• MoonMelon@lemmy.ml
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    When the government’s lever was “interstate commerce” the Supreme Court ruled that growing your own grain to feed your own animals meant you wouldn’t buy grain on the open market, therefore it affects the market, therefore it’s interstate commerce, therefore they can control you growing your own grain on your own property to feed your own animals.

    Now their pretext is “national security”. Cars are national security. Soybeans are national security. Blowing up fishing boats is national security. Ballroom is national security. Japanese immigrant farmers are planting their strawberry field rows to point to radar installations, national security! National security!

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      Japanese immigrant farmers are planting their strawberry field rows to point to radar installations, national security!

      Hadn’t heard of this one but seems perfectly on brand

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        Yeah the racist conspiracies happening now regarding non-white immigrants is basically just a rehash of the same racist conspiracies used as a pretext to illegally imprison Japanese Americans and steal their land in WWII. It’s been awhile since I read about it so I don’t remember if the strawberry fields were supposedly pointing at radar, or if they were “surrounding critical installations” or “staging grounds for invasion” or whatever, but basically capitalists wanted that land.

        As weak as that pretext was it’s still more coherent than, “data center opposition is due to Chinese paid protestors” or, “they’re eating the cats and dogs.” So we’ve even grown more stupid and lazy with our racist pretexts which is pretty damning.

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    “By their logic, Ford and GM should be classified as American military companies,” he said.

    Aren’t they? I mean I guess that’s the point of this statement, most large vehicle manufacturers bid for defense contracts in most countries I assumed.

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      Yeah for most of these companies it’s like 50% kitchen appliances and 50% department of defense contracts to make murder widgets

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    lathe-of-heaven China installing a puppet regime in the US after staging an “anti-authoritarian, pro-free market” coup in the US

    I need this, please lathe-of-heaven

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    Pero si eso es lo que hace Trump. Por ejemplo tuvo problemas con una empresa de IA (De EEUU) que se negó.

    Solo ve lo que es él en su pensamiento.