The USA you knew is now dead.
The USA you knew is now dead.
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This is real
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I love me some good old fashioned verification, so thanks for falling on that sword for us. (No way in hell am I clicking through to that shit hole though.)
Edit: I misread the URL and it's an archive site, not TS.
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Ever time he attacks people that criticize him like this he comes off as such a weak, crying baby that I am amazed that his base is not disgusted with him, but they never are. How can they not see him for what he is?
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Well you see... That's because they are also week little babies. That's why they flock around a "strong man" like him.
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All hail to the biggest of babies!
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They love him exactly for what he is in their eyes: strong, candid and clever. For them he is honest ("he tells it like it is") and can do no wrong ("Trump was right about everything"). What other people see as idiocy, weakness and corruption, they see as strengths.
Big part of this appeal is that his persona gives his followers an unlimited license to be as dumb, fascist and hateful as they want.
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Because the MAGATS don’t have enough brain cells to understand how wrong they are for supporting this helmet haired douche!
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It's not dead: it's gone from latent fascism to acute fascism. It's very sick, and it will die, but not without hurting the whole world in its noisy death throes.
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the rest of the world would be hurting even if it wasn't dying. but the US knocking itself off the top of the world order is gonna be better for the rest of the world in the long run.
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If anything this is groundbreaking evidence that destabilizing an international rival is safe, easy and profitable. The rest of the world isn't going to hold hands and sing kumbaya, every country is now in an arms race to root out their own instability and isolate themselves.
We're headed back to the late 19th century. Say goodbye to soft power, simmering rivalries and large scale international cooperation. Every nation will have its own strong man and/or Palantir-style surveillance. Alliances will turn on a dime, your oldest friend could be your biggest threat in under a decade.
International mistrust now abounds at a time where cooperation is the only way to prop up our failing biosphere. All hard won rights and freedoms in the last 200 years will be quietly clawed back. Anyone cheering for this is a fool.
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No it won't, because China will simply fill that gap.
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The onion doesn't stand a fuckin chance anymore. They can't keep up with this level of dumb.
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They could become a serious news outlet, now, and never have to change their headlines.
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The only thing worse than him blatantly shifting all norms to authoritarianism, is that his "freedom loving patriots" are too busy sucking misinformation out of his asshole to give a fuck.
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He wants the Epstein client list out of the news cycle SO FUCKING BAD
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Seems kinda random. Also, we now live in a reality where the POTUS singles out randoms to remove their citizenship?...
I'm eating an onion here, aren't I?
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Now seems like as good of a time as ever to say this. I have in the past always said that in 1930s/1940s Germany the average German may have or may not have supported the nazis. I have also said that the average German may have or may not have known about concentration camps.
Without the internet, those citizens never had a voice. And it was all too easy for the nazis to round up opposition, and take them to camps.
I have always had people argue me that couldn't happen. That all Germans at that time knew, and supported it. Then they call me a holocaust denier. Which never made any sense to me. I never said it didn't happen.
Point is, without the internet, todays modern american would not have a voice. It would seem like we ALL support maga. We don't. However, there are large portions of americans who think of cops as the good guys. There are people who argue that police don't abuse their power. Simply because their media never tells them about it. Not because they support police brutality, but rather because they believe Rodney King was a single incident.
These same people think you're crazy if you tell them what ICE has been doing, or that we've already turned into a nazi state.
So I'll say it again. The nazis took full power. They never had full support. Maga doesn't have full support. Get your voice out there. Fight maga regardless of what nation you live in, just as your grandparents fought nazis regardless of what nation they lived in.
And now it's time for some personal messages.
Pierre says hello.
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Simply because their media never tells them about it.
Simply because their media of choice never tells them about it.... FIFY
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Ok, sure. But I'll also say this. I don't know anyone who watches multiple news outlets. I also don't know of any singular news source that's accurate and unbiased.
What I found used to work for getting the bigger picture is going on reddit's news subs.
Thousands of people, all posting from various sources, with a comments section that isn't biased towards one direction (though they do lean more left historically, but not always).
Then I got banned from reddit by a bot that never made sense, as the comments I was banned for weren't even controversial.
And Lemmy just doesn't have the pure numbers to do that sort of thing. Which is sad, because being decentralized is the whole point here.
The end result is, I feel my news is incomplete, and often untrustworthy.
So yes, those people chose the wrong source for news. But at the same time, there really isn't a decent singular source either.
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every media outlet sanewashed trump every fuckdamn day, yes fox and newsmax are cancer but don't pretend that it is exclusive to them
Rich old conservative men own the media now, it all caters to trump left or right
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They didn't. There were plenty of anti-fascists at the time of nazi Germany. And history remembers them fondly
History, however, does not fondly remember everyone else.
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Any German who didn't rise against the Nazis did support them. Doing nothing is the biggest form of support fascists need to survive because they have so few hardcore supporters.
The same goes for Americans today. If you're not actively fighting them, you are enabling them. Every dead immigrant or trans kid is someone you could have tried to protect but you didn't want to use force or risk yourself for.
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Rosie O'Donnell the comedian and talk show host? THAT's who super strong and brave mr. Trump is afraid of?
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We have context? What did she do to piss off Trump?
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She's been giving him shit for about 2 decades now, not sure it's anything specific she said.
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She says mean but true things about him and bitch tits can't take criticism though it's all he fuckin spews in-between flights of fantasy and bigoted bullshit.
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Maybe he had a crush on Betty Rubble and didn't like that she wasn't being played by a size 0?
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Get a load of this guy (totally doin the thing we knew he would do). Now how long will it take for people to realize what part of the story we are in here. I dunno....i think those who can should probly be armed at this point.. and everyone organized in any way within their communities. If they come for you, your neighbors should FEEL that shit. Especially your conservative neighbors and family members. Alienating eachother right now is exactly how they want us. Check on your neighbors guys.
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Born in the USA, her mom was US born too and he wants her citizenship revoked. Well outside the definitions of the birthright citizenship he’s pushing. So basically no one is safe
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I’ve been concerned this day would come. At least as of this moment, it’s smoke being blown on social media. But we all need to pay very careful attention to this going forward, because the moment it actually happens, we are all fucked.
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If you don’t have a public trial and must provide your own lawyer then it’s easier to hide.
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"so basically no one is safe"
That precedent has already been established.
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no this is pretty consistent with the fascist slave colony people pretend is a country
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The time is now to delete your social media and connect on private communication channels with likeminded people. Use trusted vpns to connect to sites like lemmy. The next steps are crystal clear:
- It's now illegal to publicly shit talk the administration, fuck the first amendment
- Use the massive massive budget assigned to ice to identify users who don't fall in line
- Anyone who is so unpatriotic to publicly disavow the trump regime has their citizenship revoked
- ice concentration camps for those newly non-citizen "immigrants"
- Everyone else "internalized authoritarianism" s themselves into submission
When nobody speaks out it will feel as though there is no hope and you'll feel alone. Keep safe communication channels open now so you don't have to fear later.
Vpns may be made illegal, but there are other ways to anonymize communication.
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No one can tell if you're running a private VPN if you generate a bit of garbage unencrypted activity while you do it
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Bonespurs says a lot of things. In a 1967 case Afroyim v. Rusk the US Supreme Court held that no US citizen can involuntarily lose their citizenship. But you're right that the USA I once knew is dead - in that one a spoiled toddler who can't find his own leaky asshole with a funnel would never have been elected President.
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Are you really citing precedent as if the law even fucking matters anymore?
I realize I'm being an asshole and I'm sorry. And if any of these ass clowns get held accountable for anything they do I'll happily eat crow.
I just don't see it... We're in for a hard reset sometime soon.
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Memes notwithstanding, the Supreme Court hasn't consistently ruled in Trump's favor, even stuffed with 3 of his nominees (thanks to Moscow Mitch). The court did save his ass in their insurrection ruling, but in his second term they've been ruling about 50-50 for and against him so far. Here's an article if you're interested.
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Wait this is real? He’s still grudging about her?
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Ohh it's real my cool friend!
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In case anyone was wondering why, trumplethinskin doesn’t like criticism.
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“Why is everyone talking about Epstein??”
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Yes and also the USA we thought we knew really was as massive of a lie as our hearts suspected and our eyes denied.
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Reasonable people have known that the USA was rotten. But it was impossible to know to what extent. This is what we are discovering now.
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An extent that defies all logic and reason. And eldritch extent that makes satan look like a jobber.
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That is like a 20 year old beef... That cant be real, thats like 65% more unhinged than normal and spelled correctly.
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I always thought it was crazy how the Nazi party was able to rise to power, and that with the internet that wouldn't be possible again...
The internet seems to have almost amplified it, and I am watching it again in real time, and so many people seem glad and willing to march right into authoritarianism - cheering.
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Almost? It absofuckinglutely did.
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100% same sentiment for the past 8 years or so.
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It's resting. Remarkable country, the USA, isn't it? Beautiful plumage!
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Ouch! Isn’t she full maga?
America is goose stepping awfully fast now.
Was thinking he meant Roseanne Barr 😂
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Are you thinking Roseanne Barr?
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Yup 😂
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Roseanne Barr, probably.
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Quite the opposite.
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Hasn't Trump got nonces to protect?
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No he outsources the nonce protection to other nonces. It's called Outnoncing.
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"Now"..?
Ha, no. November 5, 2024 was the death blow.
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Nah, it was Jan. 20th. Everyone who could have done something about it just watched it in slow motion before it hit.
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nah, the US as Americans knew it is dead. for the many small nations of the world that the US has been exploiting, often violently, I imagine this level of cruelty is nothing new.
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Yeep, more like the pants are down and everything is out in the open for the rest to see.
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What I think is happening here is in his subconscious he is Rosie and it's Rosie that's doing all these horrendous things (he is actually doing) and projecting. But seriously America, in the next election try not to vote in the raging sexual assaulting narcissist.
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Little hint @Trump: a country is made of people.
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just notice?
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What did she do?
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They've apparently been rivals since before he tried his hand at politics.
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link?
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ugh. its real. thanks for that link!
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114840552173805537
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If you weren't white it is like it never existed at all
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#americanlivesdontmatter
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Bin Laden won, he got some folks to crash a couple of planes and then the U.S. did the rest of the work for him, and now the America that experienced 9/11 simply doesn’t exist anymore, that country strangled itself. We are the corpse of what was once the united states and we are being Weekend at Bernie’s’d by christo fascists.
Fuck this country.
I know my daughter thinks im a weird old guy, but I often tell her the world changed on September 11,2001. Not just for Americans but the world. So many countries went along and adopted all the measures of control the US wanted in place. Im in Canada and I can honestly say our society has changed as well because of 9/11
yup. remember when you could travel to the US without a Passport from Canada?
Someone embarrassed Americans by giving them a bloody nose so the US spent the next two decades trying to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart.
Afghanistan: 3
Most Powerful Empires in the Modern World: 0
Soviet union, USA and who's the third?
I got my haircut from someone who said 911 was a hoax and all Dems are manipulating the weather..... So... Yeah he won