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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlThe US is a terrorist state
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    15 minutes ago

    Do you think Harris would have kept us out of Iran?

    She’s not Trump. That’s all that matters.

    If she hadn’t bombed Iran, it would be because she was kinder and wiser and more serious. If she had bombed Iran, it would have been for better reasons and with more international support.

    But the important thing is that she wouldn’t be Trump.





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    we haven’t followed the constitution in a very long time

    But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

    ~ Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority








  • Millenials don’t run anything.

    Steven Miller, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, Elise Stefanik, and Tulsi Gabbard all hold ranking positions in the federal bureaucracy. The average age of an ICE agent is 40, with plenty coming into the organization in their 20s. The average age of US military leadership is 44 (by design). The average age of US mayors is 50. The average CEO is 54, with newer executives tending to the high 40s. The average US voter’s age is 43.

    Millenials run plenty.

    The senate is still dominated by Boomers and the Reps are dominated by Boomers and Gen X

    And they’ve done nothing substantial to affect the Unitary Executive government. They’re perfectly happy to just sit on their hands while the younger and more aggressive leadership take the lead. They don’t control the money in a material sense, either. Lobbyists, DC staffers, and campaign bundlers all skew much younger. Dianne Feinstein was drooling into her oatmeal while her Chief of Staff James Sauls was making all her decisions.

    Charlie Kirk was a mere 31 years young when he was abruptly unalived. He’d been slopping around a campaign war chest of $85M - more than most sitting governors - in an effort to influence elections through the American southwest.

    These are the people running the country.



  • we were students during 9/11 and watched our peers get fucked up and die in Iraq and Afghanistan for no reason

    Pretty sure there was a reason. The Cheney family fortune ballooned during those eight years. Nevermind the hedge fund sector. Hank Paulson made out like a bandit.

    The conversion of SCOTUS to conservative and the godamn Patriot Act was already in place before most of us could even vote.

    And then 20 years passed, and Millennials did what about it? Send JD Vance to the Senate? Put a trillion dollars into Bitcoin to gamble on rigged sports games? Spend half a career inflating the profits of Facebook and Palantir and the O&G industry or just straight up becoming cops?

    The only millennials with the wealth to change anything are nepo babies with fascist dreams

    Because y’all never unionized. You never got over your fear of migrants or your love of Ring Cameras. You never even logged off Twitter.

    Millennials bought the poison pill of Boomerism without even getting the cheap homes or the good jobs.

    Millennials embraced fascism chasing the American Dream. And now here we are, with hundreds of thousands of you fuckers wearing ICE badges so you can cover your Cybertruck notes and credit card debts.