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Belize also, I always assumed was an island because it culturally aligns with the West Indies.

Shared history of British colonialism plus it's the first thing you hit travelling west from Jamaica. Belize is a great place and I'd recommend anyone to visit. Very Jamaican in Belize City and on the islands (because yes some of it is islands).

Plus the last thing they want to be is Guatemalans.
 
Presumably the irony of Mexico (and a large chunk of the SW of the US) also being colonised by Europeans is lost on them for some reason...? Why, it's almost like the Spanish were the ones who colonised Colorado first (thought the name might be a bit of a giveaway). I have a sneaking suspicion this burger muncher might be slightly ignorant of history.

It crossed my mind that the fuckwit might not realise that Spain is in Europe...
 
I'm reading a free PDF of The Art of The Deal at the moment. I think it's definitely worth a read to understand what some Trump supporters see in the guy. On the other hand large sections of it are completely batshit. :(
fwiw the ghost-writer of that (Trump didn't write any of it), Tony Schwarz, has since stated that he regrets writing it, and back in 2016 he was considering leaving the country if Trump was elected as he knew how Trump dealt with enemies, such as Schwarz had then become.

Schwarz has also said that the book is a total fabrication. It's all bullshit.
 
So a lot of election fear has (understandably) been around a national abortion ban and Project 2025. I'm still interested into whether people think Trump will enact either - my personal feeling is that he won't. He, personally, doesn't give a shit about abortion, I am sure and 'let the states decide' is a play for both sides of the fence, albeit a terrible, awful and destructive one. I think he means it when he distances himself from Project 2025 - it may be from people who back him, but it doesn't mean he will back it. Most likely because it's someone else's idea and he will not want someone else's idea unless, and this is possible, they will sweet talk him into about how much he'll get from it.

Of course anyone who takes over if he dies before his term is out, of natural causes or otherwise (quite likely) could be much more amenable to both.
 
Someone needs to speak to Der to find out how he did this. (I can't put alt text atm as the page isn't loading sorry)

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So a lot of election fear has (understandably) been around a national abortion ban and Project 2025. I'm still interested into whether people think Trump will enact either - my personal feeling is that he won't. He, personally, doesn't give a shit about abortion, I am sure and 'let the states decide' is a play for both sides of the fence, albeit a terrible, awful and destructive one. I think he means it when he distances himself from Project 2025 - it may be from people who back him, but it doesn't mean he will back it. Most likely because it's someone else's idea and he will not want someone else's idea unless, and this is possible, they will sweet talk him into about how much he'll get from it.

Of course anyone who takes over if he dies before his term is out, of natural causes or otherwise (quite likely) could be much more amenable to both.
Yeah, I think it all comes down to implementation - and as I understand it, 2025 isn't one big thing but lots of different proposals, so very possible that he'll implement some bits but not others. It all depends how much people are willing to let him do and what's actually feasible, it's not like he got a huge amount of that wall built in 2017-2020.
 
As there has been repeated attempts to assassinate Trump, the Americans must surely give Trump more guns. He should be carrying an assault rifle over his shoulder, and several pistols in holsters at all times. None of the assassination attempts would have happened if he was armed.
 
Yeah, I think it all comes down to implementation - and as I understand it, 2025 isn't one big thing but lots of different proposals, so very possible that he'll implement some bits but not others. It all depends how much people are willing to let him do and what's actually feasible, it's not like he got a huge amount of that wall built in 2017-2020.
And every single one of them is hideous. Trump has two years of a trifecta - majorities in both houses - and that is a scary prospect.
 
I totally get that even the possibility of Project 2025 is a serious threat so it's not right to snort 'Oh g'wan it's never going to happen'. There's plenty of things about this administration that may or may not happen, but the bad ones are sufficiently bad that it's understandable to be terrified.

I've seen someone people online going 'Oh well gosh, nothing happened to LGBTQ+ people last time, stop panicking' but the fact is things have got eight years more toxic since he last stood. It does appear there will be horrible consequence for trans people, and in particular a very strong move against any recognition of trans children. Tellingly, the end of the statement (and I'm not going to even look at that vile page again) says something like 'In schools we will teach about the importance of mothers and fathers and celebrate the difference between men and women rather than trying to conceal them', and you know full fucking well that from these people 'celebrate the difference between men and women' means saying: 'Men are the best at everything and much stronger and cleverer than women, but women have the special gift of being kind and pretty and gentle so they love to be at home and look after children and their husband'. And you also know that making a big deal about trans children (of whom there are very few) will lead to an overt or covert pressure that girls better not have short hair, boys better not have long hair that eventually lead into much less superficial demands of gender conformism.

I do wonder whether a lot more left wing people will take their kids out of school, especially if a very Christian/gender rigid/homophobic approach becomes the mandate, and whether the authorities will remain as 'It's parents' choice how to educate their kids' for people who might not be doing so because they are Christian, or if they'll suddenly decide to take an interest then as to what kids are being taught at home.
 
Cloo I mean tbh the Christian isolationist groups led to things like Waco and Ruby Ridge so if that didn't lead to a clampdown on homeschooling I don't know what would.
 
It's going to be unbelievable shit for lots of people but I think the main danger of Trump is for far right and misogynistic sentiments to be completely mainstreamed in society (US and otherwise) and for the Dems to just pander to it - and for far right actors to take matters in their own hands without his explicit approval - especially if Trump guts federal agencies the way hes proposing to do. I don't think Donald Trump can create a fascist state in 18 months even if he was the most stable, determined man in the world.
 
Cloo I mean tbh the Christian isolationist groups led to things like Waco and Ruby Ridge so if that didn't lead to a clampdown on homeschooling I don't know what would.
Well, that's exactly my point. They're currently A-OK with people taking their kids out of school to teach any depth of anti-scientific, abusive nonsense, but if more people take their kids out of the public system because they don't want imposed religion, homophobia and gender stereotyping, I wonder if all home education won't be equal.

I should add there is already some home education that is like this, for example black parents who home educate because of the overt and underlying racism they are concerned about in the education system.
 
That there are conditions around every action does not remove the agency for the action taken.

this goes to a deeper question on this board but all over the left (however conceived). since my teens, the default setting has been that people are widgets created in a factory called society and are not will-ful actors, "but i, being a bien-pensant, know this and am educating others to their own minds".

my own position is that otoh, no human ever has lived in a perfectly postmodern world where one can pick from a menu of affects/expressions/feelings and construct an identity out of them; so we're all constrained, differently in different eras. otoh, unless you can show me synapses running out of one person's head and into another's, nobody knows anything ever of anyone else's interior experience, until you've known a person long enough to get a sense of that, which takes years.

so our strong theoreticians here (no names) should wind their necks in and take people at their word until otherwise indicated. there's nothing, for example, the matter with kansas: those poeple have knowingly chosen to take ideological satisfaction over material satisfaction, and those attempting to shoehorn the lives of others into their own categories can fuck off.
 
I totally get that even the possibility of Project 2025 is a serious threat so it's not right to snort 'Oh g'wan it's never going to happen'. There's plenty of things about this administration that may or may not happen, but the bad ones are sufficiently bad that it's understandable to be terrified.

I've seen someone people online going 'Oh well gosh, nothing happened to LGBTQ+ people last time, stop panicking' but the fact is things have got eight years more toxic since he last stood. It does appear there will be horrible consequence for trans people, and in particular a very strong move against any recognition of trans children. Tellingly, the end of the statement (and I'm not going to even look at that vile page again) says something like 'In schools we will teach about the importance of mothers and fathers and celebrate the difference between men and women rather than trying to conceal them', and you know full fucking well that from these people 'celebrate the difference between men and women' means saying: 'Men are the best at everything and much stronger and cleverer than women, but women have the special gift of being kind and pretty and gentle so they love to be at home and look after children and their husband'. And you also know that making a big deal about trans children (of whom there are very few) will lead to an overt or covert pressure that girls better not have short hair, boys better not have long hair that eventually lead into much less superficial demands of gender conformism.

I do wonder whether a lot more left wing people will take their kids out of school, especially if a very Christian/gender rigid/homophobic approach becomes the mandate, and whether the authorities will remain as 'It's parents' choice how to educate their kids' for people who might not be doing so because they are Christian, or if they'll suddenly decide to take an interest then as to what kids are being taught at home.
One of the most depressing comments I've heard over the last few days is that it would have been better if Trump won in 2020, which is depressing because it's true. They seem so much more prepared and organised now, and I think things have shifted culturally to allow them to get away with more as well.
 
It's going to be unbelievable shit for lots of people but I think the main danger of Trump is for far right and misogynistic sentiments to be completely mainstreamed in society (US and otherwise) and for the Dems to just pander to it - and for far right actors to take matters in their own hands without his explicit approval - especially if Trump guts federal agencies the way hes proposing to do. I don't think Donald Trump can create a fascist state in 18 months even if he was the most stable, determined man in the world.
Agree but that shift has continued to happen over the last four years without Trump as President. See Twitter.
 
His last bout left me not sleeping properly for almost a week. He took a throwaway comment and built it into me being an enemy of the working class,
I'm sorry that my post had that effect on you.
But I was not abusive and I made almost the opposite point to the one you think I was doing - I specifically argued that the formal or informal views that people hold are not the crucial factor, but rather their relationship to the means of production.
But class politics (my politics) is based not on the values people hold, but on their interests, most crucially their relationship to the means of production. Workers may hold conservative views but they are still workers, my bosses are 'left wing' but they are still my bosses, still capital.
And understanding the different basis upon which those different political philosophies rest then helps explains why different approaches are taking to political organising, despite the similarity of some 'wants'.
 
WTF? How are they going to manage that??? That stinks to high heaven of bannonite bullshit in full flow...

I don't think the Democrats have much chance of winning the House anyway - Republicans need six more seats for a majority and they're ahead in at least 10 close races that haven't been called yet.

But if they retake the majority in 2026, they probably won't rule out impeaching Trump for the many crimes he will have committed by then, especially if there are many deaths in the massive deportation camps he has vowed to set up
 
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