I think that’s probably giving him too much credit. He’s not really a democratic politician, he’s a fascist.
My bet is that he is constructing a loyalty test to weed out opposition within the ranks. Anyone who doesn’t fully give into the cult of personality gets put on a list of people he can’t trust.
He doesn’t really care about gaetz, but gaetz has pissed off enough people within the party to act as a good tool to test the waters of his own party.
No? What did I say that made you think I’m a trump supporter? I’m criticizing folks for celebrating harm coming to their fellow Americans.
Mostly it’s the regurgitation of radical propaganda…
No? I’m honestly not sure I understand your question about the civil war.
The civil war parallel was made because you are parroting propaganda that’s been endemic in the South for the last 150 years. That the war wasn’t about slavery, that the North just hated rural people’s culture.
The parallel throws me off because the point I’m making is Dems are maybe not “just as racist” as Rs but the fact they’re proving latinos were seen as pawns to be used when the Dems platform was basically everything Rs wanted while Trump was in office (minus family separations.
Ahh yes, because a minority of of internet strangers have some bad takes, the two parties are basically the same…except for the little caveat of family separation and interment camps thing, and even though Trump’s main campaign promise was to immediately deport everyone he can…
There’s certainly parallels to the civil war, the Northerners absolutely did not like it when free black American citizens first started to move there when fleeing terrorism I’m the South.
And how is that a parallel to modern times? Pretty sure there were sanctuary cities all over during Trump’s first presidency.
That’s how we got red-lining and the modern for-profit prison system.
You’re talking about two separate times in history separated by a hundred years of lived history. After the civil war, before conservatives torpedos reconstruction, black Americans actually gained a lot of economic and political power. Redlining and the modern prison system were a reactionary response by conservatives to desegregation.
I am absolutely not doing what you’re saying. Let me know how I came off that way. I’m trying to be as specific as possible here. People that are celebrating bad things happening to their fellow Americans. Stop. That’s it. That is gross, to me.
You just so happen to be parroting several different pieces of propaganda used to falsely equivocate the both sides argument popular among accelerationists and radical conservatives…Interesting.
Our people didn’t vote. Because of that we celebrate latinos being deported?
Who is our people?
Wish this could be a light conversation. This is truly not that serious. It’s a chat on fuckin lemmy (imagine this place is huge one day. lol)
I wish we could just have a light conversation about the fascist said the German to the Jews…
It’s almost like even tangentially supporting fascism isnt a light hearted conversation?
Yeap, I’m a product of an interracial marriage who is currently in an interracial marriage with someone who is openly bisexual, in the reddest state in America. I’m probably going to be pulling the rifles out of the attic for a good cleaning this weekend.
Yeah, who would have guessed that modernity was invented by someone who stuck magnets to a fidget spinner and strapped it to a boiler.
I haven’t read this book, but I’m pretty skeptical of how they define nonviolent resistance and what makes a revolution “successful”
The Iranian Revolution, 1977–1979
Are the revolutions they are principally utilizing, and that makes me think this book isn’t exactly the most academically honest study around.
The Iranian revolution had battles in the streets and plenty of deadly clashes with the Shahs regime. It also led the the largest political massacre in the country’s history.
The Philippine People Power Movement
The yellow revolution funded militant groups, featured a helicopter attack on the president’s compound, and only didn’t devolve into a massacre of civilians because a marine commander refused to participate in the wholesale slaughter of tens of thousands of people.
The First Palestinian Intifada
Led to the deaths of over a thousand civilians and is a precursor the the genocide we are currently witnessing.
The Burmese Uprising
Started fairly similar to the Philippine uprising, except their military commanders were perfectly fine massacring civilians, with a death toll of 3k-10k people…
I am willing to give this a read, but I would also suggest other people read “Setting Sites” by Scott Crow as a counterpoint.
That’s an incredibly reductionist and ahistorical explanation of how the Nazis overthrew the Weimar Republic…
Not to mention incredibly dismissive to the thousands of people who were literally battling brown shirts in the streets of Berlin leading up to the burning of the reichstag .
The Nazi didn’t rise to power because people had a defeatist attitude, it’s because the Nazi murdered their opposition, were perfectly fine with intimidating voters, and were backed by corporations and a significant portion of the population who blamed socialism for the economic slump of postwar Germany.
If you truly believe this, I highly suggest reading “The Death of Democracy” by Benjamin Hett. Phone calls aren’t going to sway the opinions of someone who fundamentally doesn’t think you should be alive.
Show your true colors y’all! Finally, you can stop pretending you truly care about struggling Americans that don’t share the same values as you
By values, you mean supporting a violent and openly fascist political party whose main goal is to hunt migrants to deport?
Hopefully we can at least admit rural folks are absolutely correct in feeling like we hate them.
Lol, is that the same logic you apply to the civil war? The North just hated the South for their rural ways?
I wouldn’t agree with what the person you are responding to says, because I don’t think anyone deserves not be ripped from their homes. But I can understand why people would wish unpleasant times to people who voted to do exactly that.
Falsely equivocating all of that down to, “hating rural folks” for their country ways is inaccurate, ahistorical, and highly reductive.
I don’t understand what you’re saying. I’m trying to do the exact opposite of celebrating anyone’s misfortune. That’s kinda gross, to me
Oh please, the specific criticism you brought up unprovoked has been repeated nearly exclusively by leftist accelerationists who are too busy virtue signaling to even bother to participate with electorial harm reduction.
It may be a holdover from an aging stereotype. Not sure how the kids nowadays perceive east Asians, but in the 90’s it was definitely the cause of a lot of the fights I got into as a kid.
There’s a better video of a guy who is pretty clearly involved in organized crime, front kicking him in the chest, and then beating the shit out of his two friends by himself.
I’ve been waiting for him to go to Korea. A lot of western people still think Chinese, Japanese, and Korean people are a homogeneous bunch of meek doormats.
Korean culture is polite, but also very very angry if it’s not reciprocated. Plus, every dude grew up with a national sport that involves kicking people and then they have to go into the military.
This dude got assaulted by random Korean dudes like 4 different times and streamers put out a bounty on his head. The hilarious part is that the news stations and police are protecting the identity of the people who assaulted him, but have made him public enemy number 1.
Understanding that people regularly vote against their own interest and then gleefully celebrate them doing so… You are also sounding real fucking evil bud.
Tbf I did say it was passed after being modified to hell by special interest.
My dude… The inflation reduction act is an amended version of the build back better deal. What are you talking about?
On July 27, Manchin and Schumer announced the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the final result of these negotiations, surprising other congressional Democrats.[192] The bill, which includes provisions on tax, health care, and climate and energy spending, was introduced in the Senate as an amendment to the Build Back Better Act. On August 7, the Senate passed the bill on a 50–50 vote with Vice President Harris breaking the tie.[193] On August 12, 2022, the House passed the bill on a 220–207 vote.[194] President Biden signed it into law on August 16.[195]
Funny when it was the more neoliberal, pro-business dems that shot it down, shortly before leaving the democratic party.
Shot it down? The bill passed in 2022 after being modified to hell by special interest.
There’s really not a whole lot of corporate profits to be found in here, though
If it’s not going to be implemented directly by the state it means that it’s going to be implemented by private businesses. Those private business owners are going to walk away with the lion’s share of any money they accept from the government.
It actually raised corporate taxes, which is not a neoliberal policy position:
It’s almost like corporations aren’t a monolith of mutual aid and support. You don’t think Raytheon wouldn’t support raising some taxes if it meant they could funnel a ton of government funding towards the privatized military industrial sector?
I think the inherent problem with the build back better deal is it’s still framed within the neoliberal trickle down economics of post Regan America.
Would it have increased some workers protections and child care, sure. But it would ultimately be a gift to the shareholders and owners of corporations able to tap into the 3 trillion dollars of funding.
Americans are tired of progressive bills that vicariously improve their lives by further bribing the economic class that actually have their boots on our necks.
People are tired of seeing headlines that the American economy is doing fine while they struggle to put food on the table. Nobody cares if your bosses retirement portfolio is breaking records when they have to pull overtime to maintain the same quality of life they had 20 years ago.
I’m guessing they believe that the real estate collapse is a 4d chess move to entrap private equity. I’m also guessing they don’t realize the largest real estate developers in China are already state owned entities…
SOE are owned by the state, but they are operated just like any other profit seeking organizations, and thus are not immune to the same problems with private equity we have in the west.
My dude, this is what happens when you create an ethno state. Especially when you purposely conflate ethnicity, religion, and nationality into one stigma which you create organizations to define and police.
Antisemitism as it’s currently defined is in part a byproduct of cognitive dissonance applied at the geopolitical scale. You cannot claim to define Jewish people by both ethnicity and religion, and then claim there are Jewish people who are not not religiously motivated.
Tbh, it really is a toss of the coin. With Russia solidifying their ties with North Korea and China, it kinda depends on how much of his foreign policy will be to scapegoat the east.
Trump was dependent on Russia for their ability to boost his election, now he doesn’t really have to worry about that. Just like with anything else, it depends on what Putin is able to give him vs what he can get by turning on him.
Yeap, I work in prosthetics and have to explain to “futurologist” on the internet that we’re never going to see advanced prosthetics that are as functional as your original limbs partly for this reason.
Proprioception is important y’all!