What Biden actually does in response:
Wait, I don’t see anything listed there. Guys, what’s there? Surely there must be something!
You cannot see the wishful thinking bubble? Which client are you using? Any app with the disillusionment extension will do.
You jest, but Deceptichum actually did try to include a “wishful thinking bubble” which you can see only if you view the comment’s source.
I wonder if they tried to do it using non-breaking spaces.
Looks like using
worked.
Take the moral high ground, which will lead to his demise.
Bonus edgy comic idea:
Panel 1: The scene from The Revenge of the Sith, where Obi-Wan got the high ground, but instead, Obi-Wan says “It’s over Anakin, I’ve got the moral high ground!”.
Panel 2: Obi-Wan drops his lightsaber.
Panel 3: Anakin cuts off Obi-Wan’s limbs in a single move.
Panel 4: The horribly mutilated body of Obi-Wan is shown in a torture machine.
The difference between Obi-wan and the Democratic Party is that Obi-wan was willing to take difficult paths and challenge his enemies as they needed to be challenged.
Do we really think Biden (or any Democrat, really) is going to do anything different than continue to cede more ground to the Republicans as they always have?
Fiction doesn’t have to be realistic. That’s the point of fiction.
If he had the power he would just call early elections to loose faster.
Order the DOJ to arrest and confiscate the assets of all billionaires on charges of treason. Send them to Guantanamo and give them a closed door “trial.”
Enemies of the state. All of them.
Every one of you guys is turning into crazed lunatics. This has been a long and stressful election season, and you’re now calling for not only Biden to institute facism, but also to arrest citizens who haven’t been convicted of any crime, to be taken to a fake predetermined trial off the books.
Man, I can’t wait until election season is over.
checks calander
ITS ONLY JULY???
The US and probably the entire world would improve for everyone in a very short time frame if American billionaires were rounded up and arrested. These people are criminals. They have captured the republic and turned it into their casino, where the taxpayer subsidizes their losses. They are making the planet unlivable.
If you think the status quo is okay, you are not paying attention.
I’m not saying what they’re doing is morally ok. I’m saying they aren’t criminals. For that word implys that what they have done
- Was illegal
And
- They’ve been convicted of a crime.
Donald Trump is a 34X criminal. Thats factually accurate.
Jeff Bezos is not. Because he hasn’t been convicted of anything.
You can’t just use words against people you don’t like and expect it to mean anything.
A better use of your vernacular would be:
"Billionaires are unempathetic, labor exploiting, psychopaths who are by far the leading cause of climate change, but will never personally feel the effects of their actions.
THAT would all be factually true. But also legal. So, again, they aren’t criminals. They’ve rigged the system so they aren’t breaking any laws by doing terrible things. That’s by design.
You don’t have to be convicted or even suspected of a crime to be a criminal.
I’m with bookmeat. Anyone who has committed a crime is a criminal. It does not require being caught or convicted.
Wow, a rare sane political comment on Lemmy! Thanks!
What’s your take on a billionaire, who, following all applicable laws, has donated to politicians, people, and political action committees or fund lawsuits that result in things that harm the U.S., such as harming its income through irresponsible taxation policies, trade policies that harm the domestic economy, spread socially divisive messaging that may also be anti-government or slow down/inhibit participation in the political system, or use their power to judicially change laws or initiate legislative pushes for laws resulting in laws that are discriminatory/harmful/against the ideals of the constitution (while not necessarily being against the letter of it) and overall harm the U.S. society in favor of their worldview/desired hegemony?
Are these people criminals if they’ve followed the letter of the law?
Are they enemies of the state they have sought to undermine/remake in their own image?
Would being an enemy of the state warrant criminal treatment?I don’t believe people have lost their minds here. I think they’re taking this latest ruling, designed to subvert the rule of law to protect one person, to the logical conclusion that ‘the other side’ will take it to when given the ability to exploit it.
Our country is broken, and has been long before any of us were born. However in the past 8 years it’s become more divided than it ever has been at any point since the civil war.
When our forefathers designed this country, they did so with the spirit that the people would run the country. They wanted all ideas to be heard, shared,voted on, and adopted or not adopted as decided by the citizens. However in the centuries that followed various interest groups have exploited loopholes to expand their influence and slowly take over the country.
We’re now at a point where most Americans have no central viewpoint, because it’s being influenced by so many differing controlling parties.
The only way for the people to take back this country is to patch those exploits, push back against outside influence, and end donations within politics.
But until that happens, our country is working as it was designed. Maybe not in spirit, but in practice.
if there’s 100 billionaires (don’t know the actual number) you don’t think there’s 10,000 millionaires right behind them that can’t wait to become billionaires themselves that will step into that power vacuum?
I mean Republicans vote the way they do, even the most poorest, most powerless among them, since they all belive they’re temporarily embarrassed millionaires so when they become rich they won’t have to pay taxes either.
it’s criminals all the way down. 4 legs good, 2 legs better
It’s funny, the fascists on the other side are asking for something very similar with very similar wording
Killing billionaires is not fascism and anyway being a billionaire necessitates serious immoral actions. You cannot be a billionaire and a good person.
Besides, the DOJ would never do that, it is literally built by billionaires to protect their interests.
Yeah, but its not illegal. That’s the point - if you want laws to mean something then follow the laws, not what you think is ok or don’t like.
What crazed lunatics?
Yeah they are doing a hyperbole but it would be 100% legal and moral to make laws to restrict wealth and then once the law is there, seize billionaire wealth and leave them with 100 million dollars or something (so not even dragging them down to our level).
Responses like yours forget that people are frustrated and have already said the reasonable versions thousands of times.
Listen to this guy, folks. According to his username, he speaks from experience!
Im really gutted how many people are arguing with you.
My best follow up is the hard-core Christians who fight abortion, sex before manage, women & lgbt rights think allowing these is immoral. Should we now all hand ourselves over because one group thinks we’re immoral and should be arrested?
No. Close Guantanamo and cancel sanctions for Cuba.
Democrats are too spineless for this. They’ll just wait patiently for the Republicans to take power and do this to them instead.
Those evil Democrats are too spineless to drone strike their political opponents, sad weak fuckers.
Btw have I mentioned I am super cool and edgy and know more about the world than the people runnin’ it?!
Fascists don’t have human rights, on account of literally not believing in them. It’s one of the things that makes them fascists.
This. There should be no freedoms for the enemy of the freedom.
Same vein as the paradox of tolerance.
Yup, 100%. There should be no tolerance for the enemy of tolerance.
It is a basic self defense mechanism.
love the energy, but everyone has human rights. thats the point.
This ignores the part where the SC didn’t define “official acts”.
Trump can do whatever he wants, but I guarantee if Biden does, those actions will be deemed " unofficial".
He’s old enough that he should just do what’s right and die peacefully of old age before the sentencing.
So do it all so fast that by the time they get their shit together to stop him the damage is done. He’s old as fuck It’s not like personal consequences should matter to him anyway.
I think that means some supreme court justices need to be seal team sixed
I love when people can’t think multiple steps ahead & see the pitfalls of the bad idea they’re currently supporting.
Multiple steps ahead? How many steps does biden have before the next president bans political opposition?
You forgot the genocide part
You want Biden to do genocide? Isn’t culling the Supreme Court enough?
Biden has already abused his presidential powers for that.
The Biden administration once again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel
The reality is far more grim than this humorous comic. Burning down mar a lago is nothing compared to the 30 schools worth of children Biden has already helped burn down.
Funny how as soon as Democrats think they have some unlimited magic power all they can come up with is killing their political rivals.
This meme has like 2 other examples in it though
Does it? I see one example that isn’t violent.
I don’t see how making judiciary changes is violent
If they could read they would be so mad right now
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I’m pretty sure those are Alito’s and Thomas’ heads impaled on the fence…
Look through the posts on here and reddit since the ruling and see how many are calling for political violence. Idiots. All of them.
Political violence is good when bad people die
There is a difference between good and bad things happening
I’m not sorry for believing America should be able to work through it’s problems without resorting to killing people (and in turn kicking the door wide open for justification of others doing so in the future).
We should be better than this and it’s pathetic this is what so many of you are calling for.
Classic liberal “they go low we go high” bullshit
You people will never do anything
That is so objectively true and can’t be re-determined by anyone’s personal beliefs at all;
This can be accounted for by bad beliefs being bad and good beliefs being good!
No you don’t get it, our political violence is superior and morally justifiable
Says everyone
This post doesn’t seem to glorify political violence to me, but rather, shows how horrible it would be. Less of a wet dream and more of a warning.
