our modern species have only been around for about 50,000 years.

Homo Sapiens have been around for 300,000 years.

That’s not unusual for Americans, though. Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon

All of those guys were way more respected than Trump. And of the rest, all of the others not Bush jr were way more respected than Bush jr.

The current period IS very unusual for how badly our reputation has fallen. Although you could also say America’s reputation around the world was unusually high from 1945-2000.

Even people have somehow rehabilitated George W. Bush in spite of deliberate lying by his administration, and dragging the United States into a needless conflict for 23 years that cost $1 trillion.

Each new GOP president is so much worse than the last guy was that we start thinking maybe the last guy wasn’t as bad as we had remembered.

Liz Cheney was the 3rd ranking House Republican when she starting warning about Treason Trump.

We’re never going to get the old days back.

Nothing is stopping you from using a computer as a standalone machine not connected to the internet. Then you have a machine just like the ones in the 1970’s and 1980’s except for having much more memory/processor/diskspace etc. I would say you have a better OS also, except that Linux is basically the same OS as my SCO Xenix 386 I had in the 1980’s.

That doesn’t prevent power hungry mods from modding hundreds of communities, or mods or admins from enshittifying the most popular communities (or whole instances) with absurd rules or misinformation bots,

Then you jump to a similar community on another instance. In the long term the less restrictive place will win out. When the mods on the lemmy.world politics group nuked one of my highly upvoted submissions many months ago, I stopped submitting there and now all my submissions on that topic go to usa@midwest.social instead. I carefully researched which instance/community has the most reasonable rules. Bottom line is users have much more power on Fediverse than Reddit.

Couldn’t they “convince” instance admins to include ads?

Yes. One at a time. But the cannot “buy Lemmy” which is what a CEO would want to do.

In time, the Fediverse will also be easily accessible. And where there are normies, you’ll find corporate enshittification.

No, because corporations cannot buy the Fediverse.

and even more susceptible than Reddit to power hungry mods and echo chambers.

It’s not, because you can easily get around bans. You can go to a different instance and resubscribe to all the same communities.

He could flee to Russia.

I actually wouldn’t mind that because of the profound shame it would bring Treason Trump and the Republican Party. Plus, we can seize his assets.

100 guys in trucks rolling up with body armor and illegal automatic weapons would be a huge problem if NG isn’t already in place and settled in.

Then there will be 100 deaths. Because the military guarding the capital will be more like 7000 troops. And the entire Maryland national guard will be about 10 minutes away.

And I don’t think Biden will want that optics. And I don’t think Kamala will push him to do it for the same reasons

Biden is rightly not going to give a shit about “optics”. He cares about democracy. Full stop. There will be a fuck ton of military guarding the capital on Jan. 6.

I sure hope that is the case, but I pessimisticly fear a weak response to the next Jan 6 attempt because taking steps to put down a violent insurrection is “too political.”

It would not surprise me if there is a full military division guarding the capital. They aren’t going to get anywhere near the place.

If Trump loses he’s 100% planning it again, this time all gas no brakes. They’ll come in with guns from the start and kill anyone that isn’t a trumpet in the capitol.

There is going to be a gigantic military force guarding the capital next time.

Trump is throwing up shit everywhere just to see what sticks. He also promised billionaires that he is going to hand out an unlimited number of green cards to foreigners to work American jobs and lower American wages. Trump is actually an immigration extremist at both ends.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/donald-trump-immigration-expansionist/

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-rebel-over-immigration-proposal-green-card-college/

Trump’s assassins probably heard him say “You’ll never take back your country with weakness” and thought “He’s right”.

The Lincoln Project is telling people to vote Dem for congress too.

https://lincolnproject.us/lincoln-project-congressional-gop-are-trumps-lap-dogs/

[Lincoln Project: Congressional GOP Are Trump’s Lap Dogs]

He’s not right. Do you really think people like the Lincoln Project and George Conway are motivated by bizzarro shit??? This theory of “I’m endorsing Harris to magically help Republicans” is asinine. It is Dems trying to outsmart themselves by thinking up bizzaro convoluted shit.

The strategy of prominent Republicans flipping to vote for Harris is specifically designed to help Republicans win Congress.

WTF?? Not one single Republican made that calculation. Do you really think people like the Lincoln Project and George Conway are motivated by bizzarro shit??? That endorsing Harris will somehow magically help Republicans?? What you said is Democrats trying to outsmart themselves with convoluted nonsense. This is NOT a normal partisan election. This is a unique event in American history. Trump wants Americans to treat this as just another normal election. Don’t play right into his hand. This is the greatest attack on democracy in American history. We need all hands on deck. We need everybody.

If Republican voters are demoralized by the prospect of Trump, a lot are going to just stay home and not vote at all. That would lead to a Democratic electoral sweep.

How the f*ck would conservative’s support of Harris change any of that? This makes no sense.

Cheney, George Will and other Republican ghouls’ best option to avoid this is to give permission to their voting base to toss their Presidential vote to Harris, but also get them into the polls so they can be reliable Republican voters down the ticket and try to keep the House and take the Senate.

That is utterly nonsensical. NOBODY NEEDS PERMISSION to vote.

FFS, quit giving the enemy oxygen.

FUCK THAT 100%! This is the greatest attack on democracy in American history. We don’t know if democracy will survive or not. We need all loyal Americans on our side. Loyal Americans who are conservative are NOT our enemies, they are our opponents. The neofascist movement are our enemies.

Get it through your head this is NOT a normal election of Democrats vs Republicans, this election is democrats vs neofascists. The outcome of this election will matter MUCH LONGER than a 2 year congressional term of office

Bush successfully stole an election,

Possibly. And that could be why Bush doesn’t endorse Harris. Cheney isn’t Bush.

you only care that Trump failed to steal his.

I cared about both elections dude. Why are you making up stupid shit?

Or maybe you are just upset because Trump did it in an ugly, mask off fashion, instead of using blatant corruption to steal an election the good ol’ fashioned way.

Bush gave Treason Trump the idea by contesting the 2000 election. So yes he gets some of the blame. But Trump did an all out fascist Putsch.

There are 2 huge problems with your way of thinking:

It is idiotic to criticize Republicans for criticizing Trump We need all loyal Americans on our side.

By you pretending this is just another normal election rather that a unique event in all of American history, you are treating this election the same way Treason Trump is treating this election. This is NOT a normal election and you are playing into Treason Trump’s hands by treating this as a normal partisan election instead of the biggest attack on democracy in American history.