• IndridCold@lemmy.caOP
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    16 hours ago

    In the speech he said

    "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace are those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That’s why pacifism is so naive and dangerous. It ignores human nature and ignores human history. Either you protect your people and your sovereignty or you become subservient to something or someone. "

    That sounds like an invitation for true patriots to “fix” the current administration.

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      11 hours ago

      They literally renamed the Department of Defense to the Department of War. How more explicit do we need them to be?

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      15 hours ago

      The most dangerous person is the world, is one convinced of their own righteousness.

      They love to talk tough about 2A, and the three boxes of freedom, and peace thru power, right up until someone takes them up on it.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes, it would be that bad. Please look at Myanmar right now. You do NOT want a Military Junta or a Military Dictatorship. You think civil liberties are being eroded quickly now?! Shiiiiit

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          I see what you mean but you have the risk of turning like myanmar if a junta happen or the near 100% chance of becoming a white christofascists techno hellhole with some north korea dictatorship sprinkle on it

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            10 hours ago

            You’re literally describing the United States post-9/11, the only difference is that they’ve gone mask off. We’ve been in a christofascist techno hellhole sprinkled with North Korea dictatorship this entire time. We effectively have one party with two (slightly different) wings (both right wing, though), and did you really think it was normal to pledge allegiance to the flag of your country every single day while slurping down Department of Education approved propaganda?

            The military junta would not be a better set of circumstances. It would be exactly like right now only more extreme, considering all of the top military brass is also a bunch of christofascists

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                7 hours ago

                Um, yes? Have you read the Patriot Act? Are you aware of the PRISM program from NSA? What about our immigration policy which is just a passed-down-the-line version of the Bush era immigration policy? This stuff didn’t start with Trump. It’s been ramping up for a while.

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                  7 hours ago

                  Yes.

                  It is much much worse now.

                  The parties are not even remotely the same. One sucks. The other wants to fucking kill Americans on american soil with American troops to crush any and all opposition.

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                    7 hours ago

                    One hand washes the other. Remember this: no good, decent, kind person wants to be in charge of their people. There is no thing as a good politician.

                    You’re right, it’s much much worse now. But this has always been where we have been heading. Probably since Reagan. Maybe longer. The difference is that you started paying attention.

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              I think it can and will become really more extreme as soon as all the peon are in place. Think automatic drone kill in US city, target choosen by an AI when you write or say anything they don’t like a really automatic killing factory and i’m not from the US but they will come for us up north when everything they consider “left” fall.

              And yes i know most military brass are fascist too but i do hope (naively i guess ) that some of them still love the USA enough to fight for it