it’s freaky hearing my wife describe what reading is like for her because it honestly sounds indistinguishable from hallucinations as may be defined in the DSM V.

And like, that’s… normal?! MOST people are just vividly seeing things that aren’t there just because they’re described to them?!

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Yes and no. American military personnel absolutely murdered innocent civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Panama, Vietnam, Korea, Germany, Italy, Japan, …

But not every one, not every day, not multiple times a day.

I know this sounds like “not all X are Y,” and to some extent sure, but some mechanic or cook or logistics nerd who never touched a trigger after Basic isn’t a murderer like the shit bag who killed Good or Pretti or the others is.

look imagine if there had been a “Leave Nazi” movement in Germany in 1938 and it had been pretty successful…

There were a ton of Germans looking to reclaim glory they believed had been lost or stolen, just like so many MAGA Trump supporters believe (they’re all wrong about that but…).

I think it’s possible there are people supporting Trump today who are salvageable. Maybe this site can help.

Says don’t follow advice from anonymous internet people.

gives advice.

So does the modern incarnation of the “great replacement theory” include dastardly Democrats “moving people” like Somali refugees into a relatively concentrated area (like one city or county or region), waiting for them to become citizens (multi year process if ever), and then leveraging that to take power through elections?

I mean I think the explanation that makes more sense is grouping traumatized people with a shared heritage together probably makes them feel safer and accelerates true assimilation (bi directional to include America changing a bit). Coupled with this that become citizens through our legal naturalization process are… American citizens. But what do I know I’m probably not taking enough HGH and testosterone and ketamine

going to be…? my brother in christ our ICE is the American Gestapo. I’m not some expert in them but I believe the match even gets down to hiring criminals and people who can’t pass tests of various kinds.

Honestly that’s all a Democratic House should do from the time they take over until Nov 2028.

Just submit articles of impeachment & hold hearings on them.

As much as Trump’s shit has become “normal” due to the flood the zone strategy, this isn’t actually normal on global order time scales. We can show the world that the party of loyal opposition is ready to govern, and why.

Sounds like these people need to start leaking to reputable but not yet compromised outlets like The Bulwark, Crooked Media, Majority Report, Meidas Touch, etc.

Like it’s a legit concern to not put troops in danger, but you can reveal plans without revealing exact times, positions, and actions.

“Sources in DOD reveal plans for joint operation in Venezuela to arrest & expedite Maduro for trial in the US within the next 72 hours.”

No way that puts any troops in danger.

Let’s not give everyone a pass by saying he’s a dictator. Trump is backed by scores of powerful Republicans who could’ve stopped this, and by tens of millions of MAGA cultists who are cheering everything he does.

Didn’t we try to coup Venezuela like a decade or more ago?

I how Reagan is burning in hell but he got s lot of help from House Democrats in the 1980s giving him everything he wanted. If they’d oppose him he wouldn’t have “achieved” half of what he did.

Many people have objected to my point.

But you’re all saying Marx said violence would occur at times as part of the transition from pre-Communism to Communism. I agree.

What I said is that Marx and his allies didn’t believe that it was possible to FORCE Communism into place - especially from a place of contented “capitalism” (not that anyone in Earth is actually doing capitalism either) - by violence.

And we’ve seen it everywhere every time people claiming to be Marxist and claiming they want to establish a Communist society who pick up arms and start murdering their way through the proletariat on their way to the bourgeoisie to hopefully get to the owners.

The end state is not a stateless classless moneyless etc. society. It’s a bunch of traumatized workers & middle class subject to a new group of owners surrounded by toadies ready to have their breaks wet.

BECAUSE the circumstances for the violent worker uprising against the owners (and maybe their bourgie servants) MUST come around naturally. Those circumstances are a natural outcome of capitalism run amok. They cannot be forced to occur, certainly not by violence.

I bet someone smart could, but i just have Gemini or Claude open on the side where I tell it what I want to do with a regex in NP++ (or Geany now in Linux). Then I paste it into the regex box of the Find/Replace and test it then run it.

Found another one for the guillotine, everybody

Trump isn’t Hitler. He wants to be, but never can be. He’s not smart enough. He’s not creative enough. He’s not hard working enough. He’s never struggled. He never fought for his country. The same can be said for most of his “closest” henchpeople.

Trump and MAGA will never be Hitler and the Nazis.

(I’m glad for it, I don’t want another Hitler, but Trump will never achieve that.)

I’d wager half or more of the tankie posts are bots, paid posters in 3rd world countries, or slave labor in 3rd world countries. The rest are a combo of incest, edge lords, nihilistic, and some vanishingly small number of actual true believers in the power of Fascist accelerated forced Communism.

Marx and his allies believed Communism can’t come about by force, only by natural progression following the unavoidable natural collapse of capitalism. Our experience seems to demonstrate that attempting to force any of it only ever sets the process back.

I was talking about this with my wife the other day. I just can’t understand how people are as OK with ads as they are.

he’s obviously been shaking hands with a lot of BobDoles lately.

Hey Anonymous…