• Tehbaz@lemmy.wtf
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    3 days ago

    Translation: Trump’s brownshirts are going to kidnap American citizens that lost a roof over their heads to private capital firms and put them in concentration camps to be enslaved until they die.

    I know that most Americans struggle to read beyond a level that most 11 year olds elsewhere can, but come on - surely they’ve seen the history channel or at least heard of the Holocaust? In the country with the most well-armed civilian population in the world, how much more of this shit are you people going to take?

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      Any American who thinks this is the line and that they will stop at homeless people and never target anyone like you: you are sorely mistaken.

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      Have you seen the “history channel” lately? It’s like 5% history and the rest is all Ice Road Truckers, Ancient Aliens, etc.

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        Ancient Aliens, the show that relies on the assumption that throughout most of history humans have been too stupid to do anything unassisted. Given how stupid the general population is today, maybe they have a point

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      The history channel? You mean the one with the mermaid, dragon and aliens documentaries? I’m sure they’ve watched it.

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      I don’t understand it, either. I know some people can feel helpless against a government, but something has to be done.

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        Ah, yes, something will fix this any day now. I mean, what do you suggest I do all by my lonesome? Hold a sign? The reality is that things will continue to get worse until a tragic event galvanizes people in to action. Until then we are all isolated. How are you going to coordinate any sort of movement against the government in a surveillance state with the most powerful military and police in the world? They were taking out progressive leaders like MLK and Malcolm X well before the internet made it so much easier to track people.

        This post here probably communicates my point more effectively:

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          I mean, what do you suggest I do all by my lonesome?

          Nothing alone. When we fight alone, we lose. Organization is key.

          I’m currently working with two organizations trying to do anything and everything we can do to help. It’s small, but it’s something.

          Don’t try to do it alone, please.

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          For all your bluster Americans are such weak little babies when it comes down to it. Maybe that is why they need their guns to feel safe.

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            Fucking Europeans laughing at the demise of America make me sick. Take your bad attitude the fuck out of this area dip shit

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            How many times have you stood up to your government and brought about change? Easier said than done, especially here where they have little qualms about using the police and military to viilent stamp out any sort of leftist movement. I’m sorry that I’m hoping there may be a way out of this that includes me still being here for my spouse and young kids.

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    He doesn’t solve the problem, he turns it into someone else’s problem.

    He’s been doing that his whole life.

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    Rich old man stops his armoured limo to yell at homeless people.

    He’s reaching cartoon levels of villainy now.

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        Didn’t he take out a full page ad in the 80’s or 90’s, calling for black kids to be imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit?

        Literally decades of being a cunt 24/7.

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      I was just thinking that this one. This one for sure. Onion article. This is such a farce. If I were religious I’d say god chose this multiverse to be a parody of the others for his own entertainment.

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    If those McDonald’s burgers he loves so much could start doing their job and give him the most painful stroke possible followed with a massive heart attack, that would be great.

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    As shitty as that is of him, this is sadly what often happens with homeless people or people with substance abuse problems. Push them away, so people no longer see the problems that society should try to help with. Which by the way is something a government should do. So a president who sees a lot of homeless people on his daily routes could get the idea that his government should do something? Well unsurprisingly, not this one…

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    Really trying to make america great agian /j This headline made me remember about that time a bunch of freedmen flocked to Washington rallying under Lincoln but he was 0% on thier side and ordered the national gaurd to tear down thier shanty towns and run them out of Washington.