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'Come to regret': GOP lawyer warns MAGA Trump's anti-woke crusade will turn on them (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Nah man, read the article. He's not regretting his face being eaten, he's saying that they'll regret it if leftists get back into power and do the same things back to them. He's as big a dumb cunt as the rest of them.

“That’s a mistake — one that conservatives could come to regret,” he wrote bluntly. “Whether or not Mr. Trump ultimately succeeds, his attempt to weaponize the tax code sets a troubling and dangerous precedent."
If an administration can threaten liberal institutions today, he argued, “what would stop a leftist administration from targeting churches and synagogues tomorrow?”

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's on the right track though. "Because I wouldn't want it turned against me" is the reason we collectively decide to limit powers in the first place. No one wants to be persecuted therefore government shouldn't have the power to do so.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

This has been my biggest argument with right family members. They love it right now, but imagine Dems regain power over these generally unpopular policies; the very things they love this time around would be hated then. They attempted a coup for much less than this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

“what would stop a leftist administration from targeting churches and synagogues tomorrow?”

That wouldn't be a very leftist thing to do. That hypothetical administration would ironically be a different flavor of right wing, but whatever. Words don't mean anything to these people.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When were leftists ever in power?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

"Leftists" then. His word, not mine.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If an administration can threaten liberal institutions today, he argued, “what would stop a leftist administration from targeting churches and synagogues tomorrow?”

There will be no leftest administration. That's the GOP plan, fool.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And that's just the difference between the right and the left anyway. With the exception of extremes like nazism, a leftist government would allow churches and let these fkn clowns do whatever they want to do in their free time and live their lives the way they want. Whereas a right wing government will force their religion onto people whether they want it or not and strip generalized groups of people of their rights because apparently their imaginary friend wants them to do that.

If only the big bad left would be a little less tolerant of delusions and stupidity, maybe the world would be a better place. Because the moment the delusional stupid people get the chance, they prove to all of us why they never deserved tolerance in the first place. Seems all too clear to me now that religious conservatives simply cannot be trusted to play nicely with everyone else and should never be allowed near positions of power ever again, just like nazis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

With the exception of extremes like nazism, a leftist government would allow

With no disagreement intended to your overall points, I feel compelled to mention that Nazis were not/are not leftists by any means, and that although the word "Socialist" is right in there, this was because Hitler co-opted the name.

I'm sure there are better articles than this one, but it was the one I could find the quickest: https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/09/05/were-nazis-socialists/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ah maybe I could've worded that better. I wasn't trying to say that the nazis were some strange breed of leftist. I was saying that a leftist government would allow different schools of thought to exist whether they're left wing or not, with the exception of nazism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

100% I got it! 🙂 I just feel the need to correct that whenever I see it because from time to time you see a maga who knows what nazi stands for, and likes to "remind" everyone that the nazis were "socialists", but they usually don't know or don't admit the rest.

(not that I thought you were doing so at all!)

Edit: LOL I actually didn't get it when I typed that, but I really do now, sorry for my comprehension issues!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

It's all good lol. I've definitely come across the MAGA types that like to go on about how they were 'nationalist socialists', emphasis on the socialist part. But they were about as socialist as North Korea is democratic. So it's fair to make that assumption these days because we're living in times of idiocracy. So next time I make a comment like that I'll try to be clearer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

“I know we have an affordable and completely effective cure for this cancer and it will save countless lives, but has anyone asked the cancer what it thinks?”

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Something I've thought about is that religious tax exemptions in America aren't to prevent the non religious from taxing the religious. It's to prevent Christian majorities from taxing other religions out of existence.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

The trade off was no tax on churches for no tax on higher education. Trump is going after colleges so it’s time to go after churches

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

it's super hard though to convince the IRS your non-christian org should be tax exempt than a christian one. in wording, it seems at face value like what you've said. but in practice it's the single greatest tool the christian hegemony has in this system of oppression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Scientology had it figured out - all you have to do is infiltrate and doxx the IRS, then your ~~multi level marketing scheme~~ religion is official.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

We can change the tax code to allow tax exemptions for religious organizations with income/assets below a certain thresholds, with punitive measures (actual jail time) for hiding assets.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or we could require that churches actually do some good with the money they collect in order to qualify for tax exempt status. There should be no religious exemption, if a church wants tax exempt status they should have to do something to deserve it like charity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

I think you are absolutely right.

It would be much simpler to just extend to them charitable expenditures, and only that.

The more charity they do, the less taxes they pay.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Wow it took them this long to notice everything they are doing could be used against them and this is why tampering with rules to cater to partisanships are usually avoided because at best it’s only just setting a strategy for opposition?

This is the thing: anyone can be a complete asshole. It’s everyone’s choice not to be one. These idiots thought they are cracking code. To the rest of us they are just regressing and leaving the playbook on instructions on how they got away with it and how the system will be changed.

It’s like they don’t even know the litigation tracker is public either.

Has to be the stupidest group of thieves ever to have lived.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

everything they are doing could be used against them and this is why tampering with rules to cater to partisanships are usually avoided because at best it’s only just setting a strategy for opposition?

I mean, if we look at how the opposition Democrats have played thus far, that is barely a gamble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are a minority so not sure what you’re expecting to have happen there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know, they could at least obstruct as much as the Republicans did for them whenever the Democrats were in power and had a chance to pass actual progressive legislation, but chickened out and said they needed to compromise the shit out of it to make a bipartisan effort, since the Republican minority was blocking anything and everything they tried to do.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 days ago

They won't regret anything. COVID deniers took their dying breaths to continue insisting it was just a cold.

You can only expect a change of heart in their final seconds, long after it would matter.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Of course it will. Let the bull run the China shop, expect shit to break. Then this sets a precedent and we are fucked for life or until the people do something extreme.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Trump and Co. are gambling that they can achieve dictatorship before the violence and other shit starts.

Putin smiles in Moscow. Chaos and violence in America is his win. It's also his win if the US slides into dictatorship and the US population shrugs and goes along quietly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

this is sort of like how the options we're being presented right now are either civil war or genocide.

too many people are choosing wrong simply because they think a third choice exists

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

if he plays by putins book, he better eliminate his non-loyalist supporters quickly, either by jailing them or sending them to a foreign prison, or they will turn on him quick.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit 3 points 2 days ago

The Republicans spent the last 8 years purging their ranks of non-MAGA members. This part is done.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Self-awarewolves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

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