The Democrats win a majority in the House and appoint a half-decent Speaker, then impeach and remove both Trump and Vance. The Speaker of the House then becomes the President and they can appoint a whole new cabinet.
If all the Dems can do is remove Trump then we get President Vance, and all the cabinet positions stay the same.
As we have seen in the past, impeachment is meaningless if we can't get a proper trial in the Senate. And it would take one hell of an election night for the Dems to get enough seats in the Senate to possibly remove Trump from office.
As much as I want Trump to face consequences for his actions, I'm not holding my breath.
I was referring to the fact that hypothetically one lemmy.world admin could essentially make people disappear.
Which is what ICE is for.
Are you seriously comparing being banned from a small social media site, where you could simply create another account in 5 minutes, to being arrested and imprisoned by a government agency?
In the broader world of politics, "liberal" usually refers to "classical liberalism": representative democracy, a capitalist market economy with limited government involvement, and an emphasis on individual liberty over communal well-being. This is the ideology the US was founded upon (for white people, at least) and that it still largely embraces. Both major US political parties are liberal parties.
Within the US, the use of the term is very different. Republicans use "liberal" as a pejorative to describe anyone even slightly to their left. You could be a progressive, a social democrat, a communist, an anarchist, or simply a pragmatic individual who wants to fund libraries and public schools, and you would be branded a "lib."
This is not a lemmy.world issue. All Lemmy instances do this, assuming they're running up-to-date builds. The devs added it to the Lemmy code base earlier this year:https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5318
If you don't like it, then move to a PieFed or mbin instance. Then you have access to all the same content without any connection to dessalines or nutomic.
Ditch the web interface in favor of native desktop apps. AI queries will be distributed among logged-in users' PCs, turning the Lemmy user base into a distributed data center. Users will have post, comment, and vote rate limits tied to their computational contributions, incentivizing participation and the use of higher-end hardware.
Since mobile users will have drastically reduced compute capabilities, they will contribute to the community differently: mobile apps will include telemetry and ads. Money raised from mobile ads will go directly to the Lemmy developers.
I grew up in a family of overly-armed suburban conservatives, so inheriting a significant number of guns was always a given. A few pieces have sentimental value tied to the relatives who originally owned them. I don't use any of them, though. Hunting never interested me. Target shooting is fun once in a while, particularly trap and skeet, but I have too many other priorities vying for my time and money. If I were to get back into target shooting I would switch to archery.
Is it possible there are some SNAP recipients taking advantage of the system? I'm sure there are. Is the problem so bad that we need to make life harder for all the other people who truly need that assistance? No, absolutely not. I'm not losing sleep over the possibility that some people might be saving money on groceries. Let them have it. There are so many bigger issues to worry about.
Since the mid-20th century, North Korea's domestic politics have centered on the idea that the whole world is out to get them, and therefore they must be fiercely independent from outside influence. Openly asking for international aid would be like admitting defeat against all their political enemies, real and imagined. Nobody in power is going to do that.
The Democrats win a majority in the House and appoint a half-decent Speaker, then impeach and remove both Trump and Vance. The Speaker of the House then becomes the President and they can appoint a whole new cabinet.
If all the Dems can do is remove Trump then we get President Vance, and all the cabinet positions stay the same.