• Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      “You’ve made your ruling, let’s see you enforce it”

      Where does political power come from?

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.world
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          As Congress has chosen to allow the President to exert Congressional power, so We the People, with the assistance of decades of fascist propaganda, have allowed the oligarchs to exert… Peoplenal? power. Shaddup, lemme have that one, okay? But seriously, the power of the people is in the hands of the oligarchs.

          Unless we take it back.

          But a third of us actively have chosen to depart from reality, logic, sanity; another third are too poor and tired to care, and the last third have enough energy to vote but that’s about it.

          So basically, we’re fucked.

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
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        Doesn’t matter if you pay or not the attempt to sway votes with gifts, prizes or money is specifically illegal.

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          2 days ago

          There is a lot of stuff people say is illegal but if no one is willing to enforce it then the legality of anything not enforced is pointless.

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            No one had to enforce anything. The international community is what matters and they don’t enforce that they just judge you by it.

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                We’re losing gdp hand over fist, losing trade deals, getting pushed out as the oil currency, multiple countries have already divested their good reserves from us shores. We are losing in every single measurable metric so yes it has helped.

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          Of course, but you’d need to be missing part of your brain to ever think he WOULD pay. Also, what is illegal for a working yank is not illegal for the epstien class

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            Doesn’t matter, it calls to question the legitimacy of the election and no international body that isn’t directly corrupt would accept them as legit leadership.

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              2 days ago

              Huh what does any international body have to do with anything. Most countries are bending down and sucking Trumps cock.

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                  … so you think other nations are going to stop interacting with the United States if the US legislature is installed via bribery and corruption?

                  Has that happened for any other country? Let’s look at the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index list, and you tell me which countries are getting kicked out of the UN or cut off from international diplomacy.

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                    No one said that.

                    No one is getting kicked out or cut off. Please point to where I said or implied that.

                    You can read into it wherever you’d like to fit your ideology but losing trust isn’t just getting kicked out of shit it’s losing deals and getting trade reduced because you can’t be trusted which I might add is already happening. Soft power matters and this administration should be learning that lesson but they almost certainly will not and it’s going to cost us in his phrasing “bigly”.