• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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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.

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      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.

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          The modern era started around Queen Elizabeth’s time, believe it or not, and the term “graveyard of empires” was actually coined for the British invasion under Victoria.

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      I got my haircut from someone who said 911 was a hoax and all Dems are manipulating the weather… So… Yeah he won

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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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    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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    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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      not random, trump is a fascist and he dislikes her. This is the world we live in now.

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          Imagine being a full grown adult and thinking that is an acceptable thing to say to or about someone.

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            Are you saying it’s unacceptable to say this about Trump?

            If only libs were as outraged by state sanctioned murder as they are about mean words on the Internet.

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              People can be outraged at two things although I wouldn’t call my comment outrage. It just boggles my mind that a 80 year old person thinks it’s ok to talk to people like that. Being respectful to other people is free. It would have cost him nothing to not post the comment.

              I was taught at an early age to be respectful to people even if you disagree with them. But I was also taught to take up arms if someone tries to fuck with my rights.

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            Imagine using elementary school insults against people, and becoming the president of the USA…

            I should run for president of Serbia, I can’t do worse.

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          You’re probably mixing her up in your mind with Roseanne. If you did, it’s ok. Because that is who I thought this was about at first too.

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              Rosie? I don’t believe so. Other posts saying she’s been making videos critical of Trump, not that some MAGA aren’t also stepping out of line sometimes. I personally had not heard her name mentioned in like 15 years before today.

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                I mean Roseanne Barr, which I suspect is who the deleted comment was referring to based on several replies including yours.

                I thought Roseanne Barr tried to reboot her show from the 90s like 10 years ago, and it was controversial at the time for being considered right leaning.

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                  Roseanne ran for president in 2016 for the green party I think or maybe her own independent party. When they were rebooting her show, she made a rant on Twitter about a black woman and called her a monkey. I think it was a politician, I can’t recall who exactly. That’s why they kicked her off the show. The rest of the cast went on to do it and they renamed it The Connnors.

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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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          You should check out GROUND News if you haven’t. Its a great way to a get an overview of all the various biases in different sources reporting on the same news.

          No comment sections, but I’ve actually come to appreciate that

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          I’ve been meaning to try Ground News. Apparently it shows multiple sources for each story, as well as indicating bias in each source. It is a paid service, though…

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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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      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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      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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        Natives won’t have citizenship either. He’ll have an excuse and the courts in his side.

        Sioux, go to Canada

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          They’ve already floated getting rid of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, mostly because a lot of those pesky indigenous people are on reservations where we could potentially frack for oil (and they’re also bringing in a bunch of cash in some states because of casino laws applying in the state but not on rez land).

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    no this is pretty consistent with the fascist slave colony people pretend is a country

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      They could become a serious news outlet, now, and never have to change their headlines.

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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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    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:

    1. It’s now illegal to publicly shit talk the administration, fuck the first amendment
    2. Use the massive massive budget assigned to ice to identify users who don’t fall in line
    3. Anyone who is so unpatriotic to publicly disavow the trump regime has their citizenship revoked
    4. ice concentration camps for those newly non-citizen “immigrants”
    5. 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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    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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      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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    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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    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.