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diogenescynic | 1 month ago
It's funny when people resort to name calling because you know they have no argument. I never even voted for Trump but I can call a ball or a strike on this without being blinded by political party preferences.
Also, the definition of flout is neutral it means to openly disregard something so I used it accurately. They call them sanctuary cities... they are openly communicating them as a place where federal laws will not be applied.
>At this point, smart money is on viewing Trump as a hybrid warfare attack by foreign powers on the US.
No, this is what old Boomers who watch too much brain rot like Rachel Maddow think. If there as a shred of evidence of this, they would have released it by now instead of whispering and alluding to it for a decade or more. It's nothing more than sour grapes from Hillary.
mindslight|1 month ago
It's not name calling. It's a basic stylistic choice to avoid saying "Republicans" over and over, similar to how "conservative" was used back before that label came to more appropriately describe Democrats. If you don't like the label "fascist", then start using one of your own. Moldbug proposed "reactionary", but it didn't seem to stick.
Federal laws are applied by federal law enforcement. "Sanctuary city" has zilch to do with this. What was being communicated was encouragement for residents of these cities to make themselves legible to city government for the purposes of city governance, regardless of their federal status. For instance, to prevent US citizen children from being kept out of school based on their parents' fear that enrollment lists would be turned over to federal law enforcement, disrupting all of their lives. But facts never got in the way of a good soundbite.
I'm a libertarian. Fuck Hillary. But if you look at Trump's policies and don't see that they're overwhelmingly destructive for America, both domestically and internationally, then you need to seriously escape your filter bubble - either with some independent analysis, or at the very least read some opposition media with an open mind.
Of course this doesn't establish that Trump's agenda is a definitively a hybrid warfare attack deliberately orchestrated by a foreign power - it could simply be his own dementia and our business elites having lost the plot as well - but the model is a good stand-in for whatever attacker it might be, because it directly cuts through the "Trump is tough on China" kayfabe.