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Every president has done this. This is why they accept bribes and fight with teams of lawyers.
This applies to every president. American "democracy" has always been a white supremacist bourgeois joke. You know that only white landowner men could vote originally, right?
Liberals and the politically confused living in this fantasy bubble are part of the same cluster of false consciousness as MAGA and their alternative candidates have done worse crimes. Even just the last government. The genocide of Gaza is Biden's, he gave it full support while doing the little PR dance that always works on liberals: lying about trying to do better. This administration is part of a continuity of oppression. This is why candidates more on the left are isolated and prevented from power by the Democrats.
In addition, the policies of liberals ensure poverty and dispossession with no political outlet for resolving them. With no left outlet, that leaves the right, who Dems curate to be their opposition (and vice versa). Dems promoted Trump and scuttled Sanders. This creates and maintains a society where false consciousness is promoted, such as turning to racist or xenophobic explanations. American classics.
Who gives a shit. The US regularly topples governments and meddles in many more. Caring more about this than that is just chauvinism, proving you have more in common with Trump than you think.
Same as all presidents. Your favorite president. Name them. They were supported by sociopathic oligarchs. The US is run by capital.
Like I said, the US is run by capital. Those transnationals are imperialist, they funnel profits to OECD countries and base their policies in the US, the global state power of capital. You could say this about all presidents since WWII and even be mostly right since the mid-1800s.
Why are they stupid and gullible?
Change how? Americans, first and foremost, have no political consciousness. This is why those on the left spend so much time on educating others. Wanting change, for Americans, can mean almost anything and changes based on what the last attractive person told them was cool.
Deporting or imprisoning every brown person would be "change" and would be popular among Republicans and Democrats alike if their political class color scheme told them to support it. Republicans frothing at the mouth with 80% support until it started crashing the economy and Democrats with 50% faux-reluctant support and 20% frothinh support.
The "they're all the same" argument is lazy and not worth engaging. This the same thinking that allowed the rise of MAGA.
Sounds like you just can't argue with anything I said but your fragile nationalist ego won't let that stand.
Much of what you said is true, but that doesn't mean Americans like it. We allowed billionaires to gain an outsized influence in American police and now we have to dig ourselves out of it. This is NOT what most Americans want, anymore than the Nazis were what most Germans wanted. These people forced their way into power, partially the fault of weak/ lazy/ corrupt politicians who turned away from the threat, and now they intend to hold power through intimidation.
It won't work. The one thing Americans are is fighters. We love to fight, and we will eventually conquer the MAGA Nazis. I'm not really worried about that part. It will happen, they are already doomed.
My concern is that once they are gone, we won't take the opportunity to rebuild our country properly, in order to avoid more trouble down the road. Andrew Johnson took over after Lincoln's assassination, and sabotaged the Reconstruction efforts, causing the Jim Crow era of racial inequality of the next 100 years, and eventually leading to MAGA.
We can't make that mistake again. We will have to rebuild with a different philosophy, and crush anyone who tries to insist on a policy of Hate.
Oh god.
I seriously got whiplash from that one. I might almost miss .ee
So I was right. You can't argue with anything I said - you addressed none of it in this comment.
I think they meant kill, not fight. Americans are killers, they love to kill.
Yeah, you love to "fight" poor brown people on the other side of the planet
You have an (alleged) history degree and you seriously think it was just one man on his own whim who sabotaged reconstruction?
Americans did this. All of them collectively, not “one bad apple” you can shame and wave away the rest.
The owning class running society has been the case for basically all of recorded human history. There is a direct continuity from the landed gentry and mercantile class of the late medieval period to the bourgeois masters of today. This isn't something that we tripped into as recently as the last 80 years.
The worst liberal lie about Nazi Germany is that Hitler won his election, so I'm glad you aren't doing that, but Nazis did win many lower seats and the economically liberal establishment was quite amenable to working with Nazis to crush the communists, which directly led to the Nazi takeover, and then the Nazis were able to run society with impressively little resistance from the social majority Germans. This is where you now offer excuses and clean Wehrmacht nonsense for me.
No, we're bullies toward whoever our respective cultural factions view as inferior (queers, rednecks, etc.) who love to wallow in treats and sneer at the victims of empire, or even just victims of natural disasters and plague if they fall into one of the aforementioned groups.
When a Marxist calls you idealist, this is the sort of reasoning they are talking about. The abortion of Reconstruction was certainly a mistake in terms of Lincoln's planning, because his political philosophy of appointing political enemies was extremely stupid and itself idealist, but to act like it was a mistake in any broader sense is misinformed. Just like all the other monstrous actions the US has taken part in, there is a material basis for it being the favored outcome, with deeply entrenched interests who are rarely ever challenged.
You've been continuously suggesting a collective guilt that I don't think is reflective of the uninterrupted monopoly on power held by the owning class, which Trump is just a particularly crude expression of.
But with some Model UN brains.
Literal fascist rhetoric.
also you:
also you:
wishing you a jet of rancid diarrhea all over your face
Translation: "I can't countenance this fact and it destroys my worldview even though there is over a century of evidence"