That cat sure does love lasagna.

This new inquiry will surely be the end of his campaign.

Christ almighty you just sent the goalposts into orbit.

76% of the nazis killed in WWII were at the hands of the Soviets.

The reason we’re seeing libs get into such a tizzy about it all of a sudden is because it’s finally being pointed inwards.

“Akshually sweaty, banning the leading fascist networking tool during a period of unprecedented fascism would make the president a dictator”

Good lord. Imagine being this lib. Even if Biden wins and we stave off fascism for 2024, it won’t be long until we fully backslide if this the height of liberal analysis. Utterly toothless.

So dictators are people who do the absolute minimum to halt fascism. Got it.

So all of these obstacles that you list as reasons to why Biden is so ineffective - why didn’t he just nominate an AG who’d give him a free pass to do anything he wanted - like Trump? Why isn’t Biden bending the rule of law to halt fascism?

The answer is because you cling to “precedence” and “civility” so hard that you’d rather see a fascist takeover before a democrat disobeys your precious rules and processes that were set up by 30 year old slave owners. To liberals, the rule of law takes precedence over a fascist takeover. It is bizarre.

So let me get this straight… you hold (one specific reading of) the first amendment to be so sacred, that you’d sooner follow it and allow its dissolution by fascists, than deplatform the fascists who wish to dissolve it?

You’d sacrifice your constitution and nation just so that you could have the moral benefit of having followed it?

Get real man. Tik Tok was never about China. It was always about silencing support for Palestinians. This is known.

Why do I feel like you’re the type to argue that fascist rhetoric is protected under the 1st amendment? If you think fascists deserve a platform, you are the bad guy. This is liberalism.

If we are to believe Biden at his word that Trump will attempt a fascist coup regardless of election results, why is he spending his time banning tik tok instead of truth social?

Additionally, Chinese coal power is what provides and enables all of the cheap goods Americans can’t get enough of.

Shoutout to the allies for losing WWII.

I don’t know why you are characterizing this as a republican blunder. It makes perfect sense.

The Republicans know the Democrats’ obsession with civility means a dem would never invoke this prospective right to assassinate a political rival.

“But the Republicans are being illogical! This is a double standard! There is no intellectual honesty in such an argument!”

Stop trying to appeal to logic and honesty when it comes to Republicans. This liberal thinking is what got Trump elected the first time.

Accept that morals, ethics, and logic mean nothing to fascists before it is too late.

I swear, the patriot front could be doing door-to-door curb stomps once trump gets elected, and liberals would still be smugly pointing out that “violence is no way to solve political issues, chud. Check and mate ;)”, right before they get curb stomped.

Do you really think Joe Biden would order Trump killed

You mean like when they were claiming that the entire world was going to have Houthis begging for a timeout during the Red Sea crisis?

“Houthis about to learn why we don’t have free Healthcare hur dur”

If people didn’t like to work, we wouldn’t have began down the perpetual path of putting effort into meticulously engineering labor-saving devices.

So you’re saying people labor in order to entertain, love, create, do art, and do philosophy?

Sounds very human to me.

Never did i claim that people “work for the sake of work”. My argument is that humans can be characterized as working creatures who use labor to change their environment - be it geographically, politically, socially, etc…

I don’t see how you could see my original claim of

“Humans are laboring creatures”

Respond to it with

“Humans need to labor in order to make food to survive”

And still come from a place of disagreement.

Never did I claim “people work just to work”. We don’t see people spending every waking hour outside making mud pies. We don’t see people spending entire days moving 100-ton blocks from one side of town to the other just for the hell of it.

Agreed. Thats why I never made the claim that people have a natural urge to get yelled at by a shitty manager in an exploitative fast food gig. No one is saying that here.

The situation you describe is an illustration of alienation in the workplace, and this happens when workers lose the means of production. All of the comments in this thread tiptoe around this idea - for which there have been volumes of thought written btw.

My issue with the meme is that it is ahistorical and can distract people away from the concept of alienation. The capitalist class pays us not because we are “naturally opposed to working” (which is the thesis of the meme), but because it is unbearable to work in an alienating environment, which, as you perfectly explained, abstracts us away from the products we create, compartmentalizes our work, and violently separated us from working for our families or communities.