Europe also has things like universal healthcare and much less of an opioid crisis and whatnot. Without those, this wouldn’t have been prevented – the kid would’ve just used a knife or explosives or something instead.

Yet more proof that Trump’s strategy – his primary one, not even a plan B – is to try to sabotage the counting and certification of the votes and be put in power either by SCOTUS or by neither candidate getting to 270 EC votes resulting in the election being decided by a “one state, one vote” poll in the House.

Oh wait, you actually believed him? Let me laugh even harder!

And of the few who did have some availability, their evangelical Christianity beliefs were a fundamental part of their work - to the point where Jesus preaching was going to be a constant focus of the therapy.

What the fuck? Those aren’t counselors, those are fucking quacks who should be in prison for fraud!

3 points

I got the bonus wrong; my guess was

I mean, they also could’ve convicted him after his first impeachment, too. Or they could’ve 25th’d him, or they could’ve not stacked the Federal judiciary with partisan traitors like Judge Cannon, or any number of things that would’ve entailed acting in good faith for the good of the country instead of blatantly trying to seize power at all costs. They had plenty of chances and rejected them all.

No, you were responding to someone worried about the time “from November 5 till January 20.” That’s very much inclusive of the vote counting and certification, not subsequent to it. If you’re gonna use pedantry as a petty excuse for bad-faith contrarianism, the least you could do is not fuck it up!

And “i’M nOt goInG to rEAd iT” – really? What are you, a small child having a tantrum? Quit huffing hopium and whining about being confronted with reality.

Georgia is a purple state held hostage by GOP gerrymandering. We saved the damn Senate, remember?

Russia might not spend as much money on propaganda as some other entities, but they punch above their weight in terms of tactics and effectiveness.

That guy gets on my nerves, but I’ve read enough from him on various topics that I’m pretty confident he’s a genuine user. Don’t get me wrong, he’s for sure an ideologue who’s no fun at parties, but I don’t think he’s a bot or that he’s saying things he was instructed to say and doesn’t actually care deeply about.

There’s another user, with a three-word-phrase username, that I would describe similarly.

Not just that. If it’s just the mods of one community, appeal to the instance admins. If the admins are part of the problem, don’t just move to a different instance yourself, also try to raise awareness and convince the rest of Lemmy to defederate.

You’re not wrong, but I also think it’s important to point out that just because the US interfered in 2020 doesn’t mean it interfered in 2024. In fact, I can think of a reason or two – like, say, Biden being in office instead of Trump – why its policy on attempting coups might be vastly different.

Your comment makes me wonder if 1930s Europeans thought German politics were similarly tedious.

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“But don’t worry, we’ll be sure to put it on the next one for ya” [which just so happens to be a low-turnout election where conservatives will have an advantage]

Some old judge Rush Limbaugh’s cousin: pure and just

“Neten Media” being founded with the same headquarters address and many of the same employees (purely by happenstance, of course) in 3… 2… 1…

Once the votes are counted

You do realize the MAGAs have been appointing “stop the steal” conspiracists to positions throughout the elections bureaucracy and are trying to recruit 100,000 poll “watchers” (read: saboteurs) specifically to try to stop that from happening, right?

Four years ago, the Trump campaign filed 50+ lawsuits trying to throw out votes because of alleged fraud that were basically all thrown out because no fraud could be found, and failed to stop states from certifying votes because the bureaucrats were doing their jobs. Now, they’re in a position not only to severely obstruct the counting and certification in the first place, but also sue over accusations of fraud that will be credible because their dumbass followers will have committed it themselves!

And of course, it’ll all be juuuuust stochastic and “lone wolf” enough that the Trump campaign itself will have [im]plausible deniability for directing it. The Heritage-Foundation-stacked courts will fall over themselves in their haste to clear Trump of any wrongdoing, while simultaneously saying “aww shucks we still have to invalidate the vote tho” or slow-walking any case they can’t plausibly say that about. This will result in either Trump crossing the 270 EC vote threshold by courts handing him wins for states where whole swathes of results for Democratic-leaning precincts have been thrown out, or throwing out enough results that neither candidate gets 270 votes so that the election gets decided by a “one state, one vote” poll in the House. Either way, Trump regains the Presidency “legally,” all Hell breaks loose with Project 2025 and the Supreme Court ruling making the President a king, and American democracy as we know it is over.

Please: save this comment, come back to it on Inauguration Day, and mock me for being wrong when democracy and the rule of law prevails. Be merciless about it! Ridicule me to within an inch of my life for my silly, unfounded worrying. I’m serious: please do that and I will love you for it.

Because I have no greater wish than to be wrong about this.

There’s nothing dismissive about it at all. Quite the opposite.

I mean, somebody downvoted your previous response. My best guess as to why is that your “either scenario… there are no winners” bit was perhaps poorly phrased and easy to misconstrue, so that’s what I addressed.

Exactly: “more progress on peace talks” in this context is just a tankie dog-whistle for “capitulating to Russia’s land-grabbing.”

I agree with your first paragraph 100%.

Re: your second, we know Russia has functioning nukes because, at least until a year and a half ago, we used to go and inspect them on a regular basis.