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This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.

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- Yes, you guys are. Yet you’re still moralizing to countries across the planet.
  
  Turns out women should have rights. Even while we're rolling them back, we're still leagues above a lot of the world in that regard. I don't think we've done much moralizing, as you put it, to western Europe.
  My apologies if it offends you that we've been telling Afganis they shouldn't screw young boys and telling Saudis that maybe it's okay to let women drive.
- They're not capable of that level of introspective thinking, as basic as it is
Why are they even ziptied? Are the cops afraid of being beat up by grandmas ?
- The answer is Yes. ALL cops are cowards to begin with, and are trained to embrace their cowardice by responding with extreme force to the slightest inconvenience.
  
  The cruelty is the point.
  Republicans see these people as undesirable leeches on society.
  I pay my fucking taxes and social security so Grandma there can have housing, healthcare, so give her the fucking money.
- Why didn't they just zip tie the wheel on the rascal
  
  Or just take the key. Unplug the batteries?
- https://youtu.be/9_OIs49m56E
The US is beyond saving. Fuck this place. I don’t care what it takes, we need a revolution, and conservatives need to be annihilated. Tarred and fucking feathered.
- Christians, through history, loved stoning anyone who did not agree with them or follow their beliefs. I think it would be ironic if they ended up on the other end of this.
  But truthfully, I think just permanently removing their ability to have any effect on the world we live in, by their speech, money, action, position, etc, as quickly as humanly possible is far more important than just carrying out old fashioned punishments for catharsis. We all just need them gone.
  
  That would just feed their persecution fetish
- Nothing matters in this country aside from how much wealth you generate or spend at the moment. Doesn't matter how good or bad you are. Ethics are frowned upon. How much money you can spend or generate for others is the only factor. We are an experiment in how far largely unrelated capitalism can be pushed. The only fix for this is an absolute societal collapse.
  
  So: education, agitation, and mobilization are off the table then eh?
  Off to the purge are we? I wonder if highly effective propaganda has anything to do with just giving up before you try?
- Right there with you
- Annihilated is a little strong. When are you starting this civil war of yours?
  
  Was it too strong to annihilate the Nazis? Rather than assume they'll go die unilaterally, it might be more constructive to discuss how we can act as a group.
Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.
That was the moment I realized where the US was headed.
It didn't even cause much protest, people were just shrugging it off. These were not humans, but immigrants, after all. Being from Germany I had a good understanding of the depths of inhumanity ICE was already willing to entertain back then. US Americans not only let this happen, they wanted more of it. Now they're getting it.
- The outcry over HitlerPig's child separation policy was enormous. I personally called every one of my elected officials and literally HOLLERED at them over the phone, demanding they do something about it. I don't think I was ever outraged more about a government policy. He rescinded it after a few days because the pressure was so intense.
  The Biden administration tried hard to return those children, but to this day, there are almost 1000 children who have never been reunited with their parents, and likely never will. It is one of the worst modern atrocities of the American government iny lifetime, and it is entirely MAGA's fault.
- Personally I think it started before that. It has its roots in the mass overturning of civil rights after 2001, the implementation of secret courts, disappearing people into black sites, extrajudicial killings, and breaking international human rights laws to hold people in indefinite detention without trial.
  No subsequent administration has ever walked that back because that kind of power is so convenient to them. But this framework is what has facilitated the slide towards fascism.
- Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.
  "No no no, you see. It was fine when democrats did it under the radar. We're just angry an uncharismatic person won and bad things started to happen. Now we're losing respect and soft power all over the world by blatant disrespect of the law. And I have to pay more for the chinese shit? This is UNACCEPTABLE.
  If a democrat had won, we'd totally be fine with its continuation as long as it doesn't affect me.
  They'll totally fix it in the next election though. You see, It's only because of those darn republicans who are the only ones being bought by billionaires and foreign lobbyists dragging us down.
  I just want to return to a time when we could bomb civilians abroad and still get nobel peace prize for our president. Oh how many war crimes we committed and got away with it. Still gives me goosebumps. Is that too much to ask?"
  
  Well, you're wrong. Or just another pathetic liar.
  It wasn't fine when democrats did it. In fact, when immigrant family separation was happening under the Obama administration we the people protested. (One of the images passed around of a crying kid in a cage is from those Obama era protests) And we took the administration to court and we got that shit stopped. The administration followed court orders and ended family separation.
  
  It made all sorts of headlines, people protested, and the policy was changed a couple times. I assume they fixed it since there were no more headlines
RADICAL LEFTIST GRANDMA
This is Tennessee. My sister in law just left there after working in rural areas the last few years. She spent time as an aid worker in Kabul and found Tennessee to be worse off.
- That's why people in deep red states think the government is filled with waste, fraud, and abuse - they don't realize that crumbling infrastructure, a lack of social services and societal blight aren't the norm.
  They just see other poor people getting help from the government in blue states and wonder "well where's my handout?" Without realizing they are in fact voting against those measures every election.
  The cons keep telling those voters that the government is broken - so they re-elect them to prove it.
  
  Why in the world is this the first time I’m hearing this – immediately believable
  
  The perception, real or not, of uneven attention from the government is more than enough to keep the feedback loop going.
  Universal programs are typically the best shot at breaking through that stasis. And that's, well, acting in the public interest: the anathema of American politics.
- People would talk about Baltimore as being a really scary place.
  And I wished they talk more about Tennessee being just a sad awful state.
Slap another black scale punisher sticker on the f-350 for being so badass
This is what an insurrection looks like to Republicans who have pardoned January 6th people.
- Working class people's interests actually being represented in one large municipality
Someone should screen record this embedded video of an embedded video of an embedded video lol
being good guys isnt the point
owning libs is the point. and they are bigly owned right now,
- That's a sacrifice they're willing to make.
- Yeah, see those elderly lady's aren't old enough to remember back when America was great, they are far to young. Another ten years and they'll be auto selected for the Senate
Lookout, Jimbo, she's comin' right for us!
It's funny because the zipties literally won't stop them.
But unfortunately it takes more than one braincell to understand that.
- But they are very uncomfortable, which I can only imagine is the point.
We are the baddies, and it's long past the time when that was even in question.
Maybe - bear with me - some people don't want to be and just want to power trip?
I think not acknowledging that is part of the issue.
and that is not trump. neither cuffing nor cuffed.it is the average joe. and in the US average joe has become an asshole.
Odds they voted for trump?
- I know it's really easy to assume boomer === bad.
  But to call them all Trump supporters is inaccurate.
  If you said "All white people are Trump supporters", that's slightly more correct than old.
  
  It’s not a boomer = bad comment, it’s a suggestion that the elderly age group tends to vote republican, as proven by the chart you supplied, they’re in red state, and republicans tend to vote for leopards to eat their faces.
  Not sure what you’re trying to say with that chart. 65+ were more likely to vote trump, but it doesn’t break down the difference between men and women in that age group.
They were being treated equally as per the law, I see this as very progressive as they are not assuming any bias or pre conceptions related to age, mobility or even letting their own emotions dictate their behavior towards people.
Fascinating
- Calm down Elon.

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