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[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 55 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (56 children)

All fun and games until they throw her in a cage. I hate to break it to you, when ICE is kidnapping people, they aren't checking your documents first. They're just disappearing you to the back of the van. If they happen to get a few citizens too, well that's just collateral damage.

One can hope it would result in a massive lawsuit, public outrage, and change. My bet is that it doesn't even make headlines, Faux News slanders the woman for being an "immigrant sympathizer" and the Trump administration tries to strip her citizenship for aiding and abetting enemies of the state (you know Jesus who pays his taxes and picks fruit seasonally in Arizona).

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's not furniture...

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I wonder what the fuck he thinks would happen in this autocratic government he wants to live in if he said something the ruling party disagreed with? "Being fired" would be the least of his concerns.

Oh, right, per the interview he thinks an autocracy will perfectly align with all of his beliefs so he'll be "protected".

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Anecdotally, they were treated better in Nazi Germany than 30’s America.

Because they were US citizens. While the US has some pretty... ugly history. If you think Nazi Germany would have treated a random black citizen better than what they got in the US you are absolutely delusional. The only reason they weren't sent to camps with the Jews was because the population was deemed too insignificant to be worth the effort.

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

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

“Hey! You can’t do that! That very clearly violates Constitutional law.”

“Oh, yeah? What are you going to do about it?”

(checks Constitution) “Oh…uhhh. I guess nothing?”

Impeachment, that's what they'd do about it. But that would require politicians who do their job and also uphold the constitution. If the question is: what happens when everyone involved breaks the law and doesn't do their job?

The answer is one of two things: the people vote them out.

If they are voted out but refuse to cede power peacefully, we end up with violence.

Nothing about the checks and balances are broken, what's broken is the percentage of the population that just doesn't care their representative isn't actually doing their job.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

Let me guess: "but just the ones Pam Bondi finds credible".

Shockingly you won't find a single republican on Trump ally on the list because those aren't credible....

There's 0 chance Johnson is going against Trump, this is all theater so when Trump's name magically isn't connected to Epstein they can pretend like it's a legitimate list.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

Grovel and beg for forgiveness after actively cutting NOAA budget? Personally drive a truck full of food/water/clothing for people displaced? Literally just show up and offer your condolences to your contituents (regardless of how obviously fake it'd be)?

Like, basic human things you should be doing to show that you care about the people you supposedly represent? Vs: fuck it, I'm on vacation, they'll still be dead when I get home.

Guess what: politicians for all their grand standing about lazy entitled welfare recipients work about 130 total days a year, he can go see the parthenon some other time.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

You say that as a joke... I could see Trump hopping on that train. Truth Social - worth at LEAST $200B, which the government will pay direclty to Trump as compensation for making the platform the national social media platform of America.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So... don't connect the suspect inverters to the internet? It's not like they have a magical sattelite link that can't be blocked...

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago (10 children)

hydrogen-powered high performance.

It will literally never make it onto the streets in the US.

[–] a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (11 children)

To be fair, out of all the billionaires they at least have made attempts to not make their kids shiteheads which is in stark contrast to most billionaires. At one point in time at least, they were only leaving $10m to each child, with plans to donate everything else.

Is that enough to live better than 99.99% of us? Absolutely. But it's also not: I can do whatever I want and buy whatever I want and never have to think about money again.

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