• @sartalon
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    2412 days ago

    Leftists are deluding themselves.

    Just like I deluded myself that there was no way Trump could win a second term.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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      2611 days ago

      The second amendment was to defend Americans from tyranny. Trump is that. Use of force in self defense is justified.

      “The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, the cartridge box. Use them in that order.”

      • @[email protected]
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        https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002107670/historian-uncovers-the-racist-roots-of-the-2nd-amendment

        Tl;Dr the Constitutional Congress didn’t really believe in citizen militias providing a sufficient check on federal power. Some power, sure, but by and large the British armies destroyed the militias in the field, with only a few notable successes.

        They did, however, recognize that they could serve as a rapid reaction force for wars against natives and putting down slave revolts until the real army showed up. And, of course, militias could be rolled into a professional army and retrained, like what happened with the Civil War.

        That isn’t to say a genuinely popular revolt wouldn’t work, it’s just not what the 2nd was really about.

        • @sartalon
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          311 days ago

          I am saving this.

          • @[email protected]
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            311 days ago

            It’s going to be less of an argument after the US readopts slave labor but knock yourself out!

            • @[email protected]
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              811 days ago

              For the US to readopt slavery, wouldn’t it have to give slavery up first? The thirteenth amendment specifically allows for the enslavement of prisoners. That’s a big part of the reason we put so many blacks in prison.

              • @[email protected]
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                811 days ago

                They’ll just make a whole lot of stuff illegal, selectively enforce those laws, and BOOM increase the prison slave population. Hell, the South did it after the Civil War to get it’s slave labor back, how hard would it be to do nationwide now.

              • @[email protected]
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                111 days ago

                That’s fair, but there’s at least some difference between chattel slavery and the prison industrial complex. If the traditionally inclined right wing “libertarian” voices that are the sorts of folks the Heritage Foundation hires have their way chattel slavery is back on the menu.

      • @sartalon
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        111 days ago

        If it actually happened, I would happily support it. The system is working as it is intended by those with the money to manipulate it. It needs to come down.

        I just don’t believe enough people really give a shit anymore.

        They fucking re-elected him. We know who he is, what the GoP really is. And they still fucking elected him.

      • @masquenox
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        011 days ago

        The second amendment was to defend Americans from tyranny.

        Oh, give it a break.

        2A legalized colonialist white supremacist violence against slave rebellions and native peoples. That’s it.

      • @Jon_Servo
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        1311 days ago

        Yes. Make them explain their words. Deluding how, exactly? Deluded that women would fight for their bodily autonomy? That doesn’t seem very delusional to me.

          • @Jon_Servo
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            411 days ago

            This may not come as a shock, but not all women are white women. Even they would come around eventually.

      • @MisterFrog
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        611 days ago

        (this is only directed at the people who seem to have wanted Trump to win to “accelerate” the ushering in of a socialist society):

        Deluding themselves about how often there isn’t a glorious revolution, and ongoing, armed resistance by the oppressed isn’t guaranteed.

        Accelerationists have a weird hard-on for revolution, as if it’s easy-peasy to dismantle and replace all institutions all at once.

        This socialist thinks we ought to fight tooth and nail via disruption/extra legal actions, implied threats of the power of the masses (in the same mould that workers won rights by threat), AND ideally within the system itself.

        Because revolution is a roll of the dice.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 days ago

      leftists very much believed trump could win a second term primarily because neoliberals would drop the ball during the election. we were warning liberals all year.

    • @hohoho
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      412 days ago

      Sounds like projection, doesn’t it?