Basic Glitch @ AcidicBasicGlitch @lemm.ee

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I hear hell stays toasty year round

No it's not clickbait, he really is a fucking moron.

Exactly, I don't know what a "tankie" is but I'm seeing this argument all over the internet about any radical group.

What should all Americans agree on if we don't want this to happen? It's a very, very basic argument: Civil Liberties and Due Process.

If you believe those two things, then right now, stop focusing on the details of what other people around you believe. You can be there, representing whatever your personal beliefs may be, because this is still America for the time being, but that window is closing.

You don't have to stand united to stand peacefully next to each other and stay focused on the very basic shit we all agree on, unless we are trying to destroy the United States in order to hand the country over to the people in power.

That Hitler's will a leader's will is above any written law. The architect of the Nazi legal agenda, Carl Schmitt created Führerprinzip, which dictates this belief.

Remember how JD Vance kept trying to tell us the constitution does not allow for a judge's orders to overrule a president's executive authority? That's not his original argument, that is what Harvard Constitutional Law Professor and Carl Schmitt fanboy, Adrian Vermeule, has been arguing in right wing ivy league political circles for a very long time..

I have the envelope right here. The winner is:

Orange man talking about how important the rule of law is, while demanding a constitutional interpretation which favors the will of a leader above liberty of the people, in order to preserve law and order!!!

Wow what a shock! I'm sure they would thank the academy if it wasn't such an elitist institution. You know none of this would have been possible without the hard work of Yale Law grad JD Vance also calling everyone else an elitist, while leaning on Harvard Constitutional Law professor Adrian Vermeule's longstanding argument supporting executive power over judicial, which was openly inspired by Vermeule's own love of the legal architect of the Nazi agenda Carl Schmitt!!!

Schmitt's own dedication to mental gymnastics granted executive authority and the will of the leader to reign supreme in Germany, which allowed Hitler to legally carry out genocide while the German constitution remained in name only.

Wow, what a fantastic ensemble of evil and destruction of a democracy, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation.

Exactly, regardless of anyone's stance on immigration issues, you should find this very fucking concerning if you value liberty and due process.

If we're ignoring the law and arresting judges, you better wake the fuck up and realize how easily that slippery slope turns into doing the same against U.S. citizens for any perceived or rumored slight to the king.

Also conveniently sends a message to the supreme court about what their opinions better be going forward.

They just plan to get rid of the law and enforce whatever they believe constitutes law and order in the moment. As in, whatever helps them get whatever they want in the moment and contributes to the destruction of our country

100% this is definitely what he's going to do. Use Christianity as a weapon, and cite things like this and the prosperity gospel, then ignore any of the messages of Christ. None of that Jesusy stuff you know?

I grew up in the Bible belt, and had some truly awful experiences with people like this that made me distance myself from identifying as a Christian for a long time. I didn't want to go to church and be around these kinds of people, but I realized I never stopped believing in the importance of the beautiful messages I learned literally from as early as I can remember.

The book of Matthew talks about Jesus passing through a city and someone asking him, of all of the information in the old testament, what is the most important to remember? Jesus answers the question by summarizing the 10 commandments into 2:

The first is love thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul, and all thy mind. The second is like unto it, love thy neighbor as thyself.

Literally a message straight from Jesus telling you, if you take away nothing else from this book, then remember these two things. JD Vance has tried to publicly argue that the second part isn't really something you necessarily have to agree with as a Christian. This is so very important to remember when they try to use Christianity as a weapon, and something I've thought about a lot.

The first message is love thy God with everything you are. The second, is like unto it (it goes without saying), love thy neighbor as thyself.

If you believe God created man in his image, and you truly love him with your entire heart, your entire mind, and your entire soul, then you must also strive to have that same love for yourself because you recognize you are part of God's creation.

In order to truly love God with everything you are, it goes without saying you must also love your neighbor and recognize your neighbor is also part of God's creation.

My mom used to force us to go to church all the time, but she finally stopped when the pastor did a sermon on that one.

Is this the lady that like poisoned her husband or something? Or was that a different member of the faith office?

I had the same visceral reaction reading the title of this post

Oh fuck me! The standard of living has already taken such a giant nose dive during my lifetime. First it was corporations and now this shit? You have got to be fucking kidding me.

I am not trying to defend Musk, just pointing out that even if he steps back from the White House it definitely doesn't mean we've seen the exit of the final boss.

I'm pretty sure Peter Theil fucked him over AGAIN. Thiel himself has been successfully lurking in the shadows to do evil shit and get what he wants, while Musk (although certainly far from innocent) has become the perfect scapegoat.

For months Musk was this untouchable god that couldn't be removed from Trump's office. They got Elon to handle all the dirty work, attach his face and name to some truly despicable shit, made him the most hated man in the country, then gradually made him look like an annoying nuisance who was disrespected by all the "adults in the white house," and got everyone to start questioning if his mental health was spiraling, and now that Theil's protege is handling technology and AI policy they no longer need Elon to leave his fingerprints on everything do anything.

Well I know that, but how does a statement which actually serves to in-group most of America against the administration actually achieve that?

Dividing left and right and instigating a civil war fits with the plan. Splintering factions within the left, white collar vs blue collar, college educated vs non college educated, all of that seems to fit with the accelerationist plan. If you don't keep your base and or military happy though, who fights on behalf of the elite?

So what is the actual strategy at this point? They are being way too bold about this. Like I'm worried they have an escape pod that they're planning to hop on/fly away while they flip us all off and leave us stranded on a smoldering earth.

Yeah, I kinda was feeling the same way. I also do the numbering and bullet points thing too bc it helps me organize what I'm trying to say as I type, and I prefer it in general when I read longer walls of text bc it helps me stay focused.

Reddit and most of the internet has definitely become just one big hub for advertising, but it's also led to some cases where I've genuinely been left unable to tell If I was talking with a bot, a troll, or even just a human without an agenda who was making an argument in a bot/troll like way to prove their point.

There used to be times where I would start typing something like "what are you 15?" then realize, yeah they probably are 15 so why tf are you arguing with this person? Time to log off.

Now it's like a possibility of: 15 year old/edeglord, a troll farm paid by a foreign government/ or possibly even my own government, advanced bot, or someone who just has a similar style of writing.

There have definitely been times where it's left me thinking way too much about the deeper meaning of being human, and the question of free will. That is usually my cue these days that it's time to log off and touch grass.

Just a way to exert way too much control into other people's personal life. I think like most of these things it comes down to something like a fundamental lack of empathy or understanding of autonomy.

It just reminds me of any authoritarian parent/boss/leader unable to accept that control is limited to self. You can exemplify the world you want to live in through action and modeling of your own life, but trying to forcefully shape the world into what you believe is "the one correct way to live," will never achieve anything other than limited tyranny which will eventually lead to a revolt followed by rejection and a cultural backlash against whatever it is you were trying to achieve in the first place.

I would say it's like these people never read a history book, but that's not true. They can read the books, but it's the fundamental lack of empathy that keeps them from truly learning and understanding the important lessons of history. This administration in particular, is clearly relying on an amalgamation of strategies learned from various historical dictators.

They think, "Dictators A and B were really on to something. They came so close to ruling the most powerful empire, but where they went wrong was when dictator A did X and dictator B did Y. So, I'll combine dictator A and B's strategies and do Z instead. Surely this will succeed, and I will rule the greatest empire."

You can use AI to generate an infinite number of combinations of new strategies based on historical attempts to rule and failed outcomes, but they will still always eventually fail. They don't understand that the problem was never the strategy. The problem was and always will be that any attempt to control individuals, especially an entire society of individuals, will always eventually fail because people have an innate drive to be free and autonomous.

I think in some ways, that same drive is actually what makes them attempt to control the world, but their sense of self is so damaged, they can't recognize that simply allowing others to be free, should not be perceived as a threat to their own autonomy.

There is definitely some fuckery afoot.

This seems intentionally confusing as fuck, but it seems like if the supreme court agrees, then Americans lose coverage important preventative care and services that are approved by this board.

If they reject the case, which seems likely, it seems like it grants Trump even more executive authority to just get rid of any preventative medications that "no longer fit the mission anyway." This doesn't include vaccines and birth control, but that's because those are handled by a different medical group which is also being targeted by conservative activists..