• SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    37·
    11 hours ago

    And just like that, conservatives have brought us back to some of the most disgusting times in history.

    Conservatives: Making America Great again

    • Flickerby@lemmy.zip
      4·
      3 hours ago

      This is the absolute worst time to be vindicated in your “radical end of the world” predictions. I hope everyone who said people were “just overreacting” are welcoming the leopards into their homes with smiling faces.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      13·
      11 hours ago

      “Oh nice, we’ve discovered new photos of the WWII concentration camps for Japanese Americans.”

  • mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
    291·
    12 hours ago

    fucking disgrace, all these just to detain migrants. Meanwhile in Wisconin in 2020, a white kid shooting 3 black men gets off scot free. I forgot his name, the chubby kid with a puchable face.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      7 hours ago

      Maybe not just migrants, Trump was literally quoted as saying something like “even some people born here are not so great, that might be the next step.” And other officials have already hinted at mechanisms for stripping citizenship from US born people that “pose a threat to the US”.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    244·
    13 hours ago

    Starting to look like those 3rd world countries we’ve seen pictures of our whole lives.

    Welcome to the future conservatives want.

    This is why you don’t do dipshit things like vote 3rd party or abstain from voting as a form of protest when so much is on the line.

    • merc@sh.itjust.works
      131·
      12 hours ago

      The bigger issue is that somewhere near half the US is OK with this. Sure, maybe some people could have done more to prevent it. But, there were also untapped voters on the other side who fully supported this kind of thing, but were too lazy to vote.

      The US is in a crisis not because of who is in charge, but because roughly half the population supports this kind of thing. It could be that some of them are actually not horrible people, it’s just that they’ve been misled by Fox News, right-wing echo chambers, and other sources of information that have blinded them to the truth. But, a lot of them are gleeful participants in this new world, and will fully support it until they’re the ones being sent to the camps.

      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Seeing this I think now it’s more than half the US.

        Probably they’ll point at this and say “finally, a politician that does what he promises, I should vote for him next time”

    • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      10 hours ago

      Not voting is extremely dipshit. That contributes to outcomes by over an order of magnitude more than third party voters do. We get into theses shitty situations by always compromising. First and foremost everyone should be in favor and push for ranked choice voting. That empowers voters and cuts down the power of party machines. I’m convinced it’s one of the most powerful forces for restoring something that resembles democracy. I’ll always stand behind people supporting candidates that support their interests the most as long as they have made the effort to make sure their candidate has their best interests in mind.

    • PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca
      71·
      11 hours ago

      People are just dumb, plain and simple. So when the vote forces you to choose between far right politics, and far right politics+racism+shaking up a broken system, I can sympathize with why they voted for a third party, or even why they voted for shake up the system.

      What I don’t understand is the smaller group of dipshits, who don’t understand even the basics of causality. Who will shout to whoever will listen that Donald Trump is the fault of that small group of third party voters, and not ENTIRELY the responsibility of the Dems being ineffective, woe is me, deep right, billionaire agenda, pretend to care but do nothing, pieces of useless shit that they are, so much so that an orange conman won the election. Stop fucking pretending the that the choice between cutting off your dick, and cutting off your dick and eating it, are valid enough choices that your typical uninformed, heavily propagandized voter, should definitely have obviously chose cutting off their dick but not eating it.

      Lets not even get into the fact that the GOP can only be this extremely far right because the Dems have themselves moved so far right that the rubber band between them doesn’t have to stretch barely at all.

      But yeah lets blame the voters.

      • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
        113·
        11 hours ago

        But yeah lets blame the voters.

        I am. And will continue to do so.

        Our government is a reflection of our electorate. If some dumb assholes who have never bothered looking up the voting history of both parties and the economic trends related to both parties and the criminal conviction history of both parties so they can see that one option is way, way, way, way, way, way better than the other, then I’m going to call them dumb assholes, because they are. Especially if those dumb assholes continue being dumb assholes while one party is openly embracing fascism, to the point they even publicize a fucking fascist manifesto leading up to an election.

        Politicians lie. They will continue to lie…forever. It is 100% the responsibility of voters to do their due diligence and do their fucking homework, and vote intelligently. If not, then they will lose their democracy, which appears to be the direction we’re heading.

        Anyone who isn’t a dumb asshole knew that there was exactly 0% chance a 3rd party could win, so logic states you vote for the option that is best. And again, if you do your homework, one of those options is absolutely better than the other and that has been proven beyond doubt to us every single day since Jan 20.

        • PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca
          6·
          10 hours ago

          So you think the Dems suck because voters are dumb? I think the dems suck because your opinion is so widespread.

          I think Dems suck because they know anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together knows they are the better choice, which means they never have to do anything to help us ever, just as long as they dont ruin the country as much as the GOP does. I believe this mindset of “vote blue or die” enables them. In fact if that mindset prevails America is doomed because if we dont force the Dems to completly change, or create enough left leaning anger against them to be replaced by another party, then the GOP will keep ruining the country every chance they get, and the Dems will continue doing nothing to undo it.

          Regardless it doesn’t matter, America is already so horrifically fucked. The GOP are about to sell what little chance we had at a decent future away and then fuck off to other countries on golden parachutes. Nothing short of massive political uprising from the left has any chance of righting the ship before the entry country buckles under the weight of 50 years of crony capitalism.

      • baratheon@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 hours ago

        not gonna lie, this really make the US look like its now an authoritarian regime, especially from the outside. Not sure what would be the benefit for the US on that

        • PresidentCamacho@lemmy.ca
          4·
          9 hours ago

          We’ve definitely grown a lot more authoritarian recently, but are still mostly crony capitalism. Worse case scenario for our government i think will be Authoritarian Oligarchy, that’s what the GOP wants anyways.

          To answer your question about what benefit for the US it would be, it wouldn’t be one, it would just be the fulfillment of the current iteration of the American dream “Fuck all of you as long as I get mine”. Sadly we cant vote our way out of it because every ballot is a vote for either “Slow death of America” or “Quick death of America”

          I find it ironic that i don’t hear “taxation without representation” being mentioned more, its a defining phrase of our country’s history, and I haven’t been represented by the government since i was old enough to begin thinking about politics.

  • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zip
    3·
    9 hours ago

    How often will they let alligators roam? Really dark times we’re in. I can’t believe how much I took for granted.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      17·
      15 hours ago

      I haven’t heard anyone say Alligator Auschwitz yet, but at the rate we’re going it might be appropriate.

      Edit: Ah I’m too late, I saw it further down

      • samus12345@sh.itjust.works
        English
        4·
        15 hours ago

        They beat me to it many hours ago. I hope it catches on because that’s sure as hell what I’m calling it.

  • Ileftreddit@lemmy.world
    251·
    16 hours ago

    The people doing this are evil. What can I do, I’m trapped in NYC by a job I can’t leave, and I have a family, so I’m not going to be a guerilla… but I give it 3 months before idiots on the right start posting their Florida gas chambers

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      There are still things you can do that will drastically help.

      1. find local communities and get involved to make connections, this is essential, as resisting alone without a community makes you much less effective, and easier to suppress. Any real resistance requires community.
      2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This targets the establishment’s income streams, and can bring a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
      3. Contact a union and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

      This method would not only work in the US, but anywhere in the world.

      Union Suggestions:

      1. Continuing to participate in publicly visible resistance demonstrations like 50501 (the next one is July 17th) to encourage others to stand up with you and prove to that there are millions of others who will join them in the fight. A large part of Nazi Germany’s success in taking over the country was a lack of massive public demonstrations against the new regime, making people feel helpless and afraid to take a stand.

      If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective these methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

    • tamman2000@lemmy.world
      281·
      16 hours ago

      At some point people are going to start having to risk their comfortable lives to resist

    • MML@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I mean there’s no fucking roof either and those beds are 3/4 of the height of it, I think they’ve been watching too much Squid Games. Actually maybe there is a roof.