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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by jimbokun on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:45AM (#50022204)
Oh, we are well aware.

Pretty sure even a lot of the current President's voters are slowly coming to this same realization. I predict soon in casual conversation almost no one will have voted for this man.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by mattcaldwell on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:56AM (#50022370)
I'm not sure about that! Don't see any evidence of that from where I'm sitting.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by jimbokun on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:02PM (#50022483)
They will agree Trump is an idiot but quickly change the conversation to how Democrats are Even Worse.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by altruios on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:30PM (#50022946)
Got into it at a coin show recently:

"Democrats eat babies, are Satanist, globalists, shadow-government elite that trump is saving us from!": said the Coin Dealer.

I wish I was doing hyperbole... I really wish that I was...

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by ElProlactin on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:35PM (#50023017)
https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodLiars/videos

You cannot identify idiocy if you are an idiot.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by EFreethought on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:51PM (#50023284)
It boggles my mind that people honestly think things would be worse if Harris won.

Pretty much everything that is worse because of decisions that Trump made.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by jimbokun on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:16PM (#50023673)
I think Kamala would have been a terrible President but immeasurably better than Trump. She wasn’t openly, brazenly corrupt and self dealing nor an authoritarian with little interest in actual governing or the good of the nation he leads.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by autoexec on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:54PM (#50026457)
She wouldn't have been any better/worse than biden. Things would have improved, but not quickly or dramatically enough to threaten anyone in power or to expand the shrinking middle class. Still would have been better than the actually harmful option we ended up with though.
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Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by tstrimple on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:29PM (#50023892)
You need to lay off right wing media. It's seriously warped your perception of the world.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by ffsm8 on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:29PM (#50024769)
You unironically think my comment was by someone thinking "right wing media" is worth listening to?

I literally said Trump's was always gonna fuck every working adult over, and you think that's the opinion of someone listening to right wing media?

Straight up, are you retarded?

Or just so politically captured you either entirely forgot her speeches? Or just never listened to them?

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by tstrimple on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:16PM (#50025365)
Yeah, it takes right wing brain rot to come up with "Camela Harris" and "Democrats seem to mostly run on literal socialism right now". Deeply unserious takes from the most stupid people in humanity.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by ffsm8 on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:15PM (#50026042)
And it takes someone mentally challenged or with a serious reading comprehension issue to not realize those are unrelated observations.

Camela Harris did not run on literal socialism, nor did I ever claim she did.

You have current democrat identifying and - on camera - calling themselves socialist.

And Camela Harris has - on camera - during her campaign - repeatedly blamed "white people" in every event where she catered to people of color...

It is astounding you don't even have the mental capacity to realize how fucked up that is without pulling in imaginary boogeymans and playing up political divide... Against a person who's not American and has voted parties on the far left on all elections I've taken part in.

So yeah, I consider you straight up retarded after these interactions.

This chain is interactions beautifully encapsulates why Americas political left is completely lost. They're just lashing out non stop, blaming everyone for their own bad decisions etc

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by ogogmad on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:58AM (#50022415)
You have UNDER HALF of Americans forcing MORE THAN HALF of Americans to pay steep tariffs to trade with their universally well-regarded neighbour across the US's northern border. Between the two groups, the more-than-half are the ones most impacted by the tariffs against Canada. Given how libertarian many Americans claim to be, a break-up of the US is now imminent. The world will end up better.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by jmcqk6 on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:28PM (#50022908)
> a break-up of the US is now imminent.

There is no way this is happening. The logistics alone will be killer and as bad as things are, there is nothing that would be gained by this that would be worth the pain it would cause.

To the extent that there are geographic differences, it is not between red states and blue states, but rural vs. urban. Even in texas the major cities almost all go blue.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by BadBadJellyBean on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:33PM (#50022998)
If by "UNDER HALF" you mean who voted for him then I don't know what you are talking about. Trump won the electoral AND the popular vote. And don't go counting non voters as against Trump.

By every metric the US wanted Trump and they got Trump.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by vkou on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:03PM (#50022498)
Nah, they are all getting ready to vote for him a fourth time.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by krembo on Friday October 09, 2026 @12:25PM (#50022861)
Great vote, great administration, regardless of the hn echo chamber.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by HumblyTossed on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:11PM (#50024500)
Trolling? I mean, you cannot be serious right now.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by krembo on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:44PM (#50024997)
How hard is it to accept that someone thinks differently than you without dropping to insults immediately?
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by kannanvijayan on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:03PM (#50025212)
You seem very sensitive if you think someone asking you if you are trolling and asking you if you are being serious is "an insult". If this is what gets under your skin, I shudder at the thought of what the rest of the internet feels like to you. It must be a living nightmare.

Also, where did you get the impression that trolling required the underlying opinion to be falsely held? Whoever taught you that was doing you a disservice.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by HumblyTossed on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:10PM (#50025297)
Those were legitimate questions, not insults.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by vkou on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:12PM (#50023595)
Corruption and criminality is brazen, prices for everything are through the roof, there's an energy shortage, it started and is losing a new war, third biggest budget deficit in history (this same regime was responsible for the #1 biggest), but sure, everything is going great, comrade, the Party tells you that nothing is wrong.

Whats the timeline on that promised $1.99 gas, again? Or was that going to be $1.99/litre?

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by kakacik on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:43PM (#50024107)
That was sarcasm I think. Nobody sane and having iq > 80 is buying those empty talks for a long time.

The rest of folks, he could br singing kumbaja and nothing more and they would still follow

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by krembo on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:46PM (#50025021)
How hard is it to accept that someone thinks differently than you without dropping to insults immediately?
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by logicalmind on Friday October 09, 2026 @03:51PM (#50025786)
Isn't this trump's modus operandi? He comes up with an insulting name for every person he disagrees with.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by Ar-Curunir on Friday October 09, 2026 @04:35PM (#50026257)
Supporters of fascists deserve nothing but insults
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by krembo on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:33PM (#50026815)
Somehow your reply goes against the community standards but the admins are ok with it
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by mindslight on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:42PM (#50027940)
Good freedom-loving people have to draw a line in the sand against fascism somewhere, right? Tolerance can only hold for so long.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by phs318u on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:24PM (#50027342)
I have a problem with the word “thinks” in your comment. Please define the term or otherwise provide evidence for this “thinking”, especially when it comes to the majority of his base.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by karlgkk on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:34PM (#50023976)
Trump was right about one thing. He said we’d be winning so much we’d get tired of winning.

He says we’re winning and I’m tired of it. So i guess that’s another win for Trump!

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by bhelkey on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:04PM (#50023475)
That's what I thought after he lost in 2020. And yet he came back in 2024 winning even more votes, both in absolute terms and in percentage, than he did in either 2016 or 2020.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by mindslight on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:16PM (#50023671)
Covid was one hell of an excuse, and if there is one thing Grump is good at it's blaming others.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by scoofy on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:39PM (#50027478)
The hubris of the party machine being wielded to prevent a challenger to Biden was the problem. There were many of us screaming that a new candidate was necessary, but nobody listened. They stayed lock step in line with the party machine.

I voted for Dean Phillips in the primary. He was blackballed. Local party officials even tried to keep him of ballots.

It even got to the point where Ezra Klein was loudly complaining about what was happening, and even he was criticized.

If you want to understand why the Dems keep losing, you have to understand the party machine. Looking at how the Phillips campaign was treated, and the Sanders campaign before that, show exactly how someone can run on exactly the issues people care about but be shut down before it ever comes to a vote, because it harms the political interests of the higher ups in the party: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Phillips#2024_presidentia...

The Democratic Party's electorate aren't really paying attention.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by kakacik on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:39PM (#50024054)
The rational ones would have switched lilong time ago, even if it means switch to the vacuum.

The ones that remained till now are happy cheering for a constantly lying pedophile who has behavior of a spoiled child and mental capacity of even less. I am not holding my breath anything can move them. Other folks who voted for him and now understand, well drown in shame for all I care, it doesnt change anything since this was obvious years ago and you still voted a childish pedophile in.

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by autoexec on Friday October 09, 2026 @05:03PM (#50026522)
> The ones that remained till now are happy cheering for a constantly lying pedophile who has behavior of a spoiled child and mental capacity of even less. I am not holding my breath anything can move them.

The amount of people who are still in that immovable category is what I find most horrifying. I'm not sure what the fix for that is. Less lead in the water? Better education?

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by phs318u on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:27PM (#50027362)
Evolution has a fix for that: groups that make bad decisions will eventually come undone by them. However, the time frames are many generations long and the consequences typically collective.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by Georgelemental on Friday October 09, 2026 @01:41PM (#50024074)
Can you imagine voting for his 2024 opponent though? Someone who spent over a year arming genocide? At least Trump eventually forced a semi-ceasefire in Gaza.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by HumblyTossed on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:18PM (#50024609)
Can you imagine voting in 2024 for Trump? Someone who does whatever Israel says? Over 10K Iranians and Americans have died ... for nothing except a whisper in his ear from Netenyahu. Imagine voting for that? Imagine voting for the corruption. Imagine voting for the ICE terrorists. Imaging voting for truckers and farmers losing their jobs.

Can you imagine?

Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by HumblyTossed on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:08PM (#50024468)
This is why you are hearing a lot about his name changing of certain things as well as the go ahead for the public shooting of Hasan. These are loyalty tests. Are you okay with AI being called SI? You're one of us. Do you want to see a public execution? Again, you're one of us. History tells us this is what regimes like this do.
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by keyboardwalk on Friday October 09, 2026 @06:29PM (#50027372)
Yep, agreed. I just read something smart about that: https://x.com/HackingButLegal/status/2108253036921462862
Re:Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court by HumblyTossed on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:17PM (#50036719)
interesting reading.