Please don’t elect Temu Trump (Pierre Poilievre) or Trump’s useful idiot Doug Ford.

  • asg101@lemmy.ca
    51·
    2 days ago

    “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”

    ~ attributed to Denis Diderot

    • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
      19·
      2 days ago

      It’s a lovely dream, but I’m pretty sure we’ll just come up with a different title for the people who manipulate us.

        • Sturgist@lemmy.ca
          5·
          2 days ago

          Kings never really went away. Points to the entire British Commonwealth and the UK. Emperors neither. And let’s not get started on priests…yeeeesh!

          Are you talking about specifically the USA? Because you’ve kept your priests, and treat your Presidents like de-facto kings, their reigns may end but Presidents they remain.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          2 days ago

          This is another Trump special, really. There’s no shortage of titles for the dictator, including just keeping “president”, and he picked the one that’s hardest to defend in terms of the American mythology.

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 days ago

      Constitution is terminated (just like he said he would)

      Article I

      Section 9 Powers Denied Congress
    Clause 8 Titles of Nobility and Foreign Emoluments

    No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

      https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C8-4/ALDE_00013204/

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Trump has been throughly wiping his ass with the constitution since the day he stepped into the whitehouse.

        It’s just meaningless paper until someone actually steps up and enforces it.

  • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    I was reading or watching some news story once and it was about these two blokes getting arrested for fucking farm animals. And it started a train of thought. How do two strangers meet who are into fucking farm animals? It isn’t like it is socially acceptable. Its probably not on their dating profile. I get that if you are part of a comparatively common group experiencing social repression you learn ways to communicate. Even pedos. But animal fuckers? Are they that common?

    Now call me autistic if you like but suddenly I realized some of the edgy race jokes I had laughed at when I was younger and dumber might have been actual racists looking to connect with other racists. The sexist and homophobic jokes might have been actual bigots. And the guys joking about fucking animals. Well most of those are just jokes because obviously nobody does that. But perhaps some of them are looking for a special friend because how else does that convo even get started without the plausible deniability of “a joke”.

    So now when I see a fascist dog fucker “joking” about their not meant to be serious fascist memes and symbols the illusion is broken for me. And when I see Presidents joking about being Kings or invading neighbors, it isn’t my type of humor any more I guess.

    • flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      I’m an ADHD person and I had this exact same realization when I was younger.

      I think maybe this isn’t something neurotypicals ever figure out? Because they seem to be accepting of those “jokes” and it blows my mind.

      • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 days ago

        They’re well evolved to survive in social groups. Even if they suspect someone is recruiting for something terrible, the loss of social status and allies isn’t worth confronting the recruiter. Even visibly suspecting it will harm social status. This is a feature, not a bug.

        Historically, the kid who called out the emperor’s new clothes was executed. Every time you started shit in your tribe, you risked being shunned, which meant death. If the whole tribe was crazy, you were better off being crazy too.

    • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      2 days ago

      Who jokes about these things? Plausible deniability my ass. I ever hear someone joke about fucking animals I’m gonna slowly, no actually, rapidly back away

      • shirro@aussie.zoneEnglish
        9·
        2 days ago

        Who jokes about these things?

        Exactly. Have you ever heard an elected president joke about being King or invading their peaceful neighbor? Ever? Anyone? Animal fuckers. Its the only thing that makes sense.

      • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
        31·
        2 days ago

        At work we say “there’s many ways to fuck a cat” implying you can do something different ways.

        We also say “it’s not my dog to fuck” when it’s not your job

        Or “I’m fucking the dog” or “they’re fucking the dog” when someone is taking a stupid amount of time to do things.

    • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      No, it’s not. Because it’s not a tweet at all. Trump posted that on his own little unfederated modified Mastodon instance he calls Truth Social (seriously, it’s built on Mastodon). Note the red check instead of blue and them being called “retruths” because he calls posts on his instance “truths.”

      It’s an important distinction if ever you need to find the original source for any reason.

      • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 days ago

        Thanks! I was already aware of that, but others might not be.

        I used tweet in the generic sense because like hell I would ever say “Holy crap, that’s a real truth!”

  • HungLikeAHoers2010@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    A country losing its way and straying far off from the ideals it originally strived for, becoming the very thing it fought against without realizing. That describes both the USA and Israel to a T.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
    34·
    3 days ago

    It is going very poorly here folks. There isn’t any other way to say it, except to say it more accurately, which is that it is going about as badly as it has ever gone and seems on a trajectory for going as badly as it is possible to go.

  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
    25·
    3 days ago

    The government is too big, why are we paying for healthcare, school, welfare and whatever else? It is unfair to those who don’t use those services.

    …oh, except roads and the military, everyone must pay for those.

    It’s amazing how many of these policies are posed as a simple fair rule (people should pay for what they want, not have the government decide where spending goes) but in actuality is just a convenient excuse for dismantling institutions that they personally don’t like.

  • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Maybe that’s the motivation for invading Canada. Trump the First, by the grace of God, of Canada King, Defender of the Faith.