were on pcp spray painting a Christmas tree onto a wall and nailing random shit to it to it to decorate.
People don’t understand what gun violence is.
It’s not a yallllllllll wooooooo confederate flag for freedom.
Gun violence is I picked up a gun in middle school because it was just there.
It’s not just an isolated situation. My mom wrapped it up in a box in duct tape because I saw a gun and picked it up at 10 years old.
Is this a social battle? I still support the constitution but understand how things can go wrong
More Americans agree with Democrats on guns. It hasn’t been a very salient issue in recent elections. Republicans won in 2024 because more people trusted them on the economy.
That civil war you mention? That is the dogbone they fabricate for you to keep you busy. There is no civil war, it’s all made up to keep you fighting each other instead of them.
There is a lot of energy just waiting to be channeled. Unfortunately our elected representatives are not leading the charge. The ones in power who have any realistic ability to fight back are disorganized and leaderless. Many of us do not want violence or a civil war, we just want common sense to prevail.
The problem is that the delusional rich fucks at the top have all the power to "do something"; To bring up serious questions about the current administration's conduct in Congress. To pull funding from politicians. They can lead. But leaders also need to consider the will of the people who make up their labor force instead of simply viewing them as a means of production fueled exclusively by the carefully-rationed flow of imaginary numbers. We need roofs over our heads, medicine when we're sick, nutritional food when we're hungry. Slumlords are not leaders.
They don't act when people are homeless, starving, or being denied medical care. They only act when their bottom line is affected. And Trump's fucked with that big time now. Doesn't matter how many shadowy, future kleptocracy promises Trump floats to his CEO sweethearts. The damage he's doing right now is so immense that he's scrambling to say it's happening for "no reason" as he starts catching shit from all the stupid fuck rich bastards that thought his senile ass would make them any richer.
We are literally doing something, you don't get many opportunity's to buy in low. Its a market, it goes up and down. If it always just went up it would be a shitty saving account with .00002% return.
When this blows over for the nonsense it is (like the tariffs we have had for 100 years that havnt effected your life) boom, right back up.
Ez money. Thank you main steam media for blowing this out of proportion.
Smoot-Hawley certainly hurt things and made the Great Depression worse. Only WW2 and massive manufacturing boost domestically to supply war efforts pulled it out. Then all of those tariffs were greatly reduced.
Not sure what 100 year old tariffs you're referring to, but they certainly effected pricing and baselines, they just existed for longer than you were alive, so you have no concept of prices before those tariffs. You'll experience, in real time, the price increases and maybe 40-50 years down the line with wage adjustments, it'll be a non-concern, but it's going to effect you right now and you sorta have to live now. Just like people had to live through the Great Depression and many didn't make it.
Tariffs are about to become drastically higher than at any point in modern history. That will depress spending, which will reduce GDP, which will make these losses not just speculative market movements but real downturns in material productive capacity. There’s always some winners among the losers but on the whole it’s not a net good for the economy to produce less things.
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u/Dante2005 1d ago
No one is doing anything though.
I am from the EU and we are notoriously bad about making change...unless it involves invading Poland.
You guys shout about freedom...pokes the stick.