All the red flags
I'm sure there has to be more than one friend who is sick and tired of me pointing out the red flags, but I just can't help it.
A real tweet, a real thought
Aside from the fact that those who support and love Trump do so because he's taking care of the "common enemies", let me ask this. When can we stop playing apologetics?
That seems to be the game in town at the moment. Trump will say some wild anti-democratic bovine excrement, and his followers have to contort logic to justify the tweet or the interview.
Why does that sound familiar?
Maybe it's because it's a famous phrase used by a French dictator? Could it be that quoting Napoleon is not a good way to present yourself as someone who represents democratic values?
This is precisely why I say to anyone that would listen that Trump has the making of an authoritarian. The very idea that the end justify the mans is the antithesis of what a Democracy is supposed to look like.
Who else has said similar things? Let's see...
There was Mussolini who famously said:
"All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state"
And let's not forget Machiavelli's whole philosophy and his infamous book "The Prince" that explains it with utmost details. The idea being that to secure the prosperity of a nation, nothing was off the table. Absolutely nothing.
But go ahead
And tell me again I'm being dramatic, tell me it's just words, and that I need to check my gut, I expect it at this point.
It's really as he said: He could shoot someone in fifth avenue and not lose any support. He was right back then and proves to me everyday he meant what he said.
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Here, they say "All within the constitution; nothing out of it!" And yet they have done nothing but violate every single article. Now there is a proposal to modify/ammend 80 articles (but they don't say which ones or what their modified versión will ready like). Authoritarianism or tyranny sounds and looks the same whether they are rightist or leftist
You might be called a commie operative for pointing out facts...
Yeah. Pointing out facts makes you a political mulato around here.
The king of chaos sure is tearing things apart within state and beyond. Watch the damage he does and how the wealth gap increases like last time at the expense of the people who support him.
Share those observations and sound that alarm while you can. At this rate, that right may be taken from us.
Me every day catching up with current events.
It is all as promised. He said he would be a dictator. I'm hearing he has gone against the Constitution, so he doesn't even need to change it. The guy is not to be trusted, but then many have said that all along. The opposition need to call him out on every violation.
I expect I shall get a lesson in politics from the usual source :)
Can't remember when I learn this either, but funny enough I suspect it was a luthier I used to follow who said it. "Every single time you argue against freedom, you are probably the one who is wrong"
Any factual information you can avail me would be deeply appreciated. His cult of personality will be dislodged by nothing less, and time is of the essence.
The quote is jarring because it is obviously untrue of anyone that makes it. What they are actually saying is the polity has made laws that prevent saving the nation, which is true of every polity on Earth today (save perhaps Liberland, and I can't vouch for them either).
It is just as much the resort of scoundrels as it could be that of heroes.
I do not doubt we are in agreement it is the former, not the latter, in this case. However until the factional warfare is over and the cementing of factional power is undertaken in earnest, even scant fans will fail to see it, and until quite terrible consequences are unavoidable by all potential of reason, the cult of personality will not see any problem, in practice of the offing.
Thanks!
Most people have lost the ability to persuade.
In your own experience how many people have you met who have been able to talk about a matter of policy, or a contentious issue and not casually insult at least half the people present.
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If he does lean on Napoleon (assuming someone told him in advance who the original quote came from), then he should bear in mind that Waterloo set a new course shortly before the end. It will only be difficult with the banishment. Guantánamo? Or who would take him in?
some of the political heads (him included) know so little about historic figures. I think recently Vance claimed that the left in the US had awakened Goliath and now they are dealing with the consequences.
Does he not know what happened to Goliath?
For Vance, the decision was a difficult one. Was it Goethe's spirits that the ‘Sorcerer's Apprentice’ once awakened, or Nietzsche's ‘Zarathustra’ who was confronted with such problems? Your vice-emperor opted for the Philistine, who apparently survived the battle against David without any major wounds.
But Trump has already emphasised that history will be rewritten under his leadership.
You know.... as hilarious as it might be to imagine a rewrite of biblical stories being accepted by the cultists, it would also mean that Idiocracy actually happened. It would make Mike Judge a prophet and not a writer.
I'm shocked that there are people on this platform that haven't drank the kool-aid.
Glad to see it, maybe I will spend a little more time here.