Feels real bad man. A lot of people that voted against this are going to suffer. For perspective 74.9 million people voted for Harris. That’s greater than the entire population of France (68.3 million).

The number of people that didn’t want this is massive. But a few more people in this country did want this so now millions have to suffer.

Maybe the depression this causes will give the US a chance. We seem to only have progressive reform when the economy collapses. When the economy is good voters shift to destroying the system because it’ll “lower their taxes”. Maybe Americans are a lost cause

If an ICE agent dies they can’t harm anyone else

There are some verbal signs that Republicans are breaking. Representatives are slowly beginning to express doubts, but I’ll believe them when they actually do something

I’m not opposed to bringing the original meme back. It’s time

Eroding democracy isn’t an on off switch per se. He’s been actively dismantling systems since day one. It is hard to say exactly when all is lost and there’s no coming back. That could have been last week or it could be next month. I suppose that will be up to historians.

I think frogs in a pot slowly being heated to a boil is a better analogy. We were pretty fucked as soon as we went in the pot. If there’s any sense we can maybe jump out, but eventually we’ll die if we don’t act

I’d rather die quickly with a small chance of taking out an oppressor than to die slowly in a concentration camp

To resisting

Very cool, enjoy your stay in the gulag. Since that’s the alternative

I truly don’t think democracy has very long in this country. Either the people rise up or die under oppression.

Our systems have failed

Exactly, I definently miss the times when politics could be more easily separated, at least mentally, from the day. But at this point we’re in an actual dumpster fire. There’s not much else to look at.

And that’s why fascism seems to win. Seems like they can compromise as long as the people the don’t like suffer

Seriously lemmy can be wild in this regard. I got a death threat for implying democrats were better than Republicans.

I’m not in love with many of their policies, they don’t go nearly far enough, but like damn they’re obviously the better choice

American here, my grandmother would eat an onion would cut an onion with a knife like a. Apple and eat the pieces

It was jail either way

The goal is not to take out the entirety of ICE yourself. The goal is if they come for you to go down fighting and hope to take at least one. The only other option is to go peacefully and be shipped to an El Salvadorian gulag. Where you’ll probably die anyway.

Better to die trying imo

And as federal employees their names and home offices are available through a FOIA request. At least for the time being

That’s a visit to a US hospital

Yep the system was built on good faith and the idea that at least one of these branches would do better.

If I were to rebuild the system I’d probably push greater power to state legislatures and the people of the state over their congressional representatives. For example say a 2/3rds majority of a state senate can recall a congressman and trigger reelection. Then every state should also have a way for the people directly to trigger recall elections.

Elections for the house and senate also need to occur yearly or every other year. Imagine if 1/4th of senate seats were elected every year.

We need to expand congress. 2 senators per state was for when the US had way less people. Why not bump it up to 3? The house of Representatives could also use another 100+ seats added.

Finally put term limits on the Supreme Court and introduce ranked choice voting.

Reagan also negotiated with a foreign power to keep Americans hostage until after the election. He should have been charged with treason

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