Trump’s officials are quietly concerned about his “blatant criminal behavior.” What took them so long?

It is time to stop examining the chaos and time to do something about it.

I have a source inside the Trump regime who feels, in their own words, “a little disillusioned.” This person says they signed on to the Trump team because of “DEI going too far” and because “woke culture was dividing the country,” but is now concerned about the “blatant criminal behavior” of Donald Trump. Really? His last administration didn’t show you that? Well, OK.

This source first approached me by saying, “I can provide you bonafides to show you I’m serious.” That impressed me because I didn’t think many people inside the Trump regime knew what bonafides were, let alone how to be serious.

This source’s concerns about Trump are indeed legitimate, and deserve to be heard. “Not all of us are buying everything he says,” this person told me. “We understand the problem, but we see no solution. You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy. Congress can’t be trusted and the judiciary so far hasn’t been able to stop him.”

  • @Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world
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    Bullshit. “Woke culture” is also filled with evangelism, moralizing, and authoritarian assertion. You guys just want different people beaten with sticks by the pigs.

    • @5C5C5C@programming.dev
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      Social accountability (meaning being called out on social media, being fired from a job, or being boycotted) for unapologetically spewing hate speech or sexual harassment and whatever else “wokism” is against… is not the same as inflicting violence on people. Your failure to understand the difference between accountability and violent authoritarianism says a lot about your character.

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        Social accountability (meaning being called out on social media, being fired from a job, or being boycotted)

        These are not effective means of achieving social progress because they result in incredible reactionary counter movements. As is evidenced by the success of Trump/Republicans/Fox weaponizing woke as an attack.

        The median American hates scolds and prudes (despite, hypocritically, largely being a scold and prude themselves.)

        If the goal is to achieve social progress through popular support and democracy, then these tactics of scolding and ostracization are counter productive. Other methods must be used

        If the goal is to achieve social progress through more revolutionary means, then Lenin offers a roadmap. But American liberals are still seemingly opposed to that.

        In any event, it seems clear given our current political realities that the “woke” tactics of the past decade have been a tremendous counter productive failure that has contributed to our present fascist regime. Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences; the consequences of 2010s social justice online scolding is the Trump regime and the collapse of American liberal democracy

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        The median American seems to disagree with this assertion based on recent election results.

        Which could be because they read at a 6th grade level.

        But, regardless, scolding and ostracization and negative reinforcement are not effective ways to educate children. They seemingly are also not effective ways to educate adults who possess the intelligence of children

    • @dickalan@lemmy.world
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      It looks like you get your definition of the word from Fox News, that’s not news, just thought you should know, carry on

    • @barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      No, you just get 100% of your political knowledhe from the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

      All Woke means is “Live and Let Live.” What is the problem with some people choosing different paths for their lives? You go your way, they go theirs. As long as you don’t mess with their journey, nobody will mess with yours. See how that works?

    • Bakkoda
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      Bullshit. Makes up an argument based solely on my feelings and not remotely in any fact

      Let’s see you debate that

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      No, it isn’t. You want something to really worry about? Communism. You should dread communism. For real. Go to bed every night praying that there isn’t a communist revolution in the US.

      We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

      (Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, 1852)

      • @3abas@lemm.ee
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        Now go articulate to yourself what you think communism is and what you think is so scary about it, then maybe consider reading the source material.

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          Retribution is so scary about it. Unless you own the means of production or think you’re going to miss capitalism, you don’t have much to worry about.

      • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Lol what the fuck is going on in these comments? Do you not know where you are? This is like the dumbest place to post such obvious bullshit about leftist ideology.

        • 100_kg_90_de_belin
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          I don’t care. I’m fucking tired from an intellectual point of view with people using political terms randomly. Unless the pope starts talking about seizing the means of production, he ain’t Marxist, he ain’t communist, he’s just another fucking priest covering up for pedophiles and telling poor people to turn the other cheek. Fuck him and fuck his ilk.

      • @Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world
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        I’m an anarchist, and guess what? We already have anarchism. My ideology just keeps winning. Stop doing capitalism, and you’re doing anarchism, even if it’s just deciding who does the dishes. Truly abandoning society isn’t pretty, and it’s scary… if you’re a giant pussy.

        • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          Stop doing capitalism, and you’re doing anarchism, even if it’s just deciding who does the dishes.

          What? That’s not what anarchism is…