Its not like there are enough people in the country illegally to fill the concentration camps the budget bill is going to pay for

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              I’m in my forties, and it just feels like we’ve been constantly losing ground since Obama left office, I’m just so frustrated by all of the apathy, corruption, and dishonesty, and have been since 2015.

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                  No conditioning required. The Bystander Effect has always been baked into human instincts.

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                  Part of it is trying to keep up morale. If you feel so beaten down that you won’t do anything, that’s just as bad. Not everyone can get motivated from the bleakness of a situation or from difficult and almost impossible struggle. For those of us who are, it feels like finally we’re fighting some actual great evil, of whose evilness justifies ANY means of defeating it. It feels exciting for us, I’m guessing it almost like a form of that bloodlust that those who get captured by the enamoring power of war feel when their country declares it upon another country which they view as evil.

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                  Nothing? The protests are a big part of the reason the richest man on earth got kicked out of D.C.

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        the year is 2025, a Chinese citizen responds to the Tiananmen Square copypasta with a picture of BB Vance and the Alligator Auschwitz copypasta. The American citizen’s internet access is immediately cut off and they are ordered to lay face down outside where the Amazon Prime predator drone can see them to wait for an ICE collection crew.

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        I hate to break it to you, that’s the MAGAts name for it, so they would love it if you did. And they’re selling merch for it.

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          No, they’re calling Alligator Alcatraz, because they think Alcatraz was a decent place. HitlerPig has even floated the idea of re-opening it.

          Alligator Auschwitz is too close to reality, and they are still in the denial stage that they are following the Nazi playbook.

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            My dumbass didn’t even read “Auschwitz” in the original comment lmao, I read “Alcatraz”. You’re absolutely right here.

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              Alligator Auschwitz is a much more accurate description, and it also pisses off the MAGA Nazis so much, so that’s the one we should use.