I’m an American so when we say “Europe” we assume it’s understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol

… which is ultimately for the better. This way I can die with a clear conscience.

i envy you and i wish i could say the same thing because i have to vote for biden or else we’ll regress backwards in addition to dying.

I get what you are saying, but we allready have a prison system focusing on rehabilitation, and it doesn’t phase the gangs.

you’ll never stop the gangs; but you can make it more difficult to operate if it becomes getting harder to find new gang members and less cost effective to retain the ones trapped in their sphere.

By increasing the length of prison sentences, we atleast keep them contained for longer.

that’s what i meant by viable alternatives to their situation; no matter how long you contain them they eventually have to return to their situation and all at great cost.

If you have any other suggestion, please go ahead and tell me.

aggressive outreach is a more effective tactic at combating gangs

he also has a front seat view to this country’s rightward shift and i wonder how frustrating it is to be so close to the levers of power to stop it; but to be blocked both your adversaries and your allies each time you try to reach for them.

i sometimes wonder if he wishes he had stayed more of a celebrity than a politician.

In my mind we need heavier punnishment, we need containment punnishments, way longer punnishments for those who are not interested in rehab which our justice system focuses on, after two times caught they need to get an automatic 10x the time normally given. If people are not interested in being part of a working society, then I’d rather they stay locked up.

we do that here; not only does it both not work well and allows people to profit from exacerbating it; it fixes a lot less and costs a lot more than treating it like a societal issue; changing policy; and aggressive outreach.

we’ve also had recidivism rates drop when convicts were given alternatives viable to their situation instead of focusing on the punishment.

But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

we’ve been in that situation since the 1980’s; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.

i used to think europe’s democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970’s, but now i wonder if europe’s lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.

after winning a simple majority

don’t listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don’t even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol

If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them.

cough

i got so high earlier tonight that it felt like it was the first time for too brief of a moment.

i realized that the shit biden put me through sucked and that i wouldn’t wish it on anyone and now i have an infinitesimally small chance of helping make sure that it doesn’t happen to anyone else. plus it helps the progress made last a little bit longer this time around the world’s historical political pendulum. it’s not the right decision, but it’s also not the wrong one… the wrong one will recreate what i had to go through for others.

i think i need to get high more often; it would be a lot easier to do if sugar free and delicious edibles were a thing.

Those laws all suck and they’re along the same vein as the laws that Biden had voted for and supported in the past (ie doma, 10450, dadt).

The definition of genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular group with the aim of destroying that group; and nothing you have shared matches that description.

I’m going to assume that you want a source in the tariffs and not the green initiatives.

it’s literally a new topic in the news and takes less than 30 seconds on Google to find.

… All you’re saying to me here is that the queer genocide candidate that will also support the Palestinian genocide is fine, but the one not participating in a genocide of queer people is bad.

I’m not supporting either candidate and there is no queer genocide in the United States nor will there be; speaking in hyperbole makes you seem unhinged and I want to trade ideas w someone who speaks in facts.

Politicinaa adapting their positions to be more in-line with the will of the people in order to secure votes is exactly how representative democracy is supposed to work.

which biden will also do, as he has done, if project 2025 manages to succeed.

sexual liberation and identity has fallen in and out of favor in american hegemony before and it will happen again; go ahead and keep moving that goal post.

the immigration thing is literally in the news right now.

doing anything negative to queer people would make him lose votes with the democratic base, so he doesn’t; just like he’s done in the past.

i will not vote for trump

Sorry… most of the genocides have already been committed?

that biden enabled: yes

Migrants have been rounded up and forcibly deported en masse?

biden is doing this right now

Trans people have been forced to go underground? Queer people have been erased from history?

biden has advocated doing this for decades and his token gestures have only served to give bigots legal protection for their bigotry.

That’s what you don’t mind happening apparently.

that’s why i don’t want to see more by voting for a person with a decades long track record of doing so.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Biden doesn’t have a plan to put all the migrants into concentration camps

he doesn’t need a plan; he’s currently doubling down on trump’s plan.

or to suppress queer people or anything else in Project 2025’s list of goals, which Trump will implement.

biden has advocated for this his entire career and has only made token gestures otherwise to get votes; hyperbolic arguments are moot when you’ve already survived them.

So either you are not aware of Project 2025 and how it will lead to another genocide, possibly more than one, or you only care about one genocide.

they don’t have enough time to catch up to biden’s level of enabling genocides before the next election. also most of the other genocides have already been committed so it makes sense to care about the active ones.

american facism is already here; biden and trump are merely two different flavors of it.

Any time you have rapid progress on any issue, you’ll have people whose position changed dramatically in that time period.

By continuing to villify those who change their position to join you in the fight you make it more difficult to gather support.

given his history and his most recent actions: it’s clear he hasn’t changed and that progress is nothing more than transparent attempts to gain votes; as he has always done.