Fred R.

Yes, now imagine how we feel, reading BS comments like yours… What a stupid thing to say.

Sorry, were we talking about fascist capture of state power?

Not sure what treaties have to do with it. Liberalism is not just an economic position, it has political dimensions as well.

In pretty much every historical example I’m aware of, liberals happily ceded to or collaborated with the fascist seizure of the state.

It’s happening again and no one has ANY excuse to be surprised.

You sound a lot like someone who could benefit from reading Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds.

Liberal democracy sides with fascism literally always. Read some fucking history.

I’m not sure the world can afford them getting any stupider than they already are!

Why don’t you go act like a cop somewhere else? Maybe instead of policing people’s Lemmy behavior you should, idk, do something useful with your time?

Lemmy supports crossposting. If you don’t like it, go take it up with the devs?

Actually it’s a crosspost, and the article is linked in the original post.

Ah, sorry about that! Didn’t think about it but it makes sense! Fixed!

100%

Meh.

Distinctions without differences IMO.

“lawless bunch of thugs with no rules and total impunity” is the definition of “police”.

Every point you’ve tried to make can be made without asking people to pretend that the “regular” police haven’t committed the same atrocities time and time again.

Pretending that ICE is uniquely different from other kinds of police damages the movement for police abolition.

This information could be presented as a bulleted list that takes <10s to read. I don’t need or want a video of it.

What are you talking about?

Their vests say “POLICE” right on 'em.

Did you mean they’re not local police, maybe?

If it looks like a pig, acts like a pig, and smells like a pig, it’s probably a pig!

I had a feeling this piece would be pretty milquetoast, but goddamn.

Non sequitir.

The presence of an IBC tote would imply the presence of some equipment necessary to move it (at least a pallet jack, possibly a forklift), maybe.

However, the inverse does not follow: absence of a tote does not imply the absence of the equipment needed to move one. The presence or absence of the equipment is logically independent of the absence of the equipment (even though it would be be implied by the presence of the equipment).

This is called denying the antecedent. The conditional does not imply the inverse. In symbolic terms:

Conditional: p → q
Inverse: ¬p → ¬q

(p → q) → (¬p → ¬q) is false.

If you’re going to make claims on the Internet, it’s worth learning at least a little propositional logic.

Document specifically states 6 55-gal drums.

You know there is a difference between the voiced and unvoiced dental fricatives, right? The voiced was represented with “thorn”, while the unvoiced was represented with the letter “eth”. They do contrast phonemically sometimes, so if you’re going to bother using thorn, you might consider using eth too.

Repeat after me: IF THEY DON’T COMPLY, WE WILL MAKE THEM!

Holy shit is this author intellectually incapable.

Trump himself may be a pure “patrimonialist”. But to act like the rest of the American ruling class aren’t textbook corporatist fascists defies credulity.

What a fucking idiot. People like this can’t be trusted with a pen, much less a goddamned ballot.

I’m not a Marxist communist, if that’s what you mean. I think if you ask just about any actually practicing leftists of basically any stripe whether the age of Western colonialism has actually ended, you will be laughed at.

But it’s clear that you are unlikely to understand what most of these terms mean, so I’ll stop tilting at windmills and move on with my life.

If you think the anti-colonial project is anywhere near complete, I’m dumbfounded. Are you just… not even aware of the existence of the Global South?

Your position is indistinguishable from badly-executed farce. Maybe you should study a lot more history and social science and spend a little less time being a pretend leftist on the Internet.