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[Magical Realist]

Trump at G7..

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2195617691011280

[Syne]

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[Magical Realist]

Forcing colleges and universities to not talk about discrimination against blacks in history for one thing. Shall I go on?

[Syne]

No one has banned colleges from teaching about slavery, Jim Crow, etc.. DEI is not history, it's a partisan political ideology.

[Magical Realist]

Google AI:

"The primary ways critics argue Trump demonstrates totalitarian and authoritarian characteristics include:

1. Consolidation of Executive Power and Bypassing Congress

Usurping the Power of the Purse: Bypassing Congress's constitutional authority by freezing, diverting, or canceling appropriated funds to finance his own priorities.

Governing Through Emergency Decrees: Routinely declaring legally dubious national emergencies to unilaterally impose sweeping tariffs and restructure federal agencies.

Subverting the Legislative Branch: Treating Congress as an obstacle rather than a co-equal branch of government, operating with near-total executive autonomy.

2. Purging Independent Civil Servants and Demanding Loyalty

Replacing Experts with Loyalists: Dismantling the traditional meritocracy within public administration to stack federal agencies with political sycophants.

Sidelining Independent Oversight: Firing or intimidating career civil servants, scientists, and intelligence officials who present facts that contradict official administration narratives.

Enforcing Ideological Conformity: Expecting unconditional devotion from staff, creating an environment where dissent is treated as political betrayal.

3. Weakening the Rule of Law and the Judiciary

Weaponizing the Justice System: Publicly demanding and launching investigations against political opponents, journalists, and perceived personal enemies.

Placing the Executive Above the Law: Operating under the legal theory of a "unitary executive," effectively claiming that a president is immune from standard legal and criminal accountability.

Ignoring Judicial Orders: Dismissing or systematically working to undermine the authority of lower courts that block executive mandates.

4. Direct Coercion of Civic Space and the Free Press

Demonizing the Media: Using the bully pulpit to systematically attack independent journalism, label critical press as the "enemy of the people," and induce corporate self-censorship.

Politicizing Private Commerce: Implementing a form of state capitalism where government contracts, tech grants, and export licenses are leveraged to reward corporate allies and punish critics.

Targeting Civic and Cultural Institutions: Threatening to strip funding from universities, civil society groups, and museums that do not conform to the administration's ideological agenda.

5. Weaponizing the Military and State Force Domestically

Deploying Troops Against Citizens: Ordering National Guard and military personnel onto domestic city streets to suppress protests and dissent, often over the direct objections of local governors.

Unaccountable Law Enforcement: Utilizing masked, unidentifiable federal agents to conduct high-profile immigration raids and mass deportations with heavily restricted oversight.

Rhetoric of Internal Warfare: Explicitly framing political opposition and marginalized groups as an "enemy from within," a linguistic tactic historically used by military dictatorships to justify domestic crackdowns."

Hmm..did I miss anything? lol

[Syne]

Notice how you couldn't support your claim about "discrimination against blacks in history," so you have to sperg unrelated stuff from an LLM.

[Magical Realist]

unrelated stuff

Nope..all directly related to the original post about totalitarianism. What's the matter? Nothing to say? lol

[Magical Realist]

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[Syne]

Notice how you couldn't support your claim about "discrimination against blacks in history," so you have to sperg unrelated stuff from an LLM.

Nope..all directly related to the original post about totalitarianism. What's the matter? Nothing to say? lol

I'm not going line by line on your LLM Gish gallop.
Still deflecting because you can't support your original claim, I see. Unless you can manage to support the claim you made yourself, there's no reason to take your intellectual dishonesty seriously.

[Magical Realist]

I'm not going line by line on your LLM Gish gallop.

Right..which means you have nothing to argue against it with. That's what I thought.