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Post by JKCalhoun »

mDyJzDPmBdG wrote: post #52
feverzsj wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The system is broken. There is no effective restrict on president's powers. And the president is Trump.

I mean Congress or SCOTUS could restrict his powers but they don't want to. How do you even go about fixing that? And is it really that uncommon when president, congress and supreme court is controlled by same party? I have a feeling the only new element is that the same can be now said for media.

Previous comment: "The system is broken."

Reply: "Congress or SCOTUS could restrict his powers but they don't want to."

Conclusion: the system is broken.

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Post by swed420 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #69
swed420 wrote: post #67

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> We're going to take the "both sides bad" intellectual dishonesty The intellectual dishonesty is pretending that not calling out both sides will lead to any kind of long term solution. > But hey! Kamala would've done the same. Saying both sides are bad is not saying they're the same. They take on different forms but are both fundamentally broken and part of the same uniparty of capital interests. The blue/red partie…

You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with). And here we are with perfect being the enemy of the good…

> You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with).

Maybe if you want to manufacture consent for the broken system which continues to make lives worse with each passing year instead of confront it.

If you're trying to find agreement, maybe say both sides are responsible for widespread misery, and corruption/exploitable systems and perpetual settling for lesser-evils among "voters" is what keeps us on this path.

And before anybody tries to blame the non-voters, abstaining from voting in a broken system is indeed a vote.

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Post by titzer »

jaakkoc wrote: post #8

Crazy times we live in that a president can do this.

There was a long concerted effort to disable all the accountability mechanisms. A massive failure across the board, at every level, in every party.

Now that the entire justice system is broken, the American system is being dismantled and looted.

2024 was fatal. Enjoy the slide into the abyss.

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Post by IAmBroom »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #69
swed420 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> We're going to take the "both sides bad" intellectual dishonesty The intellectual dishonesty is pretending that not calling out both sides will lead to any kind of long term solution. > But hey! Kamala would've done the same. Saying both sides are bad is not saying they're the same. They take on different forms but are both fundamentally broken and part of the same uniparty of capital interests. The blue/red partie…

You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with). And here we are with perfect being the enemy of the good…

> And before anybody tries to blame the non-voters, abstaining from voting in a broken system is indeed a vote.

... Yes, I agree. Abstaining from voting is the same as voting for Trump.

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

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Post by krapp »

pjc50 wrote: post #61
vitalyan8184 wrote: post #51

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I don't think the Trump administration would have been any less keen to bomb Libya.

The Trump administration did bomb Libya.

https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/24/politics/us-strikes-libya-tru...

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Post by antisthenes »

inigyou wrote: post #56
spwa4 wrote: post #31

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When you get older, eventually you see the pattern. Political parties, whatever their viewpoints, are tolerated as long as they improve economic outcomes fast enough. When that even just slows down, there is some tolerance, but not much.

Literally the reason people voted for Hitler was that the German economy was in the shitter and he promised to fix it, with promises that made no sense, similar to Trump's.

As always, uneducated ignorant people make life hell for everyone else.

In order for a democracy to function, you need people that are able to evaluate political promises as bullshit or not. If you believe nonsense from grifters, you get either what you described or the current US admin. Or Brexit.

I'm sure there are more examples of this in history.

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Post by spwa4 »

inigyou wrote: post #56
spwa4 wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you get older, eventually you see the pattern. Political parties, whatever their viewpoints, are tolerated as long as they improve economic outcomes fast enough. When that even just slows down, there is some tolerance, but not much.

Literally the reason people voted for Hitler was that the German economy was in the shitter and he promised to fix it, with promises that made no sense, similar to Trump's.

Hitler did create an "economic miracle", which is why he actually went up in popularity, even with the parties he would later ...: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRlbUeji01U

It was all based on a purposefully designed system of lies. Which can work, until someone proves it's a lie to external parties.

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Post by dingaling »

pjc50 wrote: post #25
mcdeltat wrote: post #10

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Maybe we can keep going to a point where it's so ridiculous that people realise the financial markets are the useless money laundering loop that they actually are

The supply of capital is absolutely critical to an industrial economy, even if there's a lot of corruption along the way.

Capital comes through direct investment and public offerings, not the secondary shares market.

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Post by swed420 »

IAmBroom wrote: post #74
JKCalhoun wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might as well say neither side are perfect (which no one disagrees with). And here we are with perfect being the enemy of the good…

> And before anybody tries to blame the non-voters, abstaining from voting in a broken system is indeed a vote. ... Yes, I agree. Abstaining from voting is the same as voting for Trump. "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

And as my parent comment says, voting for complicit Dems is a future vote for him.

Treating a corrupt system as legitimate is what perpetuates it. Only one of the three options marks it as illegitimate.

Collectively admitting the problem is a prerequisite to fixing it.

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