• Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The other third couldn’t say anything beyond enthusiastic gagging sounds while swallowing a boot past the laces, a feat both impressive and concerning.

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    They’re executing white American citizens 1300 miles from the southern border.

    This isn’t about immigration.

    It’s about intimidation in order to illicit a response so they can assume total control. Because they are fascists.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      correction, they are executing white Americans.

      for decades BIPOC were executed on the streets and all they got after USA largest protests in history was a street named after them.

      the whole system was rotten from the beginning, what changed is that the rot is now affecting white people

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    The thing that bothers me is that in 2024, polling found a majority of Americans favored Trump on immigration and trusted him more than Harris to do a good job on the issue.

    When I guessed what Trump was going to do about immigration, it looked a whole lot like what he’s actually doing. It wasn’t especially hard to guess because he said what he intended to do. While that’s not a guarantee with a habitual liar, he did have a record of attempting to keep campaign promises.

    What the hell were people who trusted him on immigration in 2024 and don’t like what he’s doing in 2026 expecting?

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      In 2002-03, I told anyone who would listen that the Iraq war was a stupid idea, and that went so well (/s) that GWB actually won the 2004 election (unlike 2000)

      By the end of 2006, almost everyone said they opposed the war and had always opposed the war, that they were outraged by Abu Ghraib and soldiers being killed by IEDs and etc.

      In my experience, Americans aren’t bloodthirsty monsters, but they have crappy imaginations and memories, so they have to actually see an obviously terrible idea get played out and be completely terrible before they will recognize that it is terrible, and then they’ll tell you they knew it was terrible all along. I don’t think we’re much different than people anywhere else in the world in those regards, though.

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    and 89% of the GOP views trump favorably. We are so horribly broken , I’ve given up trying to make sense of this. Are there really this many bad people in this country, they can’t all be gullible cult members?

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      It’s not gullibility; the reactionary right want to oppress the people they hate. It’s White Christian Supremacy.

      It’s similar to the KKK: they weren’t tricked into being hateful pieces of shit, they just are. Sure, a big part of that is that their culture is rotten with fundamentalism and anti-intelectualism, but those are cultivated and flourish because they’re helpful to the cause of being hateful pieces of shit.

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        I’d say it isn’t just similar to the KKK, it is the KKK. The Dems effectively kicked those losers out of their party by the early 1960s, but then oligarch Republicans who had been losing elections since the 1930s because the Great Depression so thoroughly discredited their laissez faire nonsense invited them in by running Barry “I think civil rights is a states rights issue” Goldwater for president, and that anti-social and destructive political coalition has been fucking shit up for everyone ever since.

        e; forgot word

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    30 percent of Americans need to go to those concentration camps they’re building for reeducation when this is over. They can come out when they can pass basic literacy, history, science and political science tests