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Trump says it’s fine for Kim Jong Un to have nuclear weapons because ‘he likes me’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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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.
Cowardice, cowardice, and pants-pissing, whiny, defensive cowardice.
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.
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.
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.
Maga didn't have overwhelming physical power over you when it mattered. That's false equivalence.
The unfortunate reality of our world is ultimately might make right, and also passive complicity also makes right. You only get to change the narrative if you win.
Texas blocked federal investigators from monitoring the election. I'm not convinced they won.
Even then, when the people do nothing, it's passive acceptance.
... 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
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.
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.
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
To me it didn't read as blaming more like ‘of course people from a different era 250 years ago couldn't have guessed that, it's stupid to expect otherwise’
You don't understand.
The other option was a woman. A WOMAN.
That's a genuinely tough choice for yanks.
She had a bad laugh, man. Can't you understand how unforgivable that is, and and she was gonna start a war with Ira...
She said "Pokémon go to the polls" I mean, cringe.
Can't have a cringe president that repeatedly says embarrassing things. What would the rest of the world think of Americans then.
It would totally kill their image.
That was Hillary. The “bad laugh” was Kamala.
a BROWN woman. God, could you imagine??
No, you don't understand she wasn't PERFECT on Gaza.
So no one should vote for dems until they're PERFECT on Gaza, since otherwise you'd be uh uh uh supporting genocide! Not voting for her will uh stop the genocide, or something.
Yes. Aye. That's.ddef,innate.lye.tutu..._
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.
..because they have chronically voted for politicians who set this up.
...because the kleptocrats who benefit from it pour billions of dollars into misinformation campaigns to convince poorly-educated people to keep voting for them.
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
It's always easy to ask someone else to pull the trigger
Yes, war and self immolation are your ONLY choices
The entire point of the 2nd Amendment was to put down slave rebellions. Don't kid yourself into thinking it had some nobler purpose.
The people with the guns would shoot the people who want to overthrow Trump
This is a “you” problem. You spent 50 years LOSING support on the gun issue because it’s a bullshit position- and here you are, outgunned by Nazis.
that's not what's written but Ok
"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.
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"
Your opinion isn't really relevant though. That's just history. That's why the second was written. They are correct. Patrick Henry was trying to derail ratification of the constitution in the Virginia legislature. The second was James Madison's way of getting around Patrick's argument about slave rebellions. That's just historical record. It's cold hard fact. You should look it up.
I would also argue with your contention because actually the wording does suggest safety from a slave Uprising more than your supposed Rebellion against the federal government. I mean look at the wording militia and security. That's not about rebellion. That's about self-defense. About having a standing Force. Because that's the other thing about the Second Amendment it's not about individual gun ownership. That's a modern interpretation
I’m trying to figure out a way of explaining it, but it’s multiple factors. These aren’t excuses perse but fall into what I would consider “death by a thousand papercuts”
I could go on with more reasons but I guess what I’m trying to get it is that it’s a perfect storm of being just comfortable enough, coupled with fear of your own wellbeing that keeps people in line.
Those points are exactly it. Midwestern American here, living in a red state and also just lost my job a few weeks ago, so i barely get any benefits after COBRA takes it's share to keep my health insurance going.
What exactly am I meant to do? I can use my imagination to extrapolate the tankies messages, but i don't own a weapon. So, that would cost my unemployed ass $500 just for a starter pistol that could barely hit center mass 10 yards away, and would most likely be a survivable wound.
Alright so let's help my odds, and just like that it's $1500+ just to get some distance and some stopping power. But i also need ammo and additional training and probably some accessories to increase my chances of success and cool I'm looking easily at a final cost of $2500.
So that took over half of my total unemployment benefits for a singular purpose, and now I'm desperately needing change and now the time comes to make a "martyr" of myself and someone else for what exactly? Freedom? I currently have that, albeit as a frog in warming water that organizing with the other frogs to better our situation vs losing everything with life in prison.
So, I get maybe one shot and I don't think there's a single target in the whole world that could instantly improve the country's outlook drastically overnight. Seriously. Any one target anyone can think of has a backlog of equally shitty humans behind them ITCHING to step in with a new purpose and a fresh martyr and trillions of dollars in backing just waiting for someone stupid enough to even do much as try.
The whole system is rotted through and through and would take a serious overhaul to fix. This isn't chess where removing a single piece off the board wins. We have to also go after those that are forcing us to play their games and rigging the rules against us.
And right now we still have organizing, voting, and boycotting. We need to build our own economy, separated from this currently rigged one by shopping local, and electing local officials that can incentivise businesses to do better for our communities, and regulating home ownership to lower costs, and then incentivise citizens to cut our own emissions with greener energy, which then liberates us from oil.
Once we have our local economies established, that sets up a baseline to tie in with other communities to take back a state or two or 5.
It's hard, but very possible to do without the initial violence. Then they can be tried for their crimes against humanity.
Ammosexuals are all cowards
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.
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?
War. It'll be "we can't do election in wartime". Possibly civil war.
...but it's not a war? ;)
There's no provision for delaying elections for any reason.
Even during the civil war, the US held elections.
Nah, you see Dems still aren't perfect on Gaza, so you'd better all just stay home again!
We’ve already impeached him 2x. You think a third time will actually carry consequences?
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.
"All these laws for this shit", and not one of them actually carries a stated set of consequences for breaking them.
Oh, I guess we should have just flipped the "overthrow tyranny" switch.
Think about what you're saying for fucks sake.
"WE hAve The 2nd AmeNdmENT iN cAsE WE WANT to oveRThRow A tYrANNiC goVErNMENt."