That’s the secret with a starve the beast tactic. Either your funding cuts don’t impact performance so you can claim there was bloat or your cuts ruin the program so you can say it needs to be dismantled.

Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.

Just want to step in here and say that no interpretation of the second would cover a civilian killing a foreign diplomat, no matter how tyrannical 😂

Out of curiosity, what constitutional basis do they have to do this? Elections are explicitly run by the states and there’s nothing about RCV or any voting system that prevents a fair election.

I don’t disagree with your conclusion but in this case it’s actually irrelevant. A simple majority in the house doesn’t mean shit for following through with an impeachment.

No you didn’t. You said arm them and encourage them to shoot any random guy in a bullet proof vest who shows up. Read your own damn comments.

If it’s not our choice to make then keep your stupid counter productive fantasies to yourself.

If you insist on pointless suicide-by-cop for these people, why not have them make a real statement. Distribute gas cans and tell them to self immolate in front of the white house.

If you really super-duper want violence, argue for impactful insurrection with organized goals. Reactionary violence against nameless jack boots is the least useful thing imaginable and you look foolish for frothing over it.

Their definition of violence is anything harming white people or their property

There are “methods” for preventing it but they shouldn’t be mentioned in polite company.

Hey, where are all those people saying citizens are untouchable? I have this vague recollection of dozens of comments saying this surely couldn’t happen. Am I still overreacting? Just want to be sure…

Step back everyone, we’ve got an Enlightened Centrist here!

Don’t call for violence, let’s just compromise to allow a little fascism! 🤏

Nobody here is calling for purging wrong-think. There are very obvious and visible threats to our society from an enclave of people tearing it apart. You’re making a strawman to conflate targeting them with targeting freedom of thought

Is that any worse though?

Fascista Leggera ⚖️ Full blown McFascism

Crazy that anti-vax has even a fig leaf of personal liberty as a defense. Yes, you do have the right to make your own choices and you can be a negligent parent in 1000 different ways.

But this isn’t even close to a personal freedom issue. You being a dumb piece of shit is a direct threat to the rest of society. YOU don’t get to make the personal choice to kill MY child.

It should be simple for these serious diseases: unless you have a certified medical issue preventing it, you have to get the shot. Fuck any objection (personal, religious, whatever…). If there’s some negative side effect or a bad vaccine batch, you get generously compensated for our collective societal fault in harming you.

Strap them down and jab them, let them bitch and moan about everyone’s children being alive and healthy later.

They’re in so deep that they’ll take any life buoy that their feed/infowars/fox news throws. Its like an automatic reaction they’re conditioned for.

The least shocking thing in this article is retirees in denial. Mental gymnastics is their full-time job; not like they’ve got anything else to do.

I thought the concept of lebensraum was violently debunked nearly 80 years ago but apparently some people didn’t get the memo. Sounds like most of you skipped the lesson on how appeasement turns out too.

Sovereign state #1 ⚔️

Sovereign state #2 🛡

Its pretty morally clear cut when you use your own brain to think about it.

Yes, a lot of different states get involved in an international conflicts. Its not pretty or squeaky clean, that’s how war works. If you didn’t want that then you should have opposed the decades of aggression from Putin’s Russia, it’s a bit late to get your hackles up now.

But you do you man, you can whatabout and bothsides all the way to the firing squad. I’ll be rooting for your gold medal in the mental gymnastics event.

One of these two actors is actively and aggressively siezing strategic territory needed for a sound position in a changing climate. I’ll give you a hint: neither of them give a shit about living in Russia.

I hope to see this same victim blaming enthusiasm when America invades Canada and Greenland for the same reasons.

America nuked Japan twice and they ended up pretty good friends. If Russia could, they would. They don’t want to get pants’ed on the world stage.

You want to make a lifelong enemy? Renege on 20 peace deals since 2014.

This is the shit I don’t get. So many people paving the way for fascism are selling out a world power that sloshes trillions of dollars around every year for like… a few hundred million + perks? Maybe a few billion if you’re important? Its so un-ambitious.

These people also (presumably) have to live in this country after its fucked. When the trillionaires start throwing their weight around and issuing laws your pocket change won’t mean shit.

It’s shocking to me that people have this notion of the judicial branch being magical wizards that can issue a sacred ruling that teleports bad guys to prison. That’s not even in their job description.

They interpret the law and the executive enforces it. If the executive doesn’t care to enforce their rulings then they might as well be running legal theory channels on YouTube

We’re gonna start seeing social media style workarounds. Show me papers on wmen and mnor*ties

Well, the British did burn Washington DC once before 🤷‍♀️