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Maggoty

@ Maggoty @lemmy.world

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  • Do you think you can become a benevolent dictator without ever getting corrupted or turn evil?

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  • Sure, for the low price of a lifetime pension I'll benevolently dismantle the oligarchy; ban guns; make cars luxury items; massively expand mass transit; and bring in universal health and education!

    Just ignore the claims that I've actually jailed or killed my opposition; held the families of so called "freedom fighters" so they'll turn themselves and their buddies in; made travel outside your area and healthcare impossible without government approval; and completely changed the history everyone learns.

    Okay that's obviously pretty extreme. Just a reminder that if you're not careful even well intentioned dictatorships can be very oppressive. And every dictatorship is on a timer to a coup or revolution. And resetting that timer is not pretty. The only way off the treadmill is to have elections again.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls For United States to Be Split Up, Declares Country ‘No Longer Safe’ For Anyone

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  • Anyone under the delusion that splitting a country can be peaceful should research any split since the idea of nationalism took hold. India and Pakistan are still the odds on favorite to kill us all with a nuclear winter.

  • Face of the Navy

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  • Tossed with reckless abandonment sounds like a fun time.

  • DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

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  • Don't confuse not being an ammo sexual with not fighting.

  • This 81-year-old still works at Home Depot to support herself and her 90-year-old husband

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  • To be fair, oppression has existed in every generation. We are not immune, polling makes that very clear. As another example, the leaders of the generation that made the post world war 2 boom did everything in their power to prevent black people from benefitting. Just like the leaders of the baby boomers and silent generation decided to fuck over poor people and begin the regression to another gilded age in the 1970's.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • Don't forget that if you say it's because the minority group votes against you then it's officially political and not racist. Thanks SCOTUS.

  • YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to determine election outcomes by changing electoral maps. In most western countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States

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  • We were never going to do representation by population. We barely got the southern colonies to agree to apportionment with land. (This was the 3/5ths compromise.)

  • Trump administration raises possibility of stripping Mamdani of US citizenship

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  • I don't believe that. Not the same America that elected Obama. I think Trump's first term convinced people he wouldn't be that bad compared to a party that tried to do a "Weekend at Bernie's" with their candidate. This is a different Trump than we had last time. This one is willing to do every word of what he says. And that caught people by surprise.

  • Trump administration raises possibility of stripping Mamdani of US citizenship

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  • In this specific case? We've spent the last two decades watching overly broad anti terrorism laws get passed under the implicit agreement they wouldn't be abused. Then comes Trump. Americans have been asleep at the wheel since the 1970's. That's part of why right wing rhetoric keeps getting more extreme. They need to keep their voting base engaged. Most people don't want anything to do with politics. If that doesn't change then no amount of reform will prevent us from voting ourselves out of a democracy.

  • DM Workshop - A community for discussing your TTRPG worlds and campaigns

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  • Ooo, it could take a minute. But yeah if that's what you want, I'll do it.

  • DM Workshop - A community for discussing your TTRPG worlds and campaigns

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  • Hold on, lemme go dump my entire homebrew notes in there. :)-

    Just kidding, sounds like an invaluable place.

  • Tesla dumping unsold Cybertrucks at mall parking lot and the city’s fed up

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  • Mexico has a giant deposit but they insist on silly things like environmental regulations.

  • Bombshell report alleges Stephen Miller is running the show at DOJ while Pam Bondi is playing the part ‘like an actor’

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  • Duh? You don't think a Fox News host is actually running the DOD either right? Or Naomi DHS?

    This has been transparent from the start.

  • Fluoride drops and tablets for kids should be taken off the market, FDA says

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  • So much for parents doing research and deciding if it's right for them. Yet another bad faith argument.

  • Pakistan to respond ‘forcefully’ to India’s ‘act of war’, says prime minister after attack – live

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  • Hilariously those are the two that would probably be containable.

  • Locked

    Apparently, due process is unrelated to an illegal deportation without due process case.

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  • This is also blatant misinformation. No judge ever made a finding that he was associated with MS-13. The government asserted it in court but it's never been proven. The immigration proceedings largely revolved around his asylum application, interview, and testimony.

    So they're lying in an attempt to make it sensational enough to bust past due process. For an example of how that looks long term, check Duterte's regime in the Philippines. Many people were killed extrajudicially and written off as drug dealers.

  • This is real

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  • I went to check it out. It's 100% real.

  • This is real

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  • Now they're trotting out reports they've miraculously found of him being a human trafficker.

  • ‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele

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  • I'd believe it all except you leave out any details. Almost like this is a canned response for any allegation of ICE detaining Puerto Ricans. Because to be clear, a simple Google search reveals there are multiple allegations of multiple instances.

    No amount of sane washing is going to push this under the rug.