jonne

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[–] jonne 37 points 4 months ago (21 children)

The USA actually still had troops in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, etc. And the protests were to prevent an invasion from happening in the first place, not to go in, kill a million people and then 2 decades down the line throw up your hands and say 'that was a mistake' with no consequences for anyone that pushed for it.

[–] jonne 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Defunding the police is actually popular as long as you don't call it 'defunding the police'.

[–] jonne 16 points 4 months ago

That's just horrific.

[–] jonne 34 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My theory is that you need both. You need figures that are non violent, but also the threat of more violent leaders around the corner if the non violent ones get ignored. You need Malcolm X to make MLK look like the compromise.

[–] jonne 103 points 4 months ago (36 children)

Yeah, look at the Iraq war protests, they didn't amount to anything because they were peaceful and easily ignored by the media.

[–] jonne 18 points 4 months ago

Happened during the first Trump admin as well. He fired all the pandemic guys and then was caught with his pants down when a pandemic happened.

[–] jonne 27 points 4 months ago

The little Hitler moustache explains why he didn't refuse this deployment.

[–] jonne 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I wasn't talking about the Supreme Court. The people should be holding a constitutional convention.

The right already has a plan to do that, the people should have their own plan to counter it / take it over.

And actually a big part of the issue is the Supreme Court intentionally misinterpreting the letter and spirit of the constitution. The first, second and fourth amendments were fine the way they were, the Supreme Court just chipped away at them until they meant nothing any more.

[–] jonne 14 points 4 months ago (4 children)

You really need to rewrite all this shit from scratch. 250 years is a good run, but at some point you need to restart to fix shit.

[–] jonne 5 points 4 months ago

It just means a bunch of farmers and restaurant owners called him up and complained about it. The deal was always that you only talked tough about deportation, you didn't go through with it because otherwise those sectors would need to hire Americans that might unionise and complain about working conditions.

[–] jonne 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eh, his brother was sitting right next to him and didn't make it. This guy's going to be wracked by survivor's guilt.

[–] jonne 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't really get to for ages, but with a steam deck it's doable to do it after the kid's in bed to play an hour or 2 of something. You definitely have to pick other types of games than the ones I used to play tho (FPS and RTS don't really work well with the Steam deck controls).

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