WhatAmLemmy

That's ridiculously optimistic.

The emperor is a convicted criminal rapist, and probably a pedophile. The trillion dollar fraud is probably one of his lesser crimes.

Turns out "the ways of the lord" = capitalism. That's probably why he condemned his socialist son to torture and crucifixion; for the crime of empathy! God was like "Helping the poor? Absolutely fucking not!".

There is absolutely no situation where targeting innocents is justified, otherwise you are as vile as the fascists, and your actions will only provide them with justification, and weaken the cause in the eyes of the civilian. You could certainly threaten the fascist with that to gain the upper hand, but civilians should always remain off limits, regardless of how low the fascist goes.

There will always be more than enough legitimate military/political targets who have broken their oath and are "just following orders" from the dictatorship. Don't get lazy or despotic.

They're conservatives/neoliberals. The end game is the same everywhere. Corporate dictatorship and feudalism for the masses.

True, but even if Americans are too brainwashed to do what's necessary, the rest of the world is not. The shock and awe will result in massive divestment and brain-drain from the US. With how dependent the US is on trade, that might mean the difference between WW3 and domestic economic collapse (containment).

A slow takeover would result in an even stronger shift of the overton window, globally, and give fascism some legitimacy among the average moron. Without the American people enacting a peaceful revolution, the best case scenario for the world is economic collapse and civil war in the US.

In January I commented hoping that they would move as quickly as possible. The problem all along has been the slow, gradual destruction. Death by a thousand cuts, so to speak.

Just be thankful that they aren't doing this slowly and methodically. Their actions show that this was inevitable. The only hope the American people have at this point is that the nazis incompetence shocks the masses into the appropriate response; whatever's necessary to remove them from power.

I never remotely implied voting would fix this. The time to vote for change is long gone. I said direct action by any means necessary, and I meant it.

None of this insanity is going to stop until the American people stop it, by force. The sooner they all realize that, the better.

And if the 21st C American is as slow as Trumps re-election indicates... I'm talking relentless boycotts, protests, and general strikes, and if (99% chance that if is a when) the government starts using terrorism to crush the protestors, that is the time when the people are morally and ethically justified to respond with terrorism, in turn. Dictatorships rarely ever fall peacefully.

Every country on Earth should be expelling all US bases on their soil. They've proven they'll throw everyone and everything under the bus at the slightest convenience to themselves.

You don't negotiate with terrorists, and you don't trust conmen.

Rabobank global strategist Michael Every said ongoing commentary about Trump's tariffs was missing the bigger picture.

"We're now in an era of economic statecraft where it's about national security and national interests, rather than inflation or a balanced budget. These are irrelevant points now"

This tracks with the brainwashed ignorance of the average mainstream neolib "strategist" or "analyst". They refuse to acknowledge, either through stupidity or greed, that conservatisms goal all along is to bring back feudalism, exploit the masses for personal gain, and that the fascism of MAGA is just a means to achieving this.

Nothing that Trump or his fellow fascists have done since pre-Reagan has anything to do with "national security" or interest, and everything to do with their own personal greed. They are not doing "statecraft" or 4D chess. They're committing fraud on a global scale, and crimes against humanity both domestically and abroad.

Also this is actually terrible for Australians; it's great for the Australian "economy" (the wealthy) but means more expensive beef (inflation) for consumers, which means 99% of Australians will be worse off.

100M adults are so ignorant they continuously choose not to vote at all. The D's have supported neoliberalism for the last 40 years, which holds just as much blame for destroying the middle class and spawning fascism. "towing the party line" is a cop out.

While oligarch and capitalist fueled propaganda is to blame, that doesn't change the fact that the US is now a fascist dictatorship. The American people are the only ones who can cut the cancer from their system, and it's obvious to anyone paying attention that the only way that's going to occur is if they feel enough pain to get them off their asses, take direct action, and eliminate fascism by any means necessary.

All of vulture capitalism is the cause.