Dump Term 2 Part 5: He Didn't Specify Which Civilization Would Die...

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Was the PA system playing Macho Man by the Village People?

 

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The child rapist war criminal is apparently speaking at his midterm Nazi rally. Looking at all the platforms covering his remarks live on YouTube, watchalongs of the Patriots-Seahawks game are dwarfing him. Mind you, these are watchalongs - just people watching the game and commenting on it. You can't actually see the game (that would be highly illegal and YT would shut that down in a heartbeat)

 

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The child rapist war criminal says he'll give $5000 to everyone if the GOP retains control of both houses of Congress.

Incidentally, $5000 is the down payment required to acquire the right to purchase my oceanfront property in Kansas.

 

[beaverhockeyfan]

Holy sh*t, we would be up to close to $10,000 with the DOGE checks and tariff refunds and now this....

$5000 paid out to approximately 250 million adults is over $1 trillion. Yep, Republicans are fiscally conservative.....

 

[ticapnews]

I've seen this one.

 

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I sometimes wonder what color the sky is in their world

 

[Kepler]

The coercive forces of any state operate in the interests of the sovereign, not the whole people, unless the whole people is the sovereign.

The Founders attempted to make the latter true. The wealthy have never stopped trying to claw back their power to restore oligarchy. This is merely the latest episode.

 

[ticapnews]

The coercive forces of any state operate in the interests of the sovereign, not the whole people, unless the whole people is the sovereign.

The Founders attempted to make the latter true. The wealthy have never stopped trying to claw back their power to restore oligarchy. This is merely the latest episode.

The Founders only cared if you were a white male who owned land. The Founders were the wealthy. We spent 205 years trying to claw power away from them and the last 45 giving it back.

 

[Kepler]

The Founders only cared if you were a white male who owned land. The Founders were the wealthy. We spent 255 years trying to claw power away from them and the last 45 giving it back.

That was "the people" then. Even the Poors did not consider the Poors to be full citizens. That would be Swiss* lunacy.

We expanded the definition of the people over 250 years, but we kept the Founders' concept of a res-publica protected by checks and balances through an indirectly elected federated republic. In 100 years, people will boo hiss us because we don't extend political rights to dolphins, dandelions, or a super-intelligent shade of the color blue.

The Nazis want to do away with equal representative democracy entirely. They want to replace it with a shareholder model, where your vote is weighted by your wealth because people are differently valued, not equal. Or perhaps they'll measure how white and Christian you are and weight it that way -- "social points."

* Fun fact: the Corsican Republic under Pasquale Paoli (1755–1769) had a constitution including provisions for female suffrage.

 

[aparch]

That was "the people" then. Even the Poors did not consider the Poors to be full citizens. ...

 

[Kepler]

That goes without saying.

I'm Slavic-Italian. I wasn't even white until sometime in the mid-60s.