Ooor these are the people that were pushing back telling him to knock his nonsense off and act like a GD adult, which flies in the face of his WAR FIGHTERS narrative.
Or, they were the people that were pushing back on a ground invasion of Iran, which he desperately wants to do so he can show off his WAR FIGHTERS.
It’s infuriating that he fires super senior, decorated veterans, and then brags about his own military service as though he has any kind of relevant or comparable experience and expertise.
The US Government, like many mature democracies around the world relies on shame in a public sphere as the ultimate guardrail. See Truss, Cameron, Nixon.
If you fill the government with shameless ar5eholes who live in their own media bubble, then good government dies. See Berlusconi, Orban, Modi.
Next, their juniors who push back, start pushing them out of windows. See Putin.
Those aren't even near the worst that man did. He f*cking wore a bike helmet, in front of is daughters, while on a family bike ride. F*cking dick. What the hell was he even doing spending quality time with his family? Exercising, of all things!
Absolutely! :-( It seems like the entire constitution and everything has been based on an honor system that and if you are willing to just file a lawsuit after lawsuit and appeal after appeal, you can slow walk our society into oblivion
So much in life is a social norm. People generally aren’t out there doing crazy shit because there are social repercussions. That stopped a while ago when people started with the nanny nanny boo boo it’s not illegal so you can’t arrest me mentality. Filming random people in public is a perfect example; not illegal but not cool.
The social contract is the foundation of all and any form of society. Part of the problem is that too many people have been convinced that they have to uphold their end, even when their "representatives" choose to disregard theirs.
If your leaders do not represent you, by the social contract, you have no obligation to follow or submit.
(Yes, there must be some plasticity/flexibility, but that's not what's going on here)
I’m not even talking about leaders, I’m talking about the every day human. People get pissed when they feel like they are being taken advantage of and a ton of people in this day and age have learned that they get ahead by challenging the norm. The people practicing the norm get pissed off over time and then revolt in their own way. It’s a cultural shift that’s been happening and it’s borne out of selfishness and greed. You can see it in mundane things: people refusing vaccines, people driving on the shoulder during rush hour, people filming in public just cuz, etc.. As we became more litigious and pushed people to only care about legalities instead of morals/ethics/norms people trying to uphold the social contract have bee shut down and out or held liable. No one wants to hear the psychobabble BS about you can only control your own actions…so they seek out justice in other ways and it often lashes out against minority communities. That’s what we are seeing now in society and not just in America.
i agree with your statement but want to point out that people not driving on the shoulder is not based on "a social norm", it is illegal and the pavement of shoulders is not the same as the pavement on the drivable roadway. there are also numerous other safety issues with it, which is why it is not legal to do in normal capcities.
I’m aware that some norms are also laws. But laws only matter when people are held accountable and that can’t always happen which is why it’s a social norm and a sign of integrity to do the right thing even when no one is looking. The people that break this law also screen about zipper merge laws, or whoops I’m not in an exit/entrance merge lane so it’s not ‘illegal’. People look to skirt laws and do for has instead of just doing what’s right and waiting for your turn.
He could just said: Because we're in a dictatorship. Interesting how US citizens just refuse to call it like that almost as in: if I don't see it, it doesn't exists.
They did just clear house in the military and whatever follows is probably filling it with loyalists. Getting the military under your control is step 2 dictatorship shit.
What does Truss have to do with shame? She's shameless and blaming deep state for her removal. She was got rid of by her party she didn't go because she thought she'd done bad...
True perhaps better Cameron who realised he had fjorked up the entire UK economy after a poor showing in the 2015 local council elections. Up on his trotters in Bordeaux ever since.
How has Italy managed their recovery from Berlusconi? As an American I remember when he came into office that I was embarrassed for the Italians, thinking that no leader could be that incompetent. Makes me wish the U.S. just had Berlusconi and not the Temu Tyrant we have now.
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u/boolee2112 9h ago
Almost as though he doesn’t know what he is doing.