“But if we fight back they’ll declare martial law!”

They are putting people down like cattle. The civil war is already here. Wake up, grow a spine, and arm yourself.

He is either the worst person I've ever seen, or the greatest satirist I've ever seen.

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Also, the Soviets stopped the Nazi war machine...

The leopards are getting hungrier. There are less souls to feed on

I remember when my propaganda came in cartoon form.

It's where I learned that war is awesome, and being different is good if it's exploitable.

I always thought MLK’s ‘Mountaintop’ speech was his best, which was given the day before he was killed. It is especially relevant given what is happening now in MN and elsewhere. He was getting many serious threats, which he references in his line “I may not get there with you.”

Black text on white background reads: "If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell. I will hear America through her historians, years and generations to come, saying, "We built gigantic buildings to kiss the skies. We built gargantuan bridges to span the seas. Through our space ships we were able to carve highways through the stratosphere. Through our submarines we were able to penetrate oceanic depths." It seems that I can hear the God of the universe saying, "Even though you have done all of that, I was hungry and you fed me not. I was naked and you clothed me not. The children of my sons and daughters were in need of economic security and you didn't provide it for them. And so you cannot enter the kingdom of greatness." This may well be the indictment on America. And that same voice says in Memphis to the mayor, to the power structure, "If you do it unto the least of these of my children you do it unto me." -Martin Luther King Jr at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference And he was right. America is sick. It has a virus deep within it, and until that virus has been eradicated, it will continue to rot. That's individualism. That's capitalism. That's the unjust hierarchies that permeate every interaction we have with each other. America did not use its vast wealth to ensure everyone has what they need, and we are watching the fall.

"They will know you by your fruits" is just good advice in general.

"Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper?"

Are they leftist?

The Democrats still wield power, and the fact you can't see that is why nothing ever gets better.

Ice and border funding, to start.

Appeasement has always been a bad idea when it comes to fascists.

That's probably twofold. He doesn't want to hurt red state economies by taking millions of people away; and he knows blue state people will fight back in ways red state people won't, which will give him the excuses needed for insurrection act shenanigans.

Bernie would won

Republicans don't listen to me.

Shit, they barely listen to their voters, they sure as fuck don't care what I want.

You think the Republicans are gonna listen to a bunch of leftists?

You just hit the nail on the head. They've slowly positioned themselves so far right, they've managed to get Republicans to agree to their ideas.

Are the Republicans going to enact legislation that leftists would be ok with...? Especially since we're complaining the Democrats are too far right.

This has been my experience the last 35 years I've been politically aware.

Liking your own comments is sad.

Not all consent is manufactured, do you seriously believe that is a good faith argument?

You are actually arguing that the critique means all thought is propaganda? Seriously?

I just told you, I'm done engaging with you. You didn't ask a good faith question. You avoided my question. Because you aren't arguing in good faith. You're a sea lion.

You know that moral superiority isn't the point of the critique, but you're attaching that to discredit it, and I don't know why.

What's the penalty? Why would they comply?

How? What will you do specifically?

Democrats are useless shills. If they aren't fighting for corporate interests, they're hiding.

Your point to commenting that you don't know whether a commenter has voting rights is to say that originality and interpretive skills are rare? I think you might be lying.

Someone must have blocked you, because I can see all the way to the originating comment.

Ok, that isn't a response. Thanks for your time, but I'm done here. You aren't here in good faith, and I'm out of will to deal with your shit. Go believe what you want. I didn't care anymore.

As a straight white man from the imperial core, I can understand this sentiment.

But ask anyone from a marginalized community how well those systems have protected them.

We are only just now experiencing what they lived for centuries.