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[–] 127 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well, we still haven't seen Trump's birth certificate, soo

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  • [–] 100 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 75 points 1 year ago* (21 children)

    A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,” Representative Andy Ogles from the Republican party said

    What the fuck are these cretins on?

    Is anyone left from Hitler a "communist" now?

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  • [–] 59 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    What do you mean "now?" Americans have had this habit of calling anyone whose politics they disapprove of a "communist" or "socialist" for a very long time.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The best part is they can't even define communism or socialism.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Meanwhile, Trump is over here practicing literal state socialism. The government now owns 10% of Intel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Both in Fascism and Socialism/Communism the State owns the companies, or at least controls them.

    Meanwhile in Neoliberalism the companies (well, Money in general) sits above the State, which is how it differs from Fascism: in both systems common people are at the bottom of the pile and whilst in Fascism a few people control the State which sits above Money, in Neoliberalism a few people control most of the Money which sits above the State (which is supposedly controlled by The People through elections, but since it's subsidiary to Money that means that what The People control via the vote is only that which Money doesn't care about)

    In Democracy people are supposed to be at the top of the pile, controlling the State through their vote, with the State in turn being above the rest, including Money.

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  • [+] -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Their point is that the US practices white glove socialism for the rich and rugged merciless capitalism for the poor

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The merging of government and corporate power structures has more in common with fascism than with authoritarian communism or liberal libertarian socialism.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's more just that while they're calling Mamdani a communist, at the same time they're doing the thing that is literally the single most Communist thing a government can do: have the state gain direct ownership or control of the means of production. Communism is many things depending on where, when, and who you ask. But the bare minimum, the common denominator under all forms? State owns of the means of production. And here's Trump literally seizing the means of production. Not just giving out grants or loans, but literally taking a permanent equity stake in a major international company. That is the literal, most basic definition of a Communist action. If literally seizing the means of production isn't Communist, what the hell is?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Except communism isn't when the state seizes the means of production, it's when the workers seize the means of production. Anarchism, for example, is a form of communism that specifically calls for the abolition of the state.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I think the person you are replying to may have been trying to point out the irony of the Americans who voted for Trump because they don't want the state spending money on its poor citizens, when they turn a blind eye to the state investing heavily in private industry.

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  • [+] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    I’m starting to think the GOP got Quantum Leaped by the party from the 80s. Not going be surprised if we start seeing persecution of the color red.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Boomers grew up on anti-communist propaganda. But unlike other people, they didn't use critical thinking and introspection. Therefore, because they still refuse to learn and grow, it's still the scariest thing they can imagine...

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  • [+] 63 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Anything is possible in a dictatorship

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Now that's what AI was made for

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It got his hands too big, but not bad.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    This took so long to modify via Gemini but I FTFY, all credit to someone else but it's a glorious edit.

    Donald "Baby Hands" Trump

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Now make his tie comically long

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    ICE just needs to scan his face with the Racistron 2000 app and it overrides his birth certificate, haven't you heard?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago

    I love how scared they are of him.

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Given the turnout and hype around the election, a riot would ensue if the losers took away citizenship to deprive the winner of their winnings.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Giving them the excuse they crave to put NYC into a full on police state

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I’m not sure there are enough people on their side to hold a city like New York.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I'm not saying it will go well. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't try. Trump is most notably a stubborn and stupid person

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Fascists don't need an excuse to do what they want to do. They're toddlers. It's like saying a cat needs an excuse to push a fragile memento off a shelf.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Wrong. They will do whatever they want, sure. But they will use any justification no matter how flimsy. This is less flimsy. And you're reacting as if I'm saying what new Yorkers should do but I'm not. I'm simply accurately predicting what we all know trump would do in response.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The GOP and Republicans are a terrorist organization

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Republicans have no intention of abiding by the law, listening to voters, or actually governing. With them, it's all about the racism, cruelty, and lawlessness. Never let them have power again...

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    This is just more noise and bullshit like demanding to see Obama's birth cert.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Don’t they need a functioning government for that?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    great news, enough dems caved and the senate passed a funding bill, without any of the demands the dems were making in the beginning.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i saw a meme that those light switches that don't actually do anything are actually to switch you between timelines. maybe i fucked it all up when i flipped one of those switches back in 2015.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The Big Light Switch got flipped in 1968, with RFK's assassination. Had he lived, he would have become president, the Vietnam War would have ended much earlier, and we would never have Watergate, which triggered a nefarious Republican Revenge Plot that is currently entering its final stage.

    RFK's assassination is where the timelines split.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Nope. Unsurprisingly the repressive parts of the government will continue to function no matter what. It’s just the “non essential” things like feeding people and ATC that don’t get funded.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Of course it's possible. We cannot allow it within our society, and it's certainly illegal to do so. The only thing that stops the people who uphold the law from ignoring the law is if people actually stand up to it, since clearly our separation of powers has failed us.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Equates to political assassination. No rules of law, get your brown coats on.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Keep in mind, they're doing this while protecting multiple child rapists within their own party.

    I genuinely hope we have mass executions one day for the scumbags taking us for a ride.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just come out and say it you fucking cowards: you are simply racist and have hatred towards Palestinians.

    I will dislike you more, but at least you are honest in this regard.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Possible? Absolutely.

    Likely? I dont think so. Stripping a person of citizenship because they are of the opposing party feels like a line in the sand. How do you defend that? At that point its over for America. Like pack it up and every person who is not a straight white christian should be looking to get the fuck out

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    They are already abducting and "deporting" US citizens. Your line in the sand has been crossed. Just because they haven't done it yet to one of your parasocial relationship chosen-ones doesn't mean it isn't already happening.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Well, how do they defend the fact that theyre currently kidnapping US citizens? Id say deporting them but most of these US citizens (mind you they never got a trial) just vanish without a trace. Tbh it seems a lot more likely theyre being trafficked.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Someone should start an active resistance against NSDAP GOP.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    Is it possible? Of course it's possible. America is no longer a country under the rule of law. The fact we haven't had mass executions, starting from the agent who made the 'grab' and continuing up the chain until the finale, ending with the president, for court orders being flagrantly violated for deporting people (and all the other ones as well, but I digress) that a court has said should not be deported, is clear evidence america is done as any sort of functioning democracy.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't be surprised to see them try. It's painfully obvious they want to start violence so they can justify martial law. Republicans are literal traitors to US ideals and it sickens me to see. All my life I've had to hear these dumb yokel fucks go on and on about how much they supposedly love this nation, but they couldn't care less.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No. But also, they'll get away with it.

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  • [+] 28 points 1 year ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    New York is resilient if nothing else. It is a dirty, grimy, hazardous city and you have to learn to look out for each other if you want to survive. If they come after the Zo at this point they will disturb the entire wasp's nest. The people supporting the fascists are the same ones who are too scared to set foot in NYC on a nicer day

    I say this as a proud New Yorker, but also because fuck fascists

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Big city mindset is something else altogether than that of the countryside or even small city: it's an environment that teaches people to have a very low threshold to endure shit from others, even the "nicest" people, because when you live surrounded by thousands of people 24/7 and have to cross paths with literally tens of thousands every day just by walking on the street, enduring shit from others will quickly end up with you getting swamped by crap.

    Further, in my own experience (granted, mainly in European cities), the bigger the city the more the people there have a big city's very own special kind of grit. You can see this is even how pedestrians deal with traffic - the bigger the city the less people are willing to just wait for the signs to change and the more likely they are to just tell somebody blocking the way of other pedestrians to "either fucking move or fucking get out of the way".

    Of the people I've known over the years the only ones with an even lower threshold for taking shit than me were New Yorkers.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    If the Gestapo kidnaps this man shit is going to hit the fan

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Republicans are poor losers so this is expected. Truly pathetic people.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    Everything is possible in authoritorian country like Iran, Saudi Arabia, USA, North Korea, China, Venezuala, Russia.

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    Whatever, they're fucking insane beyond any reason.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    It might be evil, but it would also be the dumbest thing they've done in a long time. I don't think they are that stupid.

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