I think they’re going by the Supreme Court’s ruling that everything done in an official capacity by the president is legal, therefore any order Trump gives is the law and thus cannot be illegal.
It’s stupid, but that’s never stopped them before.
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If one of us is chained, none of us are free
4·11 months ago56 long multi-paragraph comments posted within 17 hours of account creation?
Ffs, I think you’re right.
21·11 months agoWhether long-range weapon or suicide bomber
Wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether soaraway Sun or BBC One
Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruct
You coulda Caucasian or a poor Asian
Racism is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether inflation or globalisation
Fear is a weapon of mass destruction
Whether Halliburton, Enron or anyone
Greed is a weapon of mass destruction
We need to find courage, overcome
Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction
Didn’t y’all invent that thing called RICO, where you can try many people all at once if they’re working under the same banner? MAGA is a criminal organisation, they’re all under the same banner.
It sounds illiberal as fuck, but do the fascists deserve liberty when their whole shtick is the denial of liberty?
Well, how else are we to determine if you’re a witch or not?
Money can’t buy you class
Says the xenophobe…
Well, yeah. You should be critical of all media empires, even the “good” ones or the ones with the same political biases as you.
Try and get your news from a variety of sources.
That’s why Reddit used to be, and why Lemmy/Piefed now, are good. Because you’ll see 3 or 4 copies of the same story from different organisations with slightly different stances.
Unfortunately the American media landscape is dominated by a handful of rich owners. Often even when you think you’re getting a story from 2 different sources they’re ultimately owned by the same person (e.g. Rupert Murdoch) and despite one showing a “left” stance and one a “right” they may still be manipulating the facts somehow.
Getting the “truth” in any news story is difficult and getting a full and proper grasp of what is going on in the world even more so, but we can at least try.
Personally I’m enjoying the likes of Novara Media who are run as a non-profit and rely on donations instead of adverts. This method of funding means they’re not beholden to the whims of advertisers nor are they beholden to shareholders who demand ever more engagement to drive profit.
In saying that, I’m still aware that they have biases and that no news organisation is perfect. We must also be aware that all of us, all of us, can fall victim to propaganda and manipulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_thinking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_reading
https://help.open.ac.uk/critical-reading-techniques/critically-processing-what-you-read
I gotta ask you, if every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why’d you even let him in the game?
What?
If Snotboogie always stole the money, why’d you let him play?
Got to, this America man.
The Netherlands, the country where Anne Frank famously hid from the Nazis. Which they now big up as a tourist attraction and evidence of their resistance to fascism. Now, likely going to bend the knee to fascism by sending modern-day Anne Frank back to the modern-day Nazis.
Fucking pathetic. No backbone, no courage, no morals.
The same, of course, can be said of my country as well.
Money, ignorance, ego, cruelty, hate, and idiocy rule the roost. Europe is not standing up to fascism as it should, but rather, embracing it. Forgetting all the lessons that were learned from the 1930s to 1945.
Is it?
If this were the middle ages, then yeah, sure. But modern society is at the point where vast sums of wealth are hoarded by billionaires (who I must point out, do not work as you or I would generally know the word to mean). Huge swathes of land has been industrialised, producing more and more every year with the current system requiring infinite growth.
We are at the point where basic needs can be met with ease. My home is over a hundred years old, and new ones are made every day. Homelessness is not a supply issue, not truly. Homes are hoarded, left empty, left to rot, in the hope of making more profit in future. There’s a supply issue only because humans have decided so, not because we don’t have enough homes.
The same can be said for food. The main employ of the population used to be agriculture because all those people were needed to feed the population. Now a tractor can do in a few hours what would take many people many days. The amount of people working in agriculture now is a tiny tiny tiny percentage of what it once was.
Water, we have learned from industrialisation how to sanitise with ease. How to store enough with dams and reservoirs.
Food, shelter, and water. The basic necessities of life. Can all be provided by society to every person with ease now. And yet, under the current system, and what Sorgan is saying, is you must toil or die.
How is that really different from indentured servitude? From Sisyphean toil? From slavery? When all of these things are easily available to the population if those who controlled them wished it to be?
We have the means to provide these basic necessities, but they’re artificially made scarce by those who wish to make money. Those who hoard wealth, live opulently, and care not one bit for their fellow human.
I’m not saying work is pointless, I’m not saying nobody should work. I’m saying work as we know it should change. We should work because we want not because we need. We should be able to survive without work, basic necessities. And those who do work, can thrive and live life more luxuriously, more to the full.
So you wish for indentured servitude? Sisyphean toil? Slavery? For the masses. What a prick.
That “lifestyle” of near poverty.
I think you’re missing OP’s point. Those basics of shelter and food can easily be covered by society, in the modern age, with our understanding of science allowing agriculture to be a piece of piss now-a-days compared with how it used to be. We have machines that can do the labour of hundreds, thousands, of people. We have computers that allow for the tracking of a million and one data points.
Yes, people would have to work to provide someone with bread and water. But it’s such a minimal amount of work in the grand scheme of things, that why should we really care? Those that work will live better lifestyles, will reap greater rewards. But why should those that don’t work be left to starve and die when for such a tiny percentage of society’s expenditure they can have their basic needs covered?
Perhaps, after a year of not working and recovering from the rat race, they may even see the value in working again. If it benefits their community, instead of having to work 40+ hours a week just to cover their basic requirements. Work can, and should, be far more flexible than it currently is. If our basic necessities are met then that allows for flexibility, it allows for labour to adapt as society’s needs change over time.
It prevents exploitation, as you no longer need to work but want to work to improve your situation or that of your community.
Never believe that
anti-Semitesfascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Theanti-Semitesfascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.- Jean-Paul Sartre
If you can’t boycott personal consumption, what can you boycott?
It’s a tiny form of resistance but it’s resistance all the same, and if many people do it it can add up.
a system neither of us can avoid participation in
This is true, but we can try and reduce participation. That’s why DIY is so strongly associated with the punk movement.
Grow some of your own food, even if it’s just some herbs in a windowsill. Repair your clothes instead of buying new all the time. Make your own cleaning chemicals from vinegars and citric acids. Make your own toiletries.
None of this is going to bring down the system, but reducing reliance on it, adopted by many people in many different ways, goes a long way to reducing its power over us at least. If thousands, millions, of people adopt the mindset of “how can I do this myself or within my community” the billionaire oligarchs and their corporations lose a power over us that they once had.
There is no perfect solution to the problem of “the system” (i.e. capitalism) but while we’re forced to live within it we can attempt to resist it all the same. Capitulation doesn’t help at all, micro resistance at least does something.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States
2-3 attempts on a fascist causing mass suffering throughout the country and world doesn’t sound like much when put in the context of 340 million people.
But assassination is the extreme end, even within the realms of legality there has been very little done to stop Trump. I can understand why, from within the Republican party, because his gain is their gain. But from everyone else, Democrat or not? I cannot grasp that.
Brazil dealt with their dictator problem, South Korea dealt with their dictator problem.
Why can’t the supposed greatest, free-est, richest, country on the planet, with a supposed constitution and government system set up specifically to prevent tyrants, do it?
Could it be, America isn’t the country it says it is? Could it be there needs to be a global shift on American exceptionalism? From both within and without the country.