Of course it’s a coup. Elites coup each other all the time. In the history of coups one military branch or collection of officers coup another. That he’s couping an already corrupt system doesn’t make it not dangerous. Things can always get worse. Bad things can be replaced by worse. The Khmer Rouge were worse than the corrupt dictators …
Of course it’s a coup. Elites coup each other all the time. In the history of coups one military branch or collection of officers coup another. That he’s couping an already corrupt system doesn’t make it not dangerous. Things can always get worse. Bad things can be replaced by worse. The Khmer Rouge were worse than the corrupt dictators they replaced. Trump and friends are far more dangerous for the world than what existed before.
American industrialists and capitalists did a genocide of indigenous people in North America and utterly terraformed the landscape to usher in industrial capitalism. New, different, dangerous. More dangerous? You'd have to go some to match what has already been done
Split the difference, or continue to argue about semantics? Either way, it's ok to see genuine argument.
Yes, this is "far more dangerous than what existed before," but there have been threats of this nazi anti-government hysteria becoming outright ruling fascism since Ike, since Nixon, and definitely since Reagan.
Fixating on terms gets a hyper-complex society nowhere - Bernie's been saying the "oligarchy" weasel word since he first got elected from the principality of Vermont to the completely anti-democratic body. But it's fine to see people of like mind go back and forth.
Of course it’s a coup. Elites coup each other all the time. In the history of coups one military branch or collection of officers coup another. That he’s couping an already corrupt system doesn’t make it not dangerous. Things can always get worse. Bad things can be replaced by worse. The Khmer Rouge were worse than the corrupt dictators they replaced. Trump and friends are far more dangerous for the world than what existed before.
American industrialists and capitalists did a genocide of indigenous people in North America and utterly terraformed the landscape to usher in industrial capitalism. New, different, dangerous. More dangerous? You'd have to go some to match what has already been done
You make good succinct points, but so does Nate.
Split the difference, or continue to argue about semantics? Either way, it's ok to see genuine argument.
Yes, this is "far more dangerous than what existed before," but there have been threats of this nazi anti-government hysteria becoming outright ruling fascism since Ike, since Nixon, and definitely since Reagan.
Fixating on terms gets a hyper-complex society nowhere - Bernie's been saying the "oligarchy" weasel word since he first got elected from the principality of Vermont to the completely anti-democratic body. But it's fine to see people of like mind go back and forth.