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[-] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 326 points 4 months ago

No need to. Biden can have the 6 corrupt justices killed. He has the immunity and he can pick new justices. If members of the senate refuse to put the new justices on the bench, have them killed too. No rules anymore.

[-] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 96 points 4 months ago

Strategically speaking liberal politicians are backed into a corner and only have two real options:

  1. Seize control preemptively, promoting conservative conspiracy to prophecy, and likely inciting CW2.

  2. Hand over full control come January and hope they continue to maintain some privilege under a new regime.

They're already in check, but more concerned with soliciting large donations and collecting hot stick tips.

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Liberal politicians do not need to be the ones to make sure #1 happens. The second amendment literally exists so the citizens have the capacity to do that ourselves.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 23 points 4 months ago

200 years ago though, now you'll get shit stomped by the military. The 2a thing is honestly a joke.

[-] Adalast@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

It wasn't a joke from me. Democracy dies when the good man does nothing. I am a good man and I will fight for this democracy, as fucked up as it is. The right believes the left to be weak pacifists because we choose compromise, tolerance, and acceptance over bigotry, hate, and subjugation. They will need to learn the hard way that we choose that because we know that mutually beneficial social contracts make living better and provide a safe, prosperous world. They obviously do not want to be party to these social contracts with me, so I will not allow them any of the safety or benefits.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

But the president has the power to tell the army "Don't do shit" in complete impunity.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social -1 points 4 months ago

He does, but why would the president tell the army to do nothing when the people are rising up against said president? Nobody is that stupid, any rise up against the government will end with the military curb stomping it in about 15 minutes.

[-] MonkRome@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Domestic wars are never pretty, no matter how powerful the military. Most people in the military don't serve to shoot their own country. Countries don't want to damage their own infrastructure or enflame their own people. Oligarchs won't support a war that damages their bottom line. People vastly over simply how easy it would be to stop an armed resistance.

[-] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Did you see the police step on people during the blm 2020 marches? They have no problem being fascists

[-] MonkRome@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Most of those where cops only larping as military. Military operations are a completely different thing. No country wants to fight their own people. Your own logistics, intelligence, supply chains, and financing all rely, in part, on the very people you are fighting... You can't trust or count on the chain of command at any point, at any point your keys to power can turn on you and you're dead. Leaders with half a brain know you usually don't have a long life attacking your own people.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

We're talking about people rising against the Republican side of the government

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

Eh, Iraq and Afghanistan went rather poorly for the United States.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social -2 points 4 months ago

What does that have to do with the second amendment?

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Second amendment grants the right to bear arms, arms were used by the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social -4 points 4 months ago

What does Iraq and Afghanistan have to do with America and taking arms up against our government? You really think a bunch of hillbillies with guns are going to do shit against our military?

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I'm pretty sure the Taliban could also be described as a "hillbillies with guns" when they started out. And you know what, they won.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social -2 points 4 months ago

Lol. Are you really comparing their government and military to ours, here in the USA? You sound delusional, you a tRump voter or just a troll?

[-] Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

In your comment, who is they?

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