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  • Zombie@feddit.uktopolitics @lemmy.world•Donald Trump says he’s ‘looking at’ deporting wife and 5 kids of National Guard shooting suspect
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    3 days ago

    The United States is the most populous country in the Americas and the Western Hemisphere, with a projected population of 342,034,432 on July 1, 2025, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.[1] With about 4% of the world’s population, it is the third most populous country.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States

    2-3 attempts on a fascist causing mass suffering throughout the country and world doesn’t sound like much when put in the context of 340 million people.

    But assassination is the extreme end, even within the realms of legality there has been very little done to stop Trump. I can understand why, from within the Republican party, because his gain is their gain. But from everyone else, Democrat or not? I cannot grasp that.

    Brazil dealt with their dictator problem, South Korea dealt with their dictator problem.

    Why can’t the supposed greatest, free-est, richest, country on the planet, with a supposed constitution and government system set up specifically to prevent tyrants, do it?

    Could it be, America isn’t the country it says it is? Could it be there needs to be a global shift on American exceptionalism? From both within and without the country.

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoVideos@lemmy.world•Paul Krugman. He is the author of 27 books. He has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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    16 days ago

    The word cult is derived from the Latin term cultus, which means ‘worship’.[1] In modern English the term cult is generally a pejorative, carrying derogatory connotations.[2] The term is variously applied to abusive or coercive groups of many categories, including gangs, organized crime, and terrorist organizations.[3]

    Sociological classifications of religious movements may identify a cult as a social group with socially deviant or novel beliefs and practices,[5] although this is often unclear.[6][7] Other researchers present a less-organized picture of cults, saying that they arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.[8]

    In its pejorative sense, the term is often used for new religious movements and other social groups defined by their unusual religious, spiritual, or philosophical beliefs and rituals,[11] or their group belief in a particular person, object, or goal. This sense of the term is weakly defined, having divergent definitions both in popular culture and in academia, where it has been an ongoing source of contention among scholars across several fields of study.[12][13] According to Susannah Crockford, “[t]he word ‘cult’ is a shapeshifter, semantically morphing with the intentions of whoever uses it. As an analytical term, it resists rigorous definition.” She argues that the least subjective definition of cult refers to a religion or religion-like group “self-consciously building a new form of society”, but that the rest of society rejects as unacceptable.[14]

    🤷‍♂️ It seems to fit?

    Although the article does then continue with:

    The term cult has been criticized as lacking “scholarly rigour”; Benjamin E. Zeller stated “[l]abelling any group with which one disagrees and considers deviant as a cult may be a common occurrence, but it is not scholarship”.[15] Religious scholar Catherine Wessinger argued the term was dehumanizing of the people within the group, as well as their children; following the Waco siege, it was argued by some scholars that the defining of the Branch Davidians as a cult by the media, government and former members is a significant factor as to what led to the deaths.[16] However, it has also been viewed as empowering for ex-members of groups who have had traumatic experiences.[15] The term was noted to carry “considerable cultural legitimacy”.[17]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult#Definition_and_usage

  • Zombie@feddit.uktoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Get over yourself
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    1 month ago

    I don’t know how to say this without doxxing myself so I guess all I can really say is some of his latest material borders on bigotry but doesn’t go far enough for you to be sure, and it could just be an ill thought out edgy routine. But I’ve spent a night drinking with him, and it’s not an edgy routine.