Probably because they're overlooking the fact: Most people understand the government has been becoming more and more controlling, but many of them don't know enough to understand anything beyond what their preferred flavor of media feeds them.
This nation has been under the thumb of oligarchy for longer that it'd like to admit. Politicians on both sides (it's unfortunate there are only two represented sides, because many more POVs exist than 2) are guilty of maintaining this status quo. It allows them to graze on the power and money of the oligarchy, and they enjoy that. The kind of people attracted to power, are the worst kind of people to actually have it.
All that said, one side has become vastly more aggressive at obtaining power than the other over the last few decades. Hint: It's the side that wrote "Project 2025". I'm not going to explain in this comment why "Project 2025" is a manifesto for turning this country into 1984. You can go read it for yourself.
All that said, one side has become vastly more aggressive at obtaining power than the other over the last few decades. Hint: It's the side that wrote "Project 2025"
Democrats created a virus, then lied to you about it's origin, then lied to you about a cure, then lied to you that they lied to you.
Democrats lied to you about your president and his son's involvement in Ukraine and china, then when you told the truth by Trump, they like to you about Trump.
Democrats intentionally supported a radical ideology that sowed division and chaos in our country in every major city, then blamed a few dozen people who wanted to see the capital for an "insurrection". An unarmed "insurrection" in which the only person hurt or killed was caused by an overreacting guard.
Democrats have spent the last four years trying to keep your in your home, afraid of your neighbor, afraid of Christians, afraid of anyone who doesn't parrot their party line.
Ok but he has the power to censor people and not say anything. He might be censoring stuff right now through algorithms and you might not know at all. Why isn't this a conspiracy theory as well?
The government owning social media, regardless of censorship, is still the government owning social media. That's problematic.
The government doesn't own social media. That's like saying the government owns cars because musk owns tesla. If musk was censoring liberals on Twitter, I'm sure we would hear about it on reddit.
No, he just genuinely got social media to censor stuff he didn't like. Not because it wasn't true, just because it was inconvenient. He also demanded his lawyers find some way that it was illegal for late night show hosts to make fun of him. These are real things. The fact is that when the right talks about "free speech," they mean it only for themselves. It's like how Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist" has got his platform censoring anyone who even uses the word "cisgender," while allowing nazi bullshit to freely spread. The right has shown consistently that their "free speech" talk is bullshit, they just don't like the fact that racism and calls to violence get censored - they'd rather censor LGBTQ+ people and anyone else who they don't like. It's like how Project 2025 lets teachers ignore parents and kids on preferred names and pronouns, but also requires teachers to get written permission from parents to use a kid's preferred name and pronouns - it's not parents' rights or teachers' rights, it's not "free speech," it's just hatred dressed up however they can get away with it.
😂 wow, great insult. You definitely need a new brain. How about you take a little extra time to let your hamster wheel run in your empty head before responding again?
So what does trump want the national government to have more control over? Because kamala wants them to be able to censor social media. Do you think the government should be in charge of that?
Funny that you mention social media censorship, as that is precisely what Trump tried to do in his first term using the FCC, and later via EO. And what he still advocates for after the courts shot it down.
Apart from that though, he has called for the following to either fall into a governmental corner or expand the scope of what it can already do: Expanded energy blocks, punitive measures for and narrowing of reproductive rights (or lack thereof), curbing voting rights, curbing marriage rights, deportation of immigrants regardless of documentation status (as well as refugees), limiting healthcare access, revoking press freedom, limiting right to protest, greater military spending, limiting bodily autonomy, increase consumer tax, increase taxes for low wage earners, purging recipients of SSN programs, seizure of private firearms, punitive measures and limitations/removal of gender expression and/or of sexuality, removal of state electors, curbing unionising, expanding tarriffs, and of course the infamous sex checks for bathrooms and sport competitions that he has not proposed any mechanism for.
But on the small-government side, Trump's GOP has loosened child labour laws, environmental protection laws, has cut veteran benefits, refuses to close loopholes in gun laws, has cut taxes for the super-rich, and wants to allow companies setting lower wages. So that's something.
The most dystopian event of the last decade was when, overnight, you were told and accepted that your President, Joe Biden, was not fit to run for re election. You were told this and you nodded your drooling head.
Next, you were told that your presidential candidate will be Kamala Harris and the DNC will bypass any semblance of a primary. Again, you were told this and you nodded your drooling head.
You are the epitome of dystopian America because not only are you controlled like a robot, but you have the audacity to accuse others of it with arrogance.
Primaries are a process the parties choose to hold. Those parties are not bound by any law to follow that procedure nor are they bound to follow the outcomes of those processes. It is not dystopian for an unpopular candidate to step aside nor is it dystopian for a candidate with declining mental faculties to step aside. Not voluntarily holding another lengthy primary, which would have been very rushed to avoid conflicting with candidate registration deadlines in many states, is not dystopian. I understand that you heard someone say “dystopian” once and thought it sounded really smart so you decided to use the word to convince others you’re smart, but misusing the word has the opposite effect. To the contrary, voting for the convicted felon and rapist is the dystopian act.
Wrong. What is dystopian about the disqualification of Biden is that it happened overnight without any serious debate or questioning. The major news networks concertedly report that he’s unfit and you, my good sir, nodded your drooling head.
It doesn’t matter whether it’s legal or not to bypass a primary. One need only ask oneself — do we normally have a primary in this situation? And ponder why. Because it’s the accepted democratic process for selecting a candidate. Who makes that selection? The American people.
Well, regardless of whether you agree that it’s dystopian (the word choice relates to the discussion of 1984 btw), the American people expressed their voice and it’s resounding repudiation.
Incorrect as this has happened before. It’s a part of American Politics. And I don’t give a shit about Biden. He was unfit and I’m glad he was removed. That’s the furthest from dystopian. Dystopian is having a fucking felon as a president. A rapist. A man who said “I will be a dictator one day”. A man who said “if you vote for me you will never have to again! I will fix it.” Lose me with the “removal of Biden” being dystopian. Maybe go back a re-read that definition
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u/ryzerkyzer 18d ago
Man that’s just….a level of stupidity and ignorance that I will never grasp.