Also, Ukraine is Europe so the invasion has long started.

The other bit is that, for lack of a better way to put it, I don't expect "the assholes" to do good things, to suddenly see the light, etc.

But I absolutely DO expect the people who claim to fight for a fair and just world for everybody to not just coast on "being the good guys".

Find out and focus on what you can control, basically.

*That* is why I'm often annoyed by what to me is basically just "aren't we great for not being MAGA" stuff on Bluesky... not because I think all people who voted for Trump are awesome and I wanna defend them so much.

How is "woulda shoulda" not wallowing though? I don't mean "stop crying" or anything like that, just that it's water down the river.

The Democrats should not be lukewarm and generic anyway, doubly so not during these times. And this *can* change in 3 years, the levels of racism etc. not so quickly.

Why are people in the US so lukewarm about demanding politicians to fucking spit fire and roll up their sleeves? "Don't talk about Biden being senile because Trump fascist", what kind of limp BS is that? I shouldn't talk as a German, we're not in great shape either; but let's all come the fuck on...

You may be right about the bulk, but the race was rather close, so it wouldn't have taken much.

And what is the point in wallowing in what you can't change? Look at what Mamdami does what the Dems in general are still NOT doing.

And they should be doing that EVEN without Trump, much more so with.

Defense gets a bad rap because it's too often used for things other than defense, but in itself, there is nothing wrong with carrying a big stick. Europe can't depend on wether Russia, US or China "want to" attack it or not, that is absolutely childish and needs to end yesterday.

One doesn't exclude the other, and this is a bit more complex than "building weapons"

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The ability of Europe to defend itself from Russian or even American aggression is simply needed to prevent such aggression.

I have one motto: live so that maybe I could look Sophie Scholl in the eye.

I could not care, not give the first single fuck, what some shallow interwebs cunt tells me I would need for membership in their little club. Fuck ALL clubs, and particularly yours, sight unseen. Nuke it from orbit.

And "allies" the way you probably mean it is just a dumb American slogan that means nothing to me anyway, as I'll tell you gladly.

Actual alliances go both ways, not people with no thoughts of their own adopting mindless slogans to be considered a "real one", heh.

"bellyaching" heh, I said what I said, because it's true.

> The real ones understand the what’s going on & don’t bitch about it.

Either you have principles, then you apply them equally, or you're an armband wearing two faced hack fraud and by the same token I couldn't care less who you call "real"

People are angry. Correctly so, I might add. Trump appealed to and exploited that anger. Democrats are saying "be nice now, just keep treading water and if you drown, do it gracefully and quietly", and any politician of format would have to throw most of them out of the party, Jesus bull whip style.

Did Trump change the status quo?

Yup. A change for the worse is still a change.

Whereas Harris was talking about basically staying the course.

Realize that ALL that is needed is a will to change the status quo for the better. Why is that too much to ask?

But yeah, it's the white men who are full of hate blah di blah.

This is such a key sentence:

> in general these voters wanted to change the status quo

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E...

Then Biden won on the back of not being Trump, promised no more than one term, suddenly second term CUZ TRUMP (nothing to offer but "we're not them", compare that to actual politicians like Sanders or Mamdami!), then Harris appointed at the last minute, promising to change fuck all with a grin.

You know who also was better than Trump, did better in the polls, but was a real one who ACTUALLY stood for something, instead of another corporate shill with shoulder pads and therefore was told to stand down? Bernie Sanders. His supporters, lots of them women, were just smeared as "Bernie Bros".

No shit, sherlock? Why are you telling me what I have figured out on my own as a little kid?

So you feel better about having to spazz out over the very simply and trivially correct observation that that saying "black people" or "white people" or "Muslims" or "atheists" describes nothing?

So in your mind, all "white dudes" are one blob -- and you still notice nothing.

I'm not complaining. I'm telling. You're squirming. I think we're done here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKpi...

Don't think about how the world looks down on the US, or how terrible Trump is, but how you can work with Americans and the world for what people DO want.

Just look at how Mamdami focuses on working with people on good stuff, spending very little time to talk about about "enemies". That is the way.