WatDabney

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Yep.

Political power is a commodity, and most of those who hold it today do the exact same thing with it as anyone holding any other commodity - they sell it to the highest bidder.

You say yer life's a bum deal

'N yer up against the wall

Well, people, you ain't even got no kinda

Deal at all

'Cause what they do

In Washington

They just takes care of NUMBER ONE

An' number one ain't you

You ain't even number two

-Frank Zappa "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing"

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

So literally what happened here is Trump said, "I want to violate the Constitution" and the Supreme Court said, " Okay — go ahead."

And that's it for the rule of law in the US.

All that's left now is to tally the mass murders along the way to the inevitable collapse of the US, and to hope that our descendents can build something better out of the rubble.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

...he can do real damage to conservatives and establishment Democrats just by showing everyone there's a better way.

Exactly.

Which is why both Republicans and establishment Democrats are so desperate to malign him — because the dirty little secret of American politics is that the actual meaningful choice is between people who will work for the good of the people as a whole and people who will work only for the good of the wealthiest few. And maintaining the status quo requires stopping people from figuring out that virtually all elections come down to just two somewhat different versions of the latter type.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Not to necessarily shift blame away from that scumbag sex abuser Cuomo , but I'm betting that the Democratic party leaders are behind this.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Toddler-in-chief throwing a tantrum because he got caught in a lie.

That's just so 2025.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, but no. That's just the paper-thin excuse.

Pirating, like pretty much anything else that's sometimes a crime in the current US, is A-OK if you can buy enough judges and politicians.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

Gotta pay for those executive bonuses somehow...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Pronoun trouble...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Xenophobic white Christian nationalism, ignorance, fear, anger and hatred.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Oh no - of course not. They want late 19th century levels of robber baron wealth built on worker oppression, sickness, ignorance and death.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Valid point well made - thanks for that.

I'll be folding that into future screeds. ;)

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Of course.

Conservatism is nothing but lies.

It starts with the foundational lie that the world was a better place in the past, then immediately segues to the grotequely destructive lie that if only they were given power, they could and wuold return the world to that fictional better era.

That immediately crashes into the simple fact that all of their actions actually serve to make the world worse. Every single thing they do brings more suffering to more people.

But that's okay - they're already lying, so they just lie more. And more and more and more.

And that's where the US is right now.

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