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Ferrous

@ Ferrous @lemmy.ml

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  • 'Trump 2028' apparel on sale at the Trump Organization's online store

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  • An extremely vague and weak document that everyone has just sort of wink wink nod nodded about following earnestly? A document that the two parties have hitherto tactitly agreed not to abuse in the name of precedent and civility? A document that is so flimsy it gets thrown out the window once a demagogue gets elected? One that specifically enshrines the right to enslave people(I know of no other constitution with such a stipulation)?

    “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.”

    Even a dumbass like me can see one of the many weakness here. Trump can become president without being elected if he, as VP, succeeds someone to assume the position of POTUS.

  • There are 2 types of people who hate on Democrats

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  • You can repeat "smoke and mirrors" as many times as you want. Doesn't change that the two cops treated me VERY differently. Doesn't change that one cop gave me an assurance of a plea deal when the other one basically told me I'd be locked up forever. Doesn't change that one slammed my face into the table when the other got me cool glass of water. Doesn't change that one lied about my actions and assumed my guilt, and the other took the time to hear me out on my story.

    There are so many examples of the cops not treating me the same that there's no other way to look at your opinion than as ignorant to the extreme.

  • Put him on the cart.

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  • Same. I had to look it up. In doing my deep research, I learned that they used an EKG on Jonny P II to confirm his expiration. That shit's hilarious. It was someone's job to EKG that OBVIOUSLY dead corpse, lol.

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  • You're misunderstanding me. I did not say Biden could've appointed more judges. I'm saying Biden could've stacked (or "packed") scotus.

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  • So why wasn't Biden stacking SCOTUS?

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  • I love how liberals bleat this because it implies genocide is good.

  • The Supreme Court signals it might be losing patience with Trump

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  • Stop elevating that woman. In her 27 years, she only hired a single black clerk. Her refusal to step down in ailing health ensured the republicans got a SCOTUS pick. A stubborn, racist geriatric clinging onto the power of the democratic party - only to lose it all and shit on your entire legacy: where have I heard this one before?

    Never trust an official of the United States of Amerikkka.

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    A bit of salt makes it taste more savory

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  • Do you think there has been an ongoing genocide in Gaza since Oct 7?

    The way you poke fun at the term is psychotic, frankly. I.e. "HolOCauST"

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    A bit of salt makes it taste more savory

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  • Fascists are not empowered by political apathy. If that were the case, you'd be able to provide evidence that states or nations with low voter turnout always turn fascist. 80% of voters turned out in 1932 when the Nazis became the most powerful party. Political apathy can be a result of burgeoning fascism - among other things. How do you think fascism arose in Germany? People being lazy?

    Chalking up fascism to poltical apathy is what happens when you fail to look at fascism as a function of class dynamics and class conflict - and furthermore, fail to see the generations-old pattern of regulatory agencies being captured, special interests dominating political commentary, rampant lobbying, decaying education, wages being suppressed, healthcare being denied, transportation services rendered useless, etc...

    If, at the end of this devolution into fascism, your only takeaway is "Damn lazy tankies and russian spies destroyed America!", then you haven't learned your lesson, and you've fallen in perfect lockstep with your liberal forerunners who made the exact same mistakes.

    It's telling that you folks never engage when leftists point out that when the democrats had a choice between slowing fascism and committing genocide on Palestinians, they chose to do genocide all for sweet AIPAC dollars.

    The simple fact is that Biden's and Kamala's constituents wanted an end to genocide. Biden and Kamala ignored these constituents. Biden and Kamala lost. That couldn't be a more democratic outcome; it's more American than Apple pie. If you say "fuck you" to your constituents, it's a safe bet you'll lose them, and if this is a calculus that some dumb ass like me can make, you know that higher levels of democratic leadership were aware of the risks and chose to take them anyway. The democrats are controlled opposition.

    If you are a liberal reading this thread and are starting to see holes pop up in the logic and reasoning of your colleagues, or have correctly identified that the liberals are ill-equipped to deal with this devolution, I'd encourage you to learn what Marxism really is - beyond the spark notes you got from your conservative history teacher in high school.

    https://socialistra.org/edu/

  • Trump again threatens to send Americans to prisons in El Salvador

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  • Banned from Europe@Feddit.Org for calling out Zionist German pro-genocide propaganda.

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  • You're completely glossing over the power imbalance in this hypothetical. You cannot compare violence of the oppressor with violence of the oppressor as if they exist in the same moral plane. You liken Hamas' resistance to systematic oppression, but how can Hamas systematically oppress when they have no weapons, food, water, or power? Pretty easy to say "Akshually, i think both sides need to play by the same rules" when one side has an inordinate power advantage over the other side. You're doing everything in your power to condemn the violence carried out by the oppressed side so that you can ignore the inherent violence of the system that created this genocide.

  • Banned from Europe@Feddit.Org for calling out Zionist German pro-genocide propaganda.

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  • If you keep someone locked in your unlit pantry for 50 years, feeding them nothing but piss and shit, and suddenly they break out and start trying to shank people, it's not very brave or intellectual to suddenly come out as "one who is against ALL knife fights and stabbing in general"

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  • China to restrict US film releases after Trump’s tariff hike

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  • Lol, Tom Cruise is sad.

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  • Curious how democrats decided to do genocide over obstructing any of the dastardly acts on your list. Is it lost on you how the democrats are controlled opposition?

    If, in 20 years, your choice is between a democrat who wants 9 genocides and a republican who wants 10, which would you choose?

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    Live Updates on the Global Market: China raises its retaliatory tariff on the US to 84% effective April 10

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  • Trump warned of a 'Kamala economic crash' in resurfaced campaign clips as tariffs tank market: 'Every accusation is an admission'

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  • Liberals will continue to scapegoat voters because it allows them to evade hard-to-swallow truths. It allows them to use political apathy as a means to explain fascism because otherwise, they'd have to start taking hard stances on American capitalism that are not compatible with their liberal framework. I often wonder how these people think fascism arose in Germany, or in general. According to the liberal framework, Nazism arose either because Germans were not adequately "enthusiastic" about Hitler's political adversaries, because of foreign meddling, etc... Never will you hear them take the next step and start to wonder how capitlalism (and specifically capitalist crisis) gives rise to fascist movements because that would be incompatible with one of the foremost pillars of liberalism: freedom of the market. Once you start to talk about German Nazism in terms of results of the great depression, German nationalism as a result of WWI, German industrialization, historical analysis, etc... their eyes will just glaze over. As the devolution continues, we'll see them use increasingly mystical language as they waffle to explain fascism without invoking any semblance of class-based analysis. We'll see them grasp for reasons: is there a nationwide trump cult? Is it russian spies? Is it fox news? Is it Joe rogan podcasts? Is it lead from the gasoline 70 years ago? We will never see them ask what the only logical conclusion is to a settler colonial nation that was founded exclusively by 20-something, white, male, landowning, slavers for the sole reason of doing massive genocide on native Americans.

    These people are watching the fascist devolution happen in real time, so they're just digging in to the Hamilton musical vibes of american exceptionalism. Once shit starts getting real bad, I fully expect them to take the scapegoating to the extreme. They'll start selling out and calling ICE on the Muslim and Arab Americans in Dearborn who refused to vote for a candidate who promised to slaughter their brothers and sisters in Gaza, Lebanon, and beyond. Since, according to their framework, these Dearborn voters who withheld votes for democrats ultimately helped usher in fascism. They'll start selling out leftists as shit gets bad - exactly as they did in fascist Germany.

    All the while, Marxists have perfectly predicted not only this devolution, but they foresaw how liberals would react. Fascism os not some enigmatic, nebulous concept that comes out of nowhere, but a predictable outcome of capitalist crisis; Marxism gives you the tools not only to predict it, but to fight it.

    To the liberals still removed about leftists who wouldn't vote for biden or kamala: Constituents wanted an end to genocide. Biden and Kamala ignored constituents. Biden and Kamala lost. That is how democracy works. This outcome is more American than apple pie.

  • Trump imposes tariffs on uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands near Antarctica

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  • Are people in the US aware that they are now definitely a rogue state, or is this fact covered up by the usual patriotism somehow?

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  • Strawman. Never did I say that the things you mentioned dont play a role in facilitating fascism.

    Poor education, MIC, captured media, sure... all of these things facilitate fascism.

    My point is that your analysis does not get at the heart of how fascism arises or why america is going full throated fascist in recent years. Why do we have poor education? Why do we have a bloated MIC? Why has our mainstream media been captured? Why is conservatism increasingly in fashion?

    You're not going to get to the heart of these questions by ignoring class. You'll especially fail to answer these questions if you just blame some nebulous concept of "conservatism" wholesale. Youve correctly identified the symptoms, but you still need to take the next step w/ class-based, material analysis.

  • Are people in the US aware that they are now definitely a rogue state, or is this fact covered up by the usual patriotism somehow?

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  • Honestly dog, this is exactly the right question. I get it. Shoutout to you for asking it. Truly.

    From the liberal perspective, this is exactly how it goes. "I voted against fascism, yet fascism still festers. What gives?"

    The liberal framework pushes the idea that electoralism is the be all end all form of political participation, but leftists refute this. Leftists say that you have a plethora of other tools at your disposal to express yourself politically: buy a gun, do mutual aid, join an organization, read theory, participate in local politics, etc...

    If your question is earnest, I'd encourage you to read some Lenin.