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Add Apple to the list of collaborators who need to be punished once the regime is overthrown.
by yrro 1y ago
Add Apple to the list of collaborators who need to be punished once the regime is overthrown.
- dandanua 1y agoOverthrown by whom? Aliens? Power supports power, there is no way out of this black hole.
- yrro 1y agoThe neat thing about the US is that governments are overthrown regularly by automatic operation of law: 12pm on the 20th of January 2028, in the case of the 47th president. I'm sure you know this but I feel everyone needs to remind themselves of this immutable fact regularly until then.
- dandanua 1y agoYou are 8 months in since your last 20th of January and your chief turd already collected all top military officials and started his speech by intimidating them. There is no such thing as "automatic operation of law".
- Vegenoid 1y ago> immutable Do not make the mistake of believing laws are as concrete as code. There are many, many instances throughout history of the powerful people who are responsible for enforcing the laws, deciding to suddenly change or ignore them.
- sleight42 1y agoTrue. But not if the game is rigged by gerrymandering. Or a false emergency used as an excuse to delay the election. Or...
- baobun 1y agoHe seems set on causing enough turmoil that elections would be postponed due to war, civil or otherwise. I bet he got the idea from looking at Zelensky in Ukraine.
- AlexandrB 1y agoNot just power, but ~50% of the voting public. An "overthrow" would be highly undemocratic and it's very curious to hear the same people that claim Trump is literally Hitler talk about "overthrowing" their (democratically elected) political enemies and then "punishing collaborators". Is there no sense of self-awareness at all?
- dandanua 1y agoThe majority, of course, can decide to get rid of democracy and transform the country into a fascists dictatorship. But in this case they can't expect democrats to treat them by their democratic rules. This is not how it works, sorry. Your self-awarness is broken, I'm afraid.
- scineram 1y ago[flagged]