Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville called for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to be arrested and sent to the infamous American torture prison at Guantanamo Bay. Mamdani’s crime? Calling indicted alleged war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu an “architect of genocide,” responsible for a series of atrocities in the ongoing war on Gaza.

“Sooner or later,” Mamdani will “do something more stupid than what he’s done, where we will finally say enough is enough, go put the handcuffs on him … and send him to Gitmo,” Tuberville, a Republican, said, calling Mamdani a “thug.”

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      11 days ago

      I think he is afraid. He’s affraid that the rise of the DSA will let Americans see a better option, that the fearmongering is on its last leg before dying out, and the poor will realize who the true targets for their resentment. Whether its true or not is purely speculative. I mean the good liars do a great job of showing how stupid MAGAts are. But, the possibility is now more apparent than ever.

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    Guess ol Tommy had to say something ridiculous to get back in the news. Probably had to go see the king and needed some recognition.

    He should fall down more stairs.

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      It’s not just socialism, it’s kindness and the exemplification of a civil servant actually seeking to serve the will of the people.

      In many ways, we’re simply talking about the concept of a true republic here.

      This is a rare vision of the America the founding fathers envisioned.

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          And comparatively basically every nation "developed’ nation is doing better than the USA.

          Sure they have their problems but at least they get affordable health care and time off work

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          Not socialist but social democracies.

          Socialism is when WORKERS OWN THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION.

          These two countries are both free market privately owned economies. They both have extream(for the USA) regulations when it comes to how private enterprise can operate but at the end of the day they are both 100% capitalists.

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          Hmm…

          Sweden is a highly developed country ranked fifth in the Human Development Index. It is a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary democracy,

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden

          Sweden has achieved a high standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech capitalism and extensive welfare benefits.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Sweden

          As a unitary state with a constitutional monarchy, Norway divides state power between the parliament, the cabinet, and the judiciary, as determined by the 1814 constitution.

          The Norwegian economy is an example of a mixed economy; a prosperous capitalist welfare state, it features a combination of free market activity and large state ownership in certain key sectors, influenced by both liberal governments from the late 19th century and later by social democratic governments in the postwar era.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway

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        What kind of socialism are you referring to? That’s a pretty wide net you’re casting.

        Social democracy (which is technically still capitalism)? Democratic socialism with decentralized authority? Anarchism? Union socialism?

        Or are you just looking at examples of Stalinism, Maoism and Marxist-Leninist socialism? Libertarian socialism?

        Do you realize the price of change is human life with any society? Capitalism has cost countless lives and the death toll is increasing.

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      I agree! And since we’re dreaming, we need a way for the People to directly impeach federal employees. I’m so sick of witnessing impeachable offenses on a daily basis while our “representatives” sit on their thumbs, counting their bribes.

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        Absolutely not federal employees, federally elected officials yes.

        You don’t want to empower random people with the ability to fire Dan at the CDC for working on the covid vaccine. Dan is a federal employee

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    When politicians say things like that with no repercussions, that’s when you should know you are no longer in a respectable democracy

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      Yea, any respectable democracy would have shut the city down with protests until this fuckwit steps down.

      For the fuckests of sakes, you had a president who had to step down because he got a blowjob. Granted, that wasn’t okay, but calling for imprisonment and possible torture of your political opponents because they give half a shit about international law is fucking insane.

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      It stopped being a respectable democracy when Trump mocked a disabled reporter and was still able to continue his campaign with no consequences

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    Tommy Tuberville sounds like a Stan Lee character that Spider-Man fights as a villain when he tries to go on holiday.

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      To me it sounds like an angry sentient inner tube from a shitty water park. Tommy hates Thomas the tank engine, who happens to be completely oblivious to his existence.

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    Tommy Tuberville’s smell test on who should be sent to gitmo:

    • Trying to help the taxpayers
    • Trying to suffer less in life
    • Anyone who has ever looked at a rainbow flag
    • Anyone committing crimes so heinous that Tuberville becomes scared that you’ll uncover his fetishes

    Getting threatened with gitmo by Tuberville means there’s a 75% chance that you’re pretty cool.

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    Stripping an American of rights and locking him up in a gulag?

    Tuberville is un-American and I wish his voters knew or cared.