Llyich 2 years ago • 10%
Just that all our enemies are not created equal and some can be tolerated. Like which is preferable? The officials of the Weimar Republic or Hitler and the Nazis. Am I wrong? Maybe I am.
Llyich 2 years ago • 10%
When I think of who would have replaced them, I'm glad most of them survived. Their Vice presidents were usually more reactionary than the president. Wallace (FDR) might have been okay but I'm not sure. He said a lot of things I like but he started as a Republican so I always wonder if he was a mole.
Llyich 2 years ago • 28%
I wasn't there but the SFPD says this happened:
In a news conference on Friday, San Francisco Police Chief William Scott said officers responded to a call at around 02:27 local time (09:27 GMT) in the city's wealthy Pacific Heights neighbourhood.
They found Mr Pelosi and the suspect - named by police as David DePape - both struggling over a hammer, but it was wrestled from Mr Pelosi's control by the suspect, who violently assaulted him with it.
The suspect was then tackled and disarmed by officers. He had attempted to tie up Mr Pelosi "until Nancy got home", law enforcement sources told CBS News.
Llyich 2 years ago • 30%
There were attempted assassinations before Booth made a successful one.
The Baltimore Plot was a conspiracy in late February 1861 to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln en route to his inauguration. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Plot
Llyich 2 years ago • 5%
If that was true wouldn't the Republicans love her instead of hate her?
Llyich 2 years ago • 7%
And here I thought Obama was the main culprit in the Democratic failures in this century.
Llyich 2 years ago • 6%
She insulted Trump and refused to be part of his fake meetings.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
My email is now possessed by the DNC. And I only gave Bernie and AOC donations. Did ActBlue sell me out?
Llyich 2 years ago • 11%
I hope they're wrong. But think of Germany in the 20-30s and how fragile democracy can be.
Llyich 2 years ago • 6%
Not what I have read. Which is that the attacker planned to wait for Pelosi to come home. Who hates Pelosi most? Trump.
Llyich 2 years ago • 15%
I can think of dozens, hundreds of the wealthy who deserve harsher treatment than Pelosi.
Llyich 2 years ago • 22%
Why? They are both as old as dirt. It would be like trying to kill a dying animal.
Llyich 2 years ago • 8%
If the Republicans hate her that much she must he doing something rights.
Llyich 2 years ago • 22%
Tell that to Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Eisenhower, Reagan, Ford, and Lincoln. All survived assassination attempts.
Llyich 2 years ago • 9%
The attacker had him restrained but didn't hit him until the cops showed up and tried to rescue him. Then he tried to kill him.
Llyich 2 years ago • 25%
So he had surgery for a skull fracture and broken arm just for fun?
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
They are really brainwashed. They prefer Nazis to Soviets.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Reminds me of Senate sportsware. Senate produced a line of T-shirts featuring tags that said ‘Destroy All Girls." They got the deserved reputation of hating girls. This destroyed the inline skating fad as girls and the people who liked them avoided the brand and inline skating and went to skateboading. Here's hoping this has the same effect.
Llyich 2 years ago • 10%
Yes. The global plutocracy wants us to think the world can support an infinite number of people. It can't. The capitalists want more people for a cheap labor pool, a market, more people to fight the wars they think will be profitable, more people to pay taxes instead of them. Why do you think the rich are supporting forced birth. Why do you think we're running out of everything? Why is the biosphere being destroyed? Why are so many animals going extinct? Too many people. I'm not saying the wealthy aren't making it worse. They are. But still, too many people.
Now I can't change your minds. So death will take the world.
Llyich 2 years ago • 66%
The January 6th Hearings.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Cause right wing extremists Jimmy Wales owns Wikipedia. Years ago it was fine but Wales has had his minions censor the shit out of it in the last decade.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
And it leaves scars. Great :(
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Wrong url. Please remove. I reposted with correct url.
Get ready for self defense.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Cause they are idiots.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Please tell me this isn't gonna be anticommunist propaganda.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
I knew we couldn't trust him. Though he's not as bad as Trump. But we deserved Bernie.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Mass murderers go free? You mean like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Tenent? You mean like McArthur, Syngman Rhee, Suharto. The hundreds of thousands, millions, they killed make these cop killers amateurs.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
So that's why Google made that hard turn to the right and started censoring leftist sources from their search results.
Think reddit is filled with them too and that is why they have gotten so crazy.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Mrs Thatcher Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJh0m0E7Ozg
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Of course it's a punishment!
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Everyone who can needs to fight!
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
There are antiabortion removed celebrating in front of the evil SC. And I keep fantasizing about getting a sugar glass bottle, filling it with warm water and red coloring and smashing them over the head.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Well, they're not wrong.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Trying to post this to us news but it got misposted
Two Black Women Who Did Nothing Wrong, Were Forced To Flee Their Homes In The Face Of A Falsely Informed, Possibly Murderous White Mob In Part Because The FBI, Which Reportedly Didn’t Even Call Local Law Enforcement On Their Behalf, Said It Couldn’t Protect Them.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Like to see the rest of it. Surely there's more than one thing.
Llyich 2 years ago • 37%
General, I respect your opinions but in this case I think you are mistaken.
Do you think the earth can support an infinite number of human beings?
Llyich 2 years ago • 40%
Overpopulation.. Global warming. I made sure not to spawn so my kids wouldn't go through it.
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
Maybe they should call themselves Proud Boys? True the right has proved themselves violent killers trying to end democracy while Tankies just talk.
Greitens Is A Front-Runner In The Republican Primary For U.S. Senate In Missouri. Not satisfied with targeting centrist Democrats and children they're now targeting other Republicans. Didn't the Nazis target Brown shirts for being insufficiently loyal?
Llyich 2 years ago • 100%
The three rules enjoined
prompt obedience to orders,
no confiscation of people's property,
prompt delivery directly to authorities of all items confiscated from enemy.
The eight points were:
Be polite when speaking
Be honest when buying and selling
Return all borrowed articles
Pay compensation for everything damaged
Do not hit or swear at others
Do not damage crops
Do not harass females
Do not mistreat prisoners
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Rules_of_Discipline_and_Eight_Points_for_Attention
These plans might work for us, not just them.
By Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen and Chad Pecknold Mr. Ahmari, Mr. Deneen and Mr. Pecknold have written extensively about conservatism and American politics. With the potential overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Federalist Society appears poised for a triumph. This organization of conservative and libertarian lawyers and law professors and students turns 40 this year. Yet contrary to progressive perceptions, the society’s function has not been solely, or even primarily, to roll back abortion and other elements of the sexual revolution. If you look at the full scope of its activities, you will notice that a far more important mission has been to mount an economic revolution of its own, on behalf of corporations and other powerful market actors. The Federalist Society has become a judicial pipeline of the Republican Party, helping to supply numerous nominees to the federal bench. In the progressive imagination, the society is a secretive cabal of theocrats and cultural reactionaries. In reality, it is best understood as a professional-development club for what the writer Michael Lind calls “libertarians in robes” who shift power “from working-class voters to overclass judges.” The society was largely one of many institutions nurtured by the right wing of the American donor class to roll back the legal and material achievements of U.S. workers dating back to the New Deal and to elevate economic deregulation to high moral and constitutional principle. In tandem, other right-of-center institutions emerged to solidify America’s status abroad as a hegemon guarding the rule of global capital against rival claimants for organizing world order. None of this is news to leftist critics of 20th-century conservatism. But a growing number of dissidents within conservatism view these legacy institutions — not just the Federalist Society but also the Heritage Foundation, National Review Institute and others — as ultimately hostile to core commitments that ought to inform the right. These would include cultivation of republican and personal virtue that rests on common prosperity and, yes, a measure of material equality; robust social-democratic support, especially for working families, who shouldn’t have to choose between paying their bills and having children; and modesty about Washington’s role in foreign affairs. Yet the institutions of Conservatism Inc. persist in advancing a pro-business agenda despite opposition from the large populist-right segment of the Republican rank and file. While the G.O.P. has never been a workers’ party, many of its voters are. Yet Conservatism Inc. refuses to embrace a multiethnic, working-class ethos. Having seen the workings of institutional conservatism firsthand for several decades, we believe that the best way to understand the contemporary conservative intellectual movement is by examining the material interests that underwrite its workings and shape its mission. Those material interests aren’t all perfectly in agreement with one another, which is why the organizations in question don’t always play nice together. There are disagreements at the margins. But the North Star of all is rule by large corporate and financial power, and support for militarism and cultural aggression abroad. The Federalist Society itself offers the best illustration of the misguided development of movement conservatism. Hot-button social questions are sometimes fiercely contested among those with ties to the society. For instance, it was Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch who in 2020 led a majority of the court in ruling that sexual orientation and gender identity apply to the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s definition of sex. And Edward Whelan, an originalist stalwart, countered arguments in favor of constitutional protection of fetal personhood — the likely next stage in the anti-abortion battle if or when Roe falls. Where the society has been supremely effective — and far more united — is in the realm of political economy. In the same decades of progressive ascendancy on cultural issues, society-certified judges on the federal bench pushed through a raft of decisions aimed at thwarting collective action by workers and government action against monopolies. Over the past several decades, society heroes like Justice Antonin Scalia upended decades of settled law and clear congressional intent to expand the use of commercial arbitration to employment and consumer contexts. This was despite the manifest imbalance in power between the parties agreeing to arbitrate their disputes. The conservative legal scholar Robert Bork proposed reforms to U.S. antitrust law by arguing that it should focus on “consumer welfare,” often understood to mean lower prices, even if monopoly power means a less competitive economy lorded over by a few giant companies. The Federalist Society is not the only conservative institution to pursue a similar, pro-corporate agenda. Others, like the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson Institute and National Review Institute, also receive large sums from wealthy individuals and trusts and have similarly too often equated conservatism with a neoliberal, imperial agenda. What does this tell us about whether the right can really be realigned with the working class? There are a number of smaller right-of-center institutions trying meaningfully to adapt, but Conservatism Inc. at best pays only lip service to working-class concerns. The largest institutions are still dedicated to inventing, often from whole cloth, as the Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich revolutionaries also did, a version of movement conservatism that holds at bay authentic American traditions that run counter to corporate interests. In the republican tradition, the political economy must be embedded, with state intervention as needed, within a moral order. Yet the longstanding American tradition that fretted over compromises to civic virtue and democratic self-rule demanded by unchecked financial power and imperial expansion has very little institutional expression in today’s Conservatism Inc. In his farewell address, in 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower warned his compatriots about just this threat: the rise of a military-industrial complex that shuts out the primacy of public order and the common good to secure the economic commitments of corporate entities. This is what the conservative movement became, the jackals of Mammon. And it is what threatens the common good of the nation. Sohrab Ahmari is a founder and editor of the journal Compact. Patrick Deneen is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Chad Pecknold is an associate professor of systematic theology at the Catholic University of America.
I think, historically, the Supreme Court has often been a right wing corporate conspiracy. Certainly before the civil war. Then in the 30s they did just enough to block a revolution. In the late 30s, the Supreme Court was part of that. But that is over. Now only revolution can produce change.
The Vermont independent isn't buying the happy talk from a party still talking up a pre-midterm turnaround. And he has a prescription to avoid it.