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America is beyond fucked. I said in November after the rapist won that there wouldn’t be an America by the end of his term.
I think he’s accelerated it and there won’t be an America at the end of 2025.
Unless your rich, white, born into a family of haves, you’re life is bullseyed to the cops, military, and expendable.
Fuck you Trump, die already.
White is not as inclusive as it sounds. Don't worry they'll find reasons to round up them folk too.
Too true
Bro they put a white Canadian woman in custody without access to the outside world.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11080371/canadian-woman-detained-ice-example-immigration-border/
Is whiteness a stack and they'll pop Irish and Italian off the top?
I mean, according to the history of how conservative news has worked, you constantly need an 'enemy' to be afraid. It's the reason we're attacking their rights, not yours, it's the reason that we're enacting laws to target this specific ethnicityn not yours, etc.
Modern conservativism only works if your supporters are fearful of the 'other'. It used to be "orientals" and the Red Scare back in the mid-1900's. Then the blacks, the 'marihuana', and communism in the 60's and 70's. In the 80's, it was the welfare queens, the moral panic, and AIDS. In the 90's, it was child predators, gays, and the start of many identity politics. Then it was Middle Easterners and Islam in the 2000's. Now it's the Great White Replacement and the immigrant populations. See? The pattern is that you always have to have some target for fear. They don't stick around long before people realize that what they were fearful of isn't as bad as people said they were or that it was never a risk on the first place. It's all just a massive distraction to keep people from targeting the real problem. The ruling class, and they're ability to manipulate our laws, elections, and lives all for their benefit.
In the 1980s, conservatism leaned heavily on fear of the communist threat, the 'welfare queen', and a moral panic over crime, AIDS, and the erosion of traditional family values. By the 1990s, the new 'others' were undocumented immigrants, queer Americans, and the imagined tyranny of political correctness and globalist elites. The conservative movement has often relied on stoking existential dread—whether it’s the red menace, the crack epidemic, or creeping secularism—to unify its base through fear rather than hope.
They already popped Latin Americans and Middle Eastern people off of it
Yeah, Persian people definitely got rugpulled
So like America has always been?
Don't pretend it can't get worse
@remindme 2026-01-01
Does that actually work?
@remindme 2025-06-13
No idea.
Didn't work for me :( but maybe it was too close @remindme 2025-06-15
Im most of these things but also gay so I'll be in a camp before most especially after the Southern Baptist convention votes
Fuck, the only thing on the list I'm not is rich and I'm fucking scared of the Southern Baptists.
Camping does sound nice in the summer months at least.
American protests tend to die down after a few weeks unless there is constant new irritation applied.
Continuous mass roundups of people with indefinite detentions, in harsh conditions will probably help keep this protesting active.
But I don’t see how it can get much worse. The police and federal agencies are pretty much at maximum limits for being evil for them. New people will have to be recruited to do worse.
And while there will be mass beatings and the occasional death, and tens of thousands of kidnappings. it’s not enough to tip things over to the next stage unless people in the administration try very hard to achieve that. And I think they are too incompetent to succeed making things worse.
Something unexpected would have to happen first?
You're assuming the power structures survive, the US is a shit tonne more fragile and weirdly over extended than one would expect. Mind you that over extension only really comes out with authoritarian action but still it is notable. I expect a bunch of MAGA Khmer Rouge to pop up and then an extended series of campaigns by various factions to destroy them. Also calling it now the great planes are going to devolve into a bunch of city states.