I’m now convinced that many of my fellow Americans are literally the stupidest people alive.
You also forgot bigoted, racist, sexist and just plain ol’ hate filled to anyone not them.
They did it with Obama too same shit different target
Different climate though. This has a serious chance to win.
If they find they can’t deport him, they’ll prob start talking about kirking him
Remember when Jared Kushner couldn’t get security clearance during Trump’s first term?
Foxes have been in the henhouse for years now and aside from us on the margins screaming it everyone has blissfully kept their heads in the sand
It’s frustrating.
“Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy” -David Frum,
Another day in the land of the free
Mamdani already admitted to using weed, if they have evidence that he did it before 2018, (or if he admits it), then they could legit just take away his citizenship for using a controlled substance. “Legal weed” is a misconception, btw.
Like holy hell, wtf. For a non-violent victimless crime, the punishment is losing your rights. Absolute insanity. Not to mention, all these bogus “terrorist” or “communist” allegations. Denaturalization has a lower threshold of proof than “Beyond reasonable doubt” and its a civil court, I don’t think they even need a jury. Just a random trump judge can be rubber stamping it.
As a former PRC Citizen and a current US Citizen, this is terrifying to me. My citizenship was derived from my mother, so they could just accuse my mother of being a “Communist” (which she is not) and then also revoke my citizenship (since it was originallt derived from her naturalization), in one sweep, and then probably seize all her financial assets in the US. According to PRC laws, the moment you obtain foreign citizenship, you automatically lose PRC citizenship. So… now what? Statelessness? The fuck?
Besides, I’m literally anti-CCP so these “Communist” allegations are ridiculous anyways. But you know, loopholes, I don’t even need to be involved, they denaturalize my mother and I’m cooked. (I guess maybe I can run to canada and plead for asylum? 🤔)
This is tyranny.
Marijuana is a schedule 1 drug with a high potential for addiction and no known medical use. Legally it’s one of the worst drugs.
Once that bs is in place travesties like this become easier to implement
Schedule 3 actually for a couple years now.
Per your link, it hasn’t actually happened yet. It’s still schedule I.
And this slowness for government action is part of what feeds the tilt toward authoritarianism, the desire to just get things done.
It’s frustrating when the slowness is something you want but we really need to recognize it as a good thing to have checks and balances, a good thing that government can’t usually act on the whims of an orange faced geriatric narcissist or whatever his puppeteers last told him
Oh damn. I could have sworn it went through. Fucking asshats.
that’s exactly why they made drugs illegal. to prosecute whoever they don’t like. specifically along ethnic lines
Yep war on drugs is and was explicitly racist.
Many laws like that where it’s unevenly applied
He did weed?? Unforgivable! I mean Trump was pumping pounds of coke up his nose while raping kids on Epstein island, but weed???
Trump is an Adderall addict. Not weed, cocaine or alcohol.
I thought years of Coke is why he needs a diaper.
In the 80s trump used cocaine.
Ikr
It’s the gateway drug.
Why does it have to be before 2018? Isn’t it federally still a controlled substance? Same reason there’s a Supreme Court case on a weed user being stripped of the 2nd Amendment rights.
2018 is when he naturalized. Afterwards, he is immune from deportations for almost any crime (that is, assuming that the administration is obeying the laws and not just try deport citizens unconstitutionally), except for like terrorism or “communist activity” for the first 5 years of naturalization, then after that, they could only denatualize for treason stuff. Specifically, only crimes after the oath ceremony are immune from being considered for denaturalization, meaning, they can use anything they find about criminal activity that happened before the oath happened. They do not need to go through the criminal system, denaturalization happens in the civil court system.
Say, they find a CCTV footage of him smoking weed an hour before he took the oath, he would still not be immune, as citizenship is conferred after the oath is taken.
Oh okay, I misunderstood, I had assumed 2018 was when New York legalized marijuana or something. I didn’t know retroactive denaturalization worked like that. Thank you for helping to inform :)
“In 2018 when he was naturalized, he failed to disclose some of the things that he had been doing, one of which was joining the [Democratic] Socialists of America. That’s a communist organization…
What a fucking moron. “Democratic” is in the name, you spoon eating cunt!
the brackets suggest the word was omitted in the actual quote, certainly deliberately so.
Anything they don’t like is communist. Same as it’s always been. Via decades and decades of propaganda, it’s an easy way to paint someone as an outsider.
The hell, centrists are radical communists and socialists in their book. Pretty sure ‘radicals’ was used to describe hippies.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-Fla.) last week demanded the feds “review every naturalization of the past 30 years – starting with Mamdani. I just think we need to take a hard look at how these folks became citizens, and if there is any fraud or any violation of the rules we need to denaturalize and deport,.”
I have a better idea. Start with Melinia Trump and her parents. Maybe send Baron on his way as well. Then have a good hard look at Elon Musk.
And the Drumpf family as well.
How about all non-native Americans?
Melunia
My favorite thing about her is that her stupid meme coin is called $Melania without a hint of irony 🤦😄
MAGA is scared of progressives like Mamdani, not wealthy neoliberals like Pritzker or Newsom.
With a neoliberal MAGA gets to keep running the same playbook that’s been working for them. That’s why they fight publicly on social media with neoliberals. But never do shit like this unless it’s a progressive.
MAGA is also scared of the CCP. That doesn’t automatically make the CCP a force for good.
Mamdani is not a CCP member
ROFL
Bro what is an analogy?
Analogies have to make sense. You’re using it to pivot the discussion.
You insult everyone’s intelligence and debase your own. Maybe that’s just your baseline.
This would be like if I said:
Mice are afraid of cats
And you jumped in and said they may also be afraid of cheese…
They love far right authoritarian regimes, which is what China is.
Like, why did you even make that comment, do you think China is fucking leftwing?
A non-zero amount of people on Lemmy think china is communist and therefore left-wing.
There was a huge exodus of a lot of the content creators from reddit to lemmy. Do you think Lemmy is immune to trolls?
Occams/hanlons razor, imo.
Lots of people are real fuckin dumb.
No True Communism
All bad regimes are right wing. They should be replaced with left wing regimes because they are always good. Counterexamples are not truly left wing.
No True
Words mean things. Do you think the DPRK is democratic, or the Nazis were socialist?
Bro I lived in China, they literally operate a capitalist authoritarian regime.
Who owns the land in Shanghai?
Under the European system of monarchies the king owned all land in the kingdom. On that legacy King Charles III and the pope are still the two largest landowners in the world. Were the British Empire and the Roman Empire communist?
E: The US federal government owns about 27% of the land in the US including the majority of Washington DC. State governments own about another 7% and local governments another 2%. That’s more than a third of the country. What’s the tipping point? How far are we from becoming communist based on land ownership?
Whether China is communist or not, I can’t answer. What China definitely is, is right wing.
If they’re right wing they’re not communist, even under the objectively stupid left wing equals libertarian definition.
Authoritarian left.
Authoritarian right.
Chicken wings!
Gee, I wonder why there’s no actual communist government…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency
Left and right is about economics. You can have shit on both sides of that. What’s more important/better are those that seek liberty for society. Authoritarians will be left right or both simultaneously if it serves them. ML and fascists being prime examples.
All bad regimes are authoritarian. All good regimes tend to be flat/granular and answerable. Yes that type of thing tends to be mostly on the left, just not exclusively.
What? Mango Mussolini said, “Xi is great and they love each other.” MAGA would like to hold the same power as the CCP.
China is orders of magnitude more of a force for good than the US is.
China becoming hegemon would unironically be amazing for humanity
Tell that to the Philippines, or Tibetans.
I imagine the US equivalent list to be much longer.
Lol nope.
I am Chinese American, I do not want either the USA nor PRC becoming some “global superpower”. Any country becoming such influential in the global stage would become extremely corrupt, if it isn’t already corrupt. Looking at how much food safety issues are in mainland China, tofu dreg, lack of labor rights, repressive Hukou system, discrimation and lack of protection for people with disabilities, especially any brain related ones like Autism Spectrums Disorders, filial piety being used as an excuse for child abuse, ultra-conservatism, toxic masculinity, misogyny, obsession with having children and anyone who choose a childfree life is socially ostricized, unmarried people, especially unmarried women, are socially ostricized, etc…
People simping for PRC don’t know anything about it. Its a horrible opprrssive regime. A couple breaks policy and give an unauthorized birth, what does the government do? “This child does not exist”. I didn’t even get legal documents for the first few years of my life until my parents paid the money the government demanded for my birth, as I was the 2nd child, born against policy. Children being punished for their parents so called “crime”, the crime of me existing without a government permission slip… since when the f does government have a say in personall matters, its literally just the opposite of forced births essentially, government overreach in matters they have zero bussiness in. They love to pretend things don’t exist when it suits them. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi)
Fuck PRC and the CCP.
Unfortunately such a system doesn’t exist. Britain used to be hegemon before world war 2, then the US, and soon the PRC.
I’m not part of the imperial core (US), so I’d rather deal with Beijing than Washington in foreign affairs.
Unfortunately, my country already has all those discriminations, so the only thing that would change for me is dealing with a more cooperative rather than extractive “pole”
I mean, EU influence would be a better path. They have GDPR protections, Right to Repair, much better healthcare than either USA or PRC, generally has a pro-FOSS attitude, much better consumer protections overall.
Yes, but the EU is currently a US vassal and surprisingly weak as a driver of any geopolitical decision.
I wish the EU would have closer relations with the PRC as a balance to being screwed over by the US
I suspect we’re gonna find out one way or the other.
Wtf is this website? And this is WITH an ad blocker
I know, right? Why does the NYP hate the Mets so much?
“evade big tech censors” … by implementing this setting on the biggest tech censor.
Another Murdoch owned rag.
How DARE this ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT try to Shape US Politics!
Of COURSE I’m talking about
Elon MuskMamdani?I thought you were talking about Alexander Hamilton.
George Washington wasn’t born an American citizen. Think about that. :-/
holy fuck, i never thought of it like that, god damn broke my brain today.
He also served in the British army as an officer. The same one that tried to destroy the US in his lifetime. Think of that too
I heard that motherfucker had like… thirty goddamn dicks.
Idk I don’t like that Mexican, not even American. How’d they let him do the half time show anyways?
Please don’t drive traffic to the New York Post of all places. Or if you absolutely must, copy the text to the post. I have mixed feelings about that practice, but that company is scum and doesn’t deserve the rage traffic
Hadn’t tried it yet but someone is maintaining an antifascist blocklist. Doesn’t include NY Post but it should.
US immigration law declares inadmissible those who have “been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party.” The current form asks would-be citizens to disclose if they have ever been associated “in any way” with “any Communist or totalitarian party anywhere in the world.”
They want to deport former communists or affiliates of communist parties? Let’s start at the White House!
Hmmm… Honestly, I’d probably be willing to call myself a communist, if it meant I get exiled to Cuba or some shit and get to live among the natives.
Lol persecution of political rivals
Laughing & crying simultaneously is really fucking up my body homeostasis.
STOP the Madness!
