…as opposed to a magical jail cell which requires no cleaning?

Except time, energy, and breath that could go into things that actually affect change.

There is nothing to be gained by highlighting Republican hypocrisy.

You must have not experienced covid in the United States. All I saw here was a hectic shitshow full of scores of people utterly rejecting any semblance of disease guidance - going so far as doing the opposite of whatever the institutions recommended. Then there were a few redeeming groups who decided to play ball - not out of obedience, but out of love and respect for vulnerable groups.

Mutual aid networks and distribution networks will be subject to relentless attacks from reactionary forces. We ought to protect these networks, and trans people, with supreme military technology - ie tanks.

Actually, the constitution IS ambiguous in how it defines war. If it weren’t so ambiguous, presidents wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the War Powers Act so easily - as they have done for decades.

The US hasn’t declared war since WWII despite both red and blue presidents dropping untold bombs since then. The hubbub about Trump unilaterally carrying out “military action” is less about scary orange man, and more about an executive branch that has been concentrating power for decades under red and blue presidents alike. This, like many other things, is something that leftists have been sounding alarm bells about for ages.

Stop elevating the Constitution. It is an extremely weak, vague, and antiquated document that was written almost exclusively by 20 something, white, enslaving, landowing white males. I know of no other constitution that explicitly enshrines the right to enslave people. The US constitution is an embarrassment, and its no surprise its getting torn to shreds once the first unabashedly fascist shows up.

The last time the US formally declared war was WWII. Presidents, both blue and red, have been taking advantage of the incredibly weak War Powers Act for decades now.

They also sat on their asses for 4 years as fascism festered. They never fired Merrick Garland. They never stacked courts. They censured Al Greene. They didnt question Biden’s campaign until just before midnight. They ignored Biden’s terrible polling. They confirmed Trump’s cabinet picks with minimal opposition. Dem leadership folded and passed Trump’s budget.

Every single democratic senator voted to confirm Marco Rubio - who then answered by doing fascism in short order

The democrats are controlled opposition, and it’s time to abandon them. No amount of “calling out hypocrisy” is going to stop fascism.

Am I understanding this right? You believe that, amid a new strategy of gunning down starving Palestinians arriving to aid sites, Taiwan was obligated to start giving free vacations to genocidal IDF soldiers to bolster its defensive capacity? Dafuq?

Yall’s “liberal pragmatism” is laughably evil.

So then why is Taiwan bending over backwards to cater to Zionists from a lunatic blood-thirsty genocidal child-killer state-terrorism country? Going so far as offer free vacations to zionists and expanding ties in the wake of Oct 7?

https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/bj611yqjqxe

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-taiwan-forging-closer-relationship

“It was Mao Zedong who said, ‘Israel and Taiwan are bases of operation for imperialism in Asia. They created Israel for the Arabs and Taiwan for us. They both have the same objective’. So almost automatically, if China supports a side, then Taiwan will support the other,” Arnaud Bertrand, an expert on China, told Middle East Eye.

You know the CIA downplayed the “Stalin as a dictator” narrative?

And that Stalin tried to step down 4 times but was rejected?

And that the Tsarist years preceeding the Soviet Union offered zero democracy, but only an autocratic, absolute monarchy?

Can someone explain for me?

Fuck Joe Biden and team for watching the devolution to fascism happening in real time and deciding to spend their time doing genocide instead of stopping fascism.

I had no idea…

Terribly sad. What a monumental figure. Thanks for stopping in. Hugs.

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The CIA literally spent decades attempting to dissolve the Soviet Union and usher in free market capitalism - which led to oligarchy and Putin.

To beat fascism, you need to understand it. To understand fascism, you need to understand how the democrats are not only controlled opposition, but they are complicit.

Tom Homan, Trump’s Border Czar, was originally an Obama pick.

In 2015, Obama awarded him a Presidential Rank Award as a Distinguished Executive. The Washington Post article at the time stated, “Thomas Homan deports people. And he’s really good at it.”

Every single democratic senator just voted to confirm Marco Rubio, and he answered by doing fascism in short order.

You can’t get snippy with people rightly calling you out for spewing liberalism as you attempt to refocus attention away from the democrats who enabled this devolution into fascism. The liberal fixation with defending democrats as they usher in fascism is bizarre.

That’d be the horrendous AI upscaling. Peep the fingers.

Why wouldn’t they? Trump’s border czar and Project 2025 contributor Tom Homan was literally an Obama pick to run ICE.