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Conservatives: "why not both."
This makes me think of the of the right wingers calling themselves deplorable or terrorists in response to being labeled as such.
Let's not own up to their labels, let's reject everything they have to say rather than amplify their messaging.
Let's not mess with labels at all. Let's organize to drive them from power.
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Since when is there even such a thing as a "political crime", let alone any kind of "pre-crime"?
You can't criminalize someone's political beliefs, unless you're talking about making "thought crimes" a thing. And last time I checked "pre-crime" implies you haven't actually committed any crimes yet...which makes you not actually guilty of anything.
This whole fucking premise is based on stupidity.
Tell that to the Communist Control Act of 1954.
This whole fucking premise is based on ~~stupidity~~ control and power.
FTFY
See, if it were based on stupidity, that would imply these measures are based on good faith efforts to solve a real problem.
What we have here is fabricated issues being "solved" with measures that don't need to make sense. They just need it to give them more power, more control. It doesn't matter if they look "stupid". They aren't acting in good faith to begin with.
This is the entire goal of Palantir, presictive policing using mass surveillance data on citizens. Tie in digital ID and you have an even worse version of the CCP's Social Credit system.
Just wait until the dream police come, get jailed for dream crimes.
You joke, but my wife gets mad at me for stuff I did in HER dreams, sometimes. The injustice is real.
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That's funny because Trump isn't a capitalist. In an open market, his businesses fail. He needs government interferencey China style.
Capitalism =/= free market
And former eastern block =/= communism.
I obviously used the mainstream meaning of that word.
Fact is, Trump opposes free market capitalism because he's a terrible business man.
There's a fundamental contradiction in the definition of a free market. To some, it means a competitive market. To some, it means an unregulated market. But there can be no competitive market without regulation: without regulation, it almost immediately degenerates into oligopoly and anticompetitive market-rigging among the players. Businesses hate nothing more than they hate competition.
That great cheerleader of capitalism Adam Smith (the original guy, not the twat using his name now) knew that.
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
That's from his classic work, The Wealth of Nations.
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I remember running around twenty years ago asking people (generally educated successful people) how they define capitalism.
Most people are not 100% sure, so they usually guess some form of market and blend it with consumerism.
My guess is that most of this came from Mikhail Gorbachev advertising for Pizza Hut.
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That's a very narrow definition of capitalism. If free markets hinder the main function of the capitalist system (accumulating capital at the top), it will be eroded and abolished. Monopolies for example are much more profitable than competetive situations. Getting rid of or circumventing open market competition is always good business.
"classifies" as a crime?
What does that even mean?
He isn't a lawmaker.
Basically providing a framework for who law enforcement should investigate as "suspicious"
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Lol, okay, to enforce that, they'd need to spend hundreds of billions on new prisons and police--oh.
He looks up to Russia. I heard the literally imprisoned half the country because they were such dicks. ( exaggeration, but you get what I mean.)
Okay, now it's Nineteen Eighty-Four. With hints of Minority Report, Fahrenheit 451, Brazil, and our old friend Idiocracy, of course.
I used to scoff at the comparison to Idiocracy but at this point I'd actually prefer that timeline.
President Camacho cared about his people, recognized problems, and deferred to the knowledge of people he openly admitted were smarter than him to fix them.
I would much prefer a Camacho over a Trump right about now.
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Are we starting to use the word "capitalist" the way the Nazis or Soviets used the word "socialist?" As a meaningless label for "the dictator's side?"
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Beat down your local magats for subjecting us all to this
Thought crime is here.
Every day I hope he gets Julius Caesar'd. Every day... disappointment.
I'm hoping for natural causes, tbh. If he's actually killed I don't even want to think about how much insane wanton violence the hardcore MAGA wing will commit in response.
Loooooong bout with locked-in syndrome. 🤞🤞
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anti-Christianity
Alrighty, but you realize this applies to all your supporters, your cabinet members, all your sycophantic gun waiving morons right? RIGHT!?!
This guy realises fuck all. His brain is mush, and his body is so fucked that he's glad when he only shits himself 7 times in a day.
The disgusting orange turd is only alive through the power of his hatred for everyone and everything. He's going down fast and he's destroying as much of it as he can while he can.
hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion
This means anyone who wants to tear down separation of church and state is a terrorist. …. right?
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1984
@MHLoppy Here come the thought police...
@MHLoppy I can't believe we are doing this all over again. I thought we were done with the "red scare" generations ago.
Buckle up, it's time for Red Scare 3! This time with even more government surveillance!
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The crime is coming from inside the House.
what a great article! a breath of fresh air and I suspect that in writing it, the author just added themselves to a list....
Oh, comrade Ben Burgis has probably been on a list long before MAGA came to power.
New eyewitness photos, surreptitiously captured from inside The White House:
and the precog is just Trump in a bathtub full of Sudafed watching Fox News and Newsmax on repeat.
Just wait till he learns Ben Franklin socialized Fire Departments
What irony?
Lone-wolf attacks are a status quo and politically easy to manage/misdirect.
Organised change in the benefit of all people? What are you, a dirty communist? /s
The real irony is that you can tell what ideas are actually good and progressive by looking at the ones Trump&co does not like. It’s almost like there is no such thing as bad press.
I really hope we can reach a point where we don't give this guy headlines.
"Trump declares that anybody that's EVER made fun of him is currently being targeted by every international police force which he has command over, and also that the sky is purple" is a statement totally disconnected from reality. We DO NOT NEED an "Um, actually!" to disprove him.
Is he talking about the shit he’s doing with the farmers? That’s a far departure from capitalism. Lock him up.
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