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‘I Run the Country and the World’ (1 Viewer)

"And the second time, I run the country and the world," he added.
"I'm having a lot of fun, considering what I do ... You know, what I do is such serious stuff."
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This quote shows how democracy is really just a soft dictatorship. As soon as they are voted in they act like a king with a permission slip, and it's not just Trump.
 
aociswundumho said:
This quote shows how democracy is really just a soft dictatorship. As soon as they are voted in they act like a king with a permission slip, and it's not just Trump.
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As lawless sections of Somolia shows, the "Libertarian" solution is no sort of place Big-L Libertarians want to live in.
 
aociswundumho said:
This quote shows how democracy is really just a soft dictatorship. As soon as they are voted in they act like a king with a permission slip, and it's not just Trump.
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This has zero to do with how our representative democratic republic functions. Trump is a criminal and unique in pushing past the limits built in of presidential power. The courts and the Congress still have power and can slow the president down or stop him when he goes too far.
 
aociswundumho said:
This quote shows how democracy is really just a soft dictatorship. As soon as they are voted in they act like a king with a permission slip, and it's not just Trump.
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Instead people should be kings because they inherited land from their ancestors. Their rule over that land and anyone living on it should be absolute and without any kind of regulation, right?
 
aociswundumho said:
Your mind is in the gutter.



No, in fact it's not even close. We had a king in the 1940s who put 120,000 innocent people (mostly women and children, 2/3 American citizens) into prison camps based solely on their race. While the ACLU spoke out about, no one in the government did.



The feeling is mutual of course.
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How many libertarians and AnCaps spoke out against it? Or were they too busy buying up the land of interned Japanese people at cut rate prices?
 
aociswundumho said:
Your mind is in the gutter.
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I'd say your sense of humor is down there somewhere, but I think it's dead.

aociswundumho said:
No, in fact it's not even close. We had a king in the 1940s who put 120,000 innocent people (mostly women and children, 2/3 American citizens) into prison camps based solely on their race. While the ACLU spoke out about, no one in the government did.
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Who signed the permission slip?

aociswundumho said:
The feeling is mutual of course.
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I liked the first post better.
 
Questerr said:
Instead people should be kings because they inherited land from their ancestors. Their rule over that land and anyone living on it should be absolute and without any kind of regulation, right?
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Please tell me the alternative you have in mind to replace private land ownership.
 
aociswundumho said:
Your mind is in the gutter.



No, in fact it's not even close. We had a king in the 1940s who put 120,000 innocent people (mostly women and children, 2/3 American citizens) into prison camps based solely on their race. While the ACLU spoke out about, no one in the government did.



The feeling is mutual of course.
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Trump’s mind is in the gutter.


We were at war. An actual existential war which could have upended the entire globe and given a huge victory to Nazism and fascism. An entirely unique situation which caused this mistake to happen due to prejudices at the time. Things were handled poorly but it was not a move toward a permanent authoritarian state. It was a tragic mistake that should never be forgotten which provides an important lesson in government not honoring the constitution. These lessons should never be forgotten.

We are not facing that now and the new emperor has no clothes. He is doing everything he can to undermine our way of governing and move rapidly toward an unaccountable executive branch that acts as an unquestioned authority in all areas of our culture and politics. All the while claiming emergency powers when there is really no emergency. This is the greatest danger we have faced of slipping into a permanent complete authoritarian police state. No comparison at all between the two situations.
 
devildavid said:
We were at war. An actual existential war which could have upended the entire globe and given a huge victory to Nazism and fascism.
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You're making the same argument the government made in Korematsu, and the government won the case. It’s now recognized as one of the worst supreme court decisions in US history.
 
aociswundumho said:
You're making the same argument the government made in Korematsu, and the government won the case. It’s now recognized as one of the worst supreme court decisions in US history.
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I am not arguing in favor of it and you dishonestly didn’t include my entire post to make it see as if I did.

devildavid said:
Trump’s mind is in the gutter.


We were at war. An actual existential war which could have upended the entire globe and given a huge victory to Nazism and fascism. An entirely unique situation which caused this mistake to happen due to prejudices at the time. Things were handled poorly but it was not a move toward a permanent authoritarian state. It was a tragic mistake that should never be forgotten which provides an important lesson in government not honoring the constitution. These lessons should never be forgotten.

We are not facing that now and the new emperor has no clothes. He is doing everything he can to undermine our way of governing and move rapidly toward an unaccountable executive branch that acts as an unquestioned authority in all areas of our culture and politics. All the while claiming emergency powers when there is really no emergency. This is the greatest danger we have faced of slipping into a permanent complete authoritarian police state. No comparison at all between the two situations.
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Questerr said:
Or were they too busy buying up the land of interned Japanese people at cut rate prices?
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That's a good point, they suffered a huge financial loss, along with their imprisonment.

Well, you know what they say, if you elect a socialist then don't be surprise when they start filling up concentration camps with undesirables. Literally every socialist state has had concentration camps, including Nazi Germany of course.
 
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devildavid said:
I am not arguing in favor of it and you dishonestly didn’t include my entire post to make it see as if I did.
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If you agree that Korematsu was wrongly decided, then you are conceding that what FDR did was vastly worse than anything Trump has done so far. Keep in mind: before ordering the internment of Japanese Americans, FDR had already made multiple racially prejudiced statements about Japanese people.
 
aociswundumho said:
Please tell me the alternative you have in mind to replace private land ownership.
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Communal land ownership for large parcels of land, individual ownership for land used as personal property.

And both of them subject to regulations and limitations on the owners rights imposed by a government.
 
aociswundumho said:
That's a good point, they suffered a huge financial loss, along with their imprisonment.

Well, you know what they say, if you elect a socialist then don't be surprise when they start filling up concentration camps with undesirables. Literally every socialist state has had concentration camps, including Nazi Germany of course.
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And where were the AnCaps to fight against that socialism and violation of people’s rights?

Or did they not care because the people being oppressed were non-whites?
 
Questerr said:
And where were the AnCaps to fight against that socialism and violation of people’s rights?
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We were outnumbered by about 10,000,000 to 1.
Questerr said:
Or did they not care because the people being oppressed were non-whites?
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Ok, let's say yes, that's the reason. They are still morally superior to the socialist who actually put them in the camps based on their race. And the political left to this day considers FDR as the greatest president.
 
aociswundumho said:
This quote shows how democracy is really just a soft dictatorship. As soon as they are voted in they act like a king with a permission slip, and it's not just Trump.
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Trump is the first president in modern times to defy court orders. I believe at this point; we're at three lower courts and two SC orders ignored by Trump.

Nixon was a criminal but respected the law enough to get the hell out when the court ordered him to do something and he knew that something would show his crimes. Trump does not possess that respect for American laws or the constitution. We see it daily.

Give us some examples of 'Other' presidents who have so blatantly disregarded the law/courts.
 
aociswundumho said:
This quote shows how democracy is really just a soft dictatorship. As soon as they are voted in they act like a king with a permission slip, and it's not just Trump.
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It shows what a sadist Trump is.
 
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