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Cue the people who want to clutch their pearls like, "BuT I DoN't WaNt ThIs DeMoCrAcY tO sUrViVe!" as if they have an alternative option that isn't a Trump-fueled fascist dystopia.
I think there's an alarming number of Americans who are realizing the government is the only thing between them and the violent fantasies they desperately want to enact.
Same people who are afraid to visit New York or Chicago today think that they will thrive in a lawless dystopia.
Or that war-torn husk, Seattle
Seattle? Conservatives swear it was burned to the ground along with Portland. They really do believe these cities were demolished into rubble. It's bizarre.
Conservatism is a mental illness.
They don't think it will be a lawless utopia, do they? They want strict application of laws on people, just not corporations. Unless those corporations directly harm them, then it's bad corporation.
I see it as akin to how Nazis pushed the idea that the Weimar government was soft on crime (liberals just didn't understand how to apply "justice"), so they opened Dachau to show their fellow Germans how "criminals" should be dealt with. It served as a primer on how they would operate the kz network in Poland and elsewhere.
Wilhoit's Law : Conservatism consists of one principle: there needs to be an in-group whom the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group whom the law binds but does not protect.
At the least the number of Americans simultaneously realizing this about their neighbors is pretty high too.
As if the democrats don't lead to the same end result, only slower and more "politely"..
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic-eric-holder-our-unfinished-march-nick-seabrook-one-person-one-vote-jacob-grumbach-laboratories-against-democracy
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/
https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/
https://nyanarchist.wordpress.com/2019/01/23/scratch-a-liberal-a-fascist-bleeds-how-the-so-called-middle-class-has-enabled-oppression-for-centuries/
Also, you not being comfortable, or even able, to think outside of the existing (and completely artificial) constructs we're forced to live under, doesn't mean other options don't exist, only that you haven't bothered looking for them.
Go back to your troll cave with this "both sides are the same" bullshit.
His sources are pretty mid, but he's right. A lot of people who like to trash Trump for yelling about election fraud also seem to forget democrats have done the same thing in the past.
Also, the whole "both sides are the same is bullshit" tagline is very Reddit. Doesn't work as well here, where conservatives aren't systematically banned for not agreeing with the hivemind.
Trump and Democrats have done the same thing????????
Get the fuck right out of here.
There is no room for this kind of false equivocation in any honest conversation. You're parroting sheer --and dangerous-- propaganda. Take that back to Russia or wherever pays you 10 cents to post it.
I think the root of this was the SCOTUS stepping into the 00 election to stop the Florida recounting. I definitely heard a lot of stolen election rhetoric from liberals and leftists during shrubs first term - and there's some gravity to the claim given the events. It's not the same in Trump's case though, but the details aren't what matters in a game with lowest common denominator voters - only rhetoric matters. Rhetoric is what got 1/6 to happen, and it's what's where the average Republican to support Trump no matter what.
If we're talking about 2000, when Supreme Court justices appointed by Bush's father stepped in and prevented recounts from taking place (which later showed that Bush would have lost) and handed the presidency to Bush; and comparing that to 2021, when the president launched a mob of armed traitors and attacked the capitol, while GOP lawmakers aided them; and saying there's something similar between them, then all hope for meaningful truth is lost.
"Both sides have accused the other of stealing the election!" is only true insofar as one side has actually stolen an election, after which that fact was grumbled about but then accepted peacefully, and then that same side 20 years later launched a failed coup d'état and whined afterwards about the election being stolen. So it's a fact, but presenting it as some sort of equivalence is the peak of dishonesty.
(I know that's not what you're doing, you're just explaining the conversation. But that is what the grandparent post was doing, thus my complaint.)
Totally in agreement here. You know, it reminds me of another aspect of the Florida recounting. Let me dig ...
Here we go!
The Brooks Brothers Riot
Those video clips are talking about how the electoral college had fucked over the majority of voters 2 out of the last 3 times that Republicans have won the presidency.
And when the voter fraud teams weren’t looking for fraud, they almost exclusively found Republicans who were cheating because they were convinced everyone else was too.
That’s why all the assholes who were running those commissions quietly ended then so fast in 2020.
Except Horseshoe Theory is hot garbage. "Both Sides" is what lazy people come up with. That's like saying hot and cold are practically the same, because they are both temperatures.
https://theconversation.com/horseshoe-theory-is-nonsense-the-far-right-and-far-left-have-little-in-common-77588
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory#Academic_studies_and_criticism
Fuck off with your victimization complex, and go educate yourself.
So, are you denying that democrats claimed election fraud when Trump was elected?
And remember when they kept claiming election fraud long after they lost, and brought 60+ lawsuits, and called Secretaries of State to "find me X votes,", and tried to get the vice president to decertify peoples votes, and tried to send fake Electors to vote for them, and planned to use the Insurrection Act to stay in power?
But please, go off about how they're fundamentally the same.
It's funny to watch you play the victim.
I don't recall claiming to be a victim. All I did was drop of video of democrats claiming election fraud.
Even if that were the case, which it's clearly not, wouldn't it be better to move slowly towards full-on fascism than speed run it?
What is with all the both-sidesing and accelerationism on here in the last few weeks? Some of you all are either too young or too privileged to remember what living under Trump was really like, and he's been abundantly clear that his next term will be far worse.
You won't find very many enthusiastic Biden supporters, but I'd much rather have four more years of this than four-plus more years of Trump with a grudge and nothing left to lose.
Lotta Libertarian "Centrists" who think they're smart and that they have a choice. They think they will be able to die on the single-issue-hill of Biden's policy stance on Israel and still retain the ability to vote in five years.
Fortunately, as evidenced by most of the comments here, they're still squarely in the minority, and I'll never stop pointing out how bad their arguments are.
Work on ranked choice voting.
Colorado has a ballot measure for that.
Meanwhile check an org working for voting reforms /ranked choice
https://fairvote.org/our-reforms/ranked-choice-voting/
The Federal Fair Representation Act For example, would go a massive way for voting reform.
Agreed. Thanks for pointing that out.
Can you say, "Slippery Slope Fallacy?"
Go learn what a FPTP System is.
Yes. The Democrats would have definitely slowly and politely installed far-right Supreme Court justices that would have ended Roe.
That sounds very credible.
Classic hexbear alt
we already living in that dystopia
You're a naive fool if you think this is anything like fascist authoritarianism.