Trump has also targeted law firms who have filed lawsuits he opposes, while the Federal Communications Commission, led by a Trump appointee, is investigating every major broadcast network except Fox, which owns the pro-Trump Fox News channel. Trump has personally sued news channels over critical coverage and fired the government’s top labour statistician because she published jobs data that he didn’t like.
He has threatened Democrats with prosecution, and demanded that former president Barack Obama be investigated for treason. Trump has done all this as his family has ostensibly earned millions of dollars from his presidency.
None of these things are typical for a democratic leader. So … is Trump a dictator?
“Yes, of course,” said Kim Lane Scheppele, a professor of sociology at Princeton University who spent years researching autocracies including Hungary and Russia. Scheppele said she had been wavering on using the term “dictatorship” until recently, but said: “If I was hesitating before, it’s this mobilization of the national guard and the indication that he plans to overtake resistance by force that now means we’re in it.”
Canada, eh? Sure a lot of news about it gets to you.
We’re just as pissed as you but nobody is going balls out when they can and have just bombed neighborhoods.
Its going to be simple sabotage and slow burn, the fascists already hold office.
So slow it’s nearly indistinguishable from no burn at all.
Let me say it louder.
COWARDS.
You value your comfort and your relative stability over your country and the lives of the least among you.
If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight even at the ruler’s bidding.
A divided, unorganized Left cannot possibly hope to win against the fascist party and large militarized institutions corrupted by fascism, the Left needs to organize first.
Bad news, there is no “left” in the US.
You’re always 10 years behind us politically. I’ll see you 'round the bend.
You, when your neighbor tells you to stop fucking around and put out your house fire: “go fuck yourself, this shit will be spreading to your place soon enough.”
“It’s going to be bad for you soon because we consistently lack the will and courage to fix our country” isn’t the flex you think it is.
That’s not how I read this exchange.
The only person here who is being insulting is you.
Did you think I was trying to be polite?
Clearly not. I think you missed the point of my comment.