Yes, Trump of all people sees how fucked up this is, because it is tanking his ratings.
this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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Fun fact, Hezbollah was designated a terrorist organization for this exact reason. Killing terrorist invaders killing innocent people on your land makes you a terrorist.
Terrorist is a politicized, meaningless term, and always has been. Its only use is propaganda. The fact that the word snuck into legislation is incredibly frightening. In the UK, you cannot support a terrorist group. What defines a terrorist group? Whatever the fuck the home security office wants.
In the UK, you cannot support a terrorist group. What defines a terrorist group? Whatever the fuck the home security office wants.
Protesting genocide, apparently.
Reminder that terrorist started being used as a replacement for “freedom fighter”, when public opinion on the Mujahideen, APLA, IRA etc. started to change and flip.
when public opinion on the Mujahideen, APLA, IRA etc. started to change and flip
Seems like a reversal of cause and effect. I think the usage of the term "terrorist" for these groups was a deliberate choice of the consent factory to flip public opinion.
That’s what I mean, they started calling them terrorists because people started seeing “freedom fighter” as a positive thing. “Freedom fighters” were scary anarchists that blew things up in Europe in the 1800s.
You're not going insane, but much of the world has already gone well past it.
No, the world has just gone back to its natural order: Might makes right
Sucks we can't ever do anything else and must always yield to our betters.
Oh well. Nothing to be done.
Yeah - unfortunately, we're not nearly as evolved away from our animalistic ancestors as many like to think.
i think we are, but the archaic system in place allows the cavemen the same chances as everyone else to compete and thus you have those like Trump getting elected.
I don't think it's just a systemic problem, but I'm curious what methods you would use to prevent the Trumps of the future from getting power.
As far as I'm concerned he's just a useful idiot that serves as a major distraction from those actually pulling the strings behind the curtain. Those are the people that need to be curtailed from having such power.
Direct democracy and the head of state and law makers having no real power beyond implementing what was voted on would be fine. It won't be perfect and it will be gamed but surely it's better than what we have now.
how is it not a systemic problem if it allows people who does not belong in power to exploit the system and gain power?
like, these fuckers has, since the days of reagan, kept adding holes in the system so they can cheat to win.
patch those holes and they got no chance. start with the EC. then broadcasting. then legal bribery. and we're off to a good start.
I say that because his backers are extremely aggressive, manipulative sociopaths who will always find ways to twist things to their advantage. Whatever system you come up with will inevitably have some cracks that they will eventually figure out how to exploit.
Your system would need to prevent such sociopaths from ever developing while somehow still allowing the freedoms most Americans want.
Until capitalism is lynched with prejudice those with money and power will tear down any safeguards put in place to stop them. Rid the word of capitalism and maybe we have a chance.
It's called Greater Israel now
It's frustrating to think that the only reason we all know it's a genocide is because we're all currently aware of it; two or three generations down the line, people will just look back and go by what the news of our era said. We're all assuming future generations will blame us for our lack of action during this time, but honestly they'll be far enough removed that they'll just go by what the news of our era says. You had (Mike Pompeo?) literally saying that they need to make sure history remembers Israel as the victim, not the Palestinians.
We all know Hitler was evil because institutions and the news made sure to remember him as he was and for his actions; the news today and going forward will whitewash Israel; even social media is being controlled to make sure the desired narrative lives on.
We know what has to be done to prevent this
Fear mongering is a psyop. I'm not talking about legitimate fears of ongoing genocide, either.