Crime is legal if you're a Republican. I saw someone say that the open hypocrisy is a feature of fascism, not a bug. It's a demonstration of power, to brazenly flaunt the law. This is why they are proud of building child concentration camps in the open. They know they can get away with it.
This is likely going to be seen as splitting hairs but as the thing that I see young people doing the most is losing focus, I'ma do it anyway. Crime is legal if you're a very specific sort of Republican. You must be a MAGA Republican in the good graces of Donald Trump. If you're not, you aren't even allowed to express dissent. In a very real way, non-MAGA Republicans are at a disadvantage; Democrats can run on... anything but Republicans have to run on how often they kiss the ring. No ring kissing? Primaried out of a job. Fascism and populism, yes. "They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats." Stalin notably made people choose between reality and him - the difference between Lysenkoism and vaccine denialism is one of degree, not of direction. Importantly, however, this is not Republicanism. Right now? Republicans can't practice their ideals because they're in thrall to a populist. That doesn't mean that Republican values are the same thing as populist values, it means that the Republicans have effectively become a populist party. It's either a demonstration of power or a test of power. If it succeeds, it's a demonstration. If it fails? It was a test. Until they can't. Allow me to point you at Bobby Jindal. Lemme also point you at this book: The reason the DEA exists is that people invariably think that "crime" is up, while crime in their neighborhoods has been going down historically for generations. So if you want to be "tough on crime" (and who doesn't!) you need to be tough on crime somewhere your voters have never been. Unfortunately there comes a time where the prison camp has to be built somewhere. Florida seems like a safe bet... for now. But up until 2018 it was a swing state for frickin' decades - we ended up with Bush II because of all the fucking Nader voters in Florida. So. Locally? What's there to like about a prison camp? They can get away with it until they can't.Crime is legal if you're a Republican.
I saw someone say that the open hypocrisy is a feature of fascism, not a bug.
It's a demonstration of power, to brazenly flaunt the law.
This is why they are proud of building child concentration camps in the open. They know they can get away with it.
"no no no I refuse to have a reasonable conversation about this because some purity test that I just made up so I can continue to be mad has not been passed. Also vance buelter vance buelter vance buelter vance buelter." why the fuck do you do this, dude? I am literally agreeing with you and trying to bring some nuance to the discussion for purposes of better understanding the dynamics and your response, invariably, is some form of "fuck you, jesus ate my parents, feel my wrath and mockery for daring to feel anything other than useless, nondenominational despair." There were about 38 million people in Ukraine during the Maidan. About 400,000 of them protested, or 1.0%. There are about 350 million people in the United States. About 5 million of them protested during No Kings, or 1.4%. They were ostensibly protesting a military parade in Trump's honor, which the Army turned into an extremely downtempo celebration of diversity and history. So what the fuck does "meaningful protest" mean to you?
I really want to know. What group of supervising grown ups do you expect to actually be able to do something about this? Because from where I sit, the Christofascists literally control. 1. The Presidency 2. Every single federal court. 3. Congress 4. The Armed Forces I don't see anyone taking the handgun away from the tantruming first grader here.
Real fucking talk, dude? The reason your life is one endless hate-filled echo chamber is because the only response you will permit to any discussion is "you are absolutely correct my lord protector allow me to tickle your balls while I suck your cock" because that's the thing that gets you the most online juice. You won't so much as permit an expression of "I agree, and" in your private Idaho of hatred. It's un-fucking-real, dude. Like, my friends were the four twerps who marched against Desert Fucking Shield (and got death threats for the rest of the year because of it). I have voted liberal in every fucking election since 1992, general primary and special. The ACLU has gotten my money monthly for nearly 20 years and the Medicaid being targeted? 34% of my patients. But there is literally nothing I can say other than "you're absolutely right, Ben, lemme gargle those balls for you" that doesn't have you shitting down my neck. You know who doesn't do this? Trump voters. I had one of my friends say to me "I think he'll bring stability" and when I said "did he bring stability last time?" the guy changed the subject. I had another friend say "you can't sell a bunch of stuff without buying a bunch of stuff back" and when I responded "that's not how this works, that's not how any of this works, this is known and accepted going back to David Ricardo" the guy changed the subject. Nobody goes "GDIAF shitcamel" when you respond "yeah I agree, things are tough" to them. You are so fucking twitterpoisoned that you can't even engage in a discussion that isn't some form of "NO I AM THE OUTRAGEST" because fuckin' Zuck'n'crew have trained you that the key to life enjoyment is to bark at everyone who looks you in the eye. And then you sit here going "my life is shit everyone hates me why can't I find any friends." It's worth a fucking golf clap. You have been so shaped by that which you hate that you don't even see how fucking profitable you are. You've got this idea that you're a free thinker when in fact you're a pavlovian Slitscan potato. Whatever you do, don't touch grass, you might lose some valuable outrage points! Whatever you do, don't hear nuance you might drop your engagement rating! You know why nobody talks about the liberal protests of the '70s? Because they were fucking annoying. Georgia Straight has been an indie hippie paper since forever so those quotes are definitely sarcastic. Here's the New York Times: Note that these are legit National Guard troops legit opening fire on children, to which the general consensus, as measured by Gallup, was "Eleven per cent placed responsibility on the National Guard, 31 per cent expressed no opinion, and 58 per cent put the blame on demonstrating students." People forget - Nixon invades Cambodia, students bury the constitution in protest, college kids go downtown and break shop windows, ROTC building catches fire and college kids block the firefighters. Next day protesters are ordered to disperse, national guard uses tear gas and bayonets, protesters throw rocks, NG opens fucking fire on kids and public perception was so firmly in the camp of "these annoying fucking kids" that they got blamed for their own shooting. The next ten years were all about rich white brats blowing up banks, here's a book about a bunch of tedious white children that now teach at Columbia. Any social progress the hippies wanted was completely arrested because they stopped fucking listening. Because here's the shit I want you to hear, Ben: it's not like you're going to stop receiving your opinion from other people. All them annoying fucking hippies of the '60s? They became the yuppies of the '80s and the 'boomers of now. They believe what their friends believe, no core principles whatsoever other than I-me-mine. I'm sure you picture yourself as a free thinker but the fact that you can't engage in any discussion without biting the head off of whoever you're talking to should give you pause. Especially since for brown people? The '70s were a fucking massacre. The people you're shouting at are just as white as you are, have just as few brown friends and by turning them off to any discussion because they aren't even allowed to agree with you unless their hand is down your shorts, they tune the fuck out. You're tuning me the fuck out. You're tuning everyone the fuck out.
Who gonna stop em? Not the courts. Not the police. Not Congress. There's a decent body of evidence that suggests that the 2024 election was entirely stolen and fraudulent. Why should our next election not just be a republican landslide again when the system is literally rigged? Why should we even think we will HAVE elections at the rate we are going? We still can't even convince people like thenewgreen that anything is wrong. To him and the rest of the financier class, this is good business.They can get away with it until they can't.
I'll read more. But denaturalizing citizens is on the docket today. No opposition in any meaningful form. They are building one of these concentration camps here in Michigan too. To be owned and operated by a private corporation to use the slave labor as intended. We are too close to 'Arbeit Macht Frie' for my tastes. When peaceful reform is made impossible, violent revolution is inevitable. Or something. Those posts you linked to come from the before time. There is no rule of law in this country. Not in the civilian courts, not the JAG.