• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    Yeah. Impeachment. Unfortunately, no one ever imagined the dominant party would actually support the deranged lunatic criminal.

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      I didn’t say lunatic president, I said lunatic in the Whitehouse. I was trying to suggest they should treat him the way they would some random lunatic criminal who found his way into the building

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    4 days ago

    The US Empire as a political project extends well beyond Trump, and is bipartisan. The solution is revolution, which requires a steady buildup of worker organization coupled with crisis.

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    ableism, him being a “lunatic” or “deranged” has nothing to do with the evils of America, Obama was completely sane yet a war criminal

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    There is, but it doesn’t work when most of congress sees him as their deranged lunatic criminal. Laws are only as good as the mechanism of enforcing them.

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    Pretty sure the people who wrote the Constitution expected armed rebellion or assassination well-before this point. They could not have anticipated how comfortable the masses, even the crime lords, the vainglorious rich meddlers, and the warmongers who pay others to do their dirty work, would become. Today, they are all in the club, and the loose-canons either in prison, blackmailed, or on the payroll.

    Hell, Trump is damn-near the closest thing to a loose-canon in any position or disposition to de-rail the Whitehouse’s plans today.

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      They very well understood that the system they made was first and foremost in service of capital. They were wealthy slavers and capitalists themselves.

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        Yes, but they also belived that went hand-in-hand with violence, both personal and in personal service to a cause. Eliminating dueling was a mistake, precisely because it distracted them from eachothers’ juicy throats.

        Hamilton is worshipped today as an outsider to that system, a self-made-man, who forced change, but for all of the understanding he demonstrated, I find it hard to believe he handled this one issue for the benefit of the people. In fact, he avoided it, and maybe not for the reasons that are popularly understood today.

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    I’m pretty sure that is what the well armed and organized malitia is for

    (Specifically when legally established means dont work)

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    Why are all the comments assuming the question exclusively refers to presidents? Are presidents the only people present in the Whitehouse? I’m asking hypothetically what happens if a maniac is present in the Whitehouse. The intended point is to imagine Trump being treated like any other person.

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      Because right now there is a deranged lunatic in the White House, and he’s the president, so it seems like you’re asking about current events, not hypotheticals.

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        Like I said, I’m trying to suggest they should treat him like they would any other deranged lunatic in the Whitehouse