Literally hundreds of leftists smugly replying “You just described America 😏” apparently unaware we just had a presidential election and dissent to the current administration is both legal and widespread
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Will Stancil
Reflect on that for a second. You think Trump is bad? You think Trump is authoritarian? Well imagine a country where the leader rules in perpetuity, where minorities are sent to a giant chain of concentration camps, where censorship is omnipresent, where free speech doesn't exist even as an idea
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History? Never heard of her.
just...get ahold of yourselves you divas
https://newrepublic.com/post/193475/doug-emhoff-law-firm-deal-trump
Call yourself a social democrat
If you don't want to really do anything about inequality or fascism and just want concessions that are immediately gonna be undermined. And eventually reversed
Only here in the past decade does left seem to be a term that now requires authoritarianism
Yes they are my fam is in the eu
It's not authoritarian. It's no more authoritarian, then any other state. That's a stupid talking point direct democracy workers democracy is not authoritarian
Why people on the left have moved further left, cuz a social democracy isn't really left
You wanna get into the distinction between left and right? It's about power distribution
Imagine advocating for international law more than the liberals violating it
Imagine seeing the humanity in a genocided population
How could that all not radicalize someone
and i guess he want his kids to succeed him (queen Ivanka 1st i guess?)
tesla protesters are "terrorists"
people are arrested gestapo-style because of their opinion on the genocide enabled by the US
others are sent to concentration camps because of tattoos
Great democracy!
i guess "gestapo-style" was not clear enough for you
Babes it's only been 5 days y'all need to develop some object permanence
What was a huge break was the brief moment in the mid-20th century where the US adopted the command economy and welfare policies that would turn it into an economic and technological superpower.
You know the one, right Will? The one where you confidently stated Israel would never bomb a hospital?
Turns out that "legal and widespread" and $4.15 will just about get you a grande mocha at Starbucks.
The US libertarian-capitalist dream of privatised everything have created this opening.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl