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'Omg': Critics stunned as Trump caught 'endorsing The Purge' as a real policy at his rally
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Everyone here thinking Trump is saying the quiet part out loud... but as the senile old man he is, I think he just saw the movie and is confusing whatever his handlers told him to say with that he fell as sleep watching on TV
Naw this is a case of the media tiptoing around him and preferring easily digested headlines.
He's clearly not describing The Purge in the actual quote. He doesn't want to make crime legal.
He's describing Kristallnacht. He wants the cops to be able to punish anyone they want with as much violence as they want. He wants a massacre of anyone they declare a criminal, aka minorities and dissidents.
It's so much fucking scarier than the bullshit headlines and it's so fucking frustrating.
This is my take. I've never watched the purge.
It sounds to me like he's just saying the police need to be able to dispense "justice" with impunity, and in his mind that can be tempered be saying you'd only need to do it once.
It's just the latest in a long line of really concerning attitudes that the right seems happy to support.
Honestly i feel like this current lurch to the right, as we try to manage climate change, AI, and wealth concentration, is the great filter. We have some big problems and the right is just so determined to double down with all our current shitty plans.
It's crazy we are going to be alive to see the great filter take place
You've misconstrued the comment you're replying to because you either misunderstood or didn't read my comment above it.
I'm not saying Trump's latest brain fart is "the great filter".
I'm saying the great filter is populations all over the world having a propensity to vote for people like Trump, who actively plan to make all the problem's we're facing much worse to further their own ends.
I've never been an alarmist, but I will say that as a species we don't seem to be on a trajectory towards prosperity, and global leaders don't seem to have a plan to correct that trajectory.
but...we are the great filter.
always have been. go ask the 700+ species that humans have forced to extinction.
don't worry though, humans won't be hunted to extinction. we'll starve or die from exposure way before that happens.
He's more and more openly using fascist rhetoric right out of Hitler's playbook too. That the only book we know he owns is one with Hitler's speeches is just conincidence I'm sure. (Not that he can read, but maybe the Saw puppet reads it to him now before going down on his mushroom.)
Currently the leader of the far right in Austria is going by the same title Hitler did, before he came into power.
Him, the evening before: "Oh yes, you're a bigly big mac aren't you, let's just curl up on the couch and watch my stories..."
This is magas new Jesus. They worship this felon regardless of what he does or says.
"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
Except when someone is a proven fascist with a long history of proposing the violent oppression of women, non-whites and minorities, and affiliated with a large political party that shares this aim. Then it's probably malice.
Or... both? Yeah, it's probably both.
Unless you have proof of malice.
Sounds right to me