DonaldJMusk

No shit we hate the felon con man.

Obviously. Guess you all shoulda came up with a better candidate so that he wouldn't have one a second time.

Again not an issue for you until it happens?

I didn't say it wasn't an issue. You stated it as fact, and I said it wasn't a fact. Because it's not.

I shared him saying it. And here is more for you.

Still no proof that we won't be able to vote in the next election. Do you any proof of constitutional changes or laws that say that we won't be able to vote again in the next election?

If not, then say you "think" we won't be able to vote again. Because it's your "opinion," not fact. Right now there are no laws that say we won't be able to vote in the next election.

Wanting something and doing it are not the same. Trump did not deport anyone for criticizing him, and the First Amendment is still fully in place.

If he were truly a fascist dictator, he would have dissolved Congress, taken control of the courts, and jailed opposition leaders. Which never happened.

Labeling someone a fascist just because you interpret their rhetoric in the worst possible light is not logic, it’s bias disguised as argument.

No one said I was being forced.

In my country,

So you are arguing with me about US politics, and you aren't even in the US?! There's more to us that you see in the news.

This conversation is over. You don't even live here, bro! lol

And there it is, that's exactly what I meant. You’re proving my point. You’ve taken politics so personally that you’ve elevated it to “life and death” status in a country where, by law, no politician has the power to arbitrarily sentence people to death.

If you're in the U.S., "politics" doesn’t decide whether you live or die—laws, courts, and due process do. We’re not in a dictatorship (regardless of what Lemmy says) where a party can declare entire groups of people to die based on politics.

So unless you're saying elected officials are legally executing people outside the justice system, the “life and death” framing is emotional exaggeration, not fact.

Maybe someone feels like politics is life and death to them, but feelings aren’t proof of reality. And reacting to politics with that level of personal emotional investment tends to just polarize people more and cloud their ability to think critically.

That’s what I meant when I said people take it too seriously--and more pointedly, I was referring to Lemmy posters taking it too seriously.

I've seem post reacting to totally non-political information with politically-charged responses and accusation. Even if the topic didn't start out political at all.