Link or how the fuck are we supposed to determine whether your current position is reasonable?
How quickly you forget! It was less than a week ago and you were one of those who dogpiled me.
I’ve never called anyone a “anarchist lunatic” so you’ll have to forgive me not remembering this event based on you, very potentially, being an unreliable narrator.
I never said that you called me by those words. Your pile-on was more adroit.
No, in fact it was you who called you by those words,
and the
“did nothing wrong” there was premeditated murder.
John Brown also committed premeditated murder. Now who’s morally confused about helping escaped slaves?
Umm, you really can’t see that John Brown’s premeditated murders and helping escaped slaves are not the same thing?
As I’ve told you before you do not have a working moral compass.
Also, how long till you drop the pretenses and just come out and say that the way we fight MAGA is by murdering them?
'Cause your support of Mangioni and Brown’s acts make it very clear that that’s where you’re going.
John Brown was an American hero who struck a blow for the oppressed against an amoral capitalist class that abused and murdered thousands of people a year in the name of profit and did so with the full protection of the law. The same goes for Luigi.
Now see, if I believed as my detractors do that there was no legal way to stop Trump from doing whatever he wants, that might be the case. But I don’t believe that.
Hence your self identification as a anarchist lunatic!
Got it. I’m somehow a fascist and an anarchist. I’m all things to all people!
Planing on addressing this at any point?
Ya know the thread you cited where you accused yourself of being an anarchist lunatic?
Clearly you lack reading comprehension if you can’t tell I was responding to people who accused me of such a thing, not identifying myself as such.
Speaking of,
are
I was accused of being an anarchist lunatic
and
people accused me of such a thing
the same?
John Brown was just another bloody-minded fanatic. That his cause was loosely just doesn’t justify his unjust actions.
Luigi Mangione isn’t even that. Just a disturbed, murdering whackadoo with a generally incoherent and occasionally right-wing world view. Among other things he was “concerned about” was DEI, secularization, wokeism, the decline of traditional Christian values and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He is more a symptom of modern American sickness than a cure for it. Guy is an odd hero for someone with your politics to latch onto.
It’s still imprinted in my mind that Smapti:
- Equates Americans who are concerned with the apparent unchecked and gathering power of Trump with being – themselves – MAGAs
- Implies that being concerned renders these people unable, unwilling, and uninterested in trying to resist (as though their concerns inherently eliminate innumerable effective resistance tactics that would otherwise be easy, obvious, and readily available)
- That – whether or not Trump brings up issues like a possible third term in order to distract from everything else he’s doing – Smapti’s positions and inability to relax them at all on this board (‘A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.’ --Winston Churchill) actually function as that kind of destructive distraction on these threads.
I finally put him on ignore – 2nd poster I’ve ever taken that route with – only to finally learn what everybody else knows: the metaphorical Invisible Man still wreaks havoc on every place you’re trying to visit. You just can’t see him now.
Sigh.
It’s getting a heck of a lot “better” in this term. Implementing, as I say, plenty of things that were once dismissed as fearmongering. If you want to say that the courts eventually slap down some of these things…so what; that wasn’t the point.
And you dismiss things like Greenland…the VP just went there, and Trump keeps talking about it. When members of the administration are asked about Greenland, they don’t know what to say. The standard line seems to be: Suggest Trump is trolling about X, but at the same time talk up X, because it might happen.
No-one’s assuming anything. We’re simply discussing the fact that the president has explicitly and unambiguously said he will attempt to continue in his role beyond the constitutionally-mandated maximum time.
You seem to want to shut down such conversation, for reasons that are unclear to me. You say there’s no benefit in discussing this…what’s the benefit of refusing to talk about it?
Fine. You wanna jerk yourselves off doomposting for the next four years? Have at it.
You can apologize to me when we’re watching President Pritzker’s inauguration.
Somehow I doubt you’ll apologize in the more likely scenario of Pritzker being arrested and imprisoned or killed for association with the Democratic party.
Doom posting?
The US president has already threatened invading a NATO country and more than doubled-down on it. Imposed tariffs on historic US allies. Ignores court orders at a whim. Suggests violating the clear and plain text of the constitution.
But hey…nothing to see here.
I hope you are right. I really do.
Innocent people being sent to an El Salvadorean supermax prison, or yanked off the streets and deported for disagreeing with Trump.
It’s not a matter any more of “will the worst thing happen” it’s “at what scale will the worst thing happen at before it can be stopped?”
Frankly, what’s happening now is much worse than Trump getting a third term. If Trump somehow got on the ballot in 2028 and then people were fucking stupid enough to vote for him for a third time…yeah, I’d be pissed, but it wouldn’t in itself constitute the tearing apart of the rule of law or human decency.