ToastedPlanet

joined 2 years ago

I deleted and reposted this because it didn't seem to federate properly the first time.

That's how democracy works. Vote!

Trump is already planning on replacing everyone in the federal administrative state with loyalists. If the military doesn't follow his orders he will keep replacing people in the military until they do.

The real question is will the military do anything to stop Trump? Let's not put ourselves in the position of needing to rally around General Brown in a civil war. Let's vote for Kamala and call Trump weird.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

To paraphrase Trump, he said if elected, he will send the military and national guard after his political and ideological opponents.

That's a threat. It's phrased as a threat. The fact he's says it calmly doesn't matter. This is what fascists do. They identify an out group. They stir up public fear and resentment against the out group. They make promises to their supports, in the form of threats of violence against the out group, to get rid of the out group. Then historically speaking they make good on their threats to the best of their ability once they take power.

When fascists run out of the current out group they just find another way to divide the population and pick a new out group. As long as fascists want to cling to power they need an enemy. What Trump isn't telling us is the next out group he hasn't picked yet because he doesn't plan that far ahead. The Haitian immigrant conspiracy was a spur of the moment thing that other people had previously come up with and told him about on the plane ride to the debate. If he ever needs a new group to fearmonger about he'll just ask other fascists for ideas. edit: typos

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 147 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This is the story that we need to be focusing on until election day. None of the other stunts matter. If anything this post should be pinned. We should keep our eye on the ball even if the media won't.

Trump threatened to send the military and the national guard after people on the left and Democratic politicians. This is blatant and open fascism. In any other election Trump being openly fascist would be the October surprise. Everyone needs to see this.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I like debating. Don't you?

We need to abandon fascism, neoliberalism, capitalism, and minority rule democracy. What we need is social democracy and we need it in every country, because it is currently the best system we have. We can have a global economy, but the rules we play by can't allow some groups to exploit others or fail to redistribute wealth when there are economic winners.

I also blame Business Schools for not showing independent thought and propagating Jack Welch creative accounting shit

Scanning his wiki page he seems awful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch

Welch's practices and legacy were criticized as ultimately self-destructive and a bad influence on corporate America by author David Gelles in his 2022 book The Man Who Broke Capitalism: How Jack Welch Gutted the Heartland and Crushed the Soul of Corporate America―and How to Undo His Legacy.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The only way to know that for sure is to read what we both wrote. I did so I know. It's entertaining and enlightening so I don't mind.

Ok, I'll bite, what.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I recommend you read how my argument refuted your argument's central point. An efficient argument is useless if it is incorrect.

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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