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The announcements on Saturday of troops from hundreds of miles away in West Virginia, South Carolina and Ohio came a day after D.C. officials and the Trump administration negotiated a deal to keep Mayor Muriel Bowser’s appointed police chief, Pamela Smith, in charge of the police department after D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit to block the federal takeover of the department.

If I keep destroying the country and get people worried about a civil war, maybe nobody will talk about all the pedophile stuff, or all the tariffs stuff, or all inflation stuff, or all the Russia stuff.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    I’m not a troll account. I’m just sick of good people getting played over and over again by the Democratic Party and liberalism on the whole.

    But the moral prohibition on siding with any administration that endorses genocide will force a different flavor of the exact same logic that centrist liberalism has depended on for so long: hold your nose and align with the least worst thing. Only the least worst thing will no longer be the mild, ethics-agnostic emptiness of modern Western liberalism, nor will it be the multitude of barbaric authoritarians and their secret prisons. It will be communal solidarity, or else nothing, a walking away from all of this.

    …

    Of all the epitaphs that may one day be written on the gravestone of Western liberalism, the most damning is this: Faced off against a nihilistic, endlessly cruel manifestation of conservatism, and somehow managed to make it close.

    — Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, Chapter 7, Lesser Evils; italic emphases his, bold emphasis mine.

    The previous passages were about the Gaza genocide in particular, but for me personally, they apply equally well to the Epstein files, the climate crisis, police brutality, and a whole host of other issues where the Democrats are just a “woke-coded” version of obstructing progress.

    Like for Christ’s sake if the people who wrote Saturday morning children’s cartoons made the villains as evil as American politicians actually are, we would have laughed at how corny the writing was. And obviously the Republicans are making things worse at record pace, but none of that seriously changed when the Democrats were in control last time or the time before that (Obama) or the time before that (Clinton, who’s an Epstein associate!), even when they had control of all three branches of the federal government.

    So forgive me for being irritated, forgive me for being spirited, but I don’t know how people can look at American politics in 2025 and be like “It’s literally trolling to be so disgusted by the Monster Party System that you don’t want to have anything to do with it.” They’re all monsters, and I’m tired of pretending they’re not.