Apologies, and thank you for the clarity. I certainly can’t criticize anyone for verbal subtlety being misinterpreted, that’s for sure. Cheers.

Sigh. Pot call the kettle black. This isn’t reddit, nor is it a community specifically about US news, and it’s also hosted on lemmy.world, y’know, so it still doesn’t justify defaultism even if you tell that to yourself all day and night.

Try as you may, it still doesn’t erase the fact that not everyone commenting on a US post must absolutely be american, especially since these matters indirectly affect way more than the US by itself (and before you jump to conclusions, no, not by my choice or vote, yet I have to face reality others voted for as it is). That’s just hubris, and you’ll have to find a way to accept that while you can disagree with someone, you can’t take their voice away from them. Just like you’re well allowed to come here and whine about any particular sentence that you dislike, ignoring all context, just like you’re completely free to make up any justification to tell yourself you’re right.

Also doesn’t erase the fact that by your own logic you’re as cringe as me and all the people triggered for no reason and twisting my words or using my comment condemning the lack of due process in the article to derail the topic due to their own personal coping issues and lack of reading comprehension.

Cheers, and despite all I do hope you can sort out that frustration and contrarian attitude that got you riled up enough to actually come here and criticize others for doing exactly what you’re doing. Feel free to cringe-rant and double down on “making a big deal” out of what I said if your pride demands it, but know it’ll be in an echo chamber.

I wouldn’t call them “left stances” per se, as it’s something the right also tends to do. Especially when comparing it to the current administration, which despite expecting it to be bad, I certainly didn’t expect it to be this unprecedentally bad.

What I mean, mostly, is that if “you” want people to stand by you showing why the other side sucks isn’t nearly enough. The people already know the other side sucks - they want something better, not more of the same but with a different coat of paint. Unless you can convince the people you are better than the other options, badmouthing the opposition won’t do much to people who’ve seen this play out a thousand times before.

Why was Trump elected? (and note, I’m not entirely convinced he actually was, but that’s another whole discussion) Biden wasn’t doing anything nearly as outlandish as this administration is doing, but they were still concealing Biden’s mental state when it was obvious to most. Harris made sure to make her campaign pure spectacle and fanfare through celebrities and huge amounts of spending, focusing way more on appearance than on substance, while the people craved better living conditions overall. And regardless of the obvious answer, what did Trump run his campaign on? Precisely what the people were desperate to hear, even if they knew coming from him it might be bs (which everyone sees it actually was all along).

This is not just a political issue, but a cultural one as well. People don’t vote for policies, they vote for colors, for their preferred celebrities, and for whoever can throw the flashiest party - and on that regard allow me a bit of hippocrisy, as in my country it’s not that different, even if we do have more parties to choose from (I.e., what I’m saying isn’t valid just for the US, but for many more so-called democratic nations, which irks me to the bone). In practical terms there isn’t even any other option available because people won’t even consider them. And on that department as long as mentalities don’t change, neither will the system. And after years of this tug war by both sides pulling to themselves while badmouthing the other, one of them decided it was time to solve this impasse once and for all, by any means necessary.

The current administration, even if Trump kicks the bucket midway, is clearly not planning to leave unless forced through sweat and blood. Otherwise they wouldn’t go to so much trouble and not care about their unpopularity when someone else can just come later and undo everything they did. Of course the problem runs deeper than this already long text, but if discussed at lenght this would make a book.

I think you should re-read. I didn’t say due process was “extreme and radical”. You’re reading what you want to read and trying to polarize and derail this discussion, like the other commenter.

Just to state this will be my last reply to this sort of reply, since there’s no discussion to be had with people who had their minds set on blind hate before even entering, which, ironically, is a rather radical stance to have by itself. I know you won’t believe it and try to distort it to suit your internal frutration, but I’m on your side. Cheers.