• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      145·
      8 months ago

      Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they’re very worried about protecting anything.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
        45·
        8 months ago

        Another 5-10 years in power and they’ll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it “parental rights”.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          8 months ago

          It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.

            • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              11·
              8 months ago

              What kinda shot?

              Me against a police force? We haven’t even got left wing militias out there, let alone the size it would take for a coup.

              • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
                11·
                8 months ago

                Cool, well you just take a seat and relax. You’ve clearly done everything you can. Someone will be along to save you any day now, I’m sure.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        19·
        8 months ago

        Time for the Sartre quote:

        Never believe that anti-Semites fascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites fascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        1·
        8 months ago

        They’re all about protecting their own wealth and their own “supremacy.”

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      60·
      8 months ago

      A 30+ felon who tried to overthrow the government, and stole enough classified docs to be imprisoned for millennia, is the president.

      There is no “federal law”. There is only a fascist dictatorship — a kakistocracy with nothing but the illusion of authority — and the millions of people who let this failed-state clown show continue.

      Like, I am genuinely baffled that in the most heavily armed county on Earth, with hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD, shat on for decades… How is the attempted murder of the people in charge not a daily occurrence? Shit’s wild yo!

  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    106·
    8 months ago

    Nice, if there’s ever a democratic president again, let’s use that precedent to completely fuck Texas and the other theocracies when they try to make bible shit into law again

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      8 months ago

      This has been the game for the GOP for decades. They cry “states rights” when they don’t have the presidency, then want the president to be a king when they have the presidency.

    • LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      I love how the liberals dreams of “revenge” are of not allowing others to be oppressed by some fucked up law.

      I mean. I get it. Don’t get me wrong. But if the dream of liberals in power is just “things aren’t getting much worse for awhile” I really think we need to reprioritize.

      My idea of left seizing power and being “authoritarian” is enacting universal healthcare, high speed rail, billionaires in jail, ending garbage AI waste, and much more material actions.

      If our idea is just to “stick it” to some racist people in Texas I think we need to rethink that plan. I want those racist people in Texas to have all of the things above too. I want the material conditions to improve for everyone because I know that that is what helps to end these manufactured divisions of race, gender, or religion.

      Our goals can’t be to just play whackamole with fucked up laws in red states.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        3·
        8 months ago

        I think red states need to be humbled, and I live in one. Not that they should be denied those things, but never given another opportunity or concession as in post civil war.

    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      8 months ago

      If there’s ever a non-trumpikan president of this country again they must declare the Republican party a fascist organization, its members arrested, its symbols hate speech, and ban everyone from supporting or promoting their ideas again. Anything less is, frankly, complicity with what’s happening now.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        2·
        8 months ago

        It always was complicity, too. Sherman should have burned it all, zero concessions given.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    82·
    8 months ago

    The party of “small government”, trampling over the rights of the state of California, one of the largest economies in the world.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldBanned
      12·
      8 months ago

      You can start rehearsing the rebel yell sounds of popcorn, sorry, of gulping and smell of jasmine tea in my room

    • Homescool@lemmy.world
      8·
      8 months ago

      The law doesn’t matter unless the president says it does. We can disagree but it doesn’t matter until he is removed.

      EOs are far more powerful because they trigger actual action by federal agencies.

      It may not be how we learned it in Social Studies, but this is the streets.

  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
    41·
    8 months ago

    Little punk sure talks big when you can’t reach his little pencil neck. If federal law was as supreme as he plays up, him and his entire bunch would be behind bars right now

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      8 months ago

      Easy to sound like a big man when you’re shouting from behind a few hundred marines.

      But that’s sort of the crux of the issue. Miller has the Miller-tary at his beck and call while Mayor Bass will be lucky if half her LAPD don’t turn and open fire on her because they say they smelled weed. The folks with the guns seem absolutely gleeful in stomping their boots on the necks of LA residents.

    • bss03English
      41·
      8 months ago

      It wouldn’t surprise me if Miller was one of those “Skinny guys [that] fight 'til they’re burger.”

      I thought he might have been the source of Elmu’s black eye for a while.

  • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    331·
    8 months ago

    It’s somewhat hyperbolic to say a lot on the right are actual nazis, but this dude is the most neo-Nazi motherfucker and deserves everything that should come to Nazis.

  • WeirdyBeansAt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    321·
    8 months ago

    It’s a terrible system when fucking dorks who got bullied by classmates and never moved on get this kind of power. Some Latino kids beat him up or pantsed him or whatever and it’s been his mission to target the ethnicity of those who made his life as a teenager unpleasant rather than focusing on something more productive. We are being ruled by emotionally unstable babies who never got over whatever hardship occurred in their formative years and now see themselves as arbiters of retribution. We are under a bunch of stunted Eliot Rogers-esque dorks.

    • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      8 months ago

      I agree with the sentiment… But it’s important to note that both Miller and Rogers led lives of relative privilege. We can imagine that they might have been bullied but they might also have been bullies. We do know that they were well off bros with pale skin. I think that’s part of what makes them so enraged - impotence despite great privilege.