• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    “They should pay, they have to raise their taxes,” Trump continued. “But they should pay for it. And we could lower our taxes a little bit to them to make up, but we, it’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things.”

    looks at Florida… if only their immigrants were healthy young people.

    Cutting federal taxes, and federal state funding, in order to ask states to raise taxes is, FYI, a shell game. Clear sign of imminent federal collapse, which is not a “comfort factor” for states.

    While fair and friendly state secession involves accepting a net share of federal debts to assets, fuck all y’all secession is an escape from insance clown possee, suggesting a fuck all y’all entitlements (non) reimbursement plan. California is unfortunately governed by zionist federal power monger aspirationalist, but California accepting US tariff and energy policy is significant harm to California, before this BS.

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    Since Palantir has all the voting registrations linked to all the social security numbers, Musk raided and kept all our sensitive data, and the age of the draft has gone up, how much you want to bet the government suddenly drafts only the younglings who happen to be a Democrat to fight and die in his war?

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      The drafts throughout history in many countries have always been done this way to varying degrees. It is partially seen as a way to mow the lawn as the elite class would see it. Whoever the undesirables are at that point in time get to go into the meat grinder first. Most recently, Russia has done this in Ukraine… Sending convicts, minority groups, poor people, etc, to the front line. Modern systems now would allow specific targeting of a draft to political opponents, specific areas of certain groups, and so on.

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        Russia’s system so far is voluntary deployment bonuses. These are more attractive to the poor than the rich, by nature (it is illegal for the rich to live under a bridge too), but that is very different than “rigging a draft”.

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      There is a problem with that.

      Data from early 2025 indicated that voters aged 18 to 21 favored Republicans by roughly 12 points, a sharp contrast to those aged 22-29, who continued to lean Democratic.

      So they need to make sure to only draft 22-29 if they truly want to try to skew elections.

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        I wonder how much that has skewed - and very much for the typical narcissistic reasons - since then. But yeah, if they go by old data, they may find they have to “draft” older people.

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          Good point, I think that the draft would be incredibly unpopular as well and likely change people’s perception if instituted.

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    10 years ago, a statement like this from ANY potus would have turned into a month off front-page freakout. Now? It gets a one-second shrug.

    Fuck. Where we are now. So quickly.

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      I doubt it would have applied to the cons.

      IOKIYAR.

      Newt and his team have been working to divide America since at least 1990. Actively. And it gets little mention. Meanwhile, plenty of reactionary centrists and nearly all of the mainstream media and of course the unhinged right wing would say things like “Obama is divisive” as some kind of serious analysis.

      Meanwhile, the cons have been intentionally trying to divide. And were not called on it every single day, as they should be.

      The GOPAC memo “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” is something every American should be aware of, but I bet maybe 1% are.

      So if earlier asshole GOP POTUSes were to blurt this out before, it would probably get bothsidered and downplayed back then, too.

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      Not even 10 years ago tbh… If Biden said this when he was president, Republicans would inexplicably become the number one advocates of healthcare and childcare and screech endlessly about him being a warmonger for several news cycles.

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        It’s not “10 years ago,” because it has nothing to do with time passing. It has everything to do with Republicans doing a coordinated and concerted capture of all media.

        It goes away because they want it to - the silly non-news used to stick around for a month because of their manipulation. It’s important to remember and talk about this widely

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            Big strong scary words behind an anonymous handle. You sound real tough.

            The toughest thing you could do would be to write an op-ed and publish it under your real name and talk this tough.

            You can’t. You won’t. Sit down.

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                Coward. Did you write your op-ed under your real name yet big scary tough guy?

                Show us the way with your big strong words

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    Don’t worry, everyone.

    The Treasury just declared the US is insolvent. We can’t afford the WARS either.