• Default Username@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    There already is a civil war, but only one side is fighting. I would say they aren’t yet violent, but ICE exists and Trump already said he would send some kind of “army” to the polling booths.

    • KelvarCherry [They/Them]@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      14 hours ago

      Fully agreed with everything besides that MAGA’s forces “aren’t yet violent” — ICE and vigilantes both are terrorizing and killing people in the street and in camps.

      Unfortunately as you noted the left and liberals are not fighting back. Everyone besides MAGA seems to be more focused on defending the notion that this is “politics” than defending their neighbors. I don’t see hope for that changing.

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        Since before most all of us were born the police have been exercising what’s the phrase, unaccountable power against working people. What we are experiencing now is nothing new, just a progression of the game plan of the oligarchy that put this in place in the 1971 business Round Table where they made the long game to overthrow the Republic.

        We could stop them, all we have to do is organize and find some real leaders. Alas.

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            11 hours ago

            I just looked that up on Wikipedia and holy shit, cops fucking with people, somebody throws a stick of dynamite at the police and kills seven of them, they fire back kill three.

            The labor movement was fucking hardcore before we became fucking bitches in the modern area here.

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              9 hours ago

              And that specific movement is what got us the 8 hour workday.

              Also, curious that Labor Day is celebrated on May 1st essentially everywhere except for America, where the event originally happened.