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PugJesus

@ PugJesus @lemmy.world

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Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Rough Roman Memes lemmy.world

2y ago

‘Fatal mistake’: Democrats blame DOJ as Trump escapes accountability for Jan. 6
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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago
Centrists insisted that his critics were all Russians who would be gone as soon as the election was over.
Again, you're proving that your low level of reading comprehension has been consistent these past few months, but not much else, considering that's not even close to what was being said.

2y ago

‘Fatal mistake’: Democrats blame DOJ as Trump escapes accountability for Jan. 6

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Yeah, that's about the reading comprehension I suspected you were working with in our interactions a couple months ago.

2y ago

‘Fatal mistake’: Democrats blame DOJ as Trump escapes accountability for Jan. 6

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Because they're so goddamn certain they can just wait it out and everything will return to normal. The newspapers will praise them. The Republicans will be contrite. They'll be at the head of a new mythology of suffering-martyrs who made it out the other side to be the shining beacons of civility for the next era of statesmen. "Even when I was attacked, I didn't strike back out of wrath or vengeance ^." they imagine themselves saying, to a crowd waving their photo and naming awards for peaceful and cooperative success after them - or at least selling absurd numbers of their memoirs.

They can't imagine that they'll be remembered like those who appointed Petain in Bordeaux.

Hell, maybe they're too dull to even imagine that anything that hasn't already and literally happened to them will happen to them, I don't know; I've known plenty of voters like that, so why not reps too? "I didn't die last time so it won't happen next time either!" Like people whose cancer goes into remission and take up smoking again.

2y ago

‘Fatal mistake’: Democrats blame DOJ as Trump escapes accountability for Jan. 6

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

They fought, they just fought according to the 'rules' of the game. They were playing baseball while the GOP was playing "Beat the ref and crowd to death and take their wallets".

They're so goddamn certain that the newspapers tomorrow will praise their sportsmanship against such a terrible foe, and talk about how they 'deserved' to win, since that's how it worked in the Good Ol' Days(tm).

In reality, what newspapers aren't themselves intimidated by the thugs with aluminum bats will be lambasting the Dems for playing stupid fucking games while a massacre went on.

To the Dem thinking, everyone will lock arms and sing kumbaya and the next game will be totally aboveboard because people will be watching extra close for unsportsmanlike behavior. And hell - if it doesn't work out like that, it's not like the Dem players will be beaten to death - isn't the GOP just going after refs and the crowd? The Dem reps feel safe enough to gamble with our lives as many times as it suits their civility obsession to do so.

Knowing that the GOP is both stupid enough and malicious enough to target these oh-so-civil-Dems in the coming years is scant comfort, but at least I'll have plenty of folk to spit on when everyone is waiting in line for the gas chambers.

2y ago

Honduran Leader Threatens to Push U.S. Military Out of Base if Trump Orders Mass Deportations

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Good. Play hardball with the stupid orange fuck. If he wants to play transactional games, then it's only fair that other countries negotiate with him in the same manner.

2y ago

‘Fatal mistake’: Democrats blame DOJ as Trump escapes accountability for Jan. 6

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

But think of how NOBLY the Dems have lost the Republic! Completely polite and norm-abiding as what remains of our democracy is torn to shreds and pissed on!

2y ago

‘The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,’ warns House Democrat

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Unfortunately, a plurality of the electorate disagrees with us.

As for the timing, it's normal for the rules for the incoming Congress to be put into place before the presidential inauguration. It's just abnormal for them to be so... shitty.

2y ago

How active is Lemmy now?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Please do so, it's terribly lonely being the only poster some weeks DX

2y ago

‘The American people did not vote for whatever the hell this is,’ warns House Democrat

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Unfortunately, the American people did.

2y ago

Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

I've heard Europeans call Turks 'filthy' and 'roaches' and Africans 'monkeys'. And don't get me started on the things said about the Romani.

I don't think there's a difference in how tribalistic or vicious it is.

2y ago

Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

The things I've heard far too many Europeans of various nationalities say about MENA, Desi, Turkish, and Romani folk just... makes my skin crawl.

America has a deep racism problem, and it is both right and necessary to acknowledge it. But those who pretend that Europe doesn't have a deep racism problem are either not paying attention or in denial - especially considering recent political developments.

2y ago

Those who live outside Europe. What are things Europeans are not ready to hear.

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Europe is not as different from the US as it likes to pretend, especially politically.

Racism is not a unique or exceptionally American phenomenon, and the things I've heard from otherwise progressive Europeans can fucking curdle milk equal or in excess to what people in my ultra-rural ultra-conservative home region of the US can say.

2y ago

Those who live outside of the US, what's something Americans aren't ready to hear?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

You can look into Mississippi Land Company founded by George Washington for prospecting lands beyond the Appalachian mountains prohibited by the Proclamation.

The company was formed and petitioned the Crown before the proclamation.

2y ago

Those who live outside of the US, what's something Americans aren't ready to hear?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

nor the worst country.

Sorry, but even anti-America types seem to believe in American exceptionalism anymore. It's just that instead of believing we're some shining city on the hill, they believe we're The Great Satan(tm).

2y ago

Conspiracies

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

Yeah. Conspiracies feed a need to believe that there's some easy reason why things are fucked. In reality... things are fucked for a great many reasons, and 'evil people in power' is middle of the pack, at best.

2y ago

How are mods like this still allowed to "moderate" and run communities here?

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PugJesus @lemmy.world 2y ago

There are no standards for comm mods. Hell, I hear they even let that PugJesus cretin run a few!

More seriously, .world admins probably don't want to get into fighting over whether people can mod their own comms how they like. .world isn't intensely ideological, unlike some other instances, so the bar for sufficiently ideologically disgusting moderation to be removed is much higher than on, say, Solarpunk.