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[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This man wants to do things that will make me and many people i love dead or suffering. How do you not understand how we could feel this way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The other man already does, for two years, things that made hundreds of thousands people die, get wounded, suffer, etc.
You are asking how people do not understand that you want Trump to be dead because he might hurt people you love, surely with your empathy skills you will be able to understand how people might hate Biden (and perhaps even want to see him dead as well) for what he did (and continues doing)?
Or is it only sad when the people you love are suffering? The other people do matter, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Because if you start justifying these kinds of things, they will eventually be turned against you and next you know it, your own political representative is being shot at because their opponent's supporters are feeling threatened just as you are (whether they are truly justified in feeling threatened or not, doesn't matter).

Democracy does not work with violence.

EDIT: I'm really curious about the downvoters: do you really think murdering your political opponents is justified? The goal is to vote out the fascists, not become fascists.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Because if you start justifying these kinds of things....

Republicans have already been justifying it. It was only days ago that a Republican said [paraphrasing] "theres a revolution already going on and it will be bloodless if the left doesnt interfere".

Republicans have already been justifying the death of BIPoC, trans kids, the queer community, Palestinians and anyone who opposes their genocide.... the list goes on. And its mealy mouthed liberals that always say shit like "oh but we shouldn't start justifying using violence, even in defence" from their positions of privilege.

WTF do you think is going to happen after November, whether Trump wins or not? They have been laying out the justification for using violence for 4 fucking years and you've slept through it, hoping its just some nightmare you'll wake up from.

Democracy does not work with violence.

How do you think your form of 'democracy' was achieved? You ballot box is awash with so much fucking blood that you would piss your pants if you had a tiny inkling. And most of it is from those who your country mercilessly crushed for you to have it. You dont live in a democracy. You live in a military/prison/pharma industrial corporatist state that masquerades in a trenchcoat as a democratic Republic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure what you're saying - since they are justifying violence, you should too? That doesn't seem sustainable, unless your goal is a civil war.

EDIT for your edit: I am not from the US so I'm not sleeping through anything, I'm just watching from the sidelines. My form of democracy was actually introduced quite peacefully, all things considered. But that's neither here nor there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Let's say you're in school, and you're assigned a lab partner and told the requirements of your project and that you need to compromise both individual's ideas to make it happen.

Every time you try to make a suggestion, they immediately say no and suggest something that isn't even graded for the project, and refuses to budge until you compromise. When you don't compromise, they threaten to tell the teacher that you're not compromising. As you try to hold your ground trying to get a good grade for both of you, they just keep doing whatever they want and making more threats to you: they'll take your lunch money, they'll beat you up after school, they'll pop your bike tires, etc.

When you tell the teacher, they tell you to stop overreacting and you need to learn to work with others. After school, your science partner punches you and says you better agree to XYZ tomorrow. You tell the teacher they hit you, and you're told you need to stop exaggerating and learn to compromise and work together. Every day that week, your science partner makes good on each threat after school, and every day you tell your teacher, they tell you to stop exaggerating and learn to play nice.

On the last day, you punch the kid back, really hit him, break his nose kind of punch. And you're punished: the teacher says you shouldn't have resorted to violence, your partner says they were the true victim in the project arrangement, you get a failing grade because everything you compromised on didn't meet the requirements, but your science partner still got an A and wasn't punished for anything he did all week because "the rules don't apply to them the same way, they're troubled/have a lot going on at home/whatever excuse."

That's the current state of US politics: Republicans are justified in any and everything they do because they're "special," but Democrats have to follow all of the rules, all of the time, even when the other side of the aisle refuses to even listen to them or the centuries/decades of legal precedent. And they, the Republicans, still win because that's just how the fucking system works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Any bloodless revolution is done through an implicit threat of violence. It is just the losing side being smart about how they lose.

I tillegg om du er dansk, vil eg påpeike at Danmark mista eineveldet sitt då dei tapte Napoleonskrigane i 1814, som også var grunnlaget for Noreg sin uavhengigheit og demokratiske grunnlov.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dude, who are the ones actually shooting at people? You so worried about what might happen that you can't see what's going on right in front of you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The guy doing the shooting was a registered republican.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's an interesting development. I have more questions now than I did before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Anyone that's said it was a set up has been countered with arguments that to just nick someone ear is statistically impossible but they all treat it that trump is the brains behind the operation.

Now we all know that generally, he's as dumb as a bag of hammers and has cognitive issues (seems to be a second election based on old men with melting brains) so the real power lies behind the throne.

They might have taken the decision to set up a patsy & if he succeeds, ride the sympathy & somehow load all the blame onto Biden. If he doesn't, as we're seeing, trump rides the sympathy wave into the white house.

Another possible theory is that the kid appeared in a black rock commercial a few years ago and as BR have the contract to rebuild in Ukraine, that would be under threat if trump wins (he will pretty much throw them under the bus & let the reaction be his reason to split NATO). BRs main guys brother is Bidens right hand man. Similar to Haliburton with Iraq & it's former CEO being Bush jnrs VP.

To see such massive laxes in Trumps security and people pointing out the shooter to police at least 3 minutes before he fired, raises more questions and leaves it wide open to wild theories.

One thing for definite though: Biden will absolutely lose the election now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Our "democracy" IS violent, it just isn't the ruling class experiencing the violence. Every day our society is upheld by violence. Violence over seas (231 years of war, support of genocide, coups, and interventions) and violence at home in the form of an increasingly more powerful police state.

This is just the direct forms of oppression like guns, bombs and jackbooted thugs. There are also sanctions that starve people and IMF loans that impoverish people. These all uphold our standards of living, the united states cannot exist with the impoverishment and exploitation of others.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't work if all parties aren't participating in good faith, either. What then?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think that's true. Obviously you need elections that can be trusted (and despite everything I don't think elections results are being tampered with too significantly) but if there are bad faith actors (like Trump) then just... Get people not to vote for such an actor. Should be easy enough seeing as they're a bad faith actor right?

Well no, because people are poorly educated or brainwashed or scared or bigoted or hateful or afraid or all the other reasons that people in the US might vote for Trump. The problem is not Trump, the problem is the people voting for him. That's also why shooting him is a bad idea, it only entrenches his supporters even further (aside from the fact that shooting anyone is generally a bad idea).

Democracy requires nonviolence and an educated and informed population. The US fails on both accounts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Democracy requires nonviolence

HAHAHAHA oh damn my dude go and read any history book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

He's apparently allergic; he won't even entertain the NOTION that he doesn't know his own history.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Democracy does not work with violence.

Tell that to every civil rights leader martyred by your so-called 'democracy' you comfortable-assed cracker.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, they are Danish. Settler is the wrong term for them if you are trying to make out a continuity from classical colonialism to neo colonialism, as Denmark did not really have colonies in the classical sense (with one minor notable exception and the domination of Norway through its personal union for 450 years).

Denmark's history as a thriving social democracy in the modern era also makes it less of a perpetrator of the violence spread by modern bourgeoisie democracies than what your comment implies, in my opinion.

Lumping every Western nation together into some imperial core makes it harder to study the material conditions of neo colonialism.

As an example of the point I am trying to make of the importance of studying the material conditions of the global north as well: Denmark-Norway was the first European country to abolish the transatlantic slave trade. The reason for it is obvious, they did not really have colonies to speak of on their own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Like I give the first, second, or third fuck? Where they're from doesn't change my people's history, or that cracker's place within it. I genuinely see the vast majority of you euros the same, because where they're from doesn't change the fact that they still talk the exact same way the actual settlers that still devil my people do.

That, "oh, this isn't like us", "oh, you need to condemn this violence even though violence is our profit", "oh, this isn't how politics works" and all that other happy cracker horseshit; this tells me white supremacy and habitus has already infected the Nordics-- which were never friends to the Black nation, regardless of who ended their trade in flesh when.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Political violence ≠ fascism. Violence is what people turn to when they can't achieve what they need by merely talking and voting. Cf. every revolution, ever. Including the American one.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

do you really think murdering your political opponents is justified?

You don't know your own history. This is EXACTLY how your governments work; you murder that which jeopardizes your 'experiment' otherwise we'd still have Dr. King, we'd still have Malcolm X, we'd still have Kwame Ture. It's only the last hundred and twenty years that the crackers have tried to whip the righteous desire for vengeance out of the denigrated and put-upon subject of empire.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

How you could hate him? I understand. I have a nonbinary kid, and I'm against what he stands for. But advocating for political assassination is just wrong. We don't punish people for crimes they haven't yet committed, and we don't support vigilantism.

We need to vote out fascist Republicans, not kill them.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You know Trump was already president once, right? It's not like it's a secret that he's anti-LGBTQ people.

We Made A List Of All The Anti-LGBT Stuff Trump Has Done As President from 2018, it includes

  • Saying it’s legal to fire workers for being transgender.

  • Arguing that it’s legal to fire workers for being gay.

  • Making transgender female prisoners live with male prisoners.

  • Telling the Supreme Court that shopkeepers can turn away LGBT customers.

  • Withdrawing protections for transgender students.

  • Refusing to investigate anti-transgender discrimination complaints in public schools.

  • Trying to kick transgender people out of the military.

  • Issuing a religious liberty policy.

  • Starting to rescind protections for transgender patients.

and their list goes on.

The Trump administration on Friday finalized a rule that would remove nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ people when it comes to health care and health insurance from 2020

A controversial new rule that could allow homeless shelters to turn away transgender people based on physical appearance is the Trump administration’s latest attempt at restricting trans rights. also from 2020

I'm not sure it's possible to get a full picture of everything Trump did wrong, even if you narrow it down to specific topics like LGBT rights. A lot of these things aren't crimes, but that's only because he was the one writing the laws and policies.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

And the solution to this problem is to murder him? That is not how democracy works. Besides, the problem is not Trump per se, but the people voting for him. That won't change just because Trump is dead. They will find some other bigoted candidate that will be just as bad if not worse.

People need to be educated and informed and know why it's a bad idea to vote for someone like Trump - that is the only sustainable way to fix things if you ask me. Murder and violence will only entrench people further on either side and drive people to even more extremes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Oh stop fuckin being precious. That's exactly how settler democracy from Amerika to Germany and back works; you CLEARLY don't know your own history. When you don't like a world leader who told you 'no' at the trade table, the West has him put down. When a world leader proposes divestiture from the petrodollar, the West assaults him in ways you ALL claim to detest with bayonets, then make fucking jokes about it in the days after. When the West need land cleared out for genocidal settlers to put down their stakes, you ALL provide all the weapons in the world.

Amerika's very 'democracy' itself was built on the genocide of Native Amerikans, and slavery of stolen Africans. The hegemon whose comforts, privileges, and treats YOU ENJOY was ALWAYS greased in the blood of the people you ALL consider 'lesser'. I repeat: you don't know your own fucking history.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You mean virtue signalling. That's their cute little phrase for it.

It's easy to do if you just ignore all the inconvenient facts and pretend you're more righteous than others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I honestly understand all that, and believe it's vitally important that he's defeated. But assassinating political rivals is literally a characteristic of fascism.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

It literally isnt: fascism is capitalism in crisis and assassinations have gone on for most of human history, before the development of capitalism in the first place

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Power doesn't grow out of a ballot box you comfortable stain

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah ok trolling. Nevermind. Move along.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It is sad to see this state of the divide in the US. Even if you are against Trump, you're not against him enough unless you want him dead. If you don't want him dead, you must be a troll. What a sad state this debate has reached.