• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    You take the current sitting dictator drag them out by their toes from his Ivory tower string them up in Town square and let everybody look at them.

    That’s how it’s always been done historically and that’s how it’s still done to this day it’s very effective.

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        Yeah, and every dictator that got overthrown had loyal, grovelling followers. So what?

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        When the fascists roll up to abduct people they seem to always wear masks, black clothing, and show no ID so they cant be identified. Because they know what they are doing is something unethical, and they would not want it attached to their name. They all need to be doxed and held to account for their criminal conduct, whether acting in an official capacity or not. They had a choice to comply with illegal orders and they chose to comply. Criminals, the lot of them.

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          Ideally they’d just be shot on sight so the modern gestapo is too afraid to keep abducting people.

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    Unfortunately the democrats are made up of assholes like Pelosi and Schumer who are just there to get rich.

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    Any democratic candidate preaching “forgiveness and healing” needs to be primaried. We need representatives who are willing to absolutely curb-stomp the fuck out a party that is effectively an occupying enemy force.

    These are not people to “reach out” to. They are enemies to overcome.

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    I said this years ago after J6: if liberals wanted to maintain liberal democracy, they had to literally hang Trump after J6 and the false electors scheme. Instead he faced 0 consequences, so he (and the fascists around him) decided they could just keep trying different coup strategies until they found the one that works. Liberals let them iteratively test coup strategies.

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      Wasn’t the patriot act only opposed by like 1 senator? Our govt has long either supported or sympathized with authoritarians

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        Any vote with that kind of bipartisan support is a sure sign the ruling class are fucking us over.

        Incidentally, that near-unanimous vote came soon after Senators and Congresspeople had been receiving letters with anthrax in them. And that crime has never been solved. (Hint: it was probably instigated by Cheney).

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        There haven’t been 60 dems in the senate since 1979

        There haven’t been 50 dems since 2013

        Starting living in this decade maybe

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          The President has historically had wide latitude to act in times of emergency. The instigator of the insurrection should’ve been in Gitmo on January 21, 2021.

          Sure, call me extremist, but look at where we are now. I’m fucking right. But, barring the correct action, Biden could’ve followed the moderate, decorous course of launching the prosecution that day. But no, it took TWO. GOD. DAMN. YEARS.

          I’m so done with Democrat excuses.

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            I think, in principle, the president persecuting his predecessor and current political rival is bad. Much simpler a solution is to not disrupt his criminal investigation by electing him president, but instead we’re a country of assholes who can’t even show up to the polls to keep him out.

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              I think, in principle, the president persecuting his predecessor and current political rival is bad.

              Holding a criminal accountable for the crimes they’ve committed is not persecution.

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                The courts were responsible. Biden already expressed disappointment in the AG for being slow. This should never have been Biden’s job to do, and it is our collective fault that he became president absolving himself of crimes.

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            Biden had to preserve our beloved institutions so Trump would have something to tear down.

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    It’s going to be fun watching all of these traitors stand trials for their crimes.

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    A man rubs a lamp and a genie comes out and says, “I will grant you one wish, anything you ask for, whatever you can imagine, your wish is my command.”

    The man shouts, “I want a dragon!”

    The genie responds, “I’m sorry, but a dragon is just too much, it’s just not possible for that to exist. Can you think of something else?”

    The man thinks for a minute and says, “Well, in that case, I guess I wish for the rich and powerful to face significant legal consequences within the existing system for the harm they do to regular people.”

    The genie sighs and says, “What color did you want that dragon?”

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    Lol k

    When there’s an actual armed resistance lemme know. That’s the only way things will change.

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    To employ the crude vernacular, no Democrat has the requisite reproductive organs necessary to solve MAGA, either testicles or ovaries.

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    I’m not so sure they even want that at all. Simply because of their shameful behavior, while the US president acts like a goddamn Nazi (because he obviously is one, of course).

    But for all that, the Democrats have refused to allow even a little progressiveness in their ranks for years, against the wishes of their own voters.

    But hey, I don’t know very much about all this because I’m from Germany.

    All I can say is that in our country - and this applies to larger parts Europe - Sanders, for example, would be a moderate center-left politician. What he is calling for is not at all radical in many parts of the world, but rather quite normal. Basic decency, so to speak…

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      Yup. The Democratic party is the Republican party of 40 years ago. The Republicans are obviously now literal nazis, fascists, kkk, the worst of the worst. That’s all we have and they have no interest in changing that.

      Many of us like Sanders because he is a vocal option that is at least left of the status quo. But there are also so many of us that want European left policies. We just can’t get it to happen in a winner takes all style of representation. And capitalism.