who could possibly have seen this coming, except everyone. He literally is doing all the things he said he was gonna do. Surprised much?
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You guys should start actually rebelling.
He has torn apart in 100 days a country that took almost 250 years to build.
Start running polls asking if they think the military should forcefully remove him. Get everyone on board and used to the idea
If they don't, someone else will
WHAT!?!?! The guy that said he would be a dictator on day one is a dictator on day one!?!?! Who could have seen this coming!?!?!
FTA:
For example, most Americans (61%) disagree that the federal government should place immigrants who are in the country illegally in internment camps guarded by the U.S. military until they can be deported.
Only 61%? Have I lost my fucking mind? This feels unbelievable to read.
I think the biggest thing I learned this last election is just how much of the country are HUGE pieces of shit. I thought there were maybe 15-20% that were on board with this Nazi shit. It's well over double that.
We fucked up during Reconstruction, and we fucked up again after WWII. Every single Confederate/Nazi should've been disposed of and never allowed to have any influence whatsoever. Instead the cancer has metastasized to every single organ in the body.
Sherman had the right idea.
I think your original estimate is correct, but the problem is that they've captured enough media outlets that sow doubt about right-wingers' true natures to make another 20-30% just uncertain enough to vote for the nazis.
Agree with your remediation, though. Confederates, Nazis, and J6ers are enemies of the state and should be forever barred from holding public office.
It's a ton of the media really, not 'just enough' afaict. So much reporting from all the US mainstream media treats everything he says with kid gloves. If he invaded canada tomorrow the headline on CNN would be something like "US military deployed in proactive peacekeeping mission to the north".
We have to learn our lesson and not repeat it no matter how many crocodile tears are pleas to Civility and mercy there are, even if they come from liberals. Not going far enough is a bigger risk than going too far
Operation Paperclip would like to have a word.
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Right? Like I thought everyone agreed the Japanese internment camps was a dark spot on our history.
Guess it's just because we like the Japanese now?
Yeah. I'm in Merced, CA, which was one of the initial collection points for detained Japanese Americans before they were put in the internment camps. We have a little memorial at the fair grounds, which is where they were collected up at. I've always believed that people 50, 100, 200, and 2000 years ago really aren't fundamentally different than people today, and anyone today who professes to be disgusted by Jim Crow but still embraces modern forms of oppression would have embraced Jim Crow back then. We're seeing that now. These folks, without even a second thought, will eagerly embrace Hispanic internment camps while denouncing the Japanese internment camps as something that never should have happened, and dismiss any semblance with a thought terminating "but this is different."
This is really well said. Throughout history, you can reliably find people on both sides of moral and humanitarian issues like this. There were Roman elite who spoke out against slavery in antiquity, there were Brits who mocked the American Colonies for owning slaves while founding a country based on freedom, there have always been men who believed in equal treatment and rights for women. Right and wrong is usually pretty clear, and in general regular people throughout the ages have been able to recognize which is which. Our values haven’t changed much, but our systems of power and accountability have.
That said, I also believe a good amount of the right wing backlash against the internment camps was performative. Because up until relatively recently, many racists themselves understood that their beliefs were terrible, so they at least tried to hide their true feelings and spoke out against obvious atrocities like this in public. But that was only so they could be accepted by the wider culture, and so they could continue to participate in left-coded spaces. They don’t need to hide how awful they are anymore because the president is leading by example.
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For any election anywhere, approximately 35% are going to be batshit. 61% is super close to "everyone who isn't batshit" category. That's an amazing election number.
If that’s true, sounds like NOW is the time to ACT since we aren’t picking up anyone else. Right?
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Consider that surveys also indicate that 30-40% of the US are essentially “Trump No Matter What” people. Maybe some variation depending on the issue.
So 60% isn’t too far off the mark for people not supporting everything trump does.
E: 48.3% of registered voters voted for Harris. Maybe if that extra ~12% of Americans that are unhappy about Trump had gotten off their asses and voted we might be complaining about a crappy Neo-Liberal instead of a straight up fascist takeover.
Day 100 of not letting it be forgotten that the republicans led a massive, distributed campaign of targeted vote rejection. They spent years getting true believers and laws and rules to support them put into place throughout states and counties, and it bore fruit. There was a disproportionately high number of ballot challenges this last election, and black folks got their ballots tossed a staggering 900% more often than white folks. There's likely a very large number of people who thought they voted in this last election and have no idea that their ballot got tossed. This is the real shit that that dumbfuck starlink conspiracy buried. I'm still in awe that the Kamalampaign just basically shrugged and went "okie dokie! Pack your bags, Katy Perry, party's over!" instead of doing the normal investigations, challenges, etc. Mind you, some of that IS normal, and double checking via the courts is a good thing to do; not like the Trump campaign and its like 300 bullshit ass claims, but more like ten or twelve claims with some actual weight.
They should fucking do something.
Take the MAGA cult out of the poll and it's more like high 60s to low 70s.
That seems low to me.
There's the ostrich/head in the sand types who stay oblivious on purpose.
There's also people that just assume it's more of the usual WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO FOX NEWS ALERT OBAMA WORE A TAN SUIT AND USED TO SMOKE, IS HE THE ANTI-CHRIST?! WEE-WOO-WEE-WOO MITT ROMNEY SAID HE HAS BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN* stuff and don't pay any mind. We're some of the most heavily propagandized people on earth, and some folks choose to save their sanity by just ignoring it. Trump's bullshit has actually been bad enough to burst the bubble for a few of these people.
*Binders full of women was legitimately just fucking funny. I actually laughed when I heard the debate live on the radio. For proof that Romney is a lizard person, you have to look at how he strapped the family dog to the roof of their car to go on vacation.
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Almost like these people should have voted for Harris then or some shit. Who would have known, right? 🙄
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@Absaroka Problem is most voting americans seem to be to dumb to spot it when there still is a choice.
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