American Society Has Proven Too Weak to Stop Dangerous, Unstable, Violent, and Egomaniacal Trump | Common Dreams
2026-05-02 19:57 UTC
Replies (28)
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@FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2026-05-05 23:11
The Untied States should have their independence revoked
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@Freeposity@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 16:59
Fuck Ralph Nader. If it weren't for him we wouldn't have had Dubya and the Iraq war. Hell, we might not have even had 9/11 and the Afghan war because the administration would have heeded the intelligence that showed Al Qaida was planning the attack.
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@inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 15:15
You can't expect sixth graders to push back against fascism.
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@Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2026-05-02 20:52
Yup, this presidency has killed my faith in our supposed system in record time. Congress's inaction and complicity were the final nails. I have no faith in this country or its people. Hard to not come to the conclusion that we're entirely motivated by greed and schadenfreude. We the people have the government we deserve.
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@FaceDeer@fedia.io 2026-05-02 20:33
Stop him? American society *created* him. Not really sure how to fix this.
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@HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub 2026-05-03 09:09
Piss off a bunch of french and you got a mob hunting you down. Piss off a bunch of americans and they will still go solo at you, like minions in a movie, because grouping together is considering an evil socialism there.
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@ViceroTempus@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 21:55
Well yeah. It takes violence to stop violence, and we've been brain washed in schools with the "Zero Tolerance Policy" that retaliating is worse than being a bully. Kids who defended themselves from aggressors often were either the only ones punished, or punished far worse than the instigator. That's been going on for at least 2-3 decades in said schools. It has obviously made a bunch of adults too afraid of doing the right thing. It's why we hold parades instead of protests with the threat of escalation. If we really wanted to make changes, Republicans and their minions(ICE) would not have homes to live in, or comfortable lives. Same for their enablers. We would have taken them off the board and held special elections as populace. Still can, and will still need to when we have finally had enough. That or a foreign power will do it for us, but then they get to make the rules instead of "We The People".
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@I_Jedi@lemmy.today 2026-05-02 20:29
We all know that another Trump is coming. And this other Trump will be far worse than this one.
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@reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 2026-05-02 20:49
If everyone just stayed home for a few days and consume no media, with a full internet blackout in protest, all the rich people would get in line. Just unplug your router and don’t buy or consume anything. Take sick days at work if you have to. Sure, some get a bump from the supplies getting bought beforehand, but the majority would be in instant panic mode. None of their fancy projections can handle that. Edit(2): don’t not doing. Or not out
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@phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2026-05-03 09:55
Just like you don't get termites without dry rot, you don't get fascists without a rotten polity.
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@GhostFace@lemmy.today 2026-05-03 14:04
I don't understand why people are acting like half the country didn't want him. Present them with any other option and they will still choose him even today. Edit: To those who keep discussing how people didn't vote, please realize that is still a choice. If you didn't vote then you may as well have voted for him regardless.
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@Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2026-05-04 07:46
Guns were a protection from the government in 1800s, not anymore. Arm the unions with missile launchers.
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@Gates9@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-03 16:54
There’s been multiple assassination attempts in his first year of this administration
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@Blackmist@feddit.uk 2026-05-03 21:32
For a country with so many guns, they're not very good shots.
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@trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 2026-05-04 00:01
To assume that humans en masse are weak is quite foolish, but I suspect their intent is more prodding for people to 'do something'. We're aware of the issue most of us didn't cause. Just as other countries are currently dealing with their own artificially placed authoritarians (à la epstein and bannon). To attempt change in the public eye immediately puts you in danger and as such is unwise. Furthermore, many people are not made for such things. Eventually there will come a time for most of us where a normal life cannot exist, but it's a slow burn, not an explosion.
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@panthera_@lemmy.today 2026-05-02 20:42
The problem is that the executive branch has too much power. Congress should have a committee of scholars convene and propose laws that would balance the powers of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The laws would be forwarded to Congress for debate and implementation as they are proposed.
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@ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2026-05-03 06:55
Wait, voting for him didn't stop him? So weird.
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@redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 2026-05-03 22:37
The American Civil war never ended, did it?
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@Mio@feddit.nu 2026-05-03 06:48
Laws needs to change to fix this. To begin with - there has to be punishment for when Trump is breaking the law and Trump should not be able to do any punishment back.
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@Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 20:57
fraid so. tv and electronics in general have led to a society of couch potatoes only suitable for mashing and smothering in butter and chives
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@Malyca@lemmy.zip 2026-05-03 22:15
When you're right you're right
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@Ohi@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 07:06
The midterms are coming, and I hope to God my fellow citizens use it to send a message that a reckoning is coming in the primary too. But I suspect the spineless Trump supports will start thinking a 3rd term is justified given how the previous election was 'stolen' from him and they'll accept whatever twisted logic Republicans use to erase that bit from the Constitution. Or hell, at this point they'll keep it in there and just ignore it because they don't give a damn anyway. We're trying folks. Bare with us as we trudge through this hellish time in American politics.
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@WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 2026-05-04 00:04
Not helplessness. Cowardice.
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@6stringringer@lemmy.zip 2026-05-03 07:10
Weeeeeeeee. Ussssssssss Peeeeeeooooopplllllllleessssssss’s. We really want better. Ok? We are Reeeeaaaaallllllyyyyyy adept at waaaaaaannnnnntiiiiiiinnngg Aaaaaaaaannnnnndddddd even voting for better. We just be flat out F’d by proxy. Goddamnit.
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@BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 19:42
Realistically, Trump hasn't done much that negatively impacts my life. Due to a reduction of overtime tax and his executive order on marijuana, my life has marginally improved. The only thing the Democrats have done to improve my life in the last decade was to give me a bunch of money during the pandemic, but it's hard to say if that helped me in the long run. The resulting inflation was a pretty big catch.
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@redwattlebird@thelemmy.club 2026-05-03 22:35
Fucken oath! American capitalism allowed him to build the massive media empire that he has now. Couldn't have done it from here.
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@FaceDeer@fedia.io 2026-05-04 03:30
He's also not some kind of mind-controlling supervillain. He was saying things that the people were happy to latch onto and wanted to believe.
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@Katana314@lemmy.world 2026-05-03 22:40
I will say, we have seen hopeful amounts of change even in Democratic *primaries*. Voter suppression has happened in the partisan election, and candidates have been rejected from primaries, but if this continues across the country (slower than we'd like) it's going to signal to Democrats their same old "I'm the only opposition to Trump you've got!" story isn't working. But in terms of earning back trust: Yeah, I don't ever really see a path to that. That's my main issue, even living here; someone can tell me "I'm sorry I voted for Trump" and I still won't know what motivated them towards mass murder, as well as lying through their teeth to me about how they never imagined he would do such things.