• Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      44·
      2 years ago

      I’ve never seen someone both frothing at the mouth and have a raging hard on at the same time.

    • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
      919·
      2 years ago

      And to be fair, the US isn’t a “democracy”. It’s a constitutional republic with democratically elected representatives. Semantics, I know, but accuracy counts.

      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        16·
        2 years ago

        Nobody means “universal direct democracy” when they say “democracy”. Not the ancient Athenians, not the Swiss, nobody.

        This is a very disingenuous talking point.

        • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
          110·
          2 years ago

          It’s not a talking point. Seems quite a few Americans don’t know what our actual form of government is called. Accuracy counts.

          • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            10·
            2 years ago

            Words mean what the people using them agree that they mean.

            You are holding a minority position here. It would seem you do not know what your form of government is called.

              • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
                4·
                2 years ago

                Well, you are correct by a minority. But incorrect by the majority.

                Its called perspective and language. Study papers need to define the word sometimes from the ground up so the paper becomes understandable.

        • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
          113·
          2 years ago

          Democracy, by definition, is 50% +1 vote, otherwise known as “mob rule”. That would be an even shittier system to live under.

            • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
              5·
              2 years ago

              I just want to point out that the majority of people are manipulated by massive corporations on a daily basis. They just use it for immediate profit by getting them to buy things. They could easily start manipulating people for political gain, of which they’ve tried in the past with varying degrees of success.
              This is expressly what a constitutional federal republic (a specific type of democracy) is meant to prevent.

              • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
                72·
                2 years ago

                You mean this?

                I know exactly what fascism is. Being anti-democracy does not in itself make you a fascist, but it’s a very strong sign that you are. Either way you’re an asshole and I don’t particularly care what flavor of asshole you are.

                • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
                  210·
                  2 years ago

                  And you’re a fuckwit! Name calling is fun!

                  Never thought being pro-freedom meant fascist to intellectuals such as yourself. A system that could swing from election to election based on one vote seems pretty fucking horrible tbh, especially in the US with our deep partisan divdes. Imagine the sheer horror the libs would go through whe the country went 50.0000000001 to 49.9999999999 conservative and abortion became illegal for 4 years! Bet you’d hate democracy then!

                  For the record, I’m solidly pro choice, pro 2A, athiest and couldn’t care less who you want to spend your naked time with. Find another lazy insult, fascist already wore itself out, and it doesn’t describe the people you think it does - bet you agree with keeping Trump off the ballot. “Democratic”, indeed.

    • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
      231·
      2 years ago

      Because it’s funny. His own AG stated he wouldn’t be fit to stand trial in a case regarding the classified documents he was illegally in possession of. I will fully admit I’m more Trump than not, but put up a funny Trump meme and I’ll laugh along with you. Last actual funny anti-Trump meme I can recall was one of those “Ladies, find yourself a man who looks at you the way Trump looks at Ivanka”. That actually generated a giggle. The shit I see nowadays is lazy “Orange man in jumpsuit!!! He go jail!”. That shit’s not funny, it’s dumb. I’ve seen some pretty dumbass Biden ones too.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.ml
    142·
    2 years ago

    I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of gaffes Biden has made over the last two years.

    Trump can’t go a single day without making a fool out of himself.

        • donuts@kbin.social
          223·
          2 years ago

          Just because he wasn’t charged with treason doesn’t mean he didn’t commit treason by advocating an armed insurrection against our democracy. (See: the US post-Civil War Reconstruction Era for further examples.)

          And if you want to why he wasn’t charged for that, it’s because of Republican Special Counsel Ken Starr’s disastrous opinion that sitting presidents are above the law and can’t be prosecuted, and must instead be impeached–which, if you remember, Trump was, not once but twice. Of course now Trump is arguing that he’s still above the law and deserves “total immunity”, which only further shows that he is, in fact, a wanna-be dictator.

          Saying “Trump wasn’t charged with a crime so therefore he did nothing wrong” and “Trump can’t be charged with a crime because current and former US Presidents must have total immunity from prosecution” is very clearly circular logic.

          • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
            115·
            2 years ago

            Well, you should probably elect better representation if you feel he committed treason by telling people to peacefully and patriotically make their voices heard, and that super treasonous decree telling everyone to go home. Considering not even AOC or Ilhan Omar brought up charges of treason, gonna go ahead and guess that there’s literally zero evidence, let alone reason to even try, but you seem to know more than they do. Also, for a dictator, he did a pretty piss poor job of remaining in power. Also pretty sure Ken Starr never stated sitting presidents are above the law, we do still have the impeachment process, which you also brought up. Yes, he was impeached (brought up on charges) by a liberal house, but was subsequently acquitted (found not guilty) by a conservative senate.

          • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
            114·
            2 years ago

            Pinpoint exactly how he tried to remain in power. The peaceful transition of power occurred on 1/20/21 as scheduled, nary a violent incident to be found. Your zeal to see a man you disagree with destroyed, being fed by pure idiots as well as some who have far more nefarious intentions, is undeniable. Reams of documents and thousands of hours of video evidence still haven’t surfaced. Yet they keep feeding you lie after lie. If such evidence existed, it would be plastered all over the news, and I would stand beside you to throw him in prison.

            On a different topic, but one that’s more in line with the meme posted that started all this, do you agree that Biden should be impeached and put in prison for what remains of his life for the documents he was in no way legally allowed to take possession of after his time as vice president, nor were they secured in any way, shape or form? Or do you agree with AG Garland that he’s unfit to stand trial?

              • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
                115·
                2 years ago

                Sure a bunch of fuckwits did some dumb shit, and quite a few did some really bad shit. For all of them, I fully support throwing the book at them. However, there is zero proof that Trump is culpable in it.

                If you really want to block me but can’t, I’ll go ahead and stop engaging you. I fully respect your wishes and I’m truly sorry if whatever I said somehow caused you grief. I wish the best for you and hope that someday you’ll look back on this conversation objectively, and not through a lens polarized by political beliefs.

            • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
              6·
              2 years ago

              Pinpoint exactly how he tried to remain in power.

              He tried to get a mob to murder his own vice president.

              We were there. It was not too long ago. We remember.

              The fact that he’s crap at seizing power doesn’t mean he should get away with it. In fact, guess what usually happens to failed golpistas.

    • hendrik@lemmy.ml
      12·
      2 years ago

      Didn’t Trump love to talk about that Alzheimers/Dementia-Test he once took and how well he performed and remembered that 5 things they asked him to remember? This sounds like a joke I already heard. Maybe we can look up the dislike ratio from back then.

      • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
        312·
        2 years ago

        I do recall something like that, and I recall him passing it. The dude brags all the time about dumb shit, I will wholeheartedly agree to that.

        Your point?

        • hendrik@lemmy.ml
          6·
          2 years ago

          My point?

          The statement was: “Replace Joe with the evil orange man […]”

          My point is, no need for that. The orange man is way ahead of you. I’d credit him for coming up with that meme, years ago.

          • rug_burn@sh.itjust.works
            19·
            2 years ago

            Your statement was about the cognitive test he was bragging about, that’s what I was responding to. I fully admit that Trump will brag about anything, not sure where you were going with that statement. If you’d like to take it in another direction, feel free.

    • CTDummy@lemm.ee
      102·
      2 years ago

      Yeah post that are low effort “orange man bad” don’t get shit on and deleted all the time you muppet.

    • utubas@lemm.ee
      89·
      2 years ago

      Lemmy feels way worse than reddit when it comes to bias. Tankies and freaks everywhere