12-11-2019, 09:36 AM
(12-11-2019, 07:13 AM)TMN7 Wrote: One wonders how much dirt the NSA has on Trump to make him defend the police state so strongly.
https://finalchan.net/sp/
Trump practically needs a police state to achieve his reactionary dream in which 95% suffer for the gain, indulgence, and power of 2%. Problem is -- the military, the intelligence services, and federal law enforcement won't kill democracy on his behalf. They gave the Democrats the opportunity to impeach a would-be despot, and Democrats did the patriotic and moral thing.
Add the diplomatic corps and you have the so-called Deep State -- the part of the government that defends the System and a world order compatible with international capital.
If one is a conservative Republican, then consider the 2018 election just what the doctor ordered for preserving our political tradition. Be glad that we have impeachment and not military or political coups. In other countries, someone as erratic as Trump typically goes down in a coup because such types usually first destroy democratic opposition before purging those who supported their rise to power. Trump incompetently purged his supporters first.
By the way -- I checked your link and found that it leads to a realm of madness.
Grow up, punk. The Japanese-style anime is interesting -- but note well, that like other greats someone like Hayo Miyazaki succeeds by appealing across lines of age, gender, and ethnicity. I need not be a ten-year-old Japanese girl to appreciate Spirited Away. That makes Miyazaki so wonderful.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.