• Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    20 hours ago

    Great idea, Mr. president!

    Make sure you only hire PTSD addled former-specops guys too! Make sure they're not taking any of those forced-fem quack pills or going to pussification therapy.

    (Are we at the stage where secret service "accidentally" the president then auctions off the presidency to the highest bidder?)

    (I strategically a word)

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      17 hours ago

      Trump, please rename the secret service to the "praetorian guard", it would be cool and based and roman and there are no other secret reasons.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        edit-2
        16 hours ago

        I mean, it's literally called the SS rn, naming it Praetorian Guard might actually make it sound less Hitlerist.

      • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        17 hours ago

        I mean, that's already what it is in reality. It's why I get (maybe irrationally?) angry when anyone defends its existence. Like I'm not objecting to some baseline security for "important" officials... but that security in the case of the president comes directly at the expense of everyone not covered by secret service protection. It's just such a clear and obvious as fuck trampling of any idea of liberalism to allow a goonsquad to have unlimited authority to remove people, arrest them for speech (and not speech that is normally disallowed- evaluated protections), extrajudicially murder citizens on a whim... it's just the praetorian guard for modern times in every way. They can do that job without stomping rights, btw. Maybe that means more risk for the big guy... ok. That's a risk every leader is supposed to accept. Why the fuck does one person get a personal small army that is immune to consequences?

        Just one of my personal "Things that piss me the fuck off, and I feel compelled to constantly rant to an unhinged degree IRL and online because too many people just blindly accept it as "fine and ok."" No one has ever provided me with a valid reason within law or just "liberal thought" to excuse its existence as such though. But, whatever. Many things to rant about for which people have no answer other than "why do you care...?"

      • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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        16 hours ago

        Yeah, it was intended as a meta joke thing... normally it's the response when someone actually accidentally... never mind