REMINDER FOR AMERICANS:
The US Constitution and common law are rooted in pre-18th century *English* legal jurisprudence and traditions.
And the "presidential immunity" bullshit is an attempt to rewind the clock to before 1649, when Parliament got fed up with the King's bullshit, put him on trial, and beheaded him.
Y'all: Trump wants to revive the divine right of kings.
You know who pulled the German equivalent of that stunt? Hitler.
(I will summarily block anyone who raises Godwin's law.)
Didn't Godwin cancel his law because of Trump not that long ago?
I have bookmarked this tweet and use it when necessary.
"By all means, compare these shitheads to Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."
Mike Godwin - Aug 14, 2017
He didn’t “turn it off”, he just said that applying it to Trump was actually correct and apt. When you accuse actual Nazis of being Nazis, he is there with us. He implicitly supports OP’s statement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/20/godwins-law-trump-hitler-comparisons/
cc: @cstross
@cstross You know who pulled the Chinese equivalent of this stunt? Yuan Shikai, who tried to declare himself Emperor a few years into his presidency. It…didn’t go well. Apparently, he stupidly failed to predict that the same people who rose up against the Qing dynasty would rise up against him as well; and this little stunt put a swift end to the Chinese republican experiment.
The icing on the cake is that he was a member of the (Chinese) Republican Party.
The pattern matching to the 1933 election in Germany is rather obvious, not just the big national election but also the events in subordinate states.
But many of the labels, such as "Right" and "Left", mess up what we see. The French and Russian Revolutions were neither that simple, but an accident of the seating arrangement set up the label.
Maybe the common pattern is authoritarianism. But can we label any politics with just one dimension?
@cstross There cannot be any doubt now that Trump and all other populist right politicians in the world today ARE NAZIS.
It's clear.
It's obvious.
It's beyond proven.
They.are.nazis.
US Politics in a nutshell: The US forked British Monarchy™ in 1776, but froze the dev branch with Constitution 1.0, so didn't bother to backport any of the subsequent bugfixes and security patches (1831, 1918, 1938, etc.) from the main British branch. Anyway, you've got a bunch of British Monarchy™ users who instinctively want to tug the forelock but don't have anyone to tug it *at* and it upsets them because homebrew is no good—it takes 700 years of inbreeding to roll your own nobility.
Thanks for the dystopian adventure inspiration . . .
Doh I think that #idiocracy was made already
A reminder to everyone else: this incident may have questioned the specific divine right of *a* king, but in no way did it mean relieving the nobility of their wealth, power, and influence. While the rules for membership in the club of nobles may have changed, the basic practice of rule by the wealthy has never really gone away, and is seeing a rather dramatic resurgence.
*raises eyebrow Indigenously*
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/09/the-haudenosaunee-confederacy-and-the-constitution/
It's still shit, there was no immunity for chiefs, the US experiment took what it liked of the Confederacy and then yes, shoved their English legal bs all over it and made it all hypocritical thus the amendments, because they couldn't actually correlate societally communicative and beneficial #Indigenous governance and extractive white Christian supremacist hierarchical capitalistic exploitation of lands and peoples.
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