A lot of Westerners look at dictatorships and authoritarian states and cannot comprehend why the citizens would accept such a fate. The answer is: food, safety, housing, and cultural and religious homogeneity. People don’t really care that much what the people in charge are doing as long as their life is good.
I agree at the macro level but fiscal conservatism encompasses a lot more than a balanced federal budget. For example, it includes the belief that government welfare should only be given to those truly in need, and not those who commit crime or do not seek to become employed. It includes the belief that people should work hard to support themselves and their family. It includes the belief that taxes should be low. Like it or not, Republicans fare much better on these parts of fiscal conservatism.
Hot take in 2026.
This really shouldn’t turn me on but here we are. What the fuck am I supposed to do with this boner, anon?
Lemmy users don’t realise just how popular Trump was in the 2024 election.
Trump won 15% of black voters in 2024, up from 8% in 2020 and 6% in 2016.
21% of black men voted for Trump in 2024. Both black men and black women were both more likely to back Trump in 2024 than in 2020.
Trump won nearly half of voters aged 18 to 29 in 2024, versus about one-third in 2020.
49% of men under 50 voted for Trump in 2024, versus 43% in 2020. That group went from backing Biden by 10 points in 2020 to being essentially split in 2024, with Trump holding a narrow edge.
Trump reached 48% of Hispanic voters in 2024, up from 36% in 2020. Harris won Hispanics by only 3 points, compared with Biden’s 25-point advantage in 2020.
Trump received 77,302,580 votes in 2024 - 2.5 million more than in 2020 and 14.3 million more than 2016.
Trump won 49.80% of the national vote and he became the first Republican nominee in 20 years to win the popular vote.
Trump won 312 electoral votes in 2024 vs 232 in 2020 and 304 in 2016. In state terms, that works out to roughly 31 states in 2024, up from 25 states in 2020 and slightly above his 30 states in 2016.
Trump won a bigger share of the vote in every state and Washington, D.C. than he did in 2020, and won more actual votes in 40 states.
In 2024, Trump took all of the seven most competitive states.
I don’t attribute this to Trump’s political prowess, but the ability for the Democrats to unwaveringly snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Imagine how bad they had to be to lose to Trump. Their commitment to taking the 20% side of every 80/20 issues will be studied for decades. This wasn’t rocket science. Whatever your views, letting in 10M+ illegal immigrants in four years was a deeply unpopular policy. So was their permissive approach to crime and acceptance of racial discrimination (as long as the victims were the right color).
I hope they don’t make the same mistakes in 2028 but the current selection of candidates is not making me hopeful. Trump is doing his best to lose voters so I fear 2028 will be yet another choice of “who do you hate least?” The US really needs electoral reform. The two party system has resulted in complacent, bloated, arrogant parties which seem to care very little for the interests of the people. Entire books have been written on the broken primary structure alone, which requires placating the more extreme elements of each respective base just to get a shot at the presidency. This inevitably results in candidates from both sides which the other side cannot stand.
I don’t think Latinos are idiots who believe whatever they read. I think they’re generally as smart as any other racial group, and they possess the ability to think critically and make informed decisions. I have spoken with many Latinos who voted for Trump. I think many people don’t understand that Mexicans and South Americans are generally socially and fiscally conservative. They’re often Christian and have strong proletarian work ethics.
Whataboutism re baby rape is next level evil.
We lost the cultural appreciation for selflessness and duty. Caring for loved ones is hard work at times. Stressful. Maybe even thankless at times. But it’s incredibly fulfilling. That meaning is often worth more than the fleeting feeling of happiness we primarily seek out in the modern world. Giving to others is important for our psyche. Not in the abstract, like donating to a far-away charity, but in helping someone in your life. Children are a timeless way to find meaning in life. Yes it’s hard work, but damn do they put everything into perspective. If you don’t want kids, volunteer. Meet your neighbours and see if you can help them somehow. Pick up trash in your community. Run for local office.
Anon seeks meaning in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
I don’t know. How does it feel to be a genocide apologist? Rape and murder is always bad, and I think your defense of atrocities because they’re committed by your “side” is abhorrent.
You really like raping and murdering people, apparently.
When Palestine began the most recent war, it committed the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust. Some of their first victims were innocent young people at a music festival who supported the Palestinian cause. The Palestinians raped and murdered them en masse.
It’s a war, and both sides are committing atrocities. Innocent bystanders are caught in the crossfire on both sides. If I understand your argument correctly, do I understand that you support raping and murdering innocent Jews?
And the phrase “bless you” was created with the intent to banish demons out of your nose, but we still say it when you sneeze.
Bad example. The intent was good and it remains good.
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, is what they chant. Calling that genocidal is Orwellian, mate. Get a grip.
Many do not. Many drop the second part entirely. For example, the t-shirt on the girl in this very video that we are discussing. Either way, adding a nice phrase to the end of a genocidal phrase doesn’t make the genocide part less bad.
Thank you for proving my point. Many activists do indeed want to destroy Israel. Clearly Israel is never going to say, “sure thing!” So the region will remain at war.
I’ve never been into his content but I really enjoyed his journey to build a better local LLM. Way more technical than I thought he was capable of. I identified with his downward spiral into madness on his journey to do something completely useless but super interesting.
The phrase was created with the explicit intent to destroy Israel. We can equivocate about the intent to destroy Israel as being genocidal, but as I explain, Palestinian activists consider it genocidal intent when Israeli politicians talk of destroying Palestine, so I use their own standard. It may be that people who use this phrase do not intend destruction of Israel, but they are using a phrase which was created explicitly to call for the destruction of Israel. I don’t accept that there is any good faith way to claim the term has been “reclaimed.” If I say “heil Hitler,” and follow it up with “but no genocide or any of the bad stuff Hitler did,” it doesn’t erase the first part of my sentence. In fact, the second part is antithetical to the first.
I’m referring to Hamas’ “one state” solutions they have proposed.
Yes, but do not log out. If you do, you can’t log back in, and you can’t export. I’m paranoid so I still back up my encrypted db to cloud on a schedule.
It’s true re adding passwords while the server is offline, but my server runs 24x7 and it’s never down for more than a few minutes. If it goes down, I fix it. I also backup the encrypted DB regularly to cloud, so there is little risk of data loss. I am a very satisfied Vaultwarden user. Especially because it allows password sharing with my family. Everyone has an account.
This is silly.