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had three women in an suv give slack for our friday return commute protest. It just blows my mind. their stuff is always. go trump if not an explexitive aimed at us. I mean you are yelling at signs talking about he should not ignore the constitutiion. its so surreal in some ways. all the while they are surrounded by cars giving us waves, thumbs up, peace signs. I honestly am not sure if they see how they are the only ones who are ok with this among the whole crowd at the traffic light.

Quite so. Everyone lambasting Americans right now seems to forget it was the rest of the world that had to come save the Germans from the Nazis.

Because everything is on fire all at once, people are scared/exhausted/lack any actual leadership (Fuck you Schumer)

According to him, the people are "aroused".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/l9tTU1dgDwg

And daily reminder for everyone: just because they caught Epstein doesn't mean this sort of shit stopped. It just passed to new management.

Internment camps are built for criminal reasons or to hold political prisoners. Concentration camps are built for eugenics purposes - to concentrate, contain, and control a target ethic group or population. ICE does not exist to address a crime problem. It exists to address the 'problem' that America will soon no longer be a white majority country.

The term concentration camp is accurate. When your goal is to engineer the demographics of an entire country, then you're firmly in the territory of concentration camps. If Trump announced a new open-air prison to hold thousands of "Antifa members," then that facility would be an internment camp. A facility is labeled based on who it holds:

Actual criminals guilty of real crimes like rape, murder, etc.: prison/jail

Political prisoners: internment camp

Targeted ethnic/demographic groups: concentration camp

Upvoting simply because I love to see people challenging their own opinions

Controlled opposition. They think the republican's extremism is just performative and they are playing bad cop to the d good cop still, despite the fact the administration is clearly playing hitler.

If democrats were involved in systematic voter fraud for decades, they would have to be punished. It doesn't matter what Republican power brokers, ivy league suits they went to school with when they both joined those secret clubs whereby they hire business and government leaders almost exclusively, have assured them, that they won't persecute them. They would have to be punished. And they will be, the republicans are already gearing up for it, fixing elections, and projecting that on the democrats, and using the awesome power of the state to suppress the opposition.

One would've thought the democrats after 2020 at the latest would've realized that to save the republic, and themselves, they would've needed to change strategy, to not be good cop whose mission is crushing popular reform for the rich, but rather to offer popular reform, to win and set up a political machine that would dominate and prevent the republicans from getting in running as reform, and fixing the system.

I'm sick of arguing it, the cheerleaders don't argue in good faith, they can't, they can only obscure the issue with slander, personal attacks, misclassifying the situation. Yet we are grown, we can see what happened, it's beyond dispute. These democrats leading the opposition is tantamount to surrendering to the Republicans. There is no scenario where we don't end up in a fascist one party state under reigns of terror indefinitely with these democrats leading us.

That is step 1, we have to organize to get there, but we can't skip ahead to other steps if that one doesn't get completed. Get your fucking head straight America, we need real leadership.

The ground work for this was set up long before the bull arrived at the China shop.

Remember the reason he can run roughshod over everything is because Congress and the courts are not doing everything.

Edit: anything

and because big money controls the news agencies.

and Americans live a month of horrors every fucking week under Trump, both last term and this one.

and average americans are too poor to deal with their own personal healthcare needs

Or to buy food.

Who are facing very real possibility of being murdered in the streets for daring to speak up, and even if they dont get murdered today, its always been openly bragged about that facial recognition is being used to build vast databases of anyone who dare protest der fuhrer so that they might have to face the horror of some time, months down the road, gestapo thugs could kick in their door and send their underage daughters to oligarchal service camps while the rest of them are, at best, dumped in hostile countries or at worst disappeared and executed.

and despite all that, people are still fighting in the streets. People are still confronting this. They are doing everything they can, while NOT giving trump the excuse he needs to masturbate furiously over his war president fantasies by triggering civil war 2 and ordering the military in to purge everyone who doesnt share his every opinion.

But you keep sitting there, serving your masters agenda of trying to paint the opposition as lazy, and feckless, who are doing nothing more than making fun of what he eats.

It easily reveals who you really are, and what your real goals are.

No, because I can't shake the feeling that I'll be watching a documentary in a decade or two and learn that these Nazis took multiple ideas from works of fiction meant to be a warning.

This was all predicted in The Newsroom 14 years ago. That was the start of media enshittification.

It was also predicted in House of Cards, where social media could be used to influence any opinion in the USA.

Had my dad literally and unironically say "yeah but that stuff isn't going to matter to us cuz we live in a small town, there's only trouble in the big cities."

My father in christ what do you think will happen if the single grocery store in your small town doesn't get shipments anymore from the "big city"? Idk. They just think everything can crumble around them but they'll be untouched.

The sad thing is they're mostly right. Life under authoritarianism stays much the same for most people.