I don’t understand how the federal government gets a pass breaking all these fucking laws. It was ALREADY the law! Where are the consequences? Rule of law my fucking ass. Are the officers that arrested Representative LaMonica McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka facing ANY consequences?
For sure. Reading recent right-wing “political theory” is wild because UET is very transparently an argument for dictatorship, and it’s not even particularly hard to see, even from just reading what the actual euphemism says, word-for-word, out of context.
The mystery that has always confounded me is why anyone supports this. Time and again history has demonstrated that there are enough people who WANT dictators that they spring up all the time, but I still don’t understand what the actual perceived benefit is.
Social identity and cognitive biases. They want to be on the winning side, they seek answers which already confirm their preconceived notions. It’s the same with cults and fandom at large.
I thought you meant Joe schmo, what does he get out of a fascist dictatorship. Billionaires are all absolutely corrupted by wealth. Smeagols chasing the ring.
My guess is that the perceived benefit is the that the dictator will enforce things they want, hurt people they want hurt, etc, with the (false) belief that there will be no negatives for them.
I’m going to present the case in this book that the greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.
From the beginning of his book published in 2004. This has been brewing for a long time.
To my understanding (not saying I agree with it, just trying to make the logic understood for awareness)…
Congress passed a law allocating funding, but also requiring access for Congressional inspections without notice
More funding was later allocated, and it explicitly was not conditioned on access for inspections
Noem took that to mean allowing inspections without notice were no longer required, despite the initial funding with the requirement still being in place
I suppose, but if you want to keep the nuance, the kid is a teenage girl, Jeremy is the boyfriend, and Jacob is hella gay and the parents have said they don’t care. One kid explicitly not having a condition (the second bill specifically said it’s not subject to those conditions) doesn’t mean the other magically went away
I don’t understand how the federal government gets a pass breaking all these fucking laws. It was ALREADY the law! Where are the consequences? Rule of law my fucking ass. Are the officers that arrested Representative LaMonica McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka facing ANY consequences?
It’s the ✨unitary executive theory✨
In other countries they call that dictatorship.
For sure. Reading recent right-wing “political theory” is wild because UET is very transparently an argument for dictatorship, and it’s not even particularly hard to see, even from just reading what the actual euphemism says, word-for-word, out of context.
The mystery that has always confounded me is why anyone supports this. Time and again history has demonstrated that there are enough people who WANT dictators that they spring up all the time, but I still don’t understand what the actual perceived benefit is.
Social identity and cognitive biases. They want to be on the winning side, they seek answers which already confirm their preconceived notions. It’s the same with cults and fandom at large.
But aren’t rich people ALREADY on the winning side?
I thought you meant Joe schmo, what does he get out of a fascist dictatorship. Billionaires are all absolutely corrupted by wealth. Smeagols chasing the ring.
Fair enough. There are always rich people at the center of a dictatorship, but the support from regular working class people is the bigger mystery.
My guess is that the perceived benefit is the that the dictator will enforce things they want, hurt people they want hurt, etc, with the (false) belief that there will be no negatives for them.
It’s just “our king is holy, unlike all the other kings we’ve ever had in history besides Greasy Josh” gets kind of tiring
Although Greasy Josh was kinda a bro, if mythology holds
The right wing authoritarians love it. I think it should be treated like a mental disorder.
Read Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians, it is freely available on his site.
https://theauthoritarians.org/
people with diagnosed mental illness do fall in to right wing fundamentalism quite often,.
From the beginning of his book published in 2004. This has been brewing for a long time.
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Its only dictatorship if it comes from the Diktorovce region of Hungary.
Otherwise its just sparkling authoritarianism.
Trump said he wanted to be a dictator only for one day, so it’s clearly not that.
Fuck this Calvinball bullshit
Who is going to enforce the laws the federal government is violating? The federal government?
The judicial branch could do something, include holding federal employees in contempt.
That’s a case that we really don’t want hitting the SC any time soon.
To my understanding (not saying I agree with it, just trying to make the logic understood for awareness)…
Congress passed a law allocating funding, but also requiring access for Congressional inspections without notice
More funding was later allocated, and it explicitly was not conditioned on access for inspections
Noem took that to mean allowing inspections without notice were no longer required, despite the initial funding with the requirement still being in place
When your entire agenda relies on exploiting whatever loopholes you can invent, you’re probably doing something wrong.
Mom can I have Jeremy come over, “sure but you have to leave your door open.” Mom, Jacob is with is with Jeremy, is that okay? “Okay that’s fine”
Kid closes door because you didn’t go out of your way to specify again that the door must stay open.
Why was that how I read your description, haha
I suppose, but if you want to keep the nuance, the kid is a teenage girl, Jeremy is the boyfriend, and Jacob is hella gay and the parents have said they don’t care. One kid explicitly not having a condition (the second bill specifically said it’s not subject to those conditions) doesn’t mean the other magically went away
…to the parent. The girl’s going to argue otherwise when she gets caught out.
As Noem is doing now.