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your comment made me realize The Beatles - Revolution has gotta be one of the most libbed out songs of all time
- yeah, it's probably their most anticommunist:
  
  "and if you go carrying pictures of chairman mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow"
  
  ... ...
  
  "don't you know it's gonna be alright?"
Dana White: that's fucking illegal

Liberals cannot do that because it would be illegal
There's nothing we can do about conservatives when they break the law, because they are too powerful

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The important part is that we failed the right way
- We respected the norms and standards while being completely dysfunctional
- 😌

Imagine believing in the Separation of Powers when the ruling class controls all branches of the government data-laughing

Why yes, I support the Separation of Powers. How could you tell?

Separation of powers? How about you separate deez nuts? eat-ass

Are the libs really trying to quote the constitution at us now? Read Federalist Papers #10 if you give so much of a shit about how the founders thought government was supposed to work.

These were people who led a revolution to replace the feudal ruling class with their own capitalist ruling class. It was literally democracy by and for the bourgeoisie. It was in their class interest for these protections to work and one of their biggest concerns was factionalism, which became a problem almost immediately and ultimately became so ubiquitous that even the most apolitical folks will complain about “division” and talk about how all the parties serve rich people.

Separation of powers my ass. Go take a look at the size of the executive bureaucracy and tell me how much you think the founders expected congress to abdicate large swaths of their power to the executive branch due to factional pressure. It’s such a bullshit argument, even from a non-leftist point of view.

It was designed from the ground up to prevent good things? shocked-pikachu

A government of slave owners and

CW SA

rapists

designed a system meant to keep people like them in power?

separation of powers? nah dude the president has all the guys with guns, if he really wanted to he could purge the ranks, keep loyalists, and kill the other branches. in fact, the truest idea of separation is, funny enough, the fact that there are many executives in governorships who have their own militias and state guards. but these are obviously dwarfed by national spending and national recruitment numbers

also you know, he could do huge damage to the whole system if he wanted to given the fact he can legally drone strike pretty much whoever he wants

The US president could make almost anyone in the world disappear, the only exceptions being heads of state with a nuclear arsenal behind them, but a single senator is somehow too much to handle.
What about the police? Its militarized there are many of them and can presumably be mobilized faster than the military. And while dwarfed by the national guards and army they could tip the balance one way or another in certain circumstances.
- there is something to be said about communist infiltration of the executive branch of a country, but historically none of thats worked out in imperialist countries except for spying for AES. in czechoslovakia, partisan groups that were organized by cadres of the former czechoslovak military became radicalized throughout the course of the nazi occupation. after the war, the liberal government was reinstated by treaty (czechia proper technically never got occupied by the allies and the partisans restored order in the wake of the nazi defeat). these now communist partisans were then reintegrated into the liberal government's military and police force, which was something like 60-40 communist to liberal. eventually, an election happened and a critical role over the police was given to a communist party member. they then purged the ranks of the police and did a soft revolution after all the liberals purged themselves from government positions in an act of protest of the police getting purged (hilarious!).
  
  this has also happened in a similar way somewhat recently with nepal, but instead of nazis, they were dealing with a comprador monarchy. i believe there are also other places like in africa that have likely followed a similar path.
  
  and yeah, id figure the police in america would answer to the governorship in a certain capacity given the governor's ability to pardon non-federal crimes within the state. i would suspect that if socialism were to take root in america, itd be a bit like a free state and slave state divide like prior to the civil war, which in fact the ending of the civil war was the closest america had ever been to socialism given how popular radical republicanism was. they blew it though. you can see analogs to this idea in modern day federal states like russia and india and to a much lesser extent, czechia. czechia has many small localities that have pockets of socialism, russia has many places in the far east that has the KPRF running the show from the governorship down, and india has the red corridor + the southwest areas near/in kerala.
You have a lot of good takes, but these aren't.
- how is this a bad take, lmao. it isnt happening because those guys are his team, and that team is called team liberalism. to note: the czechoslovak communist revolution began through usurping the executive branch, and its a valid way for communists to come to power, if rare. you can even argue nepal is on a similar track.
- Our friend is right here as well. Joe could abuse his powers at least to give him more leverage in negotiations. Instead, he is the capitulator-in-chief.
- This wouldn't happen because America is ruled by a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie not because the "seperations of powers" means anything substantial.
- It's just "political power grows out of a barrel of a gun" or to use a more US-relevant example: "Well, John Marshall has made his decision, but now let him enforce it."

liberals absolutely cannot fathom that someone else might be more read than they are so they assume all communists are the kids who fell asleep in the back of the class in 8th grade

The most in depth liberal political analysis is just mindlessly regurgitating thought terminating cliches from their high school civics class
- Starship Troopers is effective at turning libs into fascists without needing the scratch precisely because it uses a high school civics class as a vehicle for disseminating its lazy propaganda

Trying to convert an atheist with Bible verses vibe.

The Book of Lib 5:38

I recommend reading any version of the constitution of the USSR. There's all kinds of enumerated positive rights. The government had legal obligations to safeguard your welfare, as opposed to the US government which is often legally prohibited from acting against the rich.

Socialist constitutions are always a great read, but of course liberals will say "well ackshually it's all a ploy and they don't follow it "
I think it'll blow Americans minds to learn that the USSR went through multiple constitutions throughout its existence. Not half-assed amendments, entirely new constitutions that protected people's rights explicitly.

Americans treat their constitution like the Bible and, also like the Bible, they use it to justify colonizing other countries. Because those authoritarian enemy states don't have freedom like we do or whatever. Of course, reality is pretty much the exact opposite of that.

The laws that govern the organization of the bourgeois republic are as innate as the laws that govern reality. The separation of powers, like gravity, is to be understood and worked within, as critique is pointless, because change is impossible.

Moralists don't really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

"It says it in our HOLY DOCUMENT that our elections are fair and free which means they are."

The president doesn't actually have any power sweaty. 🤔 Unless he's Republican.

"I'm sorry, but slavishly literal and rigid adherence to the made-up rules of bourgois democracy that are completely ignored by anybody but us is the only moral couse of action when the ghouls that govern the USA are stripping somebody off their human rights again. When they go low, we go high, high on sniffing our own farts."

Reddit's least unhinged and privileged liberal

To anyone from a non US system this is just sad. What is with the US libs thinking their separation of powers is remotely good instead of a deliberate attempt to avoide working class rule and maintain slavery? No sane person would give the US President the monarchical powers he has, even France is more limited.

It's just hegemony. The entire American system goes unquestioned. It's the default state of things, as nature intended.
Their views are religious doctrine, not based in any sort of conscious thought. America is good because America is great.
It's more of a mantra to repeat than serious political analysis. Whenever our government wants to not do something, they have this to fall back on. It's also a useful slogan for distinguishing ourselves from the "totalitarian" countries we want to invade.

It's a shame Executive Orders can only be issued by Republicans

Pweeease I'm just a smol bean pwesident I can't weawy do anything~ biden-troll

"You gotta vote JOE for Team Blue if you want anything good to happen in the USA!" liberalism

also

"JOE DOESNT OWE YOU ANYTHING!" maybe-later-kiddo

bern-disgust

I am once again asking the posters accusing Hexbears of bigotry to provide an example of what they mean.

White fragility and calling for violence against the people of Nato.
Bigotry against landlords

remember when the Supreme Court was gonna derail the new deal and FDR just shrugged and gave up? or when the Senate filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and LBJ just shrugged and gave up?

the only "separation of powers" i'm interested in is the one that separates the head from the neck of those in power.

why is friends in scare quotes mfer honk-enraged

smh my head at these fake friends 😔
- fake people showin fake love to me
  
  straight up to my faaaaace

so-true

Remember when Republicans just yeeted the Parliamentarian when he disagreed? I do. It was during the Bush era if you are wondering.

The source of our disagreement must be that they simply have not internalized the same shit we all learned in high school.

Maybe... they continued learning after high school and college? Who pursues accruing new knowledge after being force-fed it for a portion of their lives?