On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a federal law that allows presidents to deploy the U.S. military domestically under certain circumstances, purportedly to help enforce local law enforcement amid civil unrest. Trump baselessly claimed that military presence is necessary in Minnesota’s Twin Cities to quell protests against his administration’…

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    How many times has he threatened this now. What a weakling. He is like the polar opposite of power. A weak man surrounded by even weaker men. It is like a giant cuck competition.

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    Of course he has, this has been part of the plan from the start. Agitate the masses till they riot, and then declare martial law. Here’s the next step in the plan. His immediate personal goal is to cancel the mid-term elections, the GOP’s goal is to end the Constitution and establish a dictatorship.

    Every world leader is envious of the power Putin and Jinping wield.

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      It never WAS a democracy. The American people have never had any real choice or voice in regard to policy. You’re forced to pick between electing “representatives” from two parties who are funded by the same billionaires and hold the same interests. Whether Democrat or Republican, they fundamentally still uphold the same neoliberal policies. The only difference is now they’re giving up the veil of democracy.

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      Every world leader is envious of the power Putin and Jinping wield.

      Americans such as yourself seem unable or unwilling to face the fact that their country is fundamentally built to enforce the will of a small, powerful class (the bourgeois) over the masses. Their empire rules the whole world and yet it always has to be someone else’s fault when the bad things they do to everyone else come home.

      Jinping is his given name, by the way. You meant to say Xi.

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      The Republican party should be disbanded and outlawed and every single consevative in this nation should be shunned by their communities for the remainder of their lives.

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        And that would solve what exactly? The libs would continue with the imperialism, as they always have in the past. It’s a class war, and neither of the prominent parties represent the working class.

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        This is effectively the one-party state model, which is what we should be working towards. What must be noted however is that no one in the Democratic party would support this. The role of the Democrats is to serve as feeble unactionable “opposition” that in reality serve the same interests of the ruling class. What we need to do is abolish both the Republican and Democratic parties and replace them with a party that actually suits the interest of the working class.

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            Your example is the PLA putting down a violent revolt, with the specific picture being of a guy who wasn’t harmed during said revolt?

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              Violent revolt? Lmao they were college kids with alcohol bottles and stones. And they were peaceful until the CCP got antsy because they were losing control so they escalated it with literal tanks.

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                They lynched the soldiers they sent in on June 2nd, who were unarmed. They only escalated to armed force after they murdered those they sent before. I don’t think they should have sent in soldiers to begin with, given that’s very inflammatory even if they’re unarmed, but it doesn’t justify torching unarmed people with molotovs. Need I mention liberal democracies are guilty of the same sorts of crimes(Kent State Massacre, 1985 MOVE Bombings, Ruby Ridge, WACO Siege, ICE murder just a few days ago, all of these just in the US) and regularly arm their police with military armored vehicles and fire on protesters. The US also cracks down on protests much earlier, go to any protest in the US and there’s a good chance the police will deploy tier gas even if the event is non-violent. The Tiananmen Square protests got as big as they did because of how long it took the government to give any response.

                Western Liberal democracies also go abroad and wholesale slaughter populations in foreign nations; Vietnam; Afghanistan; Iraq and the death toll in these places far exceeds any metric who try and stamp on Tiananmen Square protests. China, by comparison, does not conduct these foreign massacres. The PRC is guilty of many crimes, I’m very critical of it myself, but it’s crimes fall far short of the United States. This has nothing to do with one or two parties, it has to do with ruling class capitalism vs working class socialism.

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                  China is the fourth largest arms supplier in the world. Stop pretending they don’t have plenty of blood on their hands. The US is way worse by a long shot but that doesn’t suddenly make China an angel.

                  The whole point of the CCP was to be “Anti-fascists”. Considering they are pumping out more billionaires than the US this year it looks like that was always a convenient lie. They were just another power grabbing faction that cost their citizens millions of lives for their lust of power.

                  To think that the great famine could have been a avoided if the supposed fascists had won and modernized China much quicker is a devastating reality especially when they ended up as fascists anyways.

                  Fuck the US, but also fuck China. They are both locked together fascists brothers playing enemies while they sleep in each other’s bed.

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                  The soliders that ran over civilians in a jeep and killing them? Gee. Wonder why they were lynched. 🤔

                  Need I mention liberal democracies are guilty of the same sorts of crimes

                  Did i not say a one party system can be more efficent?

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      You forgot one critical step: All his fans own all the guns, and all his enemies think guns are disgusting. Going to take a lot more to make him a traitor in the eyes of his fans.