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  • Let’s think about this from a electoral power perspective. If Dems want to drive the knife home in the GOP and win 2028+, there isn’t much to lose pretending to play nice now. Best case, Trump passes Democratic legislation.

    How I think this plays out:

    Dems offer the hand of friendship, Trump turns it down because he’s a narcissistic manchild. Dems play the “Look, we tried to be the nice guys, Republicans don’t want anything to get done!” card to every low information voter who watches cable news for the next 2 years.

    Dems pass progressive legislation CONSTANTLY, Trump spite vetos, constantly.

    Dems spend the next 2 years showing America what we could have with a Democratic president

    2028: MAGA’s bloated corpse drags the GOP to hell with it. GOP fractures into shards, squabbling over the legacy of a hollowed out corpse-party. Trump, out of office, is prosecuted, further dividing the GOP between diehards, and people who really, really wish Trump would shut it so they can move on.

    2029: Dem supermajority. Progressive wing ascendant. Supreme Court goes from 3-6 to 5-4, even if more seats aren’t added. Blexas entrenched. GOP, unable to ever overcome Cali+Blexas disintegrates and goes the way of the Whigs.

    Call it… Project 2029










  • Godric@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Opinions on hunting?
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    All predators are kept in captivity, and fed factory farmed meat? Prey animals run unchecked, overpopulate, and die of starvation, disease, and car accidents?

    Nature is not kind, and nature demands balance. Humans disrupted the balance by reducing predators, so hunters take that role to maintain the balance.

    If it makes you feel any better, a bullet is the fastest, kindest death any deer is likely to see. Much preferable to slowly being torn to shreds and eaten alive, wasting away from starvation, trembling as mind and muscle are eaten by prions, or choking on blood as it lies broken, hit by a car, possibly taking a family with it.