• Spiv@lemmy.world
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    The US (and the whole world) must write laws to prevent clinically, pathologically, narcissistic people from having power ever again.

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      Every time a place changes laws to do something like that, the people you don’t want elected get elected and then use those special powers against everyone else

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    “Because you had a different president,” Mr Trump said. “They could have stopped him. He happens to be a friend of mine. Kim Jong Un, he is a friend of mine. He likes Trump.”

    OK he talks about himself in the 3rd person now. If that doesn’t smell of emperor/dictator I don’t know what doesn’t.

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    What in the literal fuck is wrong with Americans and not overthrowing this tyranny? All these laws for this shit, and no balls to see it through.

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      Well, one is that our current best hope is that the midterms go well and with shaky control of maybe a single branch of government we can start to fix things.

      There’s no good reason anyone wouldn’t wait six weeks to see what happens.

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      You don’t understand.

      The other option was a woman. A WOMAN.

      That’s a genuinely tough choice for yanks.

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        She had a bad laugh, man. Can’t you understand how unforgivable that is, and and she was gonna start a war with Ira…

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      There’s still a peaceful way to kick him out. In the midterm elections on November 3, the fascists could lose control of both houses of Congress. If that happens, the orange turd is getting impeached as fast as possible. By spring, if there’s no hope of stopping him legally, then we consider stopping him illegally.

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        I hope you’re right.

        However I’m also pretty sure they’ve been planning for years how to rig this election. And evern if they lose Trump might just as well ignore it like any all the laws he’s breaking. Since he controls the cops and the biggest military on earth… who’d be able to hold him accountable?

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      I’m sure you’ve heard this before, but laws become meaningless when no one will enforce them. This is all happening because the US forefathers did not envision a scenario in which all 3 branches of government would be corrupted in the same way at the same time. Terminal cancer, more or less.

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        No, they did, if a group wins it all, and nobody overthrows them, then they represent what the people want. Actions speak loudest… The people want this.

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          Try that again but this time make it about Native Americans or Palestinians. Failing to overthrow your oppressors is not tacit approval of their agenda.

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          Texas blocked federal investigators from monitoring the election. I’m not convinced they won.

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        This is all happening because the US forefathers did not envision a scenario in which all 3 branches of government would be corrupted in the same way at the same time

        … and your continued belief that a document written hundreds of years ago, in a proverbial different world, must have all the possible answers until the universe freezes over

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          Don’t put me in your box. I actually don’t have much belief in the constitution. It was written 250 years ago, exclusively by slaveholding white men, and should have been rewritten multiple times by now. In fact, this is what many of those who wrote it intended. However, it is worth recognizing that if the constitution were rewritten in the present political climate, the US would become the corporate Gilead that it is inching toward overnight.

          So, if the constitution as it is today is the basis of law, then it should be enforced without prejudice and for everyone, even those charged with enforcing it.

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            I don’t know your background so I can only go by what you post. When you blame it on the lack of foresight of the “forefathers” it sounded like you believed it. I agree it should have been rewritten multiple times by now.

            However, it is worth recognizing that if the constitution were rewritten in the present political climate, the US would become the corporate Gilead that it is inching toward overnight.

            Absolutely and with the brain washed American MAGAtards, they would sign themselves up for slavery if they though, maybe, the people they hate so much will get at least a few more lashes than they will

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      The laws require the justice system to bring people to trial, and then for appropriate sentences to be handed down and enforced. “Americans” have zero control over the federal judiciary, and little control over state judiciarires, which have slim to zero power to address these national problems.

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          …because the kleptocrats who benefit from it pour billions of dollars into misinformation campaigns to convince poorly-educated people to keep voting for them.

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        “Americans” have zero control over the federal judiciary, and little control over state judiciarires, which have slim to zero power to address these national problems.

        That is literal bullshit because this is ENTIRE point the 2nd amendment is more important to so many Americans than, well just about anything else in the world

        Americans not reacting (and worse, pretending they never had any recourse) is the reason all this shit politicians keep destroying everything… your inaction (in all forms) got you here

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          The entire point of the 2nd Amendment was to put down slave rebellions. Don’t kid yourself into thinking it had some nobler purpose.

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              You seem to accept a hermeneutics of innocence towards the US and its ideology, fundamentally. When the constitution talks about the right to bear arms, in a militia, in the context of slave uprisings and settler-empire conflict, it’s actually a far sighted stroke of genius. The founding fathers knew 250 years later suburban dads would need a gun to protect their McMansion from inner city thugs. No, they weren’t coming up with extra-historical wisdom, they, like the many founding philosophers and practitioners of liberalism, were cruel slavers, atrocious exterminators, and elitists who thought they knew best. History doesn’t go away because you close your eyes and ignore it. The constitution or supposed founding values not being applied on so many occasions from lynchings to foreign occupations isn’t because “America is an ongoing project, a living document,” it’s because countries are what they do and who they represent. As opposed to pieces of paper. I have no sympathy for these viewpoints because you immediately drop the hermeneutics of suspicion on any critics of the American nightmare. If in Cuba the churches are empty, religion is being suppressed. If they’re full, people are rejecting their atheistic ideology. Funny how that turns out. American institutionalists keep crying.

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              “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

              Vague on purpose.

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                Sure, but that’s MUCH closer to the stated goal I mentioned “fight of the current fascist regime” than the proposed supposed reason for its existence “to quell slave rebellions”

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      “All these laws for this shit”, and not one of them actually carries a stated set of consequences for breaking them.

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    The reason the DPRK is allowed to have nukes is because they already have nukes. Iran would not have been bombed if it had nukes.

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      Easiest way to see through the propaganda of “Iran is two weeks away from having nukes.”

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      DPRK wasn’t allowed though, the wealthy elites were heavily sanctioned for it by most of the world, and China loudly complained about that for some reason.

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        It doesn’t really matter if bigger countries finger-wag the DPRK or try to commit genocide on its population via sanctions, they still cannot turn back time to an era where the DPRK was nukeless. That’s why it’s been able to steadily develop over time, and reduce reliance on other countries like the USSR, which was a major factor in the 1990s famine. The DPRK has been sanctioned since its inception, this is nothing new for them.

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    I don’t like him but that’s okay because I don’t want nukes anyways. They’re too heavy.

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    Pivot to Asia is still happening in part despite ongoing MENA events wrt Saudi Israel and Iran. Turn NK and Russia against China, disrupt Belt and Road/BRICS, Sahel, sort of the Cold War strategy done post Sino Soviet split. But I’m not sure they can get the split part here. It just looks embarrassing and weak for Trump, humoring his enemies while they have no interest in breaking ranks.