@rberger@hachyderm.io2025-04-08 04:38:00
"The Republican Party is a hollow, decrepit husk. It is not a political movement. It is not a governing apparatus. It is not even an ideology with any internal coherence. It is a decaying vessel for a set of impulses: authoritarianism, greed, cruelty, nostalgia, and fear. And now, with the party marching in lockstep behind a man openly exploring how to violate the Constitution to seize a third term in office, it is fair to say the Republican Party has collapsed into something far worse than irrelevance. It is a clear and present danger to democracy."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/the-gop-is-the-most-dangerous-organization-in-america/?ref=dispatches-newsletter
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-06-06 19:43:41
Two Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/06/two-parasites-and-a-corpse.html
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-06 09:38:52
Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.
If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.
Either we find ways to devolve po…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-07 15:53:54
Anarchism and Linux share key similarities in decentralization. Anarchism puts power back into the hands of the people through democratic, decentralized communities and bottom-up unions that organize collectively without hierarchy. Similarly, Linux operates as a decentralized system where no single entity controls the whole; instead, development and decision-making happen through collaborative, distributed contributions from a global community.
They also align in the principle of mutua…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-06-06 23:48:55
When Trump encounters a demographic he doesn’t care for, he “disappears” them–in many cases, the very record of their existence.
Meet America’s new “missing persons," and the govt campaign to delete statistical evidence of anyone who doesn't fit Trump’s idea of our new golden age... including Jackie Robinson & Rosa Parks.
(taken from Catherine Rampell on BlueSky)
☑️ The people Trump is trying to delete from government records - Washington Post
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-06-06 20:09:18
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-05 15:36:41
“Being in the United States is a great risk for anyone -- not just for Venezuelans,”
Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister in Caracas, said after the announcement
“They persecute our countrymen, our people, for no reason.”
https://www.
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-06-05 09:01:31
It seems to me that it's not just Trump, but also – perhaps foremost – the #Repugnians in Congress that are destroying American democracy.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-01 21:16:11
More Americans have a positive image of progressive Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, than they do of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to new polling data.
Why It Matters
Ocasio-Cortez has been seen as a polarizing figure in politics and within the Democratic Party.
She has drawn backlash from moderate Democrats and Republicans alike since she surged onto the national stage after an upset primary victory aga…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-03 15:29:07
We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower
No doubt Trump thinks that tanks and soldiers on display will make America, and its president, look tough and strong.
But the planned spectacle in June 14 is laughably hollow.
Even as the president wants to showcase U.S. military power,
he is doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to the real sources of U.S. strength,
including its long-term investment in scientific research.
Trump is declaring war on sc…
