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Bizzare. Americans are seriously crazy. It’s a monarchy really, it’s so in your face, like a bad comedy.

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We are dumb and crazy a bad mix.

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It’s a monarchy really

Yes, this is actually a much more helpful way to think about Trump’s approach to presidency. Here is Dr David Smith from the United States Studies Centre explaining this in a recent episode of PEP (excellent in-depth American politics podcast from Australia).

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No, it’s just that the south hates everything about the rest of America, and have done since we took their slaves away

They support anything that hurts everyone else, or as they call it: ‘Owning the libs’.

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I mean, this really isn’t new for us.

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But what if he runs for office? Then he can’t be convicted, right?

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Start the campaign now for President in 2256. Wouldn’t want the judges to look politically biased, they’ll have to hold off on sentencing until after the election.

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Lol imagine thinking these freaks give a fuck about being hypocrites.

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Maybe we should put the prosecutors to death instead.

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Obligatory, I do not condone violence per lemmys rules, or whatever.

Agreed. This might be the only method to save us. Rule of law doesn’t work, we are owned by the billionaire class. Bring out the guillotines for these bootlickers. Might be the only way we get free.

Free Luigi.

Fuck this aryan Pam bondi cunt and these prosecutors.

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I’m still waiting for people to get mad enough to use drones for political violence. Like shit, Ukraine can make an effective FPV for like 50 USD from what I’ve seen

Imagine if Luigi dropped a grenade on this dude while just sitting in Central Park.

It’s gonna be a good time.

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I kind of hope that will have the bonus effect of making the ownership class ease up on return-to-office. Sure, have your executive meeting in-person. Oh shit, someone flew a drone in and it exploded, shooting nails everywhere and killing half the c-suite? Shit. Anyway. We’ll be working from home until at least they clear the blood out of the carpets.

(Though realistically, they’d make workers go in physically while being remote themselves. But maybe someone will bomb their house. No mercy for the ultra-rich.)

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Drone warfare is politically agnostic. If it can be used by a Luigi against a healthcare CEO, it can be used by far-right extremists against progressive politicians, pride parades, or Black churches. I’m not very jazzed to live in the world of Slaughterbots.

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I haven’t heard anything about people buying drones. The gun ranges have been packed though.

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Oh, we’re not supposed to condone violence against monsters who hurt others for greed here either? Well, dang. What if I do though?

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I mean they’ll maybe ban you lol

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Think of the lemmy.world mods!!!

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Technically it’s not a rule of Lemmy but the instance rules that forbid this.

We are indeed owned by the billionaire class. It’s their country. We live in it.

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*We are granted the privilege of surviving in it

Ftfy

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Evidently this researcher found that peaceful resistance movements have been more successful in bringing democratic governments in their nations against tyranny than violent ones that usually instilled more extreme governments.

https://youtu.be/YJSehRlU34w

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Storm the Bastille

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That’s neither a funny joke nor a serious idea of any worth.

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https://beyondcourts.org/sites/default/files/2022-07/Jury-Nullification-Toolkit-English_0.pdf

Everyone should read about jury nullification and spread it everywhere.

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You know they’ll disqualify anyone who might even hint at knowledge of jury nullification from the jury pool. They’ll be selected on their ability to convict solely.

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Then they’ll need the knowledge and a decent poker face 🤷

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Now you’re asking them to commit perjury - which is also bad. (In case anyone reads this and decides to try their best poker face)

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Thats why EVERYONE needs to know it. You can’t disqualify everyone.

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You want martyrs?? 'Cause that’s how you get martyrs!

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Luigi Mangione has been the only thing uniting the left and right in the US. This is one of the few things that has managed to break through Fox News propaganda. Killing a legendary hero isn’t the win the GOP thinks it is.

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Saint Luigi Mangione

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Have you seen how long it takes someone to get through death row? If convicted, he will sit for 20 years. Far far beyond the current political discourse.

If he gets convicted, that will be a stink for a while. But by the time they kill him, he will be a distant memory.

Martyrs die when the timing is optimal. If it isnt the right time, they are just a name on a gravestone. And we have plenty of those.

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Trump has actually speeded up the process through executive orders

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You want martyrs??

I mean, yeah that’d be cool. What else do we have at this point

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