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Powell IS "holding the line" against Trump. He's just not holding it for YOU - but rather the ownership and investment class that is currently COLLECTING interest, not so much as paying interest.
So, it's up to you how much you care about all that? Me, myself? Not at all. I got a lot bigger fish to fry.
I mean look, don't get it twisted - what the Trump DoJ is doing, under Downmarket Mussolini's direct orders, is definitely still fascism. Powell hasn't don't anything, they're just threatening to prosecute him because Trump wants interest rates slashed, to fuel economic growth and cheap loans so he can tell his base "you got more money in your pocket now vote GOP" in November.
All that is true. I just ain't really care that THIS and ONLY THIS is what Wall St thinks we should save America from
I dunno, opposing fascism is dangerous. Anyone who tells you otherwise doesn't understand what fascism is. The line between what is legal, and illegal, shifts considerably under any fascist regime over time, and their justice systems (funny word there) are both punitive and retroactive. They are probably already going to beat the shit out of you and throw you in prison on a long enough timeline for shit you've already done.
Opposing fascism is dangerous. It's also necessary. Just how it be.
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"if you tolerate this, then your children will be next."
3 times. In the face. For driving. Total immunity. Actually, she's a terrorist.
If you tolerate this, it'll be your mom next. Your kids next.
I don't make the rules. Right now, a fascist makes the rules, because America is an oligarchy and you keep trying to vote away the violence by stumping for other people running a police state too.
I mean you libs would be fucking hilarious if your obtuse ignorance and Dunning-Kruger personalities weren't going to get me killed. Every two weeks you write articles saying "this is Trump's Reichstag Fire" and then you spent every waking moment out on social media saying "we mustn't give him his Reichstag Fire moment" while he's saying a mom is part of an international left wing terrorist network on LIVE TV and ICE has TOTAL IMMUNITY for shooting her.
Who the fuck you kidding? Not me.
Brother, what was the difference between 2020, and every other "wave of protests" you have seen in the past 20 years? Yeah, you weren't so peaceful.
And what happened? The State tried to brutalize you, and then when it realized that plan ends in being toppled by angry mobs, they bent over backwards to pretend they were accommodating you.
Every other time, when you did what you were told, by libs and nazis alike - you accomplished nothing. Nothing. Less than nothing. Absolutely nothing.
So yesterday someone was asking me about Indivisible, and like look mate - I dunno anything, but also it should probably give you pause that the people running this are all ex-Dem Party staffers. I mean it's your life, but if you're theorizing that "these people might mean to blunt my righteous anger and channel my energy into electing collaborator maggot Dems who helped this atrocity happen" then I would say that's a theory that doesn't need proving - it's obviously true.
I mean look, they were never gonna shoot you No Kings libs because there has never been a fascist regime in history toppled by witty cosplay.
But also? They probably couldn't. There were so fucking many of you that the guys being told to shoot would have had to put some serious thought into their survivability in the face of an enraged mob.
Again, the application of force is very good at coercing small numbers of people; but it has practical limits. You can make it bad math by organizing well
I mean, hey, it's a start. Someone is actually pointing out that if DHS hires Proud Boys, gives them a gun, and tells them to fuck with people for being brown in Democrat cities they're responsible when one of those Nazi chucklefucks shoots someone.
I absolutely doubt this is gonna do anything - but you know, at least Robin Kelly ain't pretending this isn't go time.
I dunno, I just have to assume most of the people around me figure they'll wake up one day and Trump will have died, and then like Vance or Rubio will sheepishly step up to the mic and say "man, things really got out of hand; we're sorry, that won't happen again."
Do you know what we called the people working for Hitler? Yeah, Nazis. So... you know, your plan to just wait him out remains terrible.
Guys, I would retweet you more often if you said CSAM - or just typed it out "child sexual abuse material."
It's really hard to retweet you, even when I AGREE with you, when you're using terms like "kiddie porn."
The kids, didn't make the porn, and they can't give consent. So your term is implying some very ugly things I do not want to be part of. And I KNOW that is not what you're saying - but it is what you're saying, even if you don't mean it. And I KNOW you don't mean it.
Can you hear me in the back?
Yeah - you are never, and I mean NEVER going to be able to credibly make the argument that Trump's full Napoleon/Hitler turn here is WRONG, if you keep clinging to the idea that shit like Iraq and Afghanistan was right.
And that's why even well meaning liberals are helpless - because you're trying to find the angle that makes what you supported okay, while still criticizing this.
A person can't talk into two directions at once and appear fundamentally honest.
They know, they have long known, that you are not gonna go quietly into that good night so Elon's 23rd child can keep jetsetting around Europe.
That's why they're installing fascism, that's why the Pig Empire must have an Emperor like Trump.
You want to know what the big picture is? It's just like now, but with more fire, and more fascists, and more boots stamping faces forever.
If you took nothing else from your time with me, let what you take be this:
The planet is on fire. Capitalism, and the fossil fuels it depends on, are why. The species must decide now between capitalism and a world that can support 8B+ people, and the capitalists have chosen. That's why they're buying governments, installing fascists, hardening borders, and building out police states. They mean to let you all die, so they can keep the grand game going for another 100 or so years. Really.
I mean, brey - I don't even know if sanctions and arrest warrants and expelling our ambassadors, and cutting off all trade will stop him; but we are miles and miles and miles away from seeing even that much pushback from the rest of the Pig Empire.
You should be concerned. I imagine people were pretty concerned about Hitler in 1935 too.
I mean I think Trump will be a terrible occupier; absolute shit at it. The entire thing will be a deadly, tragic circus. But what does that even mean? How does that even matter, right now?
For example, Bush was a horrible occupier - Iraq and Afghanistan were complete shitshows and we never even once succeeded in pacifying either country to the point you could say we'd concurred it.
Did that stop us? Did that save any Iraqi kids? So what does that even matter? "He'll be a bad Hitler" - kay?
Besides, what are you gonna do - nuke DC? Cause if you're not gonna make us bleed, you're not stopping him from doing what he wants.
Do you think your leaders will fire a single shot to stop us? Not people on the ground, because people on the ground can do whatever they want or don't want to - do you think Europe is sending even ONE TROOP to stop us from seizing Greenland.
Right, so what is the ploy in pretending it's a red line? Empty threat.
I actually see no reason to believe Europe will consider Greenland their red line. As another poster pointed out, it's an evolved colony. Surrendering colonies to avoid getting invaded is an activity with a LONG history in European politics.
I don't think Greenland is a red line. I also don't think Canada is a red line.
If he puts troops ON the continent? That might be. But even then, I'm not certain.
Listen, America couldn't ultimately conquer 2 mountain ranges and one big city in Afghanistan, despite the help of multiple quisling factions inside the ALREADY destabilized country.
If you fight back against us? You will win.
My problem is I don't think your leaders are willing to fight back. Full stop. That's what we're talking about here - a scenario where you do not fight back. If you want me to presume you SHOOT BACK then this projection changes. But I see no reason to assume that.
Naw man, I was told "you can't say he's Hitler until he does concentration camps" and he did the camps. And I was told "you can't say he's Hitler till he starts targeting his political enemies" and he's in the process of doing that, both leadership and just anyone left of Bismarck or who thinks trans people shouldn't be shot. Then I was told "you can't say they're like the Nazis until they start trying to conquer the world." Hello, Bueller?
E-fucking-nough. I know what I'm looking at here.