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Cake day: November 25th, 2024
  • invalid_name@lemm.eetoNews@lemmy.world•'By and For the Ultra-Wealthy': Here Are the Billionaires Set to Run Trump's AdministrationEnglish
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    7 minutes ago

    Maybe we shouldnt rely on the state, give them the fruits of our labor, or respect their enforcers?

    Maybe these occupying armies in our cities should be looked upon less favorably?

    Maybe judges should be afraid someone will find out where they live, and congressmen should be really skittish?

    See, the idea of obeying the government because its the right thing to do only makes sense when the government is a pooling of collective resources for collective good, and stuff at a scale it would be a bother to fund/organize individually. It only makes sense when the government is yours. Is for your benefit.

    I’ve only met the beneficiaries of this government a couple times. I thought about guillotines every moment of those interactions.

  • invalid_name@lemm.eetoNews@lemmy.world•Special counsel Jack Smith drops election subversion case against Donald TrumpEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    1a the law, sane republicans

    The Law Is Not A Magic Spell. It’s a set of agreements enforced by violence. All the enforcers are fanatical fascists. And the last sane republican I know of died in February 2012. He hadn’t voted for president this century. If those were still a thing; we wouldnt be in this position.

    1b: the law, sane republicans

    So, still not a magic spell. I’m afraid you dont know how cultists, social conformity, or sunk costs work. They’re going to have endorsed the horrible things that happen here. They can’t accept culpability for that. You know what they say;

    Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
    Are full of passionate intensity.

    Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
    Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
    The darkness drops again; but now I know
    That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

    Or something.

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    The coup failed because hisbpeople were profoundly incompetent and mostly senile. You’ll notice the police and military dispatchers we suspiciously slow that day. It was just the poor rubes already on the ground there responding to this shit. The courts largely declined to ounish abuobe involved; all thd s um eho organized it got off clean, and even the worst of the nazis on the ground got milder sentences than any ive seen for juat being near someone who broke a window in 2020. What does any of this have to do with primaries? Why would they hold a primary?

  • invalid_name@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.ml•Dual purposeEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    But tjose people are so important to society!

    See, the very poor/destitute serve as a triple threat to discipline the working class!

    As an example of what happens when you dont crush yourself into a life of being exploited

    As a release valve for emergency labor-it doesn’t have to actually be viable, just believable to enough prople

    And as a class they can look down on and fear, an enemy to justify the presence of and valirize the practice of policing, especially when they’re forced into close contact. It’s why out of the way camps are violently cleared, but there are tents on sidewalks in major cities.