not particularly, voting issues are far too complex to neatly align everyone into a broader tent without some kind of gross overlap issue. but I’d at least like to know what general direction Im supposed to be sitting.

I identified as moderate, or progressive conservative, and at least intended to vote that way. in my 30s (Not American but adjacent, we haven’t had an election since I entered my 30s and im 32.)

but then I just kept seeing the self identifying conservatives, basically being a hair away from goose-stepping. r/conservative is fucking terrifying, its a good thing im banned from reddit.

(Turns out Im probably a NeoLib / NeoCon, Not down with the super progressive stuff but still tolerant of it. Just wanting people to chill the fuck out with their rhetoric. but apparentley, My kind is dead now, so . Maybe its time for Yee-haw fuck the law?)

What the fuck even is this timeline.

My estranged uncle, who was a diehard trump supporter (I think he did it because he believed the system needed to be burned down, and he thought that somehow the dems were corrupt and that the republicans weren’t)

that same uncle, Moved to Texas because its where Elon went, he idolized Elon, (I should add at this point, my uncle is a fucking CANADIAN WITH A GREEN CARD. NOT A CITIZEN) that same uncle who when he was a teenager, Identified as a NATIONALIST SOCIALIST… He idolozed Elon. and then all of a sudden one day, he told the rest of the family that would still listen to him, that he’d 180’d and isn’t following Elon anymore, because Elon is “evil”

the mental gymnastics and thought process is literally giving me hyper brain aids.

and this is my own flesh and blood.

Is it me, or does this seem like a deliberate gaffe to rile up the opposition.
send everyone into a tailspin over a worthless fake "gotcha!’

4k too many

im still relatively new to lemmy and am crossposting or whatever the term is , from lemmy.world but its mind boggling that the tankie sect is as big as it is on here.

the discussion about this whole thing reads at a 1st grade level. “Lets just do it, we’re so much like them anyway, we’d pay less taxes, Canada is fucked, its not a bad idea honestly”

and this is supposed to be a dicussion about merging two fundementally different governments, tens of thousands of laws, and two economies involving like 360 million people? I’ll shorten it for you. IT IS NOT HAPPENING. Such a thing would take DECADES of work and require both sides to be on board the entire time.

the only scenario that remains feasible for this desired end result. is a mother fucking invasion.

Democracy is precious, and its also fucking lethal. Because it gives traitors and brainrot paitients a vote.

RF is a Cult of personality, pretending to be a Mafia, pretending to be an empire. pretending to be a gas station masquerading as a state.

Im still learning Lemmy, but for once it finally sent me to a place thats cool.

hello fellow vatnik tankie red-nazi z-gonk dunkers.