Give the US ten years under Trump and his folks and the efficency of the biggest military on earth will be significantly reduced in every aspect… due to sheer incompentence.

All China, Iran and Russia have to fo is wait .

If it wasn’t a global topic I’d say let’s say how long it takes for the threat to get too worse to keep ignoring it.

While you’re right this unsustainable way up until now was hedged in by worries about long term stability… something the orange doesn’t concern itself about.

A simple, efficient, completely made up term justifying prosecution of all ‘inner enemies’ of the regime… who could have seen that coming?

/s

The cult of personality surrounding a narcissist… his name has to be on everything (in the hope that voters will forget what else he does to them).

Midterms are more than half a year away and they already start normalizing the narrative of the next ‘big steal’. Until November they will have convinced their base that a democrat win would solely be based of the Reps not being allowed to cheat the election (which is somewhat true but you know how they’ll mean it).

Good luck hoping for the outcome to be an non-violent end of Trumps presidency.

He’s afraid of the midterms. As soon as he won them they’ll be marching back twice as repressive.

Invest in local politicians election campaign through official or unofficial ‘donations’.

Shape the public opinion by buying a few (or all, if possible) influential media outlets.

Accuse every other party if being dishonest (there’s always some dirt to be found) and portray ‘your’ politicians as only solution.

Once your representatives are in power max out your influence on economics and media while you rely on the rule of law to protect your assets from the opposition if they accidentally come back to power.

--> Profit

This will most probably will be ‘limited’ gun control. Limited as in ‘everyone left oft the GOP is a domestic terrorist’.

Anyone got ‘nuclear disaster’ on their bingo card for 2026 or 2027 ?

Jep, I think the lack of specialized communities is definetly a problem. However I think this is, in the last resort, mostly up to us as users. If we don’t create content for topics we find interesting… who else could?

But I also get that possible reddit refugees who are used to lurk on content instead of creating it (I don’t exclude myself here) will find the plattform(s) to empty to be satisfied.

I don’t quite get it:

Lemmy has started in 2019 with 0 users and 0 instances. In 2023 there were still less than 100 instances… now the platform has oviously jumped to a few thousand instances and about 100 k users. To me this is the opposite of a ghostland. If we consider that bigTech will mostly screw over their customers bowing to Trump I don’t really get all the negativity around here.

I’ve joined two days ago and you know what? I’m actually willing to contribute by posting instead of lurking at reddit because if I create content it’s not for somme multi million dollar corp to fill their pockets with revenue but for this community to thrive…

I my eyes this isn’t the right time for doomerism… on the contrary.

I guess the problem are the users (you and me) or better or use of plattforms itself.

On reddit I tended to be lurker. And if most of us are the few which actually POST content are the those with strong (mostly political) views who are willing to commit to their cause by flooding the zone with political fights.

Coclusion: If we want a cozy lemmy we need to join/start non-political, subject specific communities and actually CONTRIBUTE something instead of just consuming. Otherwise this cluster of plattforms will end up like all the other due to the same reasons.

What you’re describing isn’t Lemmy specific I think, same happens of you browse the news feed of reddit (and most probably also other social media).

What helps me is subscribing to non-political topics and scrolling through your own feed of non-political stuff instead of the main site… gardening, hobbies, memes… that’s what these sites once ought to be made for. Not 24/7 political bombardment.

Sidenote: Digital detox also helps for sure '^^