xenomor @ xenomor @lemmy.world

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Well, if there was at that time (I’m talking about around 1990), it certainly didn’t come into play at that school.

I was regularly detained when I refused to participate. As I stated in an earlier comment, this was a private school that felt entitled to be forceful about things like this. I don’t know if the situation was different at the area public schools at that time. BTW, this was 35 years ago, in case that’s relevant.

I was forced to stand and pledge allegiance to the flag every week day for four years as a US high school student. Just sayin’.

He needs to be hung upside down in DuPont Circle.

Sounds extremely rational in the context of US trade policies.

By “antifa”, Beck means any person or organization with beliefs that disagree with the administration, or work to counteract the administration, or support those who oppose the administration.

Beck, the administration, and law enforcement are just adopting this as a framework to violently assert power, further dismantle democracy, and suppress any form of dissent. This is straightforward fascism, in motion, in the open.

I know that these points are obvious, but I just feel compelled to articulate them.

People are concerned about authoritarian overreach, so the state decides to step in and do authoritarian overreach in response.

I would like to hear all the very strong and principled second amendment “don’t tread on me” cosplayers, who have been lathered up about this very danger my whole life, explain to me why they aren’t setting up sniper positions right now to counter the deployment of these troops.

Do service people ever tire of being used as the masturbatory focus of rich cowards trying to self soothe? It really feels like they’re kinda into it.

I continue to believe that Vance is literally a Nazi. I don’t mean ‘Nazi’ as shorthand for a racist right wing shitbag, or even just a run of the mill fascist. He is those things too. But, I mean an actual, sieg heil-ing, has a swastika flag in his basement, occasionally dresses in the brown shirt, arm band wearing Nazi.

Then fucking quit or refuse the orders.

Demand that the Israeli government end all military operations now underway and participate in an effort to reconstruct their society as a pluralistic, inclusive democracy. When they don’t comply, end all US financial aid. Then, if they don’t comply, sanction them. Then, if they don’t comply, blockade them. Then, if they don’t comply, assemble and international coalition and invade them. Depose the current leadership, arrest them and try them at the ICC. Establish an interim government that is designed to reconstruct their society as a pluralistic, inclusive democracy. Set milestones that gradually return local control as they achieve and demonstrate stable, responsible, and moral civic character.

Walter Reed doctors asked the president to come in so they and their colleagues could try to understand how he’s in such amazing shape. He’s the most healthy specimen that they’ve seen and many people are saying so. He’s agreed to go because he wants to give the people the benefit of his rigor and strength. In a statement trump said, “They want to know how I do it. Who can blame them. I hear it all the time. ‘Sir, how do you manage to thrive like this? Sir, can we have some of it? And I say, ‘sure I guess’. Who am I to keep it all here? I mean I could, it’s my right as president. Some say I, you know many people are saying- I guess they call it ‘lonn gev itee’. I call it dongevity. Dongevity, can you believe it? Anyway, it’s what the people want.”

I think people need to recognize that the administration saying things openly, or admitting to things, has very little effect on their ability to do them.

What political effect will this have? Anyone who knows what ‘plenary’ means, already knows that this is administration policy already. Everyone who doesn’t, doesn’t care or supports it.

What legal effect will this have? It might effect some rulings, but the problem we are discussing, is the inability and unwillingness of the other branches of government check the executive. What difference do legal ruling make if the administration ignores them and no one enforces them?

I don’t think there will be any rhetoric-based escape from fascism.

Dude fucking LOVES pedophiles and human traffickers. It’s like, weird how much this guy is into it.

Just want to yet again take this opportunity to say a mighty ‘fuck you’ to this president and everyone in this administration. Additionally, all of these ‘guardsmen’ can get fucked as deserving of the mindless violent fascist apparatchiks that they have CHOSEN to become.

Just canceled. Thanks.

Never let their marketing, or the feel good personalities of any of their employees convince you that any of these soulless corporations wouldn’t happily dropkick you and your kids into the ovens for a percentage.

Goddamn, those republicans really really like pedophiles and human trafficking. They are just ruthless in their efforts to cover for pedophiles and human traffickers. What’s up with that?

My favorite part was when Hegseth talked about removing politics from the military, and then trump spent 20 minutes whining about politics.

Yeah.

[sad trombone]