I never said anything about most people deserving what will happen to them, of that all Americans are complicit. But it doesn’t matter, fascism respects neither people’s opposition to it nor innocence.
And Fascist!US is going to be substantially worse than the USSR.
This is an excellent choice and reason. I do not fault anyone for leaving, for whatever reason.
I’m in a ‘damn the torpedoes mood’. My wife and I where already in the process of buying a new house and moving AND retiring when the asshole just kept fucking things up.
That piece of shit is not going to change MY plans. I’ll tell that to his face. With a few other choice words.
It will be rough, but I’m not gonna just keep my ‘head down’. I will speak out, I’ve written my representatives a number of times.
I’m getting a bit long in the tooth to actually fight. But, I’ve got the gear to do so. I hope it does not come to that.
That is if we don’t fight or discourage others from fighting.
I’m contributing to the ACLU and will become a paying member of the local NPR station. Next, I will volunteer for the local Democratic candidate and complaint directly to my local MAGA useless rep when he shows in a town hall.
Maybe just shut the fuck up? We get it. Your thesis has been fully explained:
Is there anything else to add to that? Is there some nuance you feel has not been adequately explained? Because otherwise, what the fuck is your purpose here? Your trying to, what, explicitly stomp out any embers of hope people might have? Just really drive home that resistance is futile, so there’s no point in even trying anything other than escape? Like, I’m not even contesting any of those three points - I’m just asking, what are you gaining by constantly getting in people’s faces with them? What behavior are you trying to manifest by posting like this?
If it’s just to make us all feel properly shitty before they round us up for the death camps - bro, we really don’t need your help on that.
Boy, would I love this thread to get back on track, so I can get back to the delicious schadenfreude of Trump voters getting what they deserve.
“Leopards ate my face” on Reddit has one covered 
University that supported Trump and celebrated him (performed at his inauguration) now has budget crisis due to federal funding being pulled and less alumni donating.
That is the University of Nebraska.
Plus, with all the deportations, they have to husk all the corn themselves.
This thread is literally Americans basking in the joy of having other Americans suffer for their decisions. Not too sure that @madmonk28 is off base here, except now the target is some of the thread participants.
Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps we shouldn’t revel in pain, self-inflicted or not.
Perhaps.
I was implying this too, I do think that now there is a very significant number of people that voted for Trump, who are now sorry for that. When one does not differentiate we do run the risk of discouraging the small, (but in the end decisive) group that will not vote for the Republicans in the near future.
It is the ones that remain as MAGAs the ones that should get the sweet schadenfreude.
I expect that very few of the thread participants voted for the LEFP. Our chewed faces aren’t a surprise, it’s exactly what we thought would happen.
Yes, it may be unseemly to revel in someone else’s pain, but I sleep well knowing I didn’t want it to happen, I didn’t want any of this to happen.
He’s welcome to start a thread beating up on people for not leaving, or others are welcome to pit him for abandoning the US or whatever. There are lots of threads where we revel in pain for various reasons – for the example, the Stupid Gun News is exactly that, but for another reason. This one is to revel in the pain who people who voted for someone who said he would do exactly what he’s doing, and then getting hurt because he’s doing exactly what he said he would do.
I’m not a moderator, of course, so you all can talk about whatever you’d like.
I think this is very important. I’ve been a sustaining member of WBUR and WGBH for years, but I have upped my contribution.
“I’ve upped my contribution, so up yours.”
FTR, not only have we increased our contributions to our local public broadcasting providers, we’ve changed our trusts accordingly.
Yeah, we should show more grace to literal nazis. That’ll fix what ails America.
How’s this?
Texas Shows How Trump’s Anti-Green Moves Threaten a Red Economy
(Bloomberg) – Deep-red Texas needs to build power plants at an astonishing speed and scale to keep its economy humming. President Donald Trump just made that much harder…
All but 6% of new electric capacity added to the state’s grid since 2020 has come from renewables or batteries…
With vast, windswept plains, Texas has long been the top market for wind power. Solar surged as panel prices declined almost 50% in the past five years. It certainly helps that renewables are fast and relatively easy to install, compared to fossil fuel power plants that take years to build. Texas now has more clean energy and storage systems than any other state, supplying more than 30% of its electricity.
So Texans built, and are building, clean energy plants. This attracted businesses that need a lot of electricity and like low prices. Texas’ gross domestic product climbed 51% between 2020 and 2024. (Remind me: Who was President then, and which party?) And Texans voted for Trump. Now Trump’s Big Bogus Bill is taking away the tax incentives they need to keep their economy booming at the pace it is.
Perfect!
Yes, hopefully this is a return to more lovely schadenfreude in this thread!
This is the schadenfreude thread, right?
(checks…)
No! Leopards. But still on the right track!
The rare and endangered leopards of Schadenfreude.
Certain beneficiaries of the Badly Bumbling Bill don’t like that Texas built all those clean energy plants because it meant not buying their oil and gas. And it would not surprise me if the Texas Republican voters themselves did not know that clean energy expansion was happening. They thought the economic rise was because of everyone fleeing California to go to Texas for low taxes and guns.
Like how slaves in Texas didn’t know they’d been freed?