So republicans are Publicly trying to end social security. Got it. start running those ads.
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The Democrats won't because their donors won't let them
There should be a negative consequence for proposing obviously unconstitutional bullshit with no chance of passing just for publicity
this is what you get for not hanging your fascists
We are so back, baby! [to one of the worst times in modern human history]
This is going hard in the direction of the Nazi Germany "Enabling Act" of 1933.
Or McCarthyism. Don't forget that one. Another classic.
Mamdani is the closest thing to a left wing politician America has been exposed to (to my European eyes he seems center-left), and the whole of the US is going completely ballistic about it.
The rich/racists are going ballistic, but many see him as a ray of hope.
A fortnightly somewhat comedic podcast also recommended that progressive politicians should follow his campaign style, focusing mostly on economic policies to help everyday policies. I wouldn't call them experts or anything, but they claimed a few other politicians doing the same thing had promising results (they didn't state specific examples).
But yeah, lots of Americans do like at least some of what he's doing, but those usually aren't anyone near power.
"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
Reminder for anyone still confused. American conservatives are actual, real-life fascists.
Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.
White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.
Don't pay attention to this, it's going nowhere, it's weak propaganda to distract from the Epstein Files and the ArmerIsraeli War®.
it’s weak propaganda
Chip Roy is running for AG in Texas. It's less "weak propaganda" and more "a policy he would like to implement if elected to statewide office." If I was a Muslim in Texas, I'd be keenly aware of what he was proposing.
Fortunately, even the corrupted judges seem to have trouble assailing the First Amendment directly so far. What would really be nice, though, would be if these laws could be stopped on the drawing board rather than having to be challenged in court every time. If a high schooler could win the court case, it should not have to be one.
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I got a better bill idea.
The Trump-Epstein act: which mandates the death penalty for pedophiles.
"any organization that advocates those ideologies" is so god damn unconstitutional, it is not even funny
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Banning socialists is some real commie shit these fucking pinko politicians
Banning socialists
Not just socialists, "Islamists". This guy is running for AG in a state with Muslims making up around 2% of the population. Many of them are highly educated professionals looking to form full blow communities of like-minded people.
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The name of this bill is how you know they are terrified of him.
We MUST deport ANYONE who DOESNT like having Sex With Children!
-Republicans!
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Chip fails to realize that Krasnov's father-in-law would be deported, he was a f'n Yugoslavian Communist Party member. Preventing pedophiles, rapists and felons from public office would be a better bill.
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That means this bill has to define socialism. Good luck with that one bucko, if you have 10 socialists in a room, you get 11 definitions /s
I'm genuinely curious how it gets defined. I'm wondering if it can be sidestepped with a simple word change
It's reds under the bed. If anyone in a position of power says you're a socialist then you're a socialist and you get made stateless and dumped in Nigeria.
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That means this bill has to define socialism.
It's not meant to have a definition. That's why the proposed law denies judicial review. The "definition" is supposed to be whatever the ICE ~~Officer(s)~~ Gestapo wants it to be.
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fascists welcome though. Related story, we're only letting in white south africans now.
Yeah, no. I'd much rather have all the MAGA deported. It would really make this country 10 times better overnight. Much less murder and crime instantly.
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What about Nazis? They're pretty bad. No? Huh. I wonder why.
If it applies to Islamic fundamentalists, does it also apply to Christian nationalists?
All this shit does is encourage me to join left-wing organizations to grow their numbers by one.
It turns out McCarthyism 2.0 is going to be even worse.
Mamdani is a centrist, he isn't left. But since the Republicans are alt right and the Democrats are right, they consider everything else to be far left and label anything that isn't right as communist. They don't know what communism is. Even Trump labeled people communist nazis. Communists and nazis are the opposite of eachother. Americans are so, so fucking dumb.
He might not be as left as you'd like, but calling Mamdani a centrist is just ignorant
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Can we ban fascists, theists, and other right wing boot-lickers from the US? We seem to have an infestation.
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Fascists 100 years ago: concerned with Judeo-Bolshevism taking over the world.
Fascists today:
this legislation deploys new tools to fight back against the Marxist and Islamist advance that has devastated Europe
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