• Rojo27 [he/him]
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    156 months ago

    How can Ana Kasperian try to champion Trump’s criminal justice reform when she uses her platform to rail against bail reform laws and do the same crime fearmongering that they do on MSM? Scratched liberal is scratched.

  • Vampire [any]
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    226 months ago

    fascism requires the notion that everyone who isn’t part of the master race should be massacred

    That’s Nazism. Fascism is the Mussolini thing.

  • Vampire [any]
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    216 months ago

    brags about not starting any wars

    He actually did start a war in Niger the press just didn’t report on it

    • Rojo27 [he/him]
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      206 months ago

      And maintaining the current wars and trying to do coups isn’t exactly a good thing either. But libs are just this fucking scratched at this point.

    • vegeta1 [he/him]OP
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      136 months ago

      Didn’t his admin also drop an MOAB in Afghanistan? That’s one of if not the largest non nuclear bomb out there

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]
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      86 months ago

      And he almost started one by assassinating Soleimani. It certainly seemed like he as trying to start a war then. Not to mention the trade war with China.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    6 months ago

    passed criminal justice reform

    I entirely forgot what Trump did. But I’m still pretty darn sure it was pure politics, superficial, and in no meaningful sense “reform”.

    personally pardoned black inmates

    How many people? ~5? And he pardoned some rappers. That was pure politics too.

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    If some net rando gets the details wrong - I don’t think anything of it. But politics is her fucking job and it pays her mortgage and her bills. How can anybody be so stupid?

    Ninja edit. It’s a rhetorical question of course.

  • glimmer_twin [he/him]
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    296 months ago

    This is such a dumb definition we all know fascism is objectively the right wing of social democracy

  • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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    196 months ago

    I mean, if you lean too hard into calling Trump a fascist, you have to start justifying why all the Democratic Party policies are the same as his. If you’re trying to be a mainstream pundit, you can’t call both parties fascists with little to no sunlight between them, even if it’s demonstrably and obviously true.

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    This is what happens when you start with the assumption that the USA doesn’t currently show signs of Fascism, and that Fascism must be done to the US.

    The Citizenry is currently engaged in a series of events of stochastic terrorism

    Congress is entirely undemocratic

    The USA does plenty of massacres, while those are mostly outside of the US. What ICE does is within the US. But Non-citizens don’t count I guess.