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[–] [email protected] 127 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What Biden actually does in response:

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, I don't see anything listed there. Guys, what's there? Surely there must be something!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You cannot see the wishful thinking bubble? Which client are you using? Any app with the disillusionment extension will do.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You jest, but Deceptichum actually did try to include a "wishful thinking bubble" which you can see only if you view the comment's source.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if they tried to do it using non-breaking spaces.

 

 

 

 

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Looks like using   worked.

[–] ZILtoid1991 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Take the moral high ground, which will lead to his demise.

Bonus edgy comic idea:

Panel 1: The scene from The Revenge of the Sith, where Obi-Wan got the high ground, but instead, Obi-Wan says "It's over Anakin, I've got the moral high ground!".

Panel 2: Obi-Wan drops his lightsaber.

Panel 3: Anakin cuts off Obi-Wan's limbs in a single move.

Panel 4: The horribly mutilated body of Obi-Wan is shown in a torture machine.

[–] Anticorp 12 points 3 months ago

The difference between Obi-wan and the Democratic Party is that Obi-wan was willing to take difficult paths and challenge his enemies as they needed to be challenged.

[–] TootSweet 112 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do we really think Biden (or any Democrat, really) is going to do anything different than continue to cede more ground to the Republicans as they always have?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

Fiction doesn't have to be realistic. That's the point of fiction.

[–] riodoro1 5 points 3 months ago

If he had the power he would just call early elections to loose faster.

[–] Nobody 62 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Order the DOJ to arrest and confiscate the assets of all billionaires on charges of treason. Send them to Guantanamo and give them a closed door “trial.”

Enemies of the state. All of them.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 40 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Every one of you guys is turning into crazed lunatics. This has been a long and stressful election season, and you're now calling for not only Biden to institute facism, but also to arrest citizens who haven't been convicted of any crime, to be taken to a fake predetermined trial off the books.

Man, I can't wait until election season is over.

checks calander

ITS ONLY JULY????

[–] Nobody 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

The US and probably the entire world would improve for everyone in a very short time frame if American billionaires were rounded up and arrested. These people are criminals. They have captured the republic and turned it into their casino, where the taxpayer subsidizes their losses. They are making the planet unlivable.

If you think the status quo is okay, you are not paying attention.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 25 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I'm not saying what they're doing is morally ok. I'm saying they aren't criminals. For that word implys that what they have done

  1. Was illegal

And

  1. They've been convicted of a crime.

Donald Trump is a 34X criminal. Thats factually accurate.

Jeff Bezos is not. Because he hasn't been convicted of anything.

You can't just use words against people you don't like and expect it to mean anything.

A better use of your vernacular would be:

"Billionaires are unempathetic, labor exploiting, psychopaths who are by far the leading cause of climate change, but will never personally feel the effects of their actions.

THAT would all be factually true. But also legal. So, again, they aren't criminals. They've rigged the system so they aren't breaking any laws by doing terrible things. That's by design.

[–] Bookmeat 17 points 3 months ago

You don't have to be convicted or even suspected of a crime to be a criminal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I'm with bookmeat. Anyone who has committed a crime is a criminal. It does not require being caught or convicted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Wow, a rare sane political comment on Lemmy! Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

if there's 100 billionaires (don't know the actual number) you don't think there's 10,000 millionaires right behind them that can't wait to become billionaires themselves that will step into that power vacuum?

I mean Republicans vote the way they do, even the most poorest, most powerless among them, since they all belive they're temporarily embarrassed millionaires so when they become rich they won't have to pay taxes either.

it's criminals all the way down. 4 legs good, 2 legs better

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

It's funny, the fascists on the other side are asking for something very similar with very similar wording

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Killing billionaires is not fascism and anyway being a billionaire necessitates serious immoral actions. You cannot be a billionaire and a good person.

Besides, the DOJ would never do that, it is literally built by billionaires to protect their interests.

[–] HappycamperNZ 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but its not illegal. That's the point - if you want laws to mean something then follow the laws, not what you think is ok or don't like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What crazed lunatics?

Yeah they are doing a hyperbole but it would be 100% legal and moral to make laws to restrict wealth and then once the law is there, seize billionaire wealth and leave them with 100 million dollars or something (so not even dragging them down to our level).

Responses like yours forget that people are frustrated and have already said the reasonable versions thousands of times.

[–] grue 3 points 3 months ago

Listen to this guy, folks. According to his username, he speaks from experience!

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[–] riodoro1 4 points 3 months ago

No. Close Guantanamo and cancel sanctions for Cuba.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Democrats are too spineless for this. They'll just wait patiently for the Republicans to take power and do this to them instead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Those evil Democrats are too spineless to drone strike their political opponents, sad weak fuckers.

Btw have I mentioned I am super cool and edgy and know more about the world than the people runnin' it?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Fascists don't have human rights, on account of literally not believing in them. It's one of the things that makes them fascists.

[–] FelixCress 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This. There should be no freedoms for the enemy of the freedom.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same vein as the paradox of tolerance.

[–] FelixCress 2 points 2 months ago

Yup, 100%. There should be no tolerance for the enemy of tolerance.

It is a basic self defense mechanism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

love the energy, but everyone has human rights. thats the point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This ignores the part where the SC didn't define "official acts".

Trump can do whatever he wants, but I guarantee if Biden does, those actions will be deemed " unofficial".

[–] meliaesc 10 points 3 months ago

He's old enough that he should just do what's right and die peacefully of old age before the sentencing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

So do it all so fast that by the time they get their shit together to stop him the damage is done. He's old as fuck It's not like personal consequences should matter to him anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I think that means some supreme court justices need to be seal team sixed

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love when people can't think multiple steps ahead & see the pitfalls of the bad idea they're currently supporting.

[–] riodoro1 2 points 3 months ago

Multiple steps ahead? How many steps does biden have before the next president bans political opposition?

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