It’s never been “our republic”.

Pretends?

Comrade, abandon the alcohol, down cigs like a true based revolutionary.

It seems to be a play on “horseshoe theory” where libs always place themselves in the middle and leftist and right wingers are on the ends, closer together. With the implication that leftists have “circled back” to facsism.

There is also “Fishhook theory”, Where the same principle is true, but more in line with this “stick theory” where the Fishhook places the far right beside liberalism/centrism.

In this one, it’s a stick, facsism is at the bottom, Dems and Republicans are just barely above that and communism is at the top. The main difference between this and fish hook is that fish hook relies on the curve coming back to make them close, while stick theory says they are just close period.

Obama literally built them as and used them as concentration camps wtf are you talking about. They weren’t all encompassing resorts that Trump remodeled.

Trump also claims he’s only targeting criminals and human traffickers, the only difference is you rightfully don’t believe him, but wrongfully believe the Dems.

It’s not the same as always, it’s worse under Trump2 than it was under Biden, or even Trump1. If Kamala won, it would also be worse than Trump 1 or Biden, you just wouldn’t care. Just like you didn’t care when Biden was as bad as Trump1.

The point is not that things are always the same, the point is that both parties serve the same donors and core system and will ultimately do what the system demands of them. That’s why the Dems started pushing the same “immigration as a national security” issue, they were manufacturing consent.

The Democrats literally conceded immigration as a national security issue and changed the debate to who could solve it more efficiently in the 2024 elections.

Even before they publicly accepted the Republican framing, Obama built the concentration camps Trump was derided for during his first term.

I thought it might be interpreted as mean spirited which wasn’t the intention and assumed nobody had seen it yet anyway. I’ll bring it back just for you!

Did you miss the part where the US also revoked their visas? I didn’t see it in that specific article, but they were also cancelled from German appearances.

It’s not the case…it just happens sometimes? It doesn’t count when it does happen because it’s capitalism? We have to ignore when it happens because if people realized, they would be too distraught?

I genuinely don’t understand what’s doing on with this comment.

I took it as: The OP is about honking instantly.

The top of the thread is trying to justify impatiently honking immediately. “I’m impatient and idk why you aren’t moving immediately!”

Hence my response that they could just have a slower reaction time to the light turning.

So when you say “if the lights been green long enough”

I reply about how “green long enough” is subjective and the thread is biased towards the an Immediate honk.

The original discussion is specifically about people who honk instantly.

Obviously at a certain point it’s not only acceptable but necessary as parking at a green light is a road hazard itself.

You’re just accepting the altered framing from the original example to the counter example while I’m trying to keep it grounded on the original example.

Yeah, I get it Chet, you gotta get to the frat party and you’re all jacked up on stimulants so a second seems like forever .

For you specifically, maybe. Your experience is not universal and the original discussion was about people who honk instantly.

I’ve seen people like that super often, I’ve never measured but I’ve probably seen impatient honkers more than I’ve seen actual distracted people at a light. Your experience is not global.

This is not suggested as 1) honkers are usually already impatient and on edge 2) Road rage is real and very dangerous.

Ironic considering honkers are usually impatient/mad and are misusing the car horn because of that.

Theoretically, if they just have a slower reaction time than you, you are actually slowing them down as they now have to look around to make sure you aren’t honking because of potential danger, which is the actual usage purpose of a car horn.

Edit: Additionally, this creates a broader societal danger as the “go when honked at!” mentality is entirely opposite of the true purpose of a horn.

Example: Person in front is about to go, you notice that someone is running the red light perpendicular, you honk to signal the danger, now instead of recognizing the danger, they go anyway, thinking you were impatiently honking, leading directly to an accident.

What do you do in real life.

This presumes the liberal view that liberalism is truly “freedom from the government” whatever that means(it’s not) and that such a thing is a requirement for a leftist position (it’s not)

The claim was

It’s a trend observable in all capitalist nations. If you develop enough, the rate of profit falls, and so you need to expand outward to profit. This is the basis of imperialism, the carving out of the global south for profit. Across the west, this is a fact, even if it manifests in different ways.

The trend is observable on the imperialized nations as well as the imperialist ones.

Imperialism is not a one way street, the effects of imperalialism are observable (lower capitalistic development, higher profit extraction, etc).

The fact that the countries with more developed capital are the ones doing imperialism and the countries with less developed capital are the ones imperialized (and oberving how this stays true historicllly) is proof of the trend.