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[–] 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (12 children)

Trying to deploy the U.S. military "on our own shores" against lawful speech and activity is blatantly illegal.

The U.S. Posse Comitatus Act:

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus (a group of people who are mobilized by the sheriff to suppress lawlessness in the county) or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

You'd expect a sitting congressman to know the law (or at least research it) before spouting this kind of BS. But who am I kidding? Johnson is a Republican who is not subject to the Constitution or the laws that the rest of us must follow.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Its doesn't matter if you site it for them. They cant/won't read it. They are too far gone at this point to realize they are wrong

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Calling out blatant illegality and corruption like this is still important. Not because the MAGA cult is reachable, it's for everyone else. History has shown us they won't always be in power and it's vital to document this shit...

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  • [–] 37 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Is the communism in the room with us right now?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    Cmon cowards, nuke the communism

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    .ml got them shook

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Red Scare... Again... For the third time.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

    Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

    Two things result from this fact:

    1. Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

    2. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

    To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Where in the hell is this communism in my neighborhood?? I haven’t even seen one thing about communism, the closest I’ve seen are these stupid bus and train stops and sub safe bike lanes (paint)..

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Anything that doesn't support perverted capitalism is now communism, by their definitions.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Oh, cute.

    You know who else liked to use "enemy within" phrase?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    doing anything to convince boomers, and CUBANS, and other south americans to keep voting for them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That little Nazi Bottom just admitted he wants to use the military against our own citizens.

    I hope his constituents tie him to the goalposts and leave him there all weekend.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    this country is the constitution. the internal enemies that need to be dealt with are the ones violating and subverting the constitution. period.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Two words he seems to have missed in his education: Posse Commitatus.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Are you hoping the military itself enforces that? Or the cops who already let ice murder people in the streets? Or what? McDonald's employees?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    That is the bis American problem. You've got mostly good laws, but nobody seems to follow them anymore. A kind of anarchy, but from the top instead from the bottom.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You've got mostly good laws

    No. No we do not. I mean for Hell's sake we incarcerate way now individuals per capita than any other nation in the planet.

    Or so called justice system is fucking horseshit.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not talking about application. But the ideas behind them are OK. And I'm amazed that democracy is still not totally broken, despite the efforts of your current government and the spinelessness of the opposition.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of it has to do with the corrupt ass supreme court shitting on the constitution so they can enrich the guys buying them RVs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yes, SCOTUS is a problem here. Having executive, legislation and jurisdiction trying to burn the state down is a real issue. I'm amazed that the US still has some recognizable democratic elements, despite all those attacks on it.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Something something tankies bad

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    This is to get more money to fight Iran right

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Mike McCarthy showing his true stripes. And stars.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago
    [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The american citizens need communism. They are dying and need help. Regardless of what the giant capitalists think, communism is good. Democratic socialism is better. They are both mostly the same with regard to helping citizens and not businesses, even though words like "ideology" get in the way so everyone can keep debating while those giant capitalists continue to scrape away at your own bottom line.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    "Mostly the 'democratic' part must be criminalized"

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Bring on the revolution

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    Wonder how few democrats will vote against.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Political lesson for the day:

    Naziism is an establishment philosophy that is primarily/near exclusively devoted to anti-communism as a path to maximizing Oligarchist/Corporatist supremacism. Ethnic supremacist hate is just a populist veil to provide oligarchist power maximization. Nazis won ww2. Reagan shifted the US to open devotion to voodoo nazi economic theory. Trickle down economic theory as a "pro labour" facade to naziism, because giving everything to oligarchs will incentivize them to buy a blowjob from you plebs.

    The Nazi extremism of current GOP is far higher than 1930s Germany. It mixes Zionazi supremacist rule over Americans, and instead of targetting non-existant Marxism (labour supremacism) political force, they demonize any restraint to their fascism.

    Democracy permits the power to seize tratorous zionazi supremacist supporters assets (media, military, energy). Not under the pretext of marxism, but on the pretext of treasonous theft of prosperity and safety, in addition to national sustainability.

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