Medicaid is for poor people, Medicare is for old people.

Bit of an oveegeneralisation, I’m also not from the US.

Isn’t that why JD Vance is there?

Yeah this has to be malicious compliance from the embassy staff.

I bet the place is not fireproof though

I’m talking about Trump because there is a strong parallelism between all of these cases, where fascists break the law and then cry political persecution when the courts apply the law to them.

Trump was the example of what not to do, Le Pen seems to be the example of what works.

I get where you are coming from, and I very much agree that wringing our hands is not the good solution. I very much hope that the German government has a better plan to handle this than the plans they had to handle literally anything else in the past 30 years.

I share your frustration, I’m just saying that this is harder and less straightforward than Trump was. It has to be done, and has to be done soon though. But it has to be decisive and final.

The process is very dangerous, for real. It’s not like Trump where the crime is in the open, numbering in the thousands, and growing.

And it is very much a political crime, but it is still a crime, being against democracy is a crime. But it is much harder to prosecute than all the shit Trump did. And if they get it wrong, AfD will most likely get a boost from it big enough to get into government.

They are more alike than they are different to normal people.

That’s unfair, sometimes it’s not a far right individual but a far right organization.

I think Gaza is not a money issue. The money that’s already there, the aid that’s already there waiting on the border would be able to do infinite good already.

This is actually good for two things:

• calls attention to the issue in a way that pierces more bubbles than another Al Jazeera article
• will call special attention to it again when Israel will inevitably blow it up

I’m not saying it would restore all of it, or even most of it, but being a country that can also elect an AOC would restore hope that the US is not beyond redemption.

Establishing a party is very hard, in a country as big as the US it takes decades.

On the other hand, the political establishment will push back against a third party outside the Democratic Party just as much as inside. I honestly don’t know what’s the right path.

I think it’s just the ChatGPT generated corpospeak for firing all competent people.

comrades, workers and peasants of the glorious union /s

Still more chance of it happening than a viable third party, that’s the argument.

Well, she can either cower in fear and comply in advance, or fight to the limits of what she can do. They are coming for her either way.

I think she is what the Democrats should be. She is doing her job. TBH electing her president would restore a lot of the public image Trump lost the US.

Don’t need to even go that far, US police regularly execute random people on the street as well.

It would definitely cost more than that to restore it after that dip.

If I was the US, I’d even send some depth charges after it to make sure the Chinese don’t go fishing.

An actual A2A kill with a Shahed on an F18 would be way bigger news. As would a hit on the carrier. What else could be the way it happened?

Yeah, Amazon is interested in companies not pushing back against tarriffs, but maximising price gouging.