I know that she's just lying and being a piece of shit as usual.
That being said, could you not lie better? Saying that every order the president gives is lawful is such a 5 year old's understanding of how the government works. It's such a naive thing to say.
You're not far off. The majority of my sperm donors siblings didn't finish high school, and are so deep in the MAGA trash, it's embarrassing to call them relatives...
These people have the mental acuity of 5 year olds so no
So what does that say about you and your preferred reps if they are getting completely walloped politically by these "5 year olds". Is the enemy weak or strong?
Pathologizing fascism twists you into these types of knots. The truth is that the fascist we're currently seeing proliferate are cunning, deliberate, calculating, and effective. Now is not the time to underestimate the enemy.
Fascism is not the result of stupidity, but the result of measurable deterioration of education, social safety nets, wages, transportation, health, etc...
Their effective propagandists are not just exploiting the weaknesses of their marks and of the system they're pretending to be a part of, they've also been CREATING those weaknesses over the course of over half a century.
Pathologizing fascism twists you into these types of knots
Not with a little more specificity.
It's a literal cult created with the help of decades and decades of brainwashing and underhanded politics to clear the way.
Like with any effective cult, victims don't have to be especially stupid or gullible to be sucked in, but the longer they remain in the cult, the more warped their reality and the less acute their capacity for any contrary thought processes becomes.
The truth is that the fascist we're currently seeing proliferate are cunning, deliberate, calculating, and effective
Yes and no: while it's almost impossible to determine for sure who's what due to all the overlap between the swindlers and the swindled, most fascists aren't inherently especially clever or especially dull, they're just people who believe awful things, with various amounts of agency over it.
That's one of the worst parts of it: while some are obviously much more susceptible than others due to their environment, preexisting bigotry, lack of empathy etc, almost nobody is COMPLETELY safe from the fascist brainwashing, given enough time and the right environmental factors.
Now is not the time to underestimate the enemy.
On that we agree 100%
Fascism is not the result of stupidity, but the result of measurable deterioration of education, social safety nets, wages, transportation, health, etc...
Oops, looks like we agreed all along lol. Gonna keep this comment as is, though, since it might help elaborate a bit on what you're trying to say đ€·
They just donât care, they just think heâll do shit to help them. Just like how they donât care that there needs ago be an Armageddon (nuclear or otherwise) in the Middle East for the second coming or rapture or whatever the fuck they believe to happen.
Brother, youâre going to have to conclude that this is a Christian. In fact, he is THE Christian.
They keep showing us that this is Christian behavior and we keep pretending there is some majority of Christians out there that negates the behavior. Itâs a myth, the âgoodâ Christian.
âNot a Christianâ is simply the âno true Scotsmanâ fallacy of our times.
Is that sheâs a spoiled brat whoâs dad paid for a congressional run in a tiny state, which she lost, but has blond hair so the Trump weirdos had to have her.
Iâm sure sheâll get there soon enough, but sheâs only in her early twenties I think. The hate seems to prematurely age these assholes. Same with Miller and Cruz and the rest of these ghouls.
It's even more sinister than that. She is parroting Nazi propaganda written by Carl Schmitt which claims that the ultimate authority for moral and legal decision resides with the 'sovereign leader' and therefore anything that the leader decides is good and legal.
I looked for a first or second degree source to get the exact wording, but they're all paywalled behind academic journals. Behind the Bastards did a set on him
I know that sheâs just lying and being a piece of shit as usual.
She's not though. The supreme court says the president is above the law, remember? It is impossible for him to issue an illegal order, because the law does not apply to him. Jeez, get on board with the monarchy already.
It's what fascists believe, and what fascists can do is only limited by what they're allowed to get away with. So far, that's been pretty much everything.
Itâs not naive, itâs a lie meant to change the conversation and distort the opinions of people who donât know better.
If the person representing the government says it, it must be true, right?
They arenât saying that for people who know better. They donât care about people who know better. They are saying it for people who donât. Those are their supporters. Those are the people who can be made into supporters.
No, they did not. The ruling was the president cannot be sued for official acts. Any soldier who obeys an illegal order can still be held accountable. Well...in theory.
That's why Fox News was created in the first place. All those Nixon lickers went to work there to set up propaganda for shitheads and after thirty years - BINGO
If you're talking about the "If the President does it it's not illegal" quote, that came from an interview between Nixon and David Frost which occurred after his presidency was already over.
It's a performance. A dog and pony show. A cargo cult facsimile of "press access". They're only keeping up appearances until they don't have to anymore. As in, once everyone has dismissed it as a farce, they can stop with the farce. As long as there are too many remaining who try to take it seriously, who would get people riled up if they just stopped even bothering to PRETEND to have press access, they will keep pretending for the sake of convenience. We all know what's really happening here. A tourniquet has been secured around this limb and the blood flow has been terminated, and they're just waiting for it to die, rot, and fall off on its own.
It's weird to think I was repeatedly told the US had a system of checks and balances growing up. Another was the supposed inalienable rights, like the fundamental right to free speech. It seems as if everyone has forgotten a few traditional adages over the past year.
Newsmax is in our shitty video rotation on our work TVs. For those that are fortunately unaware, Newsmax is bottom of the barrel conservative propaganda garbage.
They have been milking every last drop out of this video the Democrats put out encouraging service members to ignore unlawful orders as if it's blatant sedition or some sort of call for revolution. It's literally just a reminder for troops to follow the law and the fact that the magasphere is taking it as a political attack is incredibly telling.
I don't know what it is but this woman's dumb face and little smirks of arrogance send me into a fit of rage every time I see her. I would rather look at Trump's dumbass face than hers. I can't wait to never see her again.
It's because you know she isn't demented or a sociopath (at least not at the level of der rapist). So she's just literally talking shit all day long and never faces any repercussions for it.
It's a life of disgusting hypocrisy and it's horrifying to watch.
Unitary executive theory (which gained popularity in Nazi Germany, go figure) they literally claim he is above all and beholden to none. So a king but you can't say you're king in this country because of our countries historic animosity to kings.
So a king but you can't say you're king in this country because of our countries historic animosity to kings.
I think it goes further than that. It takes the cultural tendency to pretend things are great while covering up issues (something that's especially strong with conservatives). Giving king/dictator an intelligent-sounding pseudoscientific name makes it very easy for their base to stop digging right there.
are you there yet America? or is there yet another fascist mark you need to pass before you call for a general strike or at least do a "no king" thingy on a weekday?
There was a post on Reddit a while back where Americans tried to name as many countries on a world map as they could. Quite a few didn't even get the United States in the right location. One person labelled Brazil as the United States and the United States as Canada, Canada and Alaska were Alaska.
The founding fathers were proto-fascists and created a fully fascist country that proceeded to do tons of fascist things.
Fascism is the dominate form of governance around the entire world. Stop pretending there is some moment of awakening. There is only fascism and more of it.
Why do you think all governments are against Anti-fascists? Hint: because they are all fascist.
Fascism is where the government and corporations merge. Please look at any modern government to see the revolving door between private and public.
Consolidated power with nationalism and scapegoating. Sound familiar? Oh yeah that is all of Europe. Perhaps you can argue the US is a worse form of fascism and I would happily agree.
Mexico is a vassal state to fascist America. They have been doing the biding of the USA for a very long time. Corruption and nationalism abound in Mexico.
If we want to defeat fascism we have to open our fucking eyes.
I suggest you update your views to the modern era.
First of all, we've been having a major political revolution since 2018 with AMLO, even though we weren't fascist before that, either. It's popularly referred to as the 4T, and it includes major reforms that have reduced corruption and significantly increased our quality of life. Second of all, the US can kiss our ass, and we've demonstrated that within the past year that we're not going to budge with Sheinbaum in charge, who has taken a defiant stance on many fronts already, even going as far as suing the USA personally.
nationalism
You misunderstand how that manifests in our culture, and I suggest you talk to Mexicans living in Mexico about how they feel about their country before bringing that up. Because if your archetype is the bleeding heart American with guns blazing and draped in a star-spangled flag with a Bible in hand, you'd be wrong and frankly insulting. We have a deep respect for our traditions and our general sense of family, which transcends borders. As the late Costa Rican-born artist Chavela Vargas once said, "We Mexicans are born wherever the fuck we want," because we're not exclusive but inclusive.
we have to open our fucking eyes
I also suggest you open your eyes to the rest of the world and stop being a Negative Nancy who's out to depress everyone. Look abroad. The world is bigger than, and doesn't revolve around, the US.
I think you need to stop pretending Mexico is not controlled by the US. It is a bad look to deny reality. We cannot fix our problems if you ignore the truth.
The US would roll Mexico over without breaking a sweat, but the truth is they don't need to. They own Mexico like they own all South America.
Stop pretending that I believe it is all about the US. It is all about the US or more importantly the extremely wealthy people that control it. I don't believe this, I know it.
You fell for political theatre. You live in a corrupt fascist country. We will never be able to fix this with everyone living in denial.
When you can point out the first country that isn't producing ever higher income gaps I will maybe believe they aren't entirely fascist.
Prior to the Jan 6 Trump Terrorist Overthrow attempt, he was asked multiple times if he intended to have a peaceful transfer of power.
The same types of âhe didnât mean itâ and âheâs the president, he canâ arguments were used and then bam! He committed treason that day and most days and we all collectively clutched our pearls. Now weâre letting it happen again but in a worse way.
Actually an order is illegal if it violates a federal statute or the Constitution. The order also cant ignore a court ruling. A president also cant give an order that exceeds the power Congress has delegated. And, the one Trump seems to ignore constantly. A president cant abuse his authority for personal benefit.
Short list of Trumps illegal orders:
Executive Order 14160: Trumpâs order to restrict birth right citizenship. A violation of the 14th amendment, and thus, illegal.
Executive Order 13769: First travel ban targeting several countries. Violation of due process and discrimination protections. Illegal.
Trump issued orders to penalize firms like Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block, and Susman Godfrey. Illegal order, violating the 1st and 5ft amendments.
DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) executive orders. Blocked because DEI programs werent illegal. So the order to target "illegal" DEI programs was just straight up dumb as fuck.
Federal funding freeze. Violates the separation of powers. A president cant withhold money that Congress has appropriated.
Directive to the Election Assistance Commission to change voter registration rules. A president has no constitutional authority to dictate changes to the ECA.
No Leavitt, they're encouraging service members not to follow UNLAWFUL orders, quite literally what they said. How do you get from UNLAWFUL to LAWFUL? If the President only gives lawful orders then what's the big deal?
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Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 173 pts · 279d
I know that she's just lying and being a piece of shit as usual.
That being said, could you not lie better? Saying that every order the president gives is lawful is such a 5 year old's understanding of how the government works. It's such a naive thing to say.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 73 pts · 279d
These people have the mental acuity of 5 year olds so no. And no offense meant to 5 year olds.
shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 279d
You're not far off. The majority of my sperm donors siblings didn't finish high school, and are so deep in the MAGA trash, it's embarrassing to call them relatives...
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 7 pts · 279d
Don't let sperm donors in.
Ferrous@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 279d
So what does that say about you and your preferred reps if they are getting completely walloped politically by these "5 year olds". Is the enemy weak or strong?
Pathologizing fascism twists you into these types of knots. The truth is that the fascist we're currently seeing proliferate are cunning, deliberate, calculating, and effective. Now is not the time to underestimate the enemy.
Fascism is not the result of stupidity, but the result of measurable deterioration of education, social safety nets, wages, transportation, health, etc...
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 279d
Their effective propagandists are not just exploiting the weaknesses of their marks and of the system they're pretending to be a part of, they've also been CREATING those weaknesses over the course of over half a century.
Not with a little more specificity.
It's a literal cult created with the help of decades and decades of brainwashing and underhanded politics to clear the way.
Like with any effective cult, victims don't have to be especially stupid or gullible to be sucked in, but the longer they remain in the cult, the more warped their reality and the less acute their capacity for any contrary thought processes becomes.
Yes and no: while it's almost impossible to determine for sure who's what due to all the overlap between the swindlers and the swindled, most fascists aren't inherently especially clever or especially dull, they're just people who believe awful things, with various amounts of agency over it.
That's one of the worst parts of it: while some are obviously much more susceptible than others due to their environment, preexisting bigotry, lack of empathy etc, almost nobody is COMPLETELY safe from the fascist brainwashing, given enough time and the right environmental factors.
On that we agree 100%
Oops, looks like we agreed all along lol. Gonna keep this comment as is, though, since it might help elaborate a bit on what you're trying to say đ€·
rayyy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
âQuiet piggyâ, is a typical type of comment from a petulant 5 year old.
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 38 pts · 279d
smeenz@lemmy.nz · 4 pts · 279d
Also 100% not a Christian, but those evangelists don't seem to be able to see the obvious.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 279d
They just donât care, they just think heâll do shit to help them. Just like how they donât care that there needs ago be an Armageddon (nuclear or otherwise) in the Middle East for the second coming or rapture or whatever the fuck they believe to happen.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 278d
Brother, youâre going to have to conclude that this is a Christian. In fact, he is THE Christian.
They keep showing us that this is Christian behavior and we keep pretending there is some majority of Christians out there that negates the behavior. Itâs a myth, the âgoodâ Christian.
âNot a Christianâ is simply the âno true Scotsmanâ fallacy of our times.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 279d
Bagdad Barbie didn't get her job by being smart, that's for sure.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 12 pts · 279d
It ain't her looks either.
She's like the third lady down the line at a bar.
(I know it is her looks. These people just have horrible taste)
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 279d
Its her loyalty.
After pence didnt carry thru jan 6 the way trump wanted, his number 1 criteria for his cronies is loyalty.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 279d
Is that sheâs a spoiled brat whoâs dad paid for a congressional run in a tiny state, which she lost, but has blond hair so the Trump weirdos had to have her.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 279d
she is in the early stages of mar-a-lago face.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 279d
Iâm sure sheâll get there soon enough, but sheâs only in her early twenties I think. The hate seems to prematurely age these assholes. Same with Miller and Cruz and the rest of these ghouls.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
benignintervention@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 279d
It's even more sinister than that. She is parroting Nazi propaganda written by Carl Schmitt which claims that the ultimate authority for moral and legal decision resides with the 'sovereign leader' and therefore anything that the leader decides is good and legal.
I looked for a first or second degree source to get the exact wording, but they're all paywalled behind academic journals. Behind the Bastards did a set on him
discocactus@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
https://sci-hub.se/ my friend
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Nixon / Frost. Close enough.
shyguyblue@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 279d
Everything Obama said was legal because... Gestures to the photo
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 279d
Lying badly is the point. They looked at 1984 as a guidebook.
Except that I think they overextended themselves. They jumped there too fast and nobody is buying it.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 279d
unfortunately, so many people actually are buying this shit
MisterOwl@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 279d
She's not though. The supreme court says the president is above the law, remember? It is impossible for him to issue an illegal order, because the law does not apply to him. Jeez, get on board with the monarchy already.
snooggums@piefed.world · 21 pts · 279d
SCOTUS ruled he cannot be held accountable when he does something illegal, not that the actions themselves are legal.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 279d
Which just goes to show what a stunning piece of shit decision it was.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 279d
It's what fascists believe, and what fascists can do is only limited by what they're allowed to get away with. So far, that's been pretty much everything.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
That's about the intellectual level they operate on.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 279d
They're speaking to brain dead MAGA Americans, not anyone who actually lives in reality.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 279d
Nixon said it first. He was also wrong.
CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social · 4 pts · 279d
Itâs not naive, itâs a lie meant to change the conversation and distort the opinions of people who donât know better.
If the person representing the government says it, it must be true, right?
They arenât saying that for people who know better. They donât care about people who know better. They are saying it for people who donât. Those are their supporters. Those are the people who can be made into supporters.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 279d
shes wearing her cross, so yes she was lying.
Davel23@fedia.io · 4 pts · 279d
I mean, the Supreme Court ruled that is exactly how the government works.
forrgott@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 279d
No, they did not. The ruling was the president cannot be sued for official acts. Any soldier who obeys an illegal order can still be held accountable. Well...in theory.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 279d
Warcrimes is what pardons are for. đ
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 279d
If they keep saying it enough and nobody stops them, then it's true
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 113 pts · 279d
Remember when Nixon said that and it ended his presidency?
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 48 pts · 279d
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 279d
Don't worry, they're not. That's not going to happen.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 279d
Yeah. Nowadays it's just another section of the GOP letterhead.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 13 pts · 279d
It has been the unironic goal of conservatism to make sure another Nixon won't happen by making their presidents above the law.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 279d
That's why Fox News was created in the first place. All those Nixon lickers went to work there to set up propaganda for shitheads and after thirty years - BINGO
shalafi@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 279d
Louis XIV: "L'Ă©tat, c'est moi."
Nixon: "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."
Karoline Leavitt: "Your mom did."
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 279d
Pepperidge Farms doesn't remember, following a settlement out of court for an undisclosed amount.
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 279d
If you're talking about the "If the President does it it's not illegal" quote, that came from an interview between Nixon and David Frost which occurred after his presidency was already over.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
Why... WHY couldn't reporter person think of saying that.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 279d
They don't allow reporters in the White House press room anymore.
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Then what even is this? Some kind of political humor picture?
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 279d
It's a performance. A dog and pony show. A cargo cult facsimile of "press access". They're only keeping up appearances until they don't have to anymore. As in, once everyone has dismissed it as a farce, they can stop with the farce. As long as there are too many remaining who try to take it seriously, who would get people riled up if they just stopped even bothering to PRETEND to have press access, they will keep pretending for the sake of convenience. We all know what's really happening here. A tourniquet has been secured around this limb and the blood flow has been terminated, and they're just waiting for it to die, rot, and fall off on its own.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 55 pts · 279d
Do you see that? That's the hallmark of totalitarianism: "this one man is the law".
socsa@piefed.social · 49 pts · 279d
I mean the courts have already determined that several orders the president has given are illegal.
krashmo@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 279d
And yet nothing of substance has happened. Fun system we've got eh
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 279d
It's weird to think I was repeatedly told the US had a system of checks and balances growing up. Another was the supposed inalienable rights, like the fundamental right to free speech. It seems as if everyone has forgotten a few traditional adages over the past year.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 279d
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Yes, but if there are no consequences, does it actually count?
LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 279d
Newsmax is in our shitty video rotation on our work TVs. For those that are fortunately unaware, Newsmax is bottom of the barrel conservative propaganda garbage.
They have been milking every last drop out of this video the Democrats put out encouraging service members to ignore unlawful orders as if it's blatant sedition or some sort of call for revolution. It's literally just a reminder for troops to follow the law and the fact that the magasphere is taking it as a political attack is incredibly telling.
PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
I sure canât wait for the pre diabetic MAGAs to rise up and put me down. Iâll just start running and see how many pass out from heart failure.
Xella@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 279d
I don't know what it is but this woman's dumb face and little smirks of arrogance send me into a fit of rage every time I see her. I would rather look at Trump's dumbass face than hers. I can't wait to never see her again.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 279d
It's because you know she isn't demented or a sociopath (at least not at the level of der rapist). So she's just literally talking shit all day long and never faces any repercussions for it.
It's a life of disgusting hypocrisy and it's horrifying to watch.
julysfire@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 279d
"Pam, you got a little shit on your nose there."
sleepmode@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 279d
bomberesque@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 279d
"When the President does it, that means it is not illegal" - Richard Nixon 1977
Hupf@feddit.org · 4 pts · 278d
Does that make him the legislative or the judicative?
Madison420@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d
Unitary executive theory (which gained popularity in Nazi Germany, go figure) they literally claim he is above all and beholden to none. So a king but you can't say you're king in this country because of our countries historic animosity to kings.
Zink@programming.dev · 2 pts · 278d
I think it goes further than that. It takes the cultural tendency to pretend things are great while covering up issues (something that's especially strong with conservatives). Giving king/dictator an intelligent-sounding pseudoscientific name makes it very easy for their base to stop digging right there.
Draegur@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 279d
Jesus fucking christ every time I hear about this person i want to claw a hole in the wall and escape through it.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Same, but in her face.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 279d
Not humor.
Fascism.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 20 pts · 279d
Did she actually say that last line?
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org · 19 pts · 279d
Longer but yes, 2:35 tube
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 12 pts · 279d
Well she technically said "all orders the president has given" which is different but also incorrect.
rimu@piefed.social · 4 pts · 279d
Great example of why memes or screenshots of social media posts as a starting point for political discussions are absolutely terrible.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 279d
Would you be willing to upload a more accurate meme for us?
RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Well said
Jhex@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 279d
are you there yet America? or is there yet another fascist mark you need to pass before you call for a general strike or at least do a "no king" thingy on a weekday?
derry@midwest.social · 13 pts · 279d
"Hi, this is America. We can't come to the phone right now. Leave your name number and country of origin so we can deport you later. K, thx, bye"
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 279d
Nope, most Americans are too dumb.
echodot@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 279d
There was a post on Reddit a while back where Americans tried to name as many countries on a world map as they could. Quite a few didn't even get the United States in the right location. One person labelled Brazil as the United States and the United States as Canada, Canada and Alaska were Alaska.
AlecSadler@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 278d
I just died more inside (if possible).
discocactus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 279d
Idk I'm unemployed technically but I'm calling it the beginning of a general strike. Everyone else needs to get with the program.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 279d
America has been fascist since before I was born.
The founding fathers were proto-fascists and created a fully fascist country that proceeded to do tons of fascist things.
Fascism is the dominate form of governance around the entire world. Stop pretending there is some moment of awakening. There is only fascism and more of it.
Why do you think all governments are against Anti-fascists? Hint: because they are all fascist.
Fascism is where the government and corporations merge. Please look at any modern government to see the revolving door between private and public.
Consolidated power with nationalism and scapegoating. Sound familiar? Oh yeah that is all of Europe. Perhaps you can argue the US is a worse form of fascism and I would happily agree.
So please tell me when you will wake the fuck up?
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
Mine isn't and has never been. I frankly can't relate. I think you're being overly nihilistic over things you've imagined.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 279d
What is your imaginary non-fascist government?
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
The very real democratic government of Mexico. We literally just reformed our entire Supreme Court with a transparent vote last year.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 279d
Oh God, you are joking right?
Mexico is a vassal state to fascist America. They have been doing the biding of the USA for a very long time. Corruption and nationalism abound in Mexico.
If we want to defeat fascism we have to open our fucking eyes.
Lemminary@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
I suggest you update your views to the modern era.
First of all, we've been having a major political revolution since 2018 with AMLO, even though we weren't fascist before that, either. It's popularly referred to as the 4T, and it includes major reforms that have reduced corruption and significantly increased our quality of life. Second of all, the US can kiss our ass, and we've demonstrated that within the past year that we're not going to budge with Sheinbaum in charge, who has taken a defiant stance on many fronts already, even going as far as suing the USA personally.
You misunderstand how that manifests in our culture, and I suggest you talk to Mexicans living in Mexico about how they feel about their country before bringing that up. Because if your archetype is the bleeding heart American with guns blazing and draped in a star-spangled flag with a Bible in hand, you'd be wrong and frankly insulting. We have a deep respect for our traditions and our general sense of family, which transcends borders. As the late Costa Rican-born artist Chavela Vargas once said, "We Mexicans are born wherever the fuck we want," because we're not exclusive but inclusive.
I also suggest you open your eyes to the rest of the world and stop being a Negative Nancy who's out to depress everyone. Look abroad. The world is bigger than, and doesn't revolve around, the US.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 279d
I think you need to stop pretending Mexico is not controlled by the US. It is a bad look to deny reality. We cannot fix our problems if you ignore the truth.
The US would roll Mexico over without breaking a sweat, but the truth is they don't need to. They own Mexico like they own all South America.
Stop pretending that I believe it is all about the US. It is all about the US or more importantly the extremely wealthy people that control it. I don't believe this, I know it.
You fell for political theatre. You live in a corrupt fascist country. We will never be able to fix this with everyone living in denial.
When you can point out the first country that isn't producing ever higher income gaps I will maybe believe they aren't entirely fascist.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 279d
oh so this is the new excuse for inaction⊠got it
Doomsider@lemmy.world · -9 pts · 279d
So you are not waking the fuck up. Noted.
joyjoy@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 279d
This is the same as saying God cannot be evil because he is good by nature.
grue@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 279d
It's exactly that. They're literally trying to bring back "divine right of kings."
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 279d
Just wait until he tries claiming prima nocta.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 278d
Prior to the Jan 6 Trump Terrorist Overthrow attempt, he was asked multiple times if he intended to have a peaceful transfer of power.
The same types of âhe didnât mean itâ and âheâs the president, he canâ arguments were used and then bam! He committed treason that day and most days and we all collectively clutched our pearls. Now weâre letting it happen again but in a worse way.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 278d
Maybe clutching pearls and SLAMMING people in the media are completely useless.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 278d
What about when theyâre âRIPPED!â
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
Nah, they have to be tOtAlLy TaKeN dOwN!
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 279d
To be fair the US military has never in more than isolated cases cared whether a order is "lawful" long history of gleefully committing "crimes".
tornavish@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 279d
There is no confusion. The military will obey.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 278d
The king's order might be lawful according to his laws, but not necessarily according to the constitution?
webp@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 279d
In my house when we caught the dog munching on cat turds, we would say "leave it"
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 279d
She must be paid well to talk so much shit out of her neck
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 279d
I believe she was groomed from an early age too
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 279d
luckily, she is not testifying in court
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 278d
Actually an order is illegal if it violates a federal statute or the Constitution. The order also cant ignore a court ruling. A president also cant give an order that exceeds the power Congress has delegated. And, the one Trump seems to ignore constantly. A president cant abuse his authority for personal benefit.
Short list of Trumps illegal orders:
Executive Order 14160: Trumpâs order to restrict birth right citizenship. A violation of the 14th amendment, and thus, illegal.
Executive Order 13769: First travel ban targeting several countries. Violation of due process and discrimination protections. Illegal.
Trump issued orders to penalize firms like Perkins Coie, WilmerHale, Jenner & Block, and Susman Godfrey. Illegal order, violating the 1st and 5ft amendments.
DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) executive orders. Blocked because DEI programs werent illegal. So the order to target "illegal" DEI programs was just straight up dumb as fuck.
Federal funding freeze. Violates the separation of powers. A president cant withhold money that Congress has appropriated.
Directive to the Election Assistance Commission to change voter registration rules. A president has no constitutional authority to dictate changes to the ECA.
imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 279d
No Leavitt, they're encouraging service members not to follow UNLAWFUL orders, quite literally what they said. How do you get from UNLAWFUL to LAWFUL? If the President only gives lawful orders then what's the big deal?
rimu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 279d
It's like the toxic masculinity thing which the right twisted to mean "all masculinity is toxic"
jj4211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 278d
The claim is that by definition anything the president orders is lawful by virtue of the president giving the order.
It's a necessary leap they need the rank and file to make if they want the freedom to unleash the military on cities they don't like.
InputZero@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 278d
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 4 pts · 278d
The US fell back to Renaissance tyrannies in a heartbeat
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 279d
And almost every order of him was inconstitutional.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 278d
She has a Voldemort nose
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 278d
A long philtrum. Like Joe Spano.
TomMasz@piefed.social · 3 pts · 279d
That's what they believe, though. You can thank SCOTUS for that.