Of course they should. And people who do Nazi expressions on TV should suffer the expected social consequences, because people should be responsible for the things they say and do.
Are you gonna defend everyone who expresses a “history of fucking your mom” this way, too?
Or are you going to admit that appealing to freedom of expression isn’t really an argument in defense of a persistent pattern of behavior that includes but did not culminate with a literal Nazi salute?
I pay for Apple Music and Tidal
Why?
Read The Parable of the Nazi Bar:
To be fair, when Europeans take to the streets their government sometimes listens.
When Americans take to the streets, we don’t get anything but get our eye sockets broken by rubber bullets and tear gas grenades.
“Renewable” is just a word they came up with to keep us from doing something about the fact that the sun will grow into a red giant with a diameter larger than Earth’s orbit.
To be fair, I don’t even consider solar and wind power to be renewable. But then again I’m the sort of weirdo that considers things on astronomical timescales.
I’m already excluded from the discussions that actually matter, the ones between voting members of the DNC.
geothermal
renewable
WTF are they smoking?
Would be nice if we could, but all I’m hearing from Democrats is buck-passing. As if the voters are responsible for the party’s poor electoral game.
If you’re unwilling to engage in political discourse because the tone is insufficiently defferential, then you’re letting the sensitivity of your ego override your commitment to your ideals.
I think your issue is less about my tone than the fact that you have no response to justify why you think political norms should be prioritized over the lives and livelihoods that are threatened by politics.
popularism
Did you mean “populism” or is this a distinct term with a different definition?
Everyone wants a “trump” - even the leftists, they just want a “trump” who aligns with their ideology.
Actual leftist here, our ideology is that there should be no "trump"s. You seem to be talking about right-wing liberals like the Democrats, who explicitly reject populism in favor of legalism and bipartisanship.
You want a “leftist trump” - somebody who will trash the same institutions to get your way.
Again, if we got our way then no one person would be able to “trash institutions”. Please stop projecting, we know that every right-wing accusation is a confession.
But - in a representative democracy there needs to be compromise and debate. The parties should work together to find paths forward.
This reads like an admission that the USA is not a representative democracy, as has been well established academically: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
These norms are important though.
You can, and will, say that “nothing at all matters anymore because Trump doesn’t care” and I hear you.
Please, do expand upon this acknowledgement that we shouldn’t bother with “norms” when they are being so flagrantly ignored.
But I caution about seeking your own “trump” because the framework of our government is more important than the policies its passing over the long run.
For the third time, please stop accusing “the left” of sharing “the right”'s ideology re: authoritarian leadership. It’s extremely transparent.
He was chosen by the people
America has never had democratic elections. Our electoral system is designed so that “the people” don’t have any agency to resist the dominance of capital.
that’s why I think democrats are voting for his nominees. They’re upholding the norms and traditions as they have.
Is this an admission that the norms and traditions are bad, or an admission that the Democrats care more about bipartisanship than the threat that Trump’s administration poses?
Why do you think Democrats keep voting for Trump’s cabinet nominations?
Didn’t say they were the same, I said that we have no control over what they do in our names
Rather, the parties and their owners control us as they have for generations, by owning the newsmedia and steering public opinion as they see fit.
Yeah, that’s the problem. The Republicans are being influenced by rich assholes and Democrats are too busy blaming the voters for their failure to listen to them.
They didn’t even catch him:
Didn’t say they were the same, I said that we have no control over what they do in our names
Rather, the parties and their owners control us as they have for generations, by owning the newsmedia and steering public opinion as they see fit.
Yeah, that’s your sign.
Furries get a slightly different vision:
We haven’t had any agency in this for a long time. The two parties run the show on behalf of our billionaire owners.
I’m almost hopeful, in a perverse, accelerationist sort of way… Trump might break this country badly enough to force a “renegotiation of the social contract”.
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They’re rejecting DEI in favor of WEI: White, Entitled, and Inept.