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    It might be evil, but it would also be the dumbest thing they’ve done in a long time. I don’t think they are that stupid.

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    Is it possible? Of course it’s possible. America is no longer a country under the rule of law. The fact we haven’t had mass executions, starting from the agent who made the ‘grab’ and continuing up the chain until the finale, ending with the president, for court orders being flagrantly violated for deporting people (and all the other ones as well, but I digress) that a court has said should not be deported, is clear evidence america is done as any sort of functioning democracy.

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    This is just more noise and bullshit like demanding to see Obama’s birth cert.

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    Republicans have no intention of abiding by the law, listening to voters, or actually governing. With them, it’s all about the racism, cruelty, and lawlessness. Never let them have power again…

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    Keep in mind, they’re doing this while protecting multiple child rapists within their own party.

    I genuinely hope we have mass executions one day for the scumbags taking us for a ride.

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    No. It’s not. Constitutionally anyway. But… considering the Terrorist Party is above all law it seems….

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    It is possible, obviously. It might not be legal, but we all know that doesn’t stop the Trump admin.

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      Nope. Unsurprisingly the repressive parts of the government will continue to function no matter what. It’s just the “non essential” things like feeding people and ATC that don’t get funded.

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      great news, enough dems caved and the senate passed a funding bill, without any of the demands the dems were making in the beginning.

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          i saw a meme that those light switches that don’t actually do anything are actually to switch you between timelines. maybe i fucked it all up when i flipped one of those switches back in 2015.

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            The Big Light Switch got flipped in 1968, with RFK’s assassination. Had he lived, he would have become president, the Vietnam War would have ended much earlier, and we would never have Watergate, which triggered a nefarious Republican Revenge Plot that is currently entering its final stage.

            RFK’s assassination is where the timelines split.

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    A great American city is on the precipice of being run by a communist who has publicly embraced a terroristic ideology,” Representative Andy Ogles from the Republican party said

    What the fuck are these cretins on?

    Is anyone left from Hitler a “communist” now?

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      Boomers grew up on anti-communist propaganda. But unlike other people, they didn’t use critical thinking and introspection. Therefore, because they still refuse to learn and grow, it’s still the scariest thing they can imagine…

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      What do you mean “now?” Americans have had this habit of calling anyone whose politics they disapprove of a “communist” or “socialist” for a very long time.

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            You misspelled rugged individualist, billionaire and centimillionaire overlords that they think they can become with the right luck. Even though that luck was mostly being born into wealth.

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          Both in Fascism and Socialism/Communism the State owns the companies, or at least controls them.

          Meanwhile in Neoliberalism the companies (well, Money in general) sits above the State, which is how it differs from Fascism: in both systems common people are at the bottom of the pile and whilst in Fascism a few people control the State which sits above Money, in Neoliberalism a few people control most of the Money which sits above the State (which is supposedly controlled by The People through elections, but since it’s subsidiary to Money that means that what The People control via the vote is only that which Money doesn’t care about)

          In Democracy people are supposed to be at the top of the pile, controlling the State through their vote, with the State in turn being above the rest, including Money.

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              The merging of government and corporate power structures has more in common with fascism than with authoritarian communism or liberal libertarian socialism.

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              It’s more just that while they’re calling Mamdani a communist, at the same time they’re doing the thing that is literally the single most Communist thing a government can do: have the state gain direct ownership or control of the means of production. Communism is many things depending on where, when, and who you ask. But the bare minimum, the common denominator under all forms? State owns of the means of production. And here’s Trump literally seizing the means of production. Not just giving out grants or loans, but literally taking a permanent equity stake in a major international company. That is the literal, most basic definition of a Communist action. If literally seizing the means of production isn’t Communist, what the hell is?

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                Except communism isn’t when the state seizes the means of production, it’s when the workers seize the means of production. Anarchism, for example, is a form of communism that specifically calls for the abolition of the state.

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            I think the person you are replying to may have been trying to point out the irony of the Americans who voted for Trump because they don’t want the state spending money on its poor citizens, when they turn a blind eye to the state investing heavily in private industry.

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      Is anyone left from Hitler a “communist” now?

      Literally and without exaggeration, yes, that’s what they truly believe.

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        I feel like this is unfair, because you are leaving out a pretty important part of the issue.

        These people also think Hitler was a moderate.

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      What the fuck are these cretins on?

      They know that nobody with a red hat as EVER read or listened to an actual thing Mamdani has ever said. They could say he flew one of the planes on 9/11 and most of the base would believe it.

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      I’m starting to think the GOP got Quantum Leaped by the party from the 80s. Not going be surprised if we start seeing persecution of the color red.

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        I’d be a little surprised given how tightly the Republican party has taken to using red as their representative colour (and blue for Democrats).

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    Given the turnout and hype around the election, a riot would ensue if the losers took away citizenship to deprive the winner of their winnings.

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      it got both the gop and old GUARD dems(gop-lite) scared. remember HOCHUL said she wont support him, until she was facing re-election, or gillibrand who went on a racist tirade.

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        I don’t think they have a chance of holding just NYC but I think every major US city would suddenly be in open revolt if they did this.

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          This is the kind of thing that would lose them support of a lot of the police. It would still be a right wing military based in the city, but right wing ≠ maga

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          Wrong. They will do whatever they want, sure. But they will use any justification no matter how flimsy. This is less flimsy. And you’re reacting as if I’m saying what new Yorkers should do but I’m not. I’m simply accurately predicting what we all know trump would do in response.

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        That is not a fight they would win. Admittedly, its a fight everyone would lose. But it would be the end of this coup, and possibly the end of the “United” states.