• Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
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      Isn’t the entire idea that the Gulf of Mexico is more descriptive than the gulf of America? Mexico only has one large gulf, and from a US perspective the gulf is in the direction of Mexico. The Americas have several «gulfs» so gulf of America makes no sense. Maybe Gulf of the USA? But again in terms of a description that makes far less sense.

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      Love how these commenters are all offended by a thing that will never get off the ground, or be heard again.

      Y’all were around for the first time, right?

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    But Mexico has 63 more miles of coastline on the Gulf than the USA does. We should just leave it alone.

    Wouldn’t surprise me if this was inspired to circumvent the new ban on oil drilling Biden just enacted. “We’re drilling in the Gulf of America, not the Gulf of Mexico.”

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    Damn. Boomer politicians scraping the bottom of the barrel so hard now we’re stealing from China’s playbook? “It’s not Cuba, it’s American Taipei.”

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    Let’s not forget, conservatives, CEOs and all that bunch operate with methods of a parlor magician. The louder they jingle the keys in one hand, the more we should be paying attention to what they are doing with the other.

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    Can we pleast waste the next 4 years renaming things and get nothing practical done? That sounds like perfectly good mud to spin the tires in.

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    Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf… hello… he’s bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power…

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      They’ll 25th amendment him throw Vance in and we’ll be a fascist oligarchy before March Madness.

      Not that we’re miles away now.

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        Yeah, that’s what I’ve been thinking since his speech. I’m thinking the people he’s surrounded with are encouraging his non-sensical ramblings so they can replace him with Vance, who is a Thiel/billionaire puppet, and likely more predictable and reliable than Trump.

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      You are radicalizing your former allies and neighbors, that is what you are doing.

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          You said we, this is a normal response that isn’t super accusatory or aggressive. It just sounds it because you’re interpreting it as directed towards you the individual, but it’s for “you all,” which is the standard way to respond to a comment in the first person plural

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            Thanks, that was the spirit in which the reply was intended. He asked, I answered. Grammar is a motherfucker.

            I’m not advocating for radicalization. I’m saying they are predictable consequences.

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            In my original comment, I specify. He’s bonkers is referring to Trump, the actor of those referred to actions.

            In your reply, you state ‘YOU’, as if the people against this / and? the people pushing it are responsible for that radicalization, and I take no responsibility for that shitstain’s actions against our allies.

            You could have easily been more clear by stating ‘conservatives’ or Trump supporters or - if you meant a blanket indictment - you idiots who didn’t punish the insurrection / pay taxes to a corrupt system of governing etc., hence my dismissal of your reply.

            Vague aspersions cast without insight generally get that response.

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              Thanks for taking the time to re-reply, even after your initial zinger got modded away just to demonstrate to the people that even when the average American says WE, they just mean… ME.

              Not much I can do to make my point more clearly than that.

              chefs kiss

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              I wasn’t the person who originally answered you, just someone who saw you lash out at someone and understood why. You said this (emphasis mine):

              Invade Mexico, invade greenland, rename the gulf… hello… he’s bonkers, what the fuck are we doing letting this shit back in power

              And someone answered your question in the way that makes sense (second person plural). It’s not an aspersion, it’s literally just stating the consequences of us electing trump (we as a country did, regardless of whether you or I voted for him).

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    Guarantee the house and senate are going to be full of this kind of shit to the exclusion of anything even remotely useful

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      Can only hope this is the case. If they’re not being useful, chances are they’re not being genuinely destructive either

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        And it’s an omnibus law that also bans abortion, with meaningless exceptions for rape, but only if the perpetrator is sentenced before the first trimester; or life threatening conditions, but only if the mother is actively dying. And if you vote no on that, you’ll be smeared forever as the traitor of America.

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    Hey look, another 4 years of Republicans not doing anything of value for the American people.

    Meanwhile, Democrats just banned medical debt from showing up on credit reports.

    The differences between parties couldn’t be more obvious and Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party. That’s how I know this country is barreling down a path to collapse. It’s not Trump. It’s not even Republicans. It’s braindead stupid Americans.

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      Americans were still stupid enough to elect the do-nothing party.

      Yeah disinformation and social media slop has diminished the little confidence I had that America could turn it around. It’s over and we are simply running out the clock, imo. Even if we are able to slice off the Republican fascist hydra head the climate change head will have grown too powerful at that point and devour us all

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        Yeah. I mean I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign, but the writing is on the wall here. History has shown us that if a populace doesn’t work hard to maintain a democracy, it loses it to the forces working against it. And our society simply can’t responsibly handle the threat of internet propaganda and radicalism. There will never be a more stark election than what we just experienced and we still failed the test. If we’re failing the easiest, most obvious tests we could possibly be given, we don’t stand a chance.

        It’s not going to be some cataclysmic collapse and downfall. It’s going to be slow and steady and extremely despressing.

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          I try not to be the guy standing on the corner with the “THE END IS NEAR” sign

          Same. At this point I’m exhausted though. I don’t see a way through and people have proven themselves far too stupid and susceptible to misinformation for there to be a way. A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation on something as simple as birth control and have actively shown distrust toward multiple medical professionals. Simply no energy left to fight against the tide of stupification. We’re cooked

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            A few people I know whom I used to think were fairly smart have even fallen prey to some clearly wrong misinformation

            This is probably the most depressing aspect of it all to me. Finding out that people who I thought were intelligent and good are actually anti-intellectual and amoral.

            You know when you have a society rebelling against vaccines, one of the greatest things to ever happen to humanity, that you’re witnessing a downward spiral.

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      Why not replace First past the post voting so more political parties can participate in the electoral process with no spoiler effect?

      Don’t democrats support democracy? Are democrats afraid of having to compete for our votes?

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        Do you mean democrats or Democrats? Because the latter is absolutely not looking to compete any further.

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    Mexican here. This is happening as much as “the wall” happened. Don’t let him distract you from the H1B issue.

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      The unfortunate thing is that “the wall” kinda did happen. Really shittily, but even Biden continued building it and Kamala ran on continuing to build it. The idea itself is really stupid sure, it’s ineffective and ass. But there do be a wall getting built to this day.

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        It’s not about doing the things it’s about the optics of saying you’ll do them. The wall isn’t done and never will be. Even if it was it would never deliver what was promised.

        Its all about optics and it’s why Trump sabotaged the immigration reform bill. It would show democrats are capable of actually executing/delivering in a way he can’t.

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          And on that front, trump was super successful. He was so successful that the Democrats full ass abandoned hispanic folk and immigrants in general and fully adopted Fascist Trump Immigration policy. In terms of optics, Trump won so hard the Dems tried to be like WE ARE JUST LIKE TRUMP BUT EFFECTIVE.

          The dems would rather chase racist white “”“”“moderates”“”“” than any person of color. Even their POC’s cant help but beg for that racist white moderate because they crossed that wealth line that made them forget what they are to those folk. Trump won the optic war because Dems surrendered as soon as they physically could.

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          Was it the important part? Really? Sounds like your so stuck on the silly part you missed the clusterfuck

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      This is why fascism works. This will happen. Trump is incompetent and idiotic but he’s got a government worth of yes men and people scared of losing their jobs or otherwise motivated to just pass his insane “presidential” bullshit through the pipelines created by liberals in more peaceful times.

      He doesn’t need to know how to do anything, but now that he’s in power a handful of his batshit insane things he proposed still get pushed through the system by people who know how to do it who’ve been drolly passing similar but more sane legislation across their desk for decades.

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    To everyone here.

    I know most of you are fed up, exhausted and disgusted. The key is to never give up and roll over. Once you do this the idiots will have won and we we’ll be permanently screwed. We had already gone through four years of Trump’s Idiocracy. Four more years sucks but you need to keep fighting the good fight. We can get through this!

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      Oh I’m never gonna stop fighting. They can send my gay ass to the camps and I’ll still fight. IDGAF

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      We’ve always been permanently screwed, it’s just new people getting added to the screwed side of the equation.

      Better late late late laaaate then never I guess.

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    Why not Gulf Of Trump? Gulf of MAGA? Gulf of Sharpie?

    Idiot.

    EDIT: And yes, he’s just trying to distract from his court cases… again.

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    Working on the important stuff first I see! While we’re at it, why did we slip back into calling them French fries. We need to throw some serious money at this problem - I’m talkin’ make the libs complain we could have ended homelessness money at changing the damn name of fried fucking potatoes!! Yeah, hand me my mountain dew hat! We’re dewin this! Murica! Hellz yah!