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Republicans test a new red line: Denaturalization (www.semafor.com)
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[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I remember asking on reddit before the election that if Trump and the Republican party are so bad then why don't we revoke Trump's citizenship and people (libs) freaked the heck out; lots of 'You can't defeat tyranny by becoming tyrants! Then you just have tyranny!', or 'That's a catch 22! You're trying to defeat tyranny by becoming a tyrant!', or 'behaving like this is what dictatorships do, and if you want to see what a dictatorship looks like, then wait until Trump wins!'

For reference and the irony:

EDIT (the actual link; I linked the wrong page): https://www.reddit.com/r/TooAfraidToAsk/comments/1dssr87/if_trump_or_the_republican_party_is_actually_that/

So basically don't fix the problem via the method that Republicans would absolutely fix theirs

I would go back and ask all these people how it's going now but they've spent the whole time since Kamala lost herself the election blaming the rest of us

Also the post is downvoted to zero because

Also some comment about something something iphones can't cheeseburgers

[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

So basically don't fix the problem via the method that Republicans would absolutely fix theirs

That's literally liberals' MO

"We can't do good thing because it would set a terrible new precedent!"

Conservatives immediately set new precedent by doing something atrocious that liberals could have slowed, averted entirely, or at least taken advantage of if they did the good thing

[-] Dirt_Possum@hexbear.net 23 points 6 months ago

I know it's bad for our mental health to engage on reddit-logo, but I always admire the few remaining brave comrades who go there and make the libs shit themselves.

rosa-salute Thank you for your service.

[-] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 21 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I felt the same vibe when european soc dems were rebuking Macron for going after LePen for corruption or whatever it was. Like if she's actually fascist, you dont decide to play electoralism with them. Doesnt help that macron sucks

Edit: I find the top comment so revealing of the liberal consciousness:

I mean for one huge reason among many others, there is no legal mechanism to do what you are suggesting.

It’s like asking why I can’t make my iPhone eat a hamburger. It has neither the programming nor the physical characteristics necessary for it to perform that action.

They see the laws of the US as material things, like the laws of physics. They dont even consider the millions of times Republicans/Trump/Billionaires/Corporations ignore and violate the laws with no repercussions. They are living in a fantasy world

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

I'm fully supporting right-wing infighting.

[-] Ishmael@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When the Supreme Court ruled a president could do anything so long as it was done "as part of a president's official duties", including literal assassination, it was clear the fascists knew the Dems were toothless.

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 47 points 6 months ago

One thing both the libs and chuds can come together over: shitting on the left.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 31 points 6 months ago

collusion

[-] corgiwithalaptop@hexbear.net 18 points 6 months ago

Democrats gonna find out what that trunk do

[-] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 45 points 6 months ago

all the environmental prophecies I heard while I was in DSA are coming true

  • they closed the border

  • they're oppressing unpapered migrants

  • they're kicking people out who were here with all the proper paperwork

  • they're working on ways to revoke citizenship

literally everything I was told ten years ago about how this was gonna go down is how it is going down. stopped watch and all, I know, but still. it's just very surreal to see it so fucking obvious, so very soon.

[-] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 33 points 6 months ago

It's happening so fast and yet slow enough where i feel the population is just adjusting to it being the new normal. Very surreal

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 42 points 6 months ago

Ice got 130 billion today they're gonna dissappear literally whoever the fuck they want

[-] gueybana@hexbear.net 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Please do it. Would portend absolutely awful news for me but I’m tired of my life, I want to enter the cool zone

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Chuds: "WE ONLY CARE ABOUT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS"

Also chuds:

[-] shath@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

us-foreign-policy

[-] CeliacMcCarthy@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

vote

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

It’s not new though. They did it during the McCarthy era.

[-] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 28 points 6 months ago

Where we goin?

[-] Dimmer06@hexbear.net 27 points 6 months ago

I don't mean to imply this isn't bad, but hasn't the legal precedent for over a decade been that the president can order anyone killed in the interest of national security without any sort of judicial review? If they can just kill citizens with drone strikes then "citizenship" doesn't really mean that much.

[-] DickFuckarelli@hexbear.net 26 points 6 months ago

Do it, you cowards. Bring on the Balkanization.

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 24 points 6 months ago

this can't be right felix and will told us that trump 2.0 wasn't gonna be a big deal

[-] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Basically all of hexbear shared that attitude until after it became clear that term 2 wasnt gonna be like term 1.

[-] Salem@hexbear.net 15 points 6 months ago

Those two get paid as much as medical doctors per year every month

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Kamala would have still lost. The new york crimes just posted an article that even with increased voter turnout, Kamala would have lost.

[-] pumpchilienthusiast@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

oh no doubt, I’m not saying otherwise. She was polling what, fourth in the 2020 primaries in her own state before she dropped out?

[-] shath@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

president cannot break the law so go ahead i guess

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago

Aryan master race to our rescue. Oops, turns out many of us don't fit. Nevermind, we can ignore that as MY life will improve.

[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

You’re safe if you’re brown and work in business or tech though!

Really funny how that works

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