- 8 days
“Trump continued to support Tyson before and after the boxer’s 1992 rape conviction”
Nuff said
- 8 days
Every single time there’s someone in the news for raping someone, it seems Trump is right there saying the rapist is a good person.
At some point you have to start wondering about his morals.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish8 days
You know what, I am also starting to get the inclination that this president fellow is not a good person.
There is a whole set of files dedicated to this sort I’d thing.
- 8 days
I think people should be required to take free, standardized, peer reviewed, fail-able, in person civics and humanities tests before being allowed to vote.
If you fail the tests, you don’t get to vote.
If you cannot agree with the majority of official historians about what really happened in the past, you are not informed enough to decide the future.
The last decade of American politics have shown that voting is intensely serious. It should not be taken so lightly as to allow barely adults or barely literate people to decide the fate of us all.
I know. I know that’s dangerous. I know that’s easy to get wrong and make something worse. I know that could be turned into an even more elitist society.
Access to information has never been cheaper and more available than it is today, so the elitism part is dispensed with.
I want it peer reviewed and standardized, and maybe even overseen by an international ethics board. That dispenses with a lot of the other problems.
In conjunction with ranked choice voting, I don’t see a better way.
We didn’t get here by being deliberate and gate keeping power.
We got here by being naive and letting power run amok.
Let’s be more deliberate and gatekeep power more. For all of us.
- 7 days
Quite the Vaushite take.
I think the problems of american politics isn’t because it’s too democratic, rather I think it’s that the US is:
- not a liberal democracy anymore
- stuck with a voting system that forces a two-party system and doesn’t allow for proportional representation
- electing the president directly instead of forming a multi-party coalition government that then elects the president
- allowing money to influence politics way too much
- running an education system barely worth its name
In short, the problem is not too much, but too little lived democracy. Allow the uniparty to fracture and the populace would be better able to pick and choose what they support.
- 7 days
I think there’s an important distinction between making voting accessible and ensuring that voters understand the institutions and decisions they’re being asked to influence.
We already accept that voting eligibility can be subject to legal qualifications, although the reasons for those qualifications differ. (I.E. children, people deemed legally mentally incompetent, US Residents who aren’t US Citizens, convicted felons in many states, people still serving prison sentences in many states, etc etc.)
My question is whether civic competence should have any place in that discussion.
If someone cannot explain the basic structure of government, distinguish established historical facts from misinformation, or demonstrate a basic understanding of the economic and political systems affected by elections, what consequences does that have for democratic decision-making?
You wouldn’t give someone a gun without them knowing how they work or what happens to people when they shoot them…
So why give them the power to decide which man controls all the people with guns in the whole government when they don’t understand that power or the government?
I am aware that requiring a test raises serious concerns about discrimination, abuse, and the right to political representation. But I think those concerns deserve examination alongside the consequences of widespread civic ignorance.
Even if we disagree about restricting eligibility, can we at least agree that improving civic knowledge is essential to a functioning democracy?
And that maybe civic knowledge should be required in schools, or in adult life perhaps before accepting Jury Duty or something… or at some point in a citizen’s existence before they step into a voting booth?
8 daysI knew he was a senile old cheat after he threw that fight with the suicide forest guy.
Jake and Logan Paul are brothers, professional boxers, and influencers who became infamous after Logan Paul toured a Japanese forest notorious as a suicide spot, searching for bodies, and found one.
Mike Tyson threw a fight to Jake Paul. Claimed he injured his knee while training and tiptoed around the ring for the whole match.
- 7 days
influencers who became infamous after Logan Paul toured a Japanese forest notorious as a suicide spot, searching for bodies, and found one.
then made a bunch of jokes and carried on like a fucking dumbass. laughing and joking and shit. He made a half-assed apology, no one bought it, then he disappeared for a bit.
- 8 days
Oh boy, Tyson must be a pedophile. God damn there are too many of them in this country.
It’s all the CTE’s Tyson racked up. His brain may as well be a baked potato.
It’s so weird how getting brain damage seems to make someone a conservative.
- 7 days
So true, how bout that “democrat” who sides with conservatives majority of the time; Fetterman.
He also predicted he wouldn’t get his ass kicked by a YouTuber but here we are.
- 8 days
I’m not really a boxing guy, but I did watch that fight out of curiosity. I’m pretty sure Tyson threw the fight. They played it up enough to look like he was trying but the videos of him getting ready for the match were so different than what happened in the ring. I really believe it was fixed to allow Paul to win and that, if allowed to just be a real fight, Tyson would have annihilated Paul despite the age difference.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish8 days
He was managed by don king or whatever, whom did fix fights. So it tracks.
It’s already been proven that brain injuries can make a person into a MAGAt moron. I mean look at fetterman.
- 8 days
Tyson’s never been a genius, particularly with all the beating his brain has taken. Why does his opinion matter again?
- GreyEyedGhost@piefed.caEnglish8 days
“Whenever I’m about to do something, I think, ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.”
— Dwight Schrute
- 7 days
Mike Tyson’s political analysis is something I never thought I’d read about.
- Pratai@piefed.caEnglish7 days
What a fucking idiot. How does a president “win midterms”.
The only win trump would get would be not going to prison. If that’s the case, then this is just an admission that they know he’s a fucking criminal.
- 7 days
lol who’s gonna put him in prison? Democrats?
If that’s your bar for him winning, he already won.
- 7 days
He loses if he loses his majority in congress. If he keeps it, he wins. Simple enough.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish8 days
Not you mike. This is sad, because now, your name is shit. I even let the ear biting off thing go, not this.
You are the enemy Mike Tyson, and you are a piece of fucking shit. Fuck you, and the bronx, and all of new york excepting the non rich that don’t suck.
- 8 days
What about when he raped Desiree Washington?
Dude has always been a piece of shit. He’s just also good at boxing.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish8 days
I didn’t ever really retain that information, I do recall hearing something about rape now, but I don’t follow entertainment news, and I remember Jon Stewart (whom I no longer like,) interviewing him just a year or so back before his fight, and there was no mention.
But yes, fuck him, rape is so wrong. Fuck Mike Tyson. Fuck Mike Tyson.
- 8 days
If you don’t mind, can I ask why you no longer like Jon Stewart?
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish8 days
I can’t entirely say, but part of it is from hyping him for president to find out he’s the establishment’s bitch.
But it’s more than that. He’s the establishment, and not working for what we need. That’s all I’m prepared to say at this moment, until I can clear my thoughts.
- Auli@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
Really the establishment when he fought for veterans when he was off the show. Guy doesn’t want to be president I mean he is a comedian.
- bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish7 days
What he wants, is not what the country needs. He is bitching out. I thought he had civic duty, but he doesn’t.
And there are a lot of people that need help outside of veterans, that signed up to kill people for the empire.
- Auli@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
I didn’t know Trump was running in the midterms does that mean the US can be rid of him if he loses.
- 7 days
Didn’t realize Tyson was an asshole, but then again I knew he was an intuitive.
- 7 days
You didn’t know he was a rapist? He went to jail for it and everything.
He’s a multi time rapist, womanizer, abusive POS.
He’s the classic tough guy that a lot of young POC look up to unfortunately. He’s definitely not your “normal” slimy Republican stereotype, but Trump has cast quite the wide net of fascism and conservativism. A lot of people who would have never called themselves outright Republicans or conservatives (often call themselves not political 🤦), now are happy to join this fascist circus.
- 7 days
Honestly, this pairing makes way too much sense.
Disturbing truth about Mike Tyson we’ve ‘collectively all forgotten’
Seriously, though, how could he lose? He controls all 3 branches of government, the justice department, and the military. He gleefully and openly breaks the law with total impunity. He has the financial backing of every techbro and oligarch in the land. His rollout of AI-powered systems of surveillance and oppression is unchecked.
Americans have not gotten any smarter in the last couple of years. If the intelligent minority couldn’t stop Trump when he was out of power, deeply unpopular, and beset with legal problems, what chance do they have now?
Nope, you losers are stuck with this fucker until he dies and Miller takes over. USA is over - you live in Gilead now.
- 7 days
You may be right about Trump but the cult dies with him. These cults never are able to sustain beyond the personality. The only exception is religious cults because God is the personality.
