[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well we still can if we are collectively smart enough that being fascist is worse than being old.

I put the odds at a coinflip.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Agree with everything except why Biden won't do it--its a paradox of trying to maintain our status quo democracy with the traditional tools of our status quo democracy.

I recognize that its a horrible asymmetry of power that they will have presidents that abuse power while dems will try to respect traditional lines of power....but the populace and parties themselves are also a correlary assymetry---cult 45 will cheerlead any horrible thing their guy does (or pretend it isn't real, or isn't really that bad, whatever the moment requires to avoid cognitive dissonance), but it Joe abused power, both Republicans and Democrats in power and as citizens across the nation would cry out for accountability.

It's a right clusterfuck, that is for sure.

[-] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago

To this point, the military has remained an independent institution that has followed rule of law--the Iraq War, however awful, was legally authorized (note: I am not saying that soldiers haven't done illegal things, but the military writ large has been beyond the reach of the president to be wielded like a weapon to do explicitly illegal things).

Trump mused bombing antiquities in his presidency, and the military swiftly responded that they are bound not to follow illegal orders.

My fear now is that if military leadership falls into the wrong hands, immunity can be used to argue that the conduct is no longer considered illegal, or the line becomes so blurred that it ceases to functionally exist.

If that happened under a president like Trump, God help us, every horrible nightmare outcome could be on the table.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's a funny way to misspell 7 million.

Hell, Clinton won the popular vote by over 3 million.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, it was too much voting by the young and lefties in 2016 that put Trump in power, don't you remember?

[-] [email protected] 134 points 4 months ago

All I read is that if women want their pussy to be eaten they should date leftists.

[-] [email protected] 141 points 6 months ago

Biden doesn't get enough credit for all the good shit he's spearheaded.

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