vvilld

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[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We're 2.5-3 years away from the primary race even starting, and 3+ years away from the convention. This poll means absolutely nothing at this point.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Also told all yall we need progressives to split from DNC and form a fresh 3rd party bruh.

This is a recipe to ensure Republicans fully sweep every election and progressives are ignored even more than they already are. American politics are so incredibly broken, but isolating yourself by breaking off into a party that has 0 chance of ever winning anything isn't going to fix anything.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

Do you really need one at this point? AI images are really easy to notice.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Well, we now know for a fact that Abrego Garcia is still alive.

And it's not about him lying. Of course a piece of shit like Bukele is more than willing to lie to anyone. The point is that he is benefitting politically from this arrangement and if he doesn't uphold his end he can suffer political harm. It's not just a promise, it's a two-way deal.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You are really just completely missing the point here. Motivating people to get out and join me in the streets is exactly what all of this is about.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

while ignoring the institution violating the prisoners constitutional rights

Who ever said anything about ignoring anything?

Freeing one guy is the start. It proves that getting sent to these concentration camps isn't a one-way ticket. And it gives him the opportunity to go public with the conditions there and how he was treated. That's going to motivate people organizing a hell of a lot more than a Senator giving a speech at a rally ever would.

Why are you pretending like this is about just saving one guy?

I feel like you’re trying to justify your own in action through declaring this meaningful action. Does that resonate with you?

No, that doesn't resonate with me in the slightest. I feel like you're trying to justify your own inaction by pretending like a Senator sitting in his office writing legislation nobody will ever read has some kind of impact on anything.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I never said it would stop anything. But it's a hell of a lot more than sitting at home writing legislation that will never get a vote and pretending like politics as usual is how anything works anymore.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Trump lashed out in the same way he does against everyone who does something he doesn't like and you take that as proof he's some kind of mastermind behind everything? Man, do you not understand Trump at all.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

First, I said Representatives and Senators. There are 260 Democrats in Congress (well, 258 +2 independent who caucus with Dems), not 45. But that's beside the point. What are they doing for us in Congress right now? Absolutely nothing. Hell, a bunch of Dem Senators are acting like Vichy collaborationists helping the fascists confirm appointments and pass their CR. They're actively working against us by just sitting in Congress.

But even that's beside the point. They're not going to arrest or kill a bunch of sitting US members of Congress. Even just saying 'no' to 1 of them was such a bad look that they completely folded and, for the fist time ever, let someone out of CECOT, even just temporarily. They've NEVER let anyone out before, and Van Hollen just showing up on his own scared them enough to crack.

Why do you think an even greater number would scare them less?

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

That didn't happen when just 1 Senator went and didn't live stream his visit. If they really wanted to, they could have claimed he did something violent or something. There'd have been no way to prove otherwise. And he was able to get them to crack just by holding a press conference. The bad PR from 1 guy getting denied scared them so much that they let him meet Abrego Garcia.

So why do you think they'd do that if there was a large group and the entire thing was being live streamed?

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Bretton Woods wasn't about military protection. It was about stabilizing the global economy and monetary system. It absolutely gave the US a ton of economic influence, but it didn't have anything to do with military protection. The Soviet Union even took part in the negotiations that turned into the Bretton Woods Agreement, although they chose not to sign the treaty.

The US' military hegemony came out of NATO, the Cold War, and the Marshall Plan.

[–] vvilld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...in Venezuela? One of the 2 countries in the western hemisphere we don't have diplomatic relations with? A country Trump tried to do a violent coup in last time he was in power? You think they're going to build a concentration camp for Trump and start taking prisoners?

You have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, and it really shows.

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