Please don't elect Temu Trump (Pierre Poilievre) or Trump's useful idiot Doug Ford.
Any man who must say, 'I am the king' is no true king
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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Loosely related topic but in the last few years I've noticed a uptick of people online prefacing a absolute horrible takes with "I'm xyz(entirely unverifiable)" or just some like "I'm very smart" then says something entirely idiotic.
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β¦holy fuck - thatβs a real tweet.
I guess you havenβt seen what the White House account posted thenβ¦
Iβm going to be sick..
I'm going to regret asking but...
For example?
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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
~ attributed to Denis Diderot
It's a lovely dream, but I'm pretty sure we'll just come up with a different title for the people who manipulate us.
I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn't like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?
Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of "a joke".
So now when I see a fascist dog fucker "joking" about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn't my type of humor any more I guess.
I'm an ADHD person and I had this exact same realization when I was younger.
I think maybe this isn't something neurotypicals ever figure out? Because they seem to be accepting of those "jokes" and it blows my mind.
They're well evolved to survive in social groups. Even if they suspect someone is recruiting for something terrible, the loss of social status and allies isn't worth confronting the recruiter. Even visibly suspecting it will harm social status. This is a feature, not a bug.
Historically, the kid who called out the emperor's new clothes was executed. Every time you started shit in your tribe, you risked being shunned, which meant death. If the whole tribe was crazy, you were better off being crazy too.
When someone tells you who they are, believe them.
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"long live the king", in the very country founded on saying fuck you to the last king. what a shameful display.
It is going very poorly here folks. There isn't any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.
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What the hell is congestion pricing?
Charging cars a toll to incentivize alternative transport during peak hours.
Why is it 'dead'?
New York can no longer enforce it under decree of trump. It mostly targeted Manhattan and his billionaire homies couldn't stand to pay $9.
If I was a rich guy I'd be all for it, less traffic for me to drive/be driven through.
But $9! You could make that in less than a second if you were a rich guy!
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More like Republicans in Jersey whined until they got their way.
lord diaper just wants to antagonize, anger, and hurt 'the libs' in any way he can.
Because god emperor king Christ almighty divine saviour of humanity and commander of the righteous and holy soldiers of maga forever and ever, amen, orange fascist.
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The government is too big, why are we paying for healthcare, school, welfare and whatever else? It is unfair to those who don't use those services.
...oh, except roads and the military, everyone must pay for those.
It's amazing how many of these policies are posed as a simple fair rule (people should pay for what they want, not have the government decide where spending goes) but in actuality is just a convenient excuse for dismantling institutions that they personally don't like.
Also corporate and bank bailouts are fine
Fuck congestion charges; ~~your~~ Americas new King just gave himself supreme executive power over every single federal office including the ones meant to regulate him.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensuring-accountability-for-all-agencies/
/edit: didn't realize I was in a local community
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Absolute monarchies tend to come to a very sticky end, as happened in England in the 17th century and France in the 18th.
Well, if they turn a portion of the population into true believers, deport/incarcerate/execute the CIS White remaining who oppose... Could get messy globally. The American Reich could easily be even more of a problem than Mr Niceguy Imperialist America. And that's saying something.
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No no, you're not reading it in the right tone of voice, it's Long Live the King
They make it seem like regicide is a bad thing.
Nothing good is allowed to happen ever again.
Benjamin...get the musket.
I'm no monarchist but in Canada we have an actual king and the idea that HRH would busy himself with such petty quibbles as ...tolls is laughable.
Also, if the King tried to do anything, it would trigger a constitutional crisis in Canada and we'd collectively tell him to get fucked.
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