I know it’s not directly relevant to Congress, but the Minneapolis mayor outright said “I am not in favor of abolishing ICE” today.

Why are you calling me blind? Why are you so closed minded about soemthibgbso inconsequential like “the precise amount of praise wants from each party”?

This rude behavior is ripped straight from The Everything App^TM

He wants it from people who are useful to him. I’m not blind.

Look at how he treated Zelensky and Machado. They come in and suck up, but he doesn’t see them as useful.

Other leaders who openly dislike him (and he dislikes back, on a political level), such as Mamdani, Sheinbaum, and even Kim Jong Un, more easily get on his good side without sucking up (they sometimes throw a little praise his way, as you’ve observed).

When you take it too far it falls flat

Yeah sure either way he isn’t into it.

It also isn’t effective, Trump doesn’t actually respect people who grovel toward him, especially if they aren’t useful to him.

It’s tough out there, I hope you fine a way to get connected with people in your area. It may even be worth changing your area is that’s a possibility for you.

No local DSA or PSL branch for you?

Lol is that where the down votes are coming from?

I wasnt even taking a particular stance on the topic, just suggesting that we carefully consider “starting a civil war” as a potential option. I actually like the energy lol

No I know, just being pedantic about it for fun

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Since it’s on a downswing, wouldn’t it technically be a “valley” instead of a “plateau”?

OK and they don’t have to cater in a misogynistic way, but they do, and I’m criticizing that decision.

We can leave it at the same volume. Its not “all men are bad” even, no need to make things up, its embedded misogyny, even perpetuated by women at times.

The question why is “lesbian” porn, in the “straight” section?

Why would a straight woman on a porn site expect to see lesbian porn when they select to see straight porn? It’s a double standard.

If men (or anyone else) wanted to watch lesbian porn, there’s nothing wrong with that, it just seems out of place in the straight section, cause that’s not what it is.

Oh OK cool, disregard then

Why?

From the perspective of pornography distributors and consumers, all womens’ bodies exist for their sexual gratification. This includes lesbians ofc.

It’s simply manifestation of misogyny.

Yeah I know, a civil war would be another escalation. I’m saying that the commentary should respect that fact, and respect the fact that if it pops off in 2026, the bad guys win 10/10 times because no preparation has been done whatsoever.

• Europe needs to stop willingly subjugating itself to the US for its own good.
• I guess if you don’t have anything at stake it isn’t up to you to navigate the consequences of a civil war. The US needs to decline for the good of the world, but unfortunately for it, it’s unable to produce competent leadership, so the process is more rough than it needs to be

I think this has been proposed before, but i think that the instance with the most users (whatever it may be) should be deprioritized on join-lemmy, for the health of the federation. Its not like people won’t come into contact with the largest instance like right away anyway (and could just kale a new account if they really want to)

This would effectively be a secession from the United States, which would be extremely consequential and very violent.

It’s a proposal that shouldn’t be made flippantly.

Who could have possibly predicted this?

Yeah the answer is to log off