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    it’s funny, we know what you’re talking about. We can’t say what your talking about as that may involve a meeting with the SS if you are american.

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    > Claims to be the land of Free Speech and the First Amendment.

    > Can’t make jokes about assassinating the US President.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    Rather than a front page obit wouldn’t it be great if Congress and Senate just did their job and legally removed him.

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        Vance does not have the cult leader credentials. If he pulled a “Let’s take Greenland” out of his ass, he wouldn’t have the same spell to keep 30% of approval.

        That’s why many authoritarian regimes fall after the death of the charismatic leader.

        And yes, the root cause of Trump appearing in the political scene go beyond himself and point towards structural problems of US society. But now he has this power, it’s a fact that his death will cause a great loss to the political power of the MAGA movement, and it’ll be very hard for any successor to keep this coalition in power, specially considering they’re already fighting among themselves.

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            “Charismatic leadership” is an expression often used in political theory to describe leaders who are able to agrue a personal following and use it for political gain, in a level unlike that of most politicians, to whom support is way more conditional.

            It’ doesn’t necessarily mean the same as “approachable” , or anything that “charismatic” usually is used to describe. It’s been used to describe figures as awful as Hitler or Mussolini.

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    It’s nice to see that the “in minecraft” meme has evolved to not even mentioning what to do at all, that we all just know fairly well anyway.

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    To anyone reading this: Russian, Chinese, (even American) bots and agitators are astroturfing all over social media to get America to spin out into more violence. It’s been well documented for almost a decade now. Please think about “who” (or what) is posting all these calls to violence.

    Defending oneself from being attacked is different than actively committing violence unprovoked. Please just think about this. Having said all that, every American should still arm themselves and know how to use it.

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        There’s a huge gray area there, so follow your local laws when in doubt.

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      Well the rest of the world wanted the us population to learn from the 2016-2020 idiots first term, but instead they said “Fuck you, cunts. Lol” and then the majority of them either voted for that thing, or enabled it by not voting or protest voting. So that option is off the table.

      Trying to appease the orange paedo does fuck all because he’s basically a schoolyard bully. Give him an inch and he’ll then rape your daughter then blame you for doing it. So the appeasement option is off the table.

      There’s absolutely no chance any fucker over there has the spine to bring him to justice. So that option is off the table.

      The fact is the obese imbecile is so demented and broken that nothing will work.
      When something is broken you either fix it, which is impossible. Or get rid of it…which is where we are now.

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        That’s why the Epstein files are such a big deal and are really getting to him. He knows that’s the one thing that will cause enough of his base to leave him, then he would be outta there. That’s the best legal option America has.

        Midterms are going to be rigged/canceled/whatever so I have low expectations for that.

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          Armed peaceful protests deter jack-booted cops like ICE from doing whatever they want. Nukes deter countries from getting invaded by their aggressive neighbors. Is this a serious question or are you being ignorant?

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      Legal doesn’t matter when the secret service starts harassing people for saying things like “Trump should go to trial,” it’ll have the chilling effect it’s supposed to unless people fight back by saying things like “it’s not illegal to wish the President of the United States were dead.”

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    Isn’t this what you guys have guns for?

    I hope people are organising at the very least.

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      Actually, no. Technically they have guns because their government didn’t want to pay for a standing army (they’ve still changed their mind, in case you didn’t follow US politics too closely).
      They’ve just been making innumerable wacky excuses since then to try and make us believe that having 35 rifles and 122 handguns was perfectly normal.

  • DylanMc6 [any, any]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s NOT illegal to form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation with a distinct name, flag, anthem and coat of arms and such (and you can still pay taxes to the current US government and call that “aid”). Forming a micronation is NOT the same as being a sovereign citizen.