I’m disgusted with this country.
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Everyone immediately rolled right over before election night even ended. There's almost zero fight from anyone. Disgusting is the perfect description.
That's the shit that gets me, too. They're literally just letting everything happen. It feels fucking hopeless.
What is left to do? The majority of the American electorate is hopelessly uninformed, selfish, or lazy. The slugs have voted for salt!
Making normal people feel helpless the key. The Nazis did the same shit as this turd reich is doing.
Okay, what can I actually do about this then? Difficulty: Only mention things that won’t get you banned.
Take care of yourself first. Can't do anything if you're on the ropes.
Then, it is every liberal's duty to become a lawful firearms owner. I can't believe I'm saying this. If you only knew me. Wednesday after the election I spent the day crying. Thursday, I signed up for gun class.
I used to think America was a pretty safe country. I watched the violent crime rate drop since the '80s. It was mathematically clear that having guns in the home was way more dangerous than not. But then I saw these fuck sticks with their tiki torches. Then I saw that guy drive his car through the crowd. And now they won, again?
Republicans today are way more dangerous than any street gang I've ever heard of.
Nice job skirting the ban. "Buy a gun, but I won't tell you how to use it."
Almost feels like the DNC was controlled opposition this whole time we marched toward fascism.
Sure but this is his only move here given what the shit ass Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity.
Hopefully this orange asshole survives the four years and someone with a moral compass picks the car back up after/if he leaves but there's not a damn thing he can do now with Trump back in office and he's just got to wait until he gets indicted himself in political retribution from this orange fascist.
Hopefully this orange asshole survives the four years
Hopefully he dies tonight, but the roaches always seem to be long lived...
Sure but this is his only move here given what the shit ass Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity.
Oh cool. The latest in a looooooooooooooooong fucking series of "Oh darn! Our hands our tied! We can't do this thing we never wanted to do in the first fucking place!" moments.
Legal justice has become a pipedream. The only options with any real chance of happening are vigilante justice or no justice.
which should fundamentally terrify anyone with a basic understanding of history.
Once the rule of law collapses, the empire is soon to follow.
I want him to get drunk, go on a podcast, and just spill the tea. What does he really think. I mean, I think I know, but I'd love to hear his honest opinion of the games that were played, who dropped the ball, and what he thinks of all the players, outside of what we glean from the filings.
Cold Ones suddenly looks very politically relevant.
Or maybe he could go on Hot Ones
He's probably walking a tight rope in the hopes his family doesn't get massacred.
The best justice money and corruption can buy.
Resist, unless you might suffer consequenses.
Good... because this might finally lead US citizens actually consider a civil law system rather than a common law system...
Aw, who am I kidding? Yanks don't even use the metric system yet. Smh.
EDIT: /s for morons who don't get irony.
Fascist accelerationist.
Yeah, common law systems have a tendency to go that route.
Do you support Russia?
Russian people? Yes. The Duma and the Kremlin? No. Name your terms, dimwit. Context matters. I mean not to you, since you're a dimwit.
Also: you didn't get the original post, did you? Reading comprehension and understanding irony is not your strong suit I guess.
"bUt RuSsIa HaZ a CiViL lAw SyStEm.'
Russian laws don't matter, because they are run by a literal fascist - you moron.
What was your point again? Mine was violent revolution whereby Trump gets axed and no president could set a legal precedent like that again.
Did you get that?
You understand the difference between a civil and common law system is an extremely niche issue that most people engaged in online politics don't really have an opinion on, right?
I called you a fascist accelerationist because you were praising the Trump victory for something that doesn't fucking matter. It's like if you said some deranged like "elephants are a cooler animal than donkeys."
It's called irony you moron. Perhaps I should have put an /s behind it for your stupid ass.