Donald Trump’s increasingly violent vision is coming through loud and clear to supporters like the MAGA gunman in New Mexico.

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    Republicans don’t want freedom or justice or anything that they claim to be for. They only want unrelenting flames of vengeance on everything that they hate: which is basically everything that exists. They literally are a lake of fire.

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      When my friend became a Republican after a being a lifelong Democrat, one of the first things he started to say was, “never let the opposition control the language.”

      The right defines those words, freedom, justice, with what their empty ideology represent; not their actual meanings.

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      When Bush was elected, his main concern was revenge on Saddam. When Trump was elected, his main objective was to show what he would have done during the 08 financial crisis instead of what Obama had done.

      The next republican president will probably be obsessed with getting revenge for the pandemic. It’s what they do and why they can’t govern.

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        Cruelty is the point. That’s all that guides the right. The base, anyway. The elite just want corporate rule and tax cuts for themselves.

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        When Trump was elected, his main objective was to show what he would have done during the 08 financial crisis instead of what Obama had done

        No it wasn’t. It was to destabilize the country at the behest of Vladimir Putin.

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    Ryan Martinez, of East Mountains, pulls a gun during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española, N.M., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023.

    Wow didn’t even hear about this one.

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    There’s a bunch of different notions about “the end of politics,” but mostly I’ve seen it refer to the fact that the economic system in the US is basically not up for debate at this point. The issues that are up for debate now do not threaten the basic structure of the political economy, or the economic arrangements of people in this system.

    I disagree somewhat about the “both sides” criticism of the media here. This “both sides” approach isn’t because the media “hasn’t figured out” how to move beyond conventional 90s politics, it’s because the media subsists on it’s ability to exploit the viewer’s attention and emotions. There’s plenty of writing and analysis of “real” politics, but the biggest news networks aren’t running that as top stories because it doesn’t offer the engagement of partisan culture war debates.

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      As a non USAmerican, this seems only partly true. The media does indeed benefit from the partisanship hype, but it is also (often) accurately reporting politicking made to exploit the same emotional response.

      For example, there is little good statesmanship in the North Carolina Republicans founding their own extrajudicial secret police, but it triggers a lot of emotional response even before them actually using it as a fascist tool.

      This isn’t blown out of proportion by the media, it is an actual thing that the party officially proposed, and it is outright disregarding both rule of law and democratic principles. Even if they have no hope of enacting it, the proposal is made to evoke emotions and sow chaos.

      The French would have striked until these people resigned.

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      They don’t see it that way. It’s like how the Confederates broke away after Lincoln’s election even though Lincoln promised he wasn’t going to abolish slavery. It doesn’t matter that we aren’t going to change the economic system, the fact that they know we don’t fully support it is the same as trying to replace it.

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      I’ve seen it refer to the fact that the economic system in the US is basically not up for debate at this point

      Well yeah, because we have the best one in human history.

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    Well written article. That there’s still such discussions about the politics of the US means that maybe there’s still hope.

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    This is one of the reasons I got a concealed carry permit. These mfers are nuts and won’t respond to kindness. We’re lost as a country. Just a matter of time before it shows.

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      We definitely need more guns. You know, to shoot the things and combat the guns and destroy stuff.

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        You should always have your gun on you and loaded, so it can be your first reaction whenever you’re scared

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    death of the local newspaper was bad for politics too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatchy

    local news papers are owned by a big national mega news corp stifling real news

    no local city council meeting news or any county council meeting news or anything other than propaganda about how well things are just look at this new restaurant that is opening up

    hard to do grass roots and all that and have discussions when everyone is in the dark even about local happenings

    both parties do what this article accuses

    Biden and Obama had someone chained to a chair for wanting to do a debate like the demopublicans are allowed to do

    https://www.democracynow.org/2012/10/17/green_partys_jill_stein_cheri_honkala

    football or pakled like politics the other side with the other colored shirt and different letter are the problem and my helmet is not big enough never about anything substantial

    Of course the president can not wave a magic wand but they still have the media could be saying things everyday that could help sway opinion such as abortion rights or anything

    Catholic Biden definitely could have been removed way more openly about this and other things he ran on

    both sides doing the same thing but claiming their different excuses and makeup are better

    end of politics in america was in part when the local papers got bought up which was pre2010

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    sorry for the unrelated post, but what community should this go in?

    there’s a lot going on here that needs appreciating