The latest political crackdown in Turkey has created a situation where a lot of journalists and politicians found themselves under the same roof. The journalist (Fatih Altayli), who has been running his show from the detention center for more than a month, found a way to interview the presidential candidate (Ekrem Imamoğlu) through their lawyers.
The military industrial complex always wins in the US, even if the whole reason why you get elected is because you were against it. A majestic mockery of democracy.
Tariffs didn’t crash the economy because he lowered them back to pretty much exactly what they were before he was in office. Had he implemented his insane plan to keep tariffs high, the economy would have crashed. All the carve outs for all the major industries…I’m not sure what you think was a success.
People ARE dying because USAID was scrapped. It will be in the millions by the end of his term. Do you understand how starvation and disease work? It doesn’t happen the day you cut off funding for a tax break for the rich.
You must be living under a rock to think any of his actions have been effective.
You do get to be held accountable for your vote when you eat the result of letting this mad man into a powerful leadership position. When prices go up, you no longer get to turn around and say “liberals did this”. When they deploy ground troops in Iran for 20 years, you do not get to blame “all of us Americans”. When you get pushed out of your social activities because people hear you support genocide in Gaza and going to war in Iran after tearing up agreements and enabling violations of cease-fires like a child, you do not get to turn around and say “I’m satisfied so you must be too. It’s not fair that I’m being socially prosecuted.”
It goes on and on because that’s how reality works if you never follow up then you will never know the effect and the rate at which it happens. Keep plugging your ears!
Again, I am entitled to vote however I wish. You have no ability to "hold me accountable" for that. I owe you nothing, and I truly do not care who you want me to vote for.
Again you can vote for who you want and you will eat every negative consequence that has and will continue to come for whatever major election that happens. You have every right and freedom in this country to be that type of person.
Trump is doing a terrible job and that is okay for feckless people like you who like that.
You are the one telling me who to vote for, please write another comment about how much you love the taste of Trump’s boot.
> The military industrial complex always wins in the US
Sounds like learned helplessness. This is only allowed as long as the governed permit it.
> the whole reason why you get elected is because you were against it.
Not every politician is reducible to a single, cliche hivemind. When the person lacks integrity and a record of telling the truth, it's unwise to believe they will keep all of their promises.
Trying to deduce general principles from many particular instances is not "learned helplessness". If one wants to understand a system, it's best not to delude oneself with myths, but to spell out the pattern that is confirmed by many observations. A strong myth that keeps the American people in their current state is the idea that the US has a democratic government at the federal level. Once they get over that myth, they might actually be able to make it true.
The military industrial complex doesn't care who their weapons are used against. Trump plans to add a trillion to the Pentagon's budget, with most of it presumably going to private contractors. How are they losing?
Trump was ever against the military industrial complex? News to me. His first presidency should have been enough to classify him as a huge warmonger forever.
The two-party system is not really a coalition system, is it? For one, there is no way for minority factions within parties to exert effective control over the other factions, no? A prime example being how the centrist majority of the Democratic party crushed the democratic socialist faction.
