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If it's fair game to do this in Venezuela, it's fair game here in the US.
by rdiddly 9mo ago
If it's fair game to do this in Venezuela, it's fair game here in the US.
- petcat 9mo agoThat's not really how power works
- rdiddly 9mo agoJust sayin
- 1718627440 9mo agoIf that is you actual view of society, than you reject the concept of law itself. Just because people are able to act against the law (and get away with it) doesn't make law obsolete. In fact if they wouldn't act against it, there would be no reason to have a law.
- rendang 9mo ago[flagged]
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- badosu 9mo agoIsn't that the case though? Where's the separation of powers or the rule of law in the US? To be clear, I'm not favoring any kind of such action, just holding the honesty of the statement.
- alluro2 9mo agoSocialism = tyranny? Wow. I guess you prefer the freedom of being bankrupted if you get injured, and getting taken by masked men from an unmarked van if you got some tan on your vacation, and then dropped to El Salvador.
- terminalshort 9mo agoI would choose civil war over being ruled by socialist any it's not close.
- taveras 9mo agoWould you elaborate on your definitions for “being ruled” and “socialist”? Does that mean you would prefer violent rebellion over a United States president with social liberal public policies? Would you have taken up arms under either of the Roosevelts? Extremism and violence tend to go hand-in-hand.
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- terminalshort 9mo agoDid I say "social democrat" or did I say "socialist"?
- terminalshort 9mo agoThere is no "fair game" in geopolitics
- JumpinJack_Cash 9mo agoAnd to be fair nearly happened in July 2024 as the last item of a long list of incident involving U.S. Presidents starting from Lincoln all the way up to the July 2024 episode and of course the last successful hit being JFK in 1963 and the last successful injury being the one suffered by Ronald Reagan