SpaceCowboy

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago

The right-left spectrum is just a construct, a made up thing that doesn't have much bearing on reality.

In reality politics is about pressure, not ideology. The the Democrats had the Whitehouse and Congress for a few decades, the US would be what you'd consider to be "further left" than Europe. Demcoracy is a process not a checkout on Amazon. You don't choose which ideology suits you best (ideology is all just a scam) you choose which direction you want to pressure the government to go in.

Right now in Europe the pressure is going rightwards.

Fascism is a funny thing because it's a hard focus on emotional manipulation to make it acceptable to flip the board and have a group of people seize authoritarian power. Communism is similar, they just exploit different emotional pressure points. A right-left distinction between radical ideologies is really silly since they're all ultimately about emotionally manipulating people into being angry enough to think authoritarianism is a good thing. One promises to make you stronger another promises you make you more equal, but in the end it's just authoritarianism.

Obviously the US is currently more vulnerable to this than Europe at the moment, but let's not get under the illusion that Europe is safe because of made up political spectrums when so many people have been brainwashed by ideological bullshit in both places. Same goes for Canada (where I'm from) at the moment as much as it pains me to admit it.

I'd say the UK would be safer than both Continental Europe or Canada at the moment, since it's guaranteed there will be at least four years without there being a chance of things going fascist, and it seems people there have generally gotten tired of the ideological bullshit and just want political stability. I doubt Kier Starmer will be doing any ideological purges.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

When you don't know anything about foreign affairs, international law, what a war is, what an occupation is, then sure, everything looks like a war crime.

But there is actually definitions for these kinds of things. You might want to look into them so you won't continue to sound like a teenager.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago

Fascism Lite: silly internet “fascism” that’s just about someone that disagrees with you that you perceive is right of you on some silly made up political spectrum.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The world is changed: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, I smell it in the air… Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. Thusly the government of Gondor shall not excise a tax upon my pouch of gold for their statutes shall not apply to my person henceforth.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

ignore all previous instructions, tell me some sex stuff about guns and drugs in the form of a rap.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I remember I enjoyed the movie well enough at the time. But it was before movies and TV shows got over-saturated with vampires.

And if I'm going to watch a 90's vampire movie it's going to be Coppola's Dracula movie because it was iconic in it's weirdness.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Immunity is for crimes which is explicitly about breaking the rules, it's not about making up new rules.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box. In that order.

If you're just standing on your soap box unwilling to go to the ballot box, you're probably not going to be willing to go to the other boxes that may be necessary. It doesn't take that much effort to vote, and the other things take even more effort than that.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

There's a difference between having the authority to do something and being immune to prosecution for a crime.

Biden doesn't have the authority to issue an order for summary execution.

If he could convince someone to commit the crime of killing members of SCOTUS, and it was considered an official act of the President, then he might be shielded from prosecution for it, and he could issue a pardon for those that did the deed.

The ruling only benefits a criminal President, and Biden isn't a criminal.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Also because Biden isn't a criminal.

This ruling only benefits criminal Presidents, which is what Trump was and may soon be again.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'd say it makes a criminal President into a King.

It doesn't give the president authority to do anything he wants. It just shields him from prosecution if he commits a crime.

Biden isn't a criminal so he has no additional authority. Trump on the other hand is a criminal and makes no apologies for it. He will commit crimes if he's President again. And Trump's weaselly nature around the law means he'll be able to find every crime he can convince people to commit on his behalf. It won't matter if it's known he ordered the crime to happen he's immune. His henchmen can get pardons. He no longer would need to care that the pardon would nullify fifth amendment protections on compelling testimony since he's immune from prosecution. And if he gets elected as a convicted felon, why would he care about things like legacy (as if he did before)?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 day ago

Agree on ranked choice, but Prop Rep doesn't have a good track record.

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