If he deploys them, it’s just a show of force because he’s Trump. People who have never been in the military don’t know what this force can really do until they start fucking shit up.
If we’re talking about a situation where all out warfare happens, you’ll mostly see running and people pissing their pants with their AR 15s in hand. The majority of deaths will be because people are trampled to death while running.
The super strong, alpha male who can’t steadily walk down a ramp or lift a glass of water. The “perfect physical specimen” (quote by Donald J Trump) who is morbidly obese, suffers from coronary artery disease and high cholesterol.
Granted he is tall, genetically he won in that department
@SkyzykS You’re from the same state I grew up in if I recall correctly. Pennsylvania is also one of the most divided states at the moment (right?).
Are you for Trump, for Biden or Kanye West?
He’s a businessman. Of course this was his thought process. If he thought the dems would support him, he would have run as a dem and made gay marriage legal throughout the country by now. This is why I don’t buy all the “white supremist”, racist, homophobe etc the media keeps insisting he is.
I’d buy the racism part. He lost a lawsuit back in the 70s/80s for refusing to grant housing to black tenants. Documentation indicated there was a method of marking whether an applicant was african american… Said applications would be dismissed.
That was a different era and it could simply have been a business decision so other tenants wouldn’t be put off from renting or buying his property.
Perhaps, there were also a few suspicious remarks he made regarding the cases of the “central park five”. Even when all accused were eventually found innocent/had cases overturned he was like “this doesn’t prove anything” #maga #yeet
As to homophobia, he’s not good for LGBT rights. I’d think that’s a byproduct of the demographic be caters towards in order to increase approval ratings as opposed to legitimately harboured ideology.
The thing is Trump is a businessman. Again, if he were running as a dem, do you think he would have said those things lol? He’d be virtue signaling all day on twitter.
You go look at how he managed to swing the amount of Black, Hispanic and Asian voters to his side this election. They’re not really hot about LGBT people either. The dude’s just being a salesman. Nothing more, nothing less.
And I kinda like him cos he’s hilarious.
I can’t get that hitler video out of my head. “Pure #maga”…
I’m not really for any of them. Trump has done some things ok, but really is an obnoxious asshole. Biden needs a bowl of soup and a nice view of the sunset, and using him as a political shoehorn is as duplicitous and unscrupulous as anything I could ever imagine.
Statewise, there’s Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, then everywhere else. Current vote totals put it neck and neck within a couple thousand, but people can go either way at any given point.
So Kanye it is. I can at least appreciate his taste in big buttcheeks.
How old is Biden? Like 79?
He doesn’t appear to have that energy/oomph Bernie had. Old age has caught up with him and subclinical cognitive decline may very well be apparent.
Kamela Harris/Biden irritate me given their TOTAL 180 regarding the topic of criminal justice/associated reform. Both are directly responsible for the mass incarceration epidemic plaguing America. To just say “whoops… My bad… That was a mistake” in order to cater towards newly harboured public beliefs irks me.
But for climate change, reproductive rights, etc I’d prefer Biden win… Or Kanye West because it’d be funny (although devastating for America) to watch the country be run by someone afflicted by bipolar disorder who refuses to take his meds.
I never understood the appeal behind Kim Kardashians aesthetic, there’s such a thing as too big of an ass… Right?
I dunno. After seeing a few videos of his younger days I think he has always been right about where he is now. It’s just time for the Dems to give him the gold watch and tell him thanks. Even if he wins, what I suspect to be coming around the corner is going to strip him of his dignity and leave him a broken embarrassment.
I dunno. I’d have to take it for a test drive.
Trump running as a democrat.
“I’m the most pro-abortion person you’ve ever seen. The Right is killing women. Many, many doctors - specialists in abortion have told me that. Abortionists, that’s what they call them. Very good people. Tremendous people speaking up for women. The Right is forcing women to seek illegal abortions. It’s MURDER. They’re killing women. They’re killing women for a single cell. It’s terrible. Really terrible.”
I’m irritated they couldn’t push forward a better, more progressive candidate like Pete Butigiege or Andrew Yang. Instead what we’ve been offered is a return to purported normalicy. I think the hope is a return to an Obama era presidency. This isn’t going to happen, times have changed.
I mean… Joe Biden… is that really the best they could come up with.
Damn… it’s SOOOOOOO close in Georgia, we’re looking at a 500 vote difference. If Trump loses Nevada, Pensylvania and Georgia it’d be very difficult to contest the turnout.
They’re stuck with Kamala if Biden taps out. It won’t be pretty.
Read what I wrote, rather than just skim it. Like I said, it doesn’t take a lot of people to disrupt and in neutralize local institutions. See ANTIFA\ BLM. The entire system of jurisprudence is broken down in Portland. Not scale that up several thousand times and you have a viable scenario.
People often imagine local militias actually going against the military itself. In this country, the military serves at the behest of it’s people. It’s not just a wing of the government. So armed conflict in this country would not likely involve the military itself. Sure, if the military were to unleash it’s full power against the people, the obviously they would “win”. But that is the least likely scenario.
The more likely scenario would be armed insurgency with the military staying out of it.
I didn’t skim it, dude. It would be disrespectful to someone whom I make a reply to if I did that and I would be dishonoring my ancestors from what the new Mulan movie has told me.
Seriously, I may have misread it but I don’t think I did in this case.
Notice my posts normally have a lot of edits? It’s mostly because I reread the post I’m replying several times while replying and I delete some parts and add some parts to my reply to stick to the context and try to be as intellectually honest as I can. Other times it’s because I give out too much personal or politically sensitive information.
My point is:
I think it’s a different scenario altogether These groups aren’t exchanging shots with law enforcement in large numbers, or as a coordinated faction.
If it came to this, a state of emergency would be declared and you’d see your government exercising it’s powers like they did with the lockdowns. I’m not familiar with US law, but if this area was passed down from the Brits, oh boy it’s gonna be some real shit that no one has ever seen before.
See, an “armed insurgency” would be a grave threat to national security in which the government will be forced to declare the aforementioned state of emergency. Then they have sweeping powers and the military is serving at the behest of the people in this case. It’s very likely martial law with curfews will be declared when this happens.
The BLM/Antifa riots are people really pushing the envelope from what I see in the news, but they’re still currently considered to be exercising their rights to protest, which is a different thing altogether.
Even if in the best case scenario in which the government doesn’t declare a state of emergency, remember the Patriot Act? There’ll be new legislation passed to deal with these insurgents which will be even worse in the long term if it doesn’t get repealed once you get new shit like this codified into law. See what happened to the people in HK.
And the US isn’t a country like Thailand or the Middle East. A First World country will not be able to sustain any form of real rebellion.
Again, look at HK. People just got tired of all the disruption to their daily lives and only a small fraction of the population that protested in the beginning(allegedly in the millions) ended up protesting the new national security law(over 10K) even though it was far, far worse then the initial extradition bill they were against.
The CCP just had to wait it out and let the extremists fuck shit up enough for the general population to start getting weary of them. There weren’t even any armed insurgents.
I have been for the legalization of ALL drugs, for over 30 years. I have no use for them, however. Prosecution should be reserved for crimes of violence or fraud. Of course, that is the libertarian in me. The reality is that many facets of our society want to keep drugs illegal, such as the prison industrial system, the police forces’ drug units, and, last, but not least, the criminal attorneys that defend (and prosecute) casual users/possessors. So much money is spent on all of these sectors, and it behooves those that benefit from draconian drug laws.
I think a distinction needs to be made between legalisation/discrimination. Legalised frameworks regarding marketing also need to be figured out.
Can we ethically justify selling something as destructive as crack cocaine over the counter? I don’t think so
Furthermore with other substances deemed less harsh, would marketing lead to a market like alcohol (a substance which should’ve never been marketed for mass consumption/as a social lubricant in the first place).
Legalising softer substances and banning marketing/advertising seems as if it has the potential to work based on current data available. For other substances, a model of decriminalisation/investing in rehabilitation as opposed to criminal prosecution appears effective.
eliminate prosecution for non violent drug offences, perhaps even find a suitable, less harmful/addictive alcohol replacement… but generally speaking a normalised market akin to how we sell alcohol shouldn’t be the goal. This is one of my concerns surrounding legalisation despite being an advocate for said legalisation.
Look at the framework of cannabis legalisation in
the USA vs Canada. I prefer the way Canada has gone about it
There are clear ramifications associated with drug use, we ought to weigh up the pros/cons such as detriment induced via criminal penalties, rates of overdose in relation to prohibitive stances, costs incurred from mass incarceration/who benefits from mass incarceration vs healthcare costs incurred from legalisation vs prohibition, violent crime statistics in relation to drug use/supply etc. Overall in MY opinion data appears to support decriminalisation and at times flat out legalisation.
Keeping harsh penalties in association with a perceived sense of morality, esp those enforced through religious organisations parroting hysteria and/or misinformation is absurd to me. There also appears to be a demographic of which significantly profits from prohibition. Particuarly for profit prison systems, law enforcement and cartels/criminal syndicates.
Lol you try legalizing heroin and letting it be freely sold and see what happens. Anything that someone will literally suck your dick in an alley for a hit is something that the average person can get severely addicted to if access is freely available. You can’t let an ideology override common sense.
Believing that society will self-govern itself like this is like believing Communism can work. It just hasn’t been done right.
This isn’t saying I’m for Big Government. There are some things that are just plain common sense. Normal, well-functioning people being overprescribed opiate painkillers can already get addicted to them. Think about what will happen even if you simply make drugs like coke, heroin and meth legal without prescriptions but limit their sales to licensed pharmacists.
People can even abuse OTC codeine painkillers ffs lol.
Then imagine what will happen if you make them freely available like alcohol.
EDIT:
I’m not saying I think drugs like weed and certain non-addictive stuff shouldn’t be legalized.