Democracy is when officials are elected, period. They may be bastards, and the wealthy may have a (substantially) outsized influence on the government, but the American people by-and-large have much greater influence over their elected officials than most other countries, especially non-democracies.
You’re leaving out that they import a lot of produce and non-meat foods.
I was a freshman in college that fall and someone put up flyers for a memorial dance party in his honor. They had cheap beer and loud music which was fun enough for teenage me.
I feel like the left need to reclaim patriotism. It’s hard to get the average voter excited for your policies when you’re constantly shitting all over their home. That’s why I hang my big American flag in my window, with my trans and pride flags in the others. Fuck you rednecks, come and take it.
That is indeed the kind of thing one could make inferences from.
Any bets on which state will be next? My bet is Mississippi.
Marching in November does nothing. Active disobedience and (violently) refusing to accept dictatorship from January onward might.
But you can move within the US to a place where his people have less direct control over the local government. That’s what I’m doing.
Still better than the guy trying to push his crypto scam at Ohio State’s ceremony this year.
I choose to believe that you’re being facetious.
quit JAQing off bro
Then I can’t eat all the wide variety of delicious meals that are only possible with a slow cooker.
You’ve heard of doomscrolling, now get ready for GOONscrolling
Living in Ohio with my trans husband, we’re moving to Vermont this summer to get away from it all. I feel like I’m shirking my duty by taking our votes with us, but we really don’t want to be here come November. Ohio has gone to Trump two for two, and I’m not feeling lucky on number three.
My husband is FTM trans and we’re starting to get worried, living in Ohio. We’ve made the decision to move to Vermont this August because I just can’t guarantee his safety anymore. His family is wholly unsupportive and mine, while not malicious, just doesn’t get why we’re making such a big deal out something so small. It’s always “well [town name] is [town name], it’s always been rednecky, you just need to hunker down and wait for it all the blow over”. Not like this, and I don’t want to move into one of the 3-Cs just to have the whole state go tits up. It sucks, but at least in VT he’ll have access to a doctor. That and Ben & Jerry’s.
Sometimes, late at night, while futilely trying to sleep, I think back to this image and wonder “whatever happened to the great piss bag?”
I mean, what could the rest of the world reasonably do aside from starting a world war over it? Sanctions might punish the Chinese economy, but they won’t un-occupy HK.