• circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Conservatives in comment sections everywhere: “pssh he’s just kidding, god you libs are so sensitive!”

    Pretty sure those cowardly fucks said if they kept their guns they would step in against tyranny.

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      “It’s nice that he always says the truth”

      “He’s only joking, he doesn’t actually mean that”

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      Pretty sure those cowardly fucks said if they kept their guns they would step in against tyranny.

      It’s not tyranny to them if they’re in the Kool Klub.

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        Guns in the US have always been a fetish, and the whole “anti-tyranny” discourse is just the excuse needed to justify ignoring gun deaths to feed that fetish.

        Buy a gun, stroke it, buy accessories, buy a case, talk about gun safety using military terminology as if you’re some tactician in a war instead of a loser coming back home from McDonald’s, go to a shooting range to finally use the thing, point it at an innocent after a driving dispute. Its a fetish.

        You’re not going to stop tyranny with your handgun if your army spends a trillion dollars and could turn your city into a flat landscape in mere moments.

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    As a Canadian I’m not holding out much hope for the US later this year. If Trump doesn’t stop elections, or rig their outcome, I’m not sure Democrats will muster the requisite votes because “both sides”.

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    Not to help sanewash this miserable fascist dipshit, but The Daily Beast left out some nested quotation marks that help the grammar of Trump’s quote make some sense:

    “I won’t say ‘cancel the election, they should cancel the election’ because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,” Trump said with a smile.

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    “I won’t say cancel the election, they should cancel the election because the fake news will say ‘he wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’ They always call me a dictator,”

    Complete melted brain babble

    But even if it’s successful, they don’t win. I don’t know what it is. There’s something psychological, like you vote against,”

    People vote for you on concepts of a plan or don’t vote because they think their life will be the same either way then they actually see what you do they turn out and vote. This isn’t that hard.

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      it’s a bit late for that.

      If elections are cancelled so is the entire civic contract.

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        Self imposed hardship is watching your kids die :) It is necessary for democracy to watch your children die

        – Australians

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          You said that, not me. It’s a ridiculous statement too.

          More than a third of you don’t vote, that where the hardship level is.

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            I understand what it means for an american to suffer right now, and that means watching your child die. You are very aware that you lack that understanding at least.

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              Again, you brought the kid in, not me. Don’t use that to make me out something I’m not.

              Americans are fucking unbelievable ay. Palestinian kids, their own, all are fair game for excuses.

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                You lack knowledge in what it means for americans to self impose hardship. Your ignorance is perfectly excusable.

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                  Yeah whatever sunshine. Your opinion; what you demonstrate is your willingness to use children for excuses.

                  You brought kids in, not me. All I said Americans aren’t willing to endure a bit of hardship. That includes going to protests and voting as well. The rest is your cowardly creation.

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    Not sure what you’re talking about. I’m not a nihilist. I believe in democracy and the rule of law, among many other beliefs and principles.

    On the topic of Trump, I happen to think most Americans are not ready to do what must be done. I don’t believe there is nothing that CAN be done. Do you understand the difference?

    I have hope that there are individual Americans, or institutions, that will push back. But if it’s successful I doubt it will be because Trump followed the law. There’s no indication he cares about the law.

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      He doesn’t.

      The big problem, even if millions of civilians are suddenly ready to fight and pull out their handguns and rifles… The military have tanks, and rockets, and drones that assassinate from thousands of feet up. There’s no way people could fight that.

      He is already packing upper leadership with people loyal to him. You can’t take control of a gov by force without a military backing you.

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        the US military hasn’t won against an insurgency since that one was squashed in 1950 and before that was 1902. that is considering the us has untouchable industrial military complex, unbroken supply lines, and a monopoly on advanced tech.

        an uprising IN THE CONTINENTAL US would be absolutely DEVASTATING. where all our infestructure is protected by a civil agreement not to destroy them… and with a nation as large as ours and armed as ours… arguments that the military just can’t be beat because of weaponry is laughable

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        That’s his weak point. He has support in the military, but not enough to actually test it, and especially not enough to give the larger mass of servicepeople a taste for gunning down their own countrymen.

        He had intended to be past this point by last spring, but he’s not there yet, and meanwhile what’s left of the courts is slowing his roll.

        Without the military willing to take direct domestic action, in the end this coup WILL fail. I’m not saying it’s impossible he could actually do it, but I am saying it seems less and less likely every day.

        In the meantime I am just hoping against hope his sorry demented ass doesn’t start WWIII, because that actually is a possibility.

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        Exactly what every sane and reasonable person was saying for decades, but 2A cultists wouldn’t hear it, and preferred to have dead kids so they could look like cool badasses carrying an AR.

        Maybe people should start flying drones and join an improv group, IYKWIM

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    Shitler and the Turd Reich are going to commit as many crimes against the constitution and international law as they can until they are stopped