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  • Their role is entirely dependent on maintaining the cult of personality and calling for the blood of those who are accused of dysloyalty.

    You’re not looking at this from a systemic perspective.

    Their role is winning their own elections. Everything else must be secondary, since if it wasn’t they’d be replaced by someone else who does.

    I’m talking about the people who run the machinery of the evil empire that turns the suffering and continued immiseration of billions into profits for the shareholders of the most destructive companies, I’m not under any impression that these people have morals I can recognize.







  • Can you think of any precedent where something like that has happened before?

    In the US? The closest you’d get is JFK, if you think Allen Dulles was behind the assassination, and not just the coverup.

    Outside the US? Constitutional coups after a country goes against US interests happen so frequently that it’s not even noteworthy.

    What would that do, exactly?

    Replace Trump with JD Vance, who I’m sure will be more amenable to the interests of the capitalist class.




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    Apparently it’s too subtle for anyone who didn’t interpret it as antidemocratic.

    The joke is how unfortunately prophetic it is.

    Do you think the US is meaningfully democratic? When’s the last time any leader did something that favored the people over capital?