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    6 days ago

    Living in Canada today is like seeing your neighbor get bitten by a rabid dog, does nothing about it, brags about how great he’s feeling, then develops rabies, but continues to growl that he is great, and you just watch him and wish police would just old yeller him already because he won’t stop snapping at you

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    6 days ago

    I’m sure sure shumer will send a strongly worded letter where he will make very clear that he will not expell all Democrats, but he’ll do his best with some.

    American politics is so stupid that if it were a movie nobody would watch it for being too unbelievable

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      8 days ago

      Only running slightly behind Hitler’s January - March power consolidation. Trump just needs a Reichstag fire to give pretext for an Enabling Act.

      That may be why ICE is so unconcernedly aggressive. It’s a win/win situation for Trump, leading up to either kidnapping and expelling undesirables by masked secret police or, if someone fights back in a dramatic way, providing the basis to increase his power.

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    8 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

    Although Hitler presented no evidence of a plot by Röhm to overthrow the regime, he nevertheless denounced the leadership of the SA.[40] Arriving back at party headquarters in Munich, Hitler addressed the assembled crowd. Consumed with rage, Hitler denounced “the worst treachery in world history”. Hitler told the crowd that “undisciplined and disobedient characters and asocial or diseased elements” would be annihilated.

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    7 days ago

    I wonder when the fascist states of amerikka will get around to doing literally anything about their fascist in chief?

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      8 days ago

      That orange turd has been evading karma for so long I am starting to suspect those assholes do have a time machine

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        At this point its pretty obvious Karma’s not real, some of the shittest people have and still do live the best lives, and some of the best intentioned people have lived the shittest lives. It’s js copium for good people with unfortunate circumstances.

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    These things we need to pay more attention to. And I mean we, globally. It doesn’t make for good headlines, because one needs to explain how US government works. But these are the leverage points that start the undoing of democracy. Yes yes, it’s already hardly democratic anymore, but right now there’s still a chance that the nightmare ends come next election.

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      8 days ago

      it is. requires a two-thirds vote.

      only six have ever been booted from the house. the most recent was george santos in 2023, the only republican to have been.

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        7 days ago

        it is. requires a two-thirds vote.

        With this crop of democrats, it’s still not guaranteed to fail.