• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    You know what? I think its time to set up an seperate assembly of some sort to address the actual problems of the people. Let’s just pat the rich on the head, let Congress go sniff tRump’s farts, then go govern the addressing of actual problems (the unaffordablility of food, the lack of healthcare to the masses, global heating, AI causing mass unemployment, etc.). Our government clearly refuses to address the actual problems of the masses, so lets collectively assemble a seperate but equal governing body to address them ourselves.

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      We have the right to abolish the government - https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

      The question is will those in power turn the military towards the people and try to kill citizens acting legally? The answer is absolutely they will kill as many as possible to preserve their world order where the rich get everything and you get nothing. The only hope for our side is that there are far more of us then there are of them - even when you count the pedophile loving magats.

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        The only hope for our side is that there are far more of us then there are of them

        Why do you think they’re making such an enormous investment in robots and mass surveillance?

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      Yeah, maybe like a separate legislature in each state, to take care of the local issues.

      Oh wait, they already have that, and they tend to be even more corrupt than the Feds, current administration excepted.

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      First of all, he doesn’t KNOW anything. Literally. He is profoundly ignorant, easily the dumbest person to ever occupy the presidency. It’s isn’t even close. He is mind-bogglingly STUPID.

      So he knows what he wants, and he thinks wishes are facts, and repeats them with the full confidence of the narcissistic simpleton. Don’t mistake that confidence for competence, or anything else. He’s a Sociopath, who has learned to hide it under bluster and noise. He’s just shouting like a crazy homeless person. It doesn’t make any sense, why would you listen to it?

      You are under no obligation to believe it, or worry about it. He thinks he can rig the election by gerrymandering a few extra House seats, but that isn’t going to get him anywhere near the number of seats he needs, and he’s not taking into account the 5-10 MAGA seats that are almost certainly going to be surpirse flips that nobody will know about until election night.

      He’s trying to convince you not to vote. Instead of listening, you have between now and November to convince at least one friend who wasn’t going to vote, to finally do it, especially if you are in a red state or district. That’s where the flips will happen, and we need all the votes we can get.

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        YES - voting is not a sign of weakness or complacency. And not voting because you oppose the system doesn’t register in broader society as opposition - it registers as apathy, which just emboldens these assholes.

        If you’re an American who doesn’t vote “on principle”, please reconsider. You don’t have to vote for people you don’t like. You don’t even have to cast a vote in all the races. But do vote. I guarantee there is someone on your ballot you want to support, be it a Green or an Independent, or an especially maverick Democrat. Heck, there might even be a Socialist on your ballot.

        And don’t forget there are state and local races too, and those are much easier to impact than federal races. Even if The Donald has a successful coup this time around, you’ll be better off living in a town run by people who aren’t beholden to the duopoly, and that only happens if people of conscience vote.

        If everyone who refused to vote out of some principled notion instead voted their conscience, we’d have a very different government from the one we have now. It would still suffer from corruption and manipulation by the ownership class, but much less so than it does currently.

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    He’s not kidding. He’s building a fucking ballroom, a project that will go past 2029. He has no intention of ever leaving office. He won’t leave unless physically forced to. Fuck you if you think the government will make him leave just because the law says they will

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      I think a cardiovascular event will sort it out eventually. Let’s hope it happens sooner rather than later.

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          Probably not, but at least the personality cult will after not long, and until that It’s going to be funny as shit seeing C.F. Vance flailing around trying to take it over.

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            It amazes me that Trump has such a cult, at least with Hitler he was famed for his speeches being mesmerizing in a vaguely coherent fashion while appealing to the wildly racist and anti Semitic base, Trump just comes across as a rambling, racist Grandpa Simpson if he had a grade four concussion.

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    What does that say about America’s politics when our only hope of stopping Trump is McDonald’s

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        Have you seen the instructions for eating an elephant?

        One bite at a time.

        Even a baby step in the right direction is the right direction.

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          Thank you. I live for comments like these. I feel this sentiment is lost on most these days.

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      Americans the ones who need guns to protect from government. Their plan is just wait no wonder their left is considered so weak.

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        We don’t have guns to protect from the government. The Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 proved that even when America was new and the Feds were armed with the same equipment as the rebels were there was no way to beat them if they decided to turn against us. Now we have a militarized police force, surveillance state, and the military. The guns are around to deal with your MAGA neighbor when the country finally cracks and turns into the Troubles or Balkanizes.

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    Haha its all fun and games until people break and a prominent white building gets burned down during a very important meeting!

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      The only people willing to do civil war in a meaningful number are being pardoned for j6.

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            That’s not what I was arguing. And I didn’t specify Dems. They’re part of the problem because they keep capitulating to the GOP.

            Review on your own the percentage of guns registered to Dems vs GOP. Then, remove party monikers and see where the guns are for Left vs Right.

            Last exercise… Do you think if pressed MTG or Tucker would fight for or against whatever alliance forms for Trump? Will the lines be ideological or will they be blurry? Will your own classical beliefs allow you to fight alongside someone who is ideologically different to you but going after the same target? Who leads this hypothetical side?

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              That is what you are arguing. How Dem leaders vote has nothing to do with gun ownership which is exactly what you are referencing to the other person’s comment regarding a civil war.

              As for the data, every one knows Republicans have more guns. But Dems and independents also have guns and less than half of Republicans have guns. Don’t act like it’s 100%.

              The below is just one study. Plenty more have similar results.

              https://ammo.com/research/gun-ownership-by-political-party

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                You addressed only one part of my post. I’ll reserve my opinion on preparedness since it doesn’t seem to really matter.

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            Sure but they won’t do any thing as is the democratic way. Be a limp noodle.

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            A phrase I heard 20 years ago that stuck with me about people who want to move to the woods if things get bad: “if you aren’t already prepared, it’s too late.”

            I hope they were wrong. They probably weren’t, though.

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          War is more than shooting guns. Taking down grids and disrupting supply lines are all effective.

          I thought Russia would take Ukraine in 3 days. Russia might have a bigger army, but a bigger stick doesn’t mean bigger brain.

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          The people of Ukraine were woefully unprepared a few years ago as well. People learn quick with the right motivation.

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            In 2014, the Ukrainian army was fucked. It took 8 years of being occupied for them to “get ready.” They built up and prepared and had the backing of the EU to do so.

            Your comparison is not sound.

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          Both aides are. In the entire western world, we live a life of luxury and comfort. There is real hunger and poverty, right beside uber eats delivery and people paying for consuming just to document it online.

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            Yep Americans wont do shit especially the left. I don’t think the left believes in anything as strongly as the right does.

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          I’ve never read the instructions for how to use a pitchfork yet I feel completely qualified to use one.

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            Poor Boliviens used humble gardening tools to reclaim their water from Bechtel. But honestly, besides weapons training, we need to study socialist theory abd build a vanguard against reactionaries.

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              I have always been fascinated by the constant failure of the “paperless” office.

              What is it about holding a piece of paper in your hand?

              It’s tangible. I have it in my hand. I can trust it. It won’t CHANGE tomorrow.

              Trump CHANGES tomorrow CONSTANTLY.

              This “paperless” politician has FAILED.

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                Eh everything has pros and cons. We need more trees and mutually beneficial vegetation, less data centers and smog. And while I’m not sure how to solve any of that besides reliable public transit, including rural areas (possibly dependent on smogless, less intensive-mining energy, possibly renewable) and planting more of said vegetation, I bet some engineers have great ideas. And since it’s already been done and is being done, we can learn from successes and failures of our neighbors who’ve done it.

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            Cool. Do you have one at the ready? Are you able to find one if you don’t when stores are closed down? When was the last time you saw a pitchfork at the hardware store?

            If you’re in a rural area, you’ll be more likely to respond with, “Last week,” but when shit goes down, it won’t be in the 'burbs or in the country. That’s where it’ll end up, though.

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          In order to be able to read and replicate a journal article you really need an advanced degree or to do all the work it takes to get one. That demographic skews fairly heavily in one direction. Masami Tsuchiya only had a master’s degree and he built an entire functioning chemical weapons factory on a fairly limited budget. That was way back in the 90s too. The worst things you could do now are 10x easier and could wipe out millions or billions.

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    Yeah… jokes. Anything bad he says is always a joke, even when it isn’t. Hell, especially when it isn’t. These stupid media fuckers need to stop with the damn kid gloves. But hey, long as they get their money they don’t give a fuck about us, hell, they’ll even sell us out to the highest bidder.

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    No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

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      It says they can’t be elected to office. What about when he cancels elections and extends his existing term indefinitely?

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      You see, they forgot to define “Term”. Just because there’s an election doesn’t mean it’s a term. It really means you get a second chance if you’re voted out, but not a third. Unless…

      -SCOTUS 2028, Probably

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        It only says a person can be elected to at most two terms. It doesn’t say they can’t be perpetually elected Speaker of the House and then succeed to President when the elected President and Vice President both resign. So that’s why we need a Democratic-controlled Congress to elect Obama as Speaker and then impeach and remove Trump and Vance.

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      Technically, “Election” is not the only way to become president. He is eligible for other roles in the line of succession. Speaker of the House can be anyone that the House chooses, not necessarily a member of the House.

      We’re a “Night of the Long Knives” away from the kind of bullshit that would put him back in the White House.

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      Laws without enforcement are just words on a piece of paper.

      Not to mention, amendments have been repealed before. And if anybody thinks that Trump will do it through official channels, assuming he bothers, I have a bridge to sell them.

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    I can’t wait until he suggests his eldest son should take over after he dies because how much worse can things get?

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      I don’t think Trump likes his kids that much.

      He’s also worked fairly hard to not have a successor, because he’s a malignant narcissist who doesn’t care what happens after he’s gone.

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            His base does though, and that’s what matters. There’s a Trump/MAGA merch store in the same shopping center as the liquor store I frequent, and they’re making bank. I’ve never seen that store empty.

            There was a Trump rally in my area in 2016, and the line of people waiting to get in was so long that the State Troopers shut down a lane of the highway to make room for more people.

            Remember the dad who murdered his own daughter over an argument about Trump? Do you think that guy would say Trump has charisma?

            I personally can’t stand Trump, but he definitely has “A personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader).”, which is literally the definition of charisma.