I doubt anyone has said that so clearly, but if everyone in the west has been thinking that for 3 years, I'm sure the Chinese have too.
Gsus4
joined 2 years ago
It's fascism:
"Everything for the state, nothing against the state."
"Everything he did, he did out of love for his country."
Bonus: "If only the tsar knew". This one is not exclusively fascist, but usually something similar is invoked by some older people in former fascist countries who claim that their dear leader did not know what was being done in his name. And russia today too.
You can count on tramp and his fascist toadies to lose their proxy war with China without a fight by refusing to acknowledge it until no asian ally is willing to resist or share intel out of fear of getting betrayed, like the EU and Ukraine.
Yes, but israel gets the F35I variant. They are probably independent in software, targetting (and parts?), because israel as the US golden child always gets the juiciest deals. The EU, meanwhile, gets the "leeches, warmongers, pathetic freeloaders" treatment.
I'd rather he did that than abandon NATO by surprise the moment russia attacks Narva or the Suwalki gap and give "putin, the gambler" the illusion that he can win against the EU...
“spend that defense budget in america”
hah, yeah, that part is hilarious. tramp already ruined the f35 program by suggesting that the ones sold to allies would come with degraded specs...why sink funding in something that you can only use with american permission exclusively for their stupid wars?
30% of those affected probably don't even believe in modern healthcare e.g. their patron saint RFKjr
Does it say anywhere in the article what social programs are on the chopping block? I've heard this claim hundreds of times, but so far it's on the basis of "it's got to come from somewhere". What if you build military hospitals, military infrastrtucture and military schools? Wink wink, nudge nudge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_stamp_(politics)
One of the most famous examples of a rubber stamp institution is the Reichstag of Nazi Germany, which unanimously confirmed all decisions already made by Adolf Hitler and the highest-ranking members of the Nazi Party.[citation needed] Many legislatures of authoritarian and totalitarian countries are considered[by whom?] as rubber stamps, such as communist parliaments like the Chinese National People's Congress,[3][4][5] or the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations during the Fascist regime.[citation needed]
Since the 2003 elections, Russia's Federal Assembly has been similarly referred to as a rubber stamp institution.[6][7][8] Russia's State Duma (the lower house of the Federal Assembly) quickly adopted a number of laws proposed by the government without delay.[9] The annexation of Crimea was quickly approved in 2014 with only one deputy, Ilya Ponomarev, voting against.[10][11] During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the legislative approvals of the annexation of occupied territories in late 2022 did not meet any resistance, giving the government full control.[12]
Other suggested examples of rubber stamp legislatures include:
Historic legislatures
Reichstag – Nazi Germany
Chamber of Deputies, Chamber of Fasces and Corporations – Fascist Italy (1925 – 1943)
General Assembly – Ottoman Empire
Congress of Soviets, Supreme Soviet – Soviet Union
Volkskammer – German Democratic Republic[13]
National Consultative Assembly – Imperial State of Iran[14][better source needed]
Federal Senate – Brazil under military dictatorship between 1977 and 1985[15]
People's Assembly – Syrian Arab Republic[16][17][18][19]
Current legislatures
Federal Assembly – Russia[6][7][8][12]
Parliament – Egypt[20][21][22]
Islamic Consultative Assembly and the Assembly of Experts (not a parliamentary chamber but a deliberative body) – Iran
Supreme People's Assembly – North Korea[25]
National People's Congress – China[a]
"leopards eating faces" is the other side of the coin of "owning the libs"
What about people who did not want to get vaccinated, wear masks and self-isolate? They should embrace rugged individualists' moral hazard and agree to sign a responsibility waiver on healthcare related to COVID (or at least get deprioritized triage whenever the services were overwhelmed). It would still suck, because they'd probably get responsible people who they share a space with into hospital...but it would put the onus on them to make a good choice rather than be forced to by the big bad government.
PS: call it a pre-existing condition: "refuses to be treated by modern healthcare".
yeah, this is a direct result of the greatest victory against car culture by Dutch moms in the 70s. Car brain makes you dependent on a whole compact of ideology, industry and city planning that keeps people dependent on cars. You are only a "full human" when you get your driver's licence and can afford fuel (priced according to whatever war is going on in the world at the moment).