Whatever they do I hope it takes a while because Bsky is a way better place to be, and I want it to stay alive
This is the draft-dodger who once played "Fortunate Son" at a rally. At this point, any remaining "pro-soldier" Trump supporters have already resolved the cognitive dissonance of it all.You know, if you told me 10 years ago that a conservative presidential candidate would be photographed standing over the grave of a soldier with a shit-eating grin giving a thumbs up and nobody would really bat an eye I'd have thought that would have been way too mask off for this timeline, and yet here we are.
Seriously, to the (probably imaginary) conservatives who post in this thread and aren't just trolls, does this not rub you the wrong way even a little bit? Do you not consider yourself the party of supporting veterans and the military? Drop the trolling and the owning-the-libs and the teamsports mentality for a minute, surely you have at least some capacity for introspection. I'm firmly in the camp of the U.S. military being a tool for subjugation and imperialism and would love to slash its budget by like a factor of 20, and this would leave a sour taste in my mouth even if it was someone I liked doing it.
Trump has never had any respect for the military (see: calling dead soldiers "suckers" and "losers"), so this is pretty in-line with his attitude. What's shocking to me is that his people didn't stop him from doing this, and even seem to have been on board with it. I guess the Trump camp must be well-stocked with yes men at this point.
I'm pretty sure that he's trying to paint this as something in support of the military? Kind of like when he like kissed the helmet of the firefighter who died in the assassination attempt. It looks insulting, but I think he's genuinely presenting it as a positive. In the sense that he's like, endorsing whatever is in the picture with him
yea been reading about this a bit this morning. kind of insane (tho on-brand i suspect) that macron can just be like <<yea no we just aren't going to let the left have anything. fuck you.>> i presume the famously apathetic french will have nothing to say about this
If you live in a very red state, your vote effectively does not matter. The same is true of extremely deep blue states. South Carolina is, and take it from me, a very, very red state. From what I can tell even most hardline Republicans here hate him but will vote for him over literally anyone with a D next to them on the poll. The first past the post electoral system makes it so that you have a LOT of deeply unpopular people winning their seats for literal decades (McConnell) because the numbers simply don't exist to oppose them unless you have the unfortunate zero possibility scenario of quite literally 100% of the populace voting occur, which won't happen.
simply vote harder
So similar issues to us. We live in a very unfair world. Albeit I am able to do this from the relative safety of my living room in west London.
I'd like to boost this: Even if you live in a Republican-dominated state, and you don't feel like your vote for President is going to be of significant consequence, you can still try to bring significant change to your locality by voting blue down the ticket. A key part of the Republican strategy is capitalizing on ignorance and apathy among Democrat voters when it comes to local politics in order to build coalitions of local power and impose their ideology on places where it is not actually that popular. Successfully bucking this can do a lot for your local area.
