• Snackuleata [any]@hexbear.net
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    11 months ago

    That will supersede these obnoxious state laws

    The conservatives will whine about muh States rights and the Supreme Court will rule this violates the 10th Amendment. The Democrats will roll over and do nothing.

    • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netOPM
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      11 months ago

      (Inside the train on the way to the death camps)

      “We just need to VOTE harder for Adolf Himmler Goering von Hitlerburg who will kindly allow us to be worked to death instead of being immediately killed!”

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        11 months ago

        Almost literally, given all the shit the GOP has pulled. “JUST STAY IN LINE THEY MUST LET YOU VOTE!” Like fuck’s sake SEND SOME TROOPS TO PROTECT THE POLLS YOU FUCKS.

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      11 months ago

      With all the tianemen (my mispelling of Tienanmen tried to autocorrect to dementia lol) posting I’m really starting to believe that a lot of Libs live in a completely mythical reality governed by invisible powers and there’s no connection to any kind of concrete, material understanding of history or even how their own institutions work.

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        11 months ago

        I remember reading this lib op-ed piece sometime around the 2016 election that made this metaphorical argument that Hillary was the bright, prepared student who sat at the front and always had an answer ready for the teacher, while Trump and Bernie were the ner-do-wells sitting in the back and making trouble. I thought while reading it, “but who’s the teacher in this analogy?” They see the whole system’s power and legitimacy not emerging out of any actual institution but from unseen, professorial figure, and that if you put too much politics in your politics they’ll give you a bad grade. Probably explains how much fretting they do about what the history writers of tomorrow will say. Which, as you said below, it ends up resembling religious struggle as it’s all about worrying how they imagine an abstract authority figure will judge them.

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          11 months ago

          Yeah. It’s frustrating realizing so much of my past frustrations were bc I was trying to argue facts against something that was more like religious faith.

          And if we’re going to pull out the “everything is projection” cliche it would explain why some of them insist Communism is a religion.