It might help if people understood that what the Democratic Socialists mean by "democracy," is NOT majority rule.
Go to a DSA meeting and you see that they actually impose a requirement of unanimity. EVERYONE must vote with the majority, or you are kicked out, as I learned when I followed a pretty girl to a DSA meeting in the early 1980s.
I actually got to witness the beginning of cancel culture. The meeting was voting whether to send a DSA delegate over to the Stanford Student Senate to call for the university to block a Latin American counter-revolutionary leader from speaking on campus.
(I think he was involved in the Salvadorean civil war, but it could have been the Contras.)
Anti-free-speech was new territory at the time, unheard of, and they went around the room bullying all of their dissenting members into agreement, saying how they were blocking the will of the majority, lol.
When I said that they were never going to get me to side with their insane anti-free-speech position, they decided that meant I wasn't one of them (true), so they were still adhering to their unanimity rule by proceeding without my vote, hahaha.
It's a cult technique of mind control. If they can get you to go along with something, then your subconscious decides that you must agree with that thing.
It's called the principle of cognitive dissonance, If there is dissonance between one's beliefs and one's actions, the mind tries to keep things simple by changing beliefs to fit actions. It is a well established psychological phenomenon.
DSA uses this as a brainwashing cult-mechanism. They are not just communist, they are a communist mind-control cult.
They are the most totalitarian of all of the socialist totalitarianisms, determined to create and enforce a hive mind.
DSA seeks totalitarian control, not just of actions, but of thoughts.
They are the worst of the worst, not a "kinder gentler" version of totalitarian communism, but the most thoroughly totalitarian version.
Several years ago I wrote up a fuller account of my brief DSA experience. Anyone who is interested can find it by searching my Error Theory blog for "DSA."
All good until he said "it's a delicate balance." No it isn't.
170 million years ago atmospheric CO2 was close to 3000 ppm, and the Earth was fine. Super abundant plant life, dinosaurs running all over the place and growing to astounding sizes.
Before the industrial revolution, atmospheric CO2 had fallen ย over 90% from that Jurassic high down to about 230 ppm, and it was even lower during the last glaciation, all the way down to about 180 ppm.
If that 94% decrease in atmospheric CO2 had just gone one percent further--one more 30 PPM drop--down to 150 ppm, almost all life on earth would've died from CO2 starvation.
That's because the primary form of photosynthesis (which uses energy from the sun to absorb CO2 and release oxygen) ceases to function at about 150 ppm of CO2.
That is the real threat to life on earth: too little CO2, not too much.ย
Not to speak ill of the dead, but if Sagan was a neutral scientist, he would've mentioned that.
Suppose this guy really is stupid enough to think that CO2 (the beginning of the food chain for all life on earth, and STILL in desperately short supply), is really endangering the planet. Then shouldn't he be for CO2-free nuclear-electric power?
All of Europe can have limitless, inexpensive, CO2-free power for as much AC, as much manufacturing, as much vehicle charging, as much computing, as many robots, and as many of whatever other conveniences they all can dream of, yet they're almost all against it.
That's because what they're actually against is the human race.
They are not good people. They are actually quite bad.
@samesamebrah@CurtisHouck The clip shows the follow on, where he explains to her that the communists are not just a footnote (duh, since they just won 3 elections).
Trump's SAVE Act executive order will be upheld by SCOTUS if he just cites as his authority the Article IV section 4 guarantee that each state shall have a republican form of government.
Note that all elections are run by the states, and that Alexander Hamilton's definition of republicanism (from the constitutional debates in NYC) is all about honest elections:
"The true principle of a republic," said Hamilton, "is that the people shall choose who shall govern them. Representation is imperfect [republicanism is imperfect] in proportion as the current of popular favor is checked."
The most obvious way to "check the current popular favor" is to have insecure election systems. Any election procedure, like mail-in balloting, that is either intentionally or unnecessarily vulnerable to vote fraud and election fraud, undermines the republican guarantee and is unconstitutional on that grounds.
The guarantee is to be enforced by "the United States," which in the first instance refers to the three branches of the federal government, meaning that each of the three federal branches has its own independent and express power, and its own duty, to uphold this guarantee.
The president needs no legislation to act here. He can proceed on his own authority under the republican guarantee clause.
If a state employs election processes that are either intentionally or unnecessarily vulnerable to election stealing, it to that extent has an un-republican state government (the expressly forbidden object of the guarantee clause), and all three federal branches have their own independent power and duty to rectify this unconstitutional condition.
I remember Obama's King Canute line:
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," hahaha.
He could be right about 2008 marking the beginning of the end of the modern war period (since it marked the end of the 20th century grand maximum of solar magnetic activity), but he was exactly backwards in thinking that this would be a good thing.
@Jason2bartlett Such places are as safe as they are because a quarter of the other law abiding Americans are armed for defense of self and others.
Since Jason appreciates this safety, I hope he knows enough to be ready to help create it.
Don't kid yourself Mr. B. There ARE criminals.
@Jason2bartlett Not every place in America is safe! I hope this good man is carrying a gun, so that by being prepared to defend himself and others, he can be one of those who make America as safe as it is.
Freedom isn't free.
One of our political parties HAS been systematically trying to erase our country's history, where a nation founded on principles of liberty was born into a world of slavery, and in a mere four score and seven years, was carried by those principles of liberty into a great Civil War that ended slavery, to the tremendous benefit of the black race.
Whoopi and Sunny want to blame America for the ancient scourge of slavery while ignoring the actual hero-story of our ending this ancient scourge, and together with England purging it from half the world.
They pretend that our history gives them reason to hate the people who freed their ancestors from slavery, and in particular, reason to hate on and dismiss the white men who formulated and established the principles of liberty that freed their race.
They are the one's who are at war with historical truth.
We all know why Labour does not ease up on the hyper-aggressive mass Islamic illegal immigration:
Because they have made a deal with the Muslim invaders:
"You vote for us and we'll keep letting you in."
They have been on the side of the Islamic invaders since Tony Blair first adopted this strategy in 2000.
Then the Tories decided to compete for the Islamic vote.
Not so different from the situation in America, where Trump had to defeat both our radical left Democrats and our surrendered-to-the-left establishment Republican Party.
Bush, Romney, McCain, Ryan, McConnell, et alia (all the Republican leaders, executive and legislative), were all pro-mass illegal immigration, afraid to go against the ever growing illegal immigrant vote.
Somehow Farage and Reform have to repeat the Trump miracle by defeating both established parties over there.
There's only one Trump, but maybe that's enough, as he will be on the side of Reform, making America a help instead of a hindrance in this UK hour of need.
@ImMeme0 It's tough when you want so bad to hate the people who freed your ancestors from slavery. She's gotten so good at it, and now all these foreigners are raving about how nice her countrymen are. That part about freeing her whole race from slavery is in danger of breaking through.
@philthatremains Elon's trillions (yeah, he's going to keep making them) are a share of the value he provides to others. People on EBT are taking from others.
@krassenstein How dare they (those ugly Americans) celebrate 250 yrs of the defense and expansion of liberty when there are starving children in Africa???!!!
This guy has the mind of a gullible 14 yr old, duped by a lying communist (Democrat) middle school teacher.
Only a person who has no idea where moral justification comes from could say this. Desert comes first and foremost from value creation.
After this, there are some legitimate claims of need, but they are secondary, and can only even possibly be supported through a system that robustly rewards productivity.
Everybody knows that the murderer was caught telling several lies, and that he is a murderer, and that he earlier had to be restrained from psycho-murdering another person with a sword, and we have very credible testimony that his victim was a person of kind and modest temperment.
Only an idiot would try to lend credibility to the excuses of the established psycho-murderer.
Anyone who attacks anyone over perceived or actual racial insult should be charged with a hate crime, as their motivation is explicitly racial.
No more using racial offense as an excuse for violence. The punishment should be GREATER!
I am against hate-crime enhancements in general, but if they are going to be used at all, they must be used on all sides.
That's half of what happened in AZ in 2020. The Dums also rigged the same-day voting machines to malfunction, knowing that conservatives were trying to hold the line against the inherently insecure mail-in ballots by voting in-person on election day.
The day before the election, most same-day voting machines were re-calibrated to only recognize ballots of a different paper size than the actual ballots were printed on. The resulting malfunctions disenfranchised a large fraction of the mostly conservative same-day voters.
AZ's left-wing supreme court said this was okay and did not require re-running the election, while Tina Peters got thrown in jail for trying to preserve the evidence.
Kari Lake won that election, and was cheated out of her legitimate victory even more clearly than President Trump was, because in her case, we already know exactly how they did it.
Hopefully the details about the national 2020 election steal all come out soon, as POTUS DJT has been hinting.
The anti-fascists were Germany's International Socialists (communists), vying with Germany's National Socialists over which totalitarian socialist group get to enslave the world.
They were both the exact same evil, in every way that matters. Every fascist is a communist and every communist is a fascist.
Antifa IS fascist. Their communism does not make them different from the fascists. It makes them the same.
A Rasmussen poll found that one out of five people who said they voted by mail in the 2020 election admitted to voting illegally.
The poll wasn't specific about what illegal thing they had done. They could've voted without being citizens, or voted in more than one place, or voted in other people's names.
That 20% of fraudulent mail-in votes could by itself account for Biden's extra 10 million votes.
We shouldn't have electronic voting machines either, or remote ballot drop-boxes, or ballot harvesting, or voting without i.d., or voting without reconciliation (making sure the number of votes counted is equal to the number of people who are counted as having voted).
Pretty much every state has laws requiring reconciliation, but they are not always enforced.
Congress needs to enact that if reconciliation is not met, along with other requirements, then a state's electoral college votes are not counted.