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Here's a discussion question for you: how is it that the people here were so resistant to the idea that Trumpism was fascist?
And that's an entirely reasonable question. The answer I'd give is because most of us have spent several years discussing the "Trump is a fascist" thesis, and have concluded that it is garbage. A big part of that is that we used to have a lot more people who were willing to make the "Trump is a fascist" argument on specific grounds and under specific predictions, had their predictions falsified by subsequent events and subsequently went away. I've personally been considering a retrospective about the debates I had on Jan 6th-7th 2020 and the surrounding months, based on the grind of subsequent revelations.
Many of us, myself included, have a high tolerance for repetition and are more than happy for another round of the debate, if that's actually a debate you're interested in. I'm confident the facts are on my side, as they were the last several times I went round on it. Certainly your abbreviated position statements do not seem terribly revelatory. Just for starters, I'm greatly amused by
given the facts readily available.
Likewise,
is most amusing. When humans act contemptibly, contempt is the appropriate response. the title of "journalist" is not a magic talisman against this obvious reality, and the modern journalist class is a trash disaster that beggars the concept of satire. Not all Journalists, of course. Just most of them.
And likewise
but, shit, not like this or this, right? presumably this time it's a bad deployment of the military domestically? ...To speak plainly, the US Military has been "deployed domestically" for a variety of purposes, legitimate and not. Using the US military to assist with a large-scale breakdown in law enforcement is an entirely legitimate action of the President, has numerous examples in the past, and would not be necessary were it not for the chronic, lawless intransigence of the progressive coalition.
I'm confident that the US military won't be used by Trump to expand the borders of the United States of America, and that people worrying about it are wasting their time. I mean, just for starters, integrating Canada into the US would vastly increase the odds that Trump dies in prison, so he personally has every reason to avoid such an eventuality. It seems to me that he's running his mouth in a deliberate attempt to humiliate the Canadian government, which seems to me to be a reasonable action given the shit they've been pulling lately. Ditto for the UK, and Europe generally. Live by the multinational globalist coalition, die by the multinational globalist coalition; the Canadian, UK and European governments have taken an interest in the political process of my country, so I think we're justified in taking an interest right back.
First reddit link is a nice hat, was it supposed to be the 101st airborne bayoneting southerners?
Fixed, thanks. And apparently that image address consistently redirects. most odd.
Every reddit post has an id associated with it. The id consist of a short alphanumeric, case-agnostic string. The post associated with the string "media" is that /r/funny image post of Lady Gaga as you see by checking where redd.it/media leads. I assume it is some quirck of themotte that it interprets a link of the form https://old.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2FIMAGECODE.SUFFIX as pointing to the reddit post with the id "media".
interesting! thanks for the insight!
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I've given up trying to hotlink reddit images, which is annoying since they're often in the top of image search results.
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