• FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    He’s now claiming he didn’t mean war, just cleaning up crime. The regime keeps gaslighting us by going two steps forward and one step back so it looks like we overreacted.

    But even if I did believe he wasn’t serious (he was), some jokes aren’t appropriate for a president to make. If a teenager made a post threatening to shoot up a school, he’d still be in some trouble even if he said he didn’t mean it

    • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works
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      1 hour ago

      As if there were any doubt. He can’t afford to go back to civil life. It’s too risky. Like Caesar in his time, he will do anything to avoid the consequences of his actions. Edit: typo

    • Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      22 hours ago

      He renamed the department that he’s deploying to the Department of War, because he’s incapable of being subtle.

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    22 hours ago

    The goal has always been to maintain a culture war and prevent a class war from happening. Keep the commons fighting amongst themselves for whatever works so they don’t notice what the elite are doing. An actual civil war won’t happen because of the country’s size - we can’t agree in peaceful times on many things due to regional differences. But outbreaks in various areas fueled by misdirection is probable, and useful for the before mentioned reason. Might as well be a civil war if it happens in enough places, and yet no one will be fighting the real “bad guys”.

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      17 hours ago

      It may not be a civil war like blue state govs vs federal or red state govs, but I could definitely see fascists (gov or militias) terrorizing and murdering “liberals” and immigrants, followed by a counter-insurgency targeting fascist institutions and politicians… which I would still classify as a civil war.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Imagine the piss pant stains if Trump supporters were forced to take the Metro or a street car to occupy a major city. Any civil war would have to have a regional hub with microwave pancakes and ionized water at their neighborhood (now closed) Bed Bath and Beyond for whatever moron troop movements anyone planned.

    To be clear, I hope people who think little kids should be exposed to diphtheria to find out who is trans don’t rise up. But they won’t win a whole war even if they cause more human suffering than every “East India” company combined.