• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Walz is a typical democrat.

    He talks a big game and has great bluster.

    but when the cards hit the table, he rolls over, shows his belly and shits himself

    He should have activated the national guard weeks ago. He should have had them on the streets everywhere that ICE was at, Following them where ever they went, with orders to intervene anytime they stepped out of line.

    He should have been ordering every state law enforcement agency to follow ICE, and arrest them every time they abducted a child, every time they assaulted an innocent civilian, anytime they’ve murdered an innocent person.

    but instead of doing anything useful and proactive to protect his state, he keeps going on twitter and begging “pwease mistur pwesident, stahp hwurting my pepulz. pretty pwease?”

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      3 hours ago

      I’m about 95% sure that there’s dirt on Walz.

      Not like, “taking Saudi money to look the other way over political assassination” dirt, but like typical, milquetoast establishment Democrat corruption, some money changing hands somewhere, maybe something to do with China. The kind of thing that the Republicans would do and it would be buried in the news cycle within 5 hours, but if a Dem is caught cheating even stupidly and mildly, they will roll over screaming like a startled baby goat.

      Dems are too hung up on “The high road” and fold so easily under the slightest threat of being called out for something improper. Looking at you Al Franken, for forever staining the entire liberal left with the shame of being the weakest, most pathetic losers, incapable of actually protecting their constituents.

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          28 minutes ago

          I don’t know why you think this is the secret that ends his career. Dems fail the purity tests of the type of people that actually care about that and voted Trump by not showing up. Or in even worse cases, went full horseshoe theory and actually voted Trump.

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        3 hours ago

        Or maybe there’s really no difference between the Democrats and Republicans. It’s a capitalistic show for the easily manipulated citizens of the US Empire, that have been propagandized since early on in grade school.

        Go ahead and vote your way out of it.

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          3 hours ago

          Go ahead and vote your way out of it.

          I will continue to try. We don’t have a lot of other options, but this isn’t a bad option, unless you only watch the bad news.

          You are right about the Dems. But we have to stop getting lost in these stupid 4-year federal kayfabe WWE spectacles, when the people and organizations that hold up the Federal state are the local judges, mayors, community leaders and elected representatives.

          The USA is too large and our current voting system is simple enough that it would take a very large, concerted effort to cheat the entire thing, or we wouldn’t see people like Mamdani and other progressive/socialist leaders that we saw come into power last local election cycle, and if we actually all got off our asses instead of being cynical and actually built more grassroots movements like New York did, we could kick the legs out from under this entire fetid cauldron of corruption.

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              48 minutes ago

              I can assure you that in the US a presidential paramilitary invading cities that are overwhelmingly white and shooting citizens in the face live on social media is indeed a new phenomenon.

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                37 minutes ago

                They’re a .ml user, you’re not going to get much in the way of a nuanced and intelligent reply focused on solutions.

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                  33 minutes ago

                  Yeah I get it, but I just grow tired of the argument – and it doesn’t solely come from .ml users but is broadly-speaking a tiring recurrent Internet argument – that nothing ever changes and that everything has always been like this even when it obviously and provably has not.

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                    31 minutes ago

                    Oh absolutely, the “nothing ever happens” pool of nihilistic, cynical young turds are a huge non-movement-movement. I am not sure what satisfaction people get from discouraging change to systems that they hate, the only thing I can imagine is it’s some form of self-hatred being projected outward.

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                19 minutes ago

                It’s only fine when the US is terrorizing other countries, right?

                Bring the garbage to our streets and I’ll be forced to make a sign to convey my feelings outrage.

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                  8 minutes ago

                  Never said anything like that pal o’ friend of mine. But you are forced to be ever the contrarian like a good 'lil .ml guy, so I understand.

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                20 minutes ago

                Sort of. Miller has been involved in developing and test running the concept on years, see Hungary (field test of the fearmongering populism + the “Mike Johnson” special - we had “don’t know, wasn’t there, didn’t hear about it, ask someone else” press conference memes like 12 years ago) and other examples. Definitely involved to some degree with Fico and Putin, and to a lesser extent, Babis, Meloni and Simion. They weren’t sure they could get away with it last time Trump was up there, although if my memory serves, national guard was deployed due to maybe BLM?

                I mean really, it’s shocking how fast it ramped up but I cannot say that I’m truly surprised it did happen, and if I look back at the people involved in it, it seems more like a gentle increase of the knob than a sudden twist. It’s also just that the higher you are on the dial, the closer together are the red lines.

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              37 minutes ago

              I know the history of the US from many perspectives, I don’t need essays about it, I am educated enough to know that a great many countries have a lot of blood on their hands.

              I am more concerned with solving issues here and now that harm people than joining bandwagons or tankie clubs and self-flagellating about it though.

              These kinds of lists just serve like incel manifestos for people hung up on nationalist persecution rather than sexual insecurity.