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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Trump says that the future of a man resident in the US, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is not up to the US.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/these-barbarians-are-now-in-the-sole-custody-of-el-salvador-trump-official-insists-dad-deported-in-error-is-alive-and-secure-but-potus-says-his-future-not-up-to-us/

Trump also says that the future of Greenland is not up to Greenland but up to US.

What the fuck -- how can the US demand an actual country from a country and not a resident from a country ?

[–] Hikuro93@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

If there was an honest to God legal way they'd already have figured it out along with everything else in Project 2025, long before coming into office.

They're trying to find out a better loophole than the last one, which blew up in their face. And trying to find ways to remove the people in the way of said loopholes.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

They don’t plan.

Planning would entail following the law, customs, and procedures.

If they just steamroll everyone with bullshit and make it up as they go then everyone else is scrambling to sort out wtf they are doing and figure out what rules were broken.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Germany 1933-45. Right out of the book.

[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Isn't those the numbers on the hats?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That is a ban from feddit.org

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Which simply shows how far abuse of moderator power goes.

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[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

They kidnapped a tattoo artist so that anyone innocent will be taken tattooed and turned into a criminal looking person.

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jordan Peterson constantly quotes Solzhenitsyn warning of what the Liberal party would do to canada or the democrats would do to the usa. He would then promote a tool like polievre or an overt fascist orangeman without any irony at all. Today he seems to be confused about what fascism is and has oftentimes waffles between endorsing them or trying to avoid discussing them, like a true intellectual coward who was wrong about everything he ever said

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's not confused about what fascism is, he knows and he wants it. Just like any fascist, you can't take what he says at face value, it's all trolling games like the Sartre quote.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

With Peterson, he did make himself sick with that “carnivore” diet. He’s been huffing his own fumes so long that I think it’s fucked with his cognitive abilities.

I’ve listened to his class lectures - I do not understand how he earned a doctorate, and I do not understand why anyone taken the shit that comes out of his mouth seriously. It’s just misinterpreted Jung with some Manichean/Christian influence.

[–] smayonak@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

No he got sick from having a paradoxical reaction to benzos and then trying to quit them by going into a medically induced coma in Russia where I GUARANTEE YOU the fsb undoubtedly took blackmail video of him cheating on his wife. His wife had terminal kidney cancer but then miraculously recovered as well while on the carnivore diet so I doubt it is all that harmful.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I heard Peterson described as Joe Rogan with an education and vocabulary, who occasionally has a cry lol

[–] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago

For sure, he wasn't the smartest to begin with and he's gone downhill. Even so, he's not so dumb that he doesn't know what he wants is to subjugate women and non-whites, and he will say whatever he thinks will make that happen regardless of whether he believes it or it even sounds plausible.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 3 points 22 hours ago

That's it exactly. JBP, JD Vance, etc., play word games of rhetoric to get what they want. It's like they are defence lawyers and morality is a legal system they are trying to game - they argue whatever just to win.

[–] Bloomcole@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

El Salvador shouldn't take immigrants from a banana republic

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[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 129 points 2 days ago (54 children)

Buy a gun and fight for your life or you’ll die in prison.

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[–] tracker@sh.itjust.works 63 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I think they should do that to any US Citizen with 34 convictions or more… starting with the orange ones!

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