Maggoty @ Maggoty @lemmy.world

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Stop making sense. I want to go back to the 90s when such an idea was laughable.

Entirely possible with this asshole. And with more coffee on board it strikes me that making the FTC unable to function at all may be the goal.

It took me a second but I think you're saying this is a factional thing within the GOP. Where the Christian fascists just wanted the FTC dead and they got Trump to listen to them?

Here's the thing. The way the American highway system works is it goes from city to city. And millions of people in the northern cities voted against him. We don't need to shut down the roads in the rural red areas. His Canadian state idea also wasn't a part of his campaign and many Americans still think it's nothing more than him being his normal blathering self. So we aren't seeing true opposition get captured in polling yet.

I agree that he's dangerous. And I don't know what we could do to stop him but I am absolutely sure the military would suffer high rates of desertion compared to orders to invade Panama, Mexico, or Venezuela. I am also sure that Congress would not use the war powers act to stop him in any invasion, nor would he listen to them if they did. So whatever has to happen is up to the people, and there are at least 80 million pissed off Americans right now. You're right that I can't guarantee anything on their behalf. I can only offer an inside perspective and my apologies.

This makes no sense unless he can't get his own people on the FTC or the FTC Republicans aren't amenable to his agenda. It's a bipartisan agency and the head leaving earlier left a spot open to swing the 5 person board to the Republicans.

He's so far outside the box predictions don't work anymore. But food for thought; Americans associate drugs with Mexico far more than any other country. So this would be one hell of a head whip for the general public. Americans also still consider Canada one of our closest friends on the global stage. Many families in the North span the border. For that fact alone there's a very good chance that if he attacks Canada we'd shut this country down with protests and strikes.

On a rational predictable level he's already declared cartels to be terrorists and Venezuela to be a terrorist state. This is very likely another tool to pressure the Mexican government.

That said, I wouldn't trust us right now. We're like that friend who took too much cocaine and is hiding in the closet with a gun. Unpredictable and dangerous.

I thought about including Gen X but decided I wanted to continue the tradition. :)-

Don't confuse the politicians with the makers. They literally invented the entire backbone of the Internet.

Who do you think built Crypto? The millennials were the ones building everything in the last 10-20 years. Be sorry for the boomers. They built the infrastructure we stand on but tech has completely changed since they left the workforce.

And at least when the chase check glitch fad went around we recognized it immediately as a felony. Gen Z jumped right on that grenade.

The Intel here is primarily the specs and settings of enemy EW, radar, and weapons. The second they turn any of that on within detection range you have the intelligence on it. That's why Turkey got dropped from the F-35 deal way back. They had Russian air defense systems and D.C. didn't want them combining the two to give Russia a profile of the F-35 from their own systems.

I wouldn't mind a system that allowed ex felons to be elected. I very much mind one that allows a current felon to be elected. I don't know what amount of time we should let pass but a felony shouldn't be the end of your civil rights.

Trump shut down Radio Free Asia. And Radio Free Europe, and Voice of America. I don't think he cares about getting the message out there.

And as far as a public Internet? Have you met the US? We can't deliver electricity or water without someone making a profit on each unit of energy or water delivered. It's unamerican. Why would satellite Internet be any different?

The problem was her campaign was largely run by Biden's people. He clearly was interfering with her campaign and she kept trying to make the most of it.

That reminds me of this comic strip....

They are at the very least implying the medals were improperly awarded.

It was weed, as a side job. She's a victim of the right's incessant need to make people suffer.

First, that's a lot of words to admit you compared burning Teslas to OBL. Second, you described a hate crime, not a terrorist attack.

And what is an analogy?

Terrorism by it's definition needs to be calculated because it's required to be in the furtherance of a specific outcome. You can't have that without it being calculated.

Once people are pissed off on this level rational legitimacy no longer applies.

That's what the anti government militias would like to believe. In reality when the country was founded they had a discussion about State Militias versus a Standing Army. The Federalists believed a standing army was a requirement and argued the state militias would be enough of a deterrent to the standing army doing oppressive stuff. The Anti Federalists did not want to risk it and argued we could easily make do with state militias and a standing Navy. The Anti Federalists and Federalists compromised with an amendment protecting the right to have militias and giving Congress the power to raise an Army in a time of war.

Really it's a miracle we even have an Army and not just a giant Marine Corps under the Navy...

But yeah all the self defense, tyranny, and sporting shit didn't come around until much much later. For example the shoot out at the OK Corral was an attempt by local law enforcement to disarm suspicious people in town. There wasn't a concept of an uninhibited individual right to carry. Guns were tools required for frontier living and militia participation and laws reflected that.