POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD

[Karl Marx]

No American city should be like this and I'm full support of sending in the feds and dealing with this bullstuff with necessary force

Did you sleep through history class? When has authoritarian, state-sponsored violence and murder ever been the answer to crime epidemics?

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[Deus Ex]

Did you sleep through history class? When has authoritarian, state-sponsored violence and murder ever been the answer to crime epidemics?

So what's the answer? Lock Chicago down and wait for the gangbangers to snuff each other out? Just ignore the problem until it goes away? What's your solution?

[Tactical Nuke]

clearly we need a purge

[Karl Marx]

So what's the answer? Lock Chicago down and wait for the gangbangers to snuff each other out? Just ignore the problem until it goes away? What's your solution?

• Decriminalize drug possession, sell legally and regulate to reduce harm
• Implement nation-wide gun control laws so it would be, at the very least, highly impractical to travel out-of-country to buy guns and then re-sell them in Chicago illegally
• Fund and regulate schools to ensure equal access to education
• Fund public infrastructure rebuilding projects and sustainable energy projects, pay reasonably
• Implement universal healthcare (Nationwide) so nobody drowns in debt from a twisted ankle

By no means is this an exhaustive list, it's just a few ideas.

You're right though, fascism is the practical decision here.

[HellHound]

Did you sleep through history class? When has authoritarian, state-sponsored violence and murder ever been the answer to crime epidemics?

hey man, this is very funny coming from a communist!

[Red Spy]

it's almost like the government sucks at everything

[cblock360]

Bomb them.

[Karl Marx]

hey man, this is very funny coming from a communist!

I'm a bit tired of explaining this. Rather than tell you myself, I'll let you come to a conclusion yourself, based on the following information.

All genuine attempts at a non-authoritarian socialist/communist government have been crushed by capitalist-funded resistance groups.
Most, if not all, successful implementations of authoritarian "communist" governments were backed by the Soviet Union, arguably the most powerful country in the world during a large portion of the Cold War. Their support ensured the success of ideologically similar Stalinist governments.

it's almost like the government sucks at everything

So you're suggesting Anarchism? The ideology only feasible under left-wing ideology?

[Tactical Nuke]

So you're suggesting Anarchism? The ideology only feasible under left-wing ideology?

he means libertarianism, which is not left-exclusive idiot

[Karl Marx]

he means libertarianism, which is not left-exclusive idiot

Businesses found no more profit to be squeezed from Chicago, so they left it to crumble. Allowing this to continue via cowardly Libertarian ideology will only create more Chicagos nation-wide until the system's inevitable collapse. CEOs aren't going to save Chicago.

[Nal]

So what's the answer? Lock Chicago down and wait for the gangbangers to snuff each other out? Just ignore the problem until it goes away? What's your solution?

how loving bad do you think chicago is lmao

it isn't afghanistan everywhere

it certainly isn't good in the bad areas, i'll give you that

[otto-san]

out of curiosity, what would the feds be deployed to actually do? would they just be there to try and intimidate people/shoot them if they get out of line or would it be something more sophisticated than that? regardless, it'd only be a short term alleviation of the symptoms at best, and some of these things (primarily investment in the area to stimulate growth and providing citizens with tools to become successful) would go a long way toward actually solving the problems here:

• Decriminalize drug possession, sell legally and regulate to reduce harm
• Implement nation-wide gun control laws so it would be, at the very least, highly impractical to travel out-of-country to buy guns and then re-sell them in Chicago illegally
• Fund and regulate schools to ensure equal access to education
• Fund public infrastructure rebuilding projects and sustainable energy projects, pay reasonably
• Implement universal healthcare (Nationwide) so nobody drowns in debt from a twisted ankle

By no means is this an exhaustive list, it's just a few ideas.

[Nal]

we must nuke chicago! that's the only solution!!!!

[Karl Marx]

out of curiosity, what would the feds be deployed to actually do? would they just be there to try and intimidate people/shoot them if they get out of line or would it be something more sophisticated than that

What I have extrapolated is that they believe the government is not competent enough to reform and heal poverty, but they are competent enough to suppress crime with murder and authoritarianism without breaching anybody's rights.

Makes sense, right?

[Juncoph]

Did you sleep through history class? When has authoritarian, state-sponsored violence and murder ever been the answer to crime epidemics?

whenever the commies are in charge, mister historian