• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    Look, my ability to detect irony has physically atrophied in the Trump era, so this question is genuine: Are they trying to incite violent revolution against the billionaire class?

    Because you just can’t make up shit as bad as the way these fuck operate.

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      Yes! They are desperate for a civil war. The longer they go without it, the more support they lose, and the more the different factions on the right begin to splinter.

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        They want a civil war, or rather a cultural war between civilians, to detract from a class war. They want the civilians to be fighting among themselves (i.e. left vs right), rather than uniting against ruthless billionaires and grifters in the government. Having a civil war would also make some of their false claims become “true”, e.g. that cities are “war zones” and that they “need” to utilize the Insurrection Act and put the military everywhere without any remaining legal obstructions. I mean they still do it partially already, which is bad enough, but when a civil war would actually exist (like they claim), then they could also claim that what they were lying about the whole time is actually “true” (just not at all the way they said it to be, but the end result would be kind of the same: war zones inside cities) and they’d be legally allowed to be even more oppressive than they are already. It would increase their power overall. It would lead to a guaranteed dictatorship. Dictators love using “emergencies” to grab full, unrestricted power. So it’s best to never aid them while they try to construct an emergency where there is none. That exposes their lies better.

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      No one is gonna do shit. You could starve half of America and we all will still go to work and the people starving either just die or would still support Trump and die. This is not a country of civil disobedience, we just mostly all don’t want to be inconvenienced in any way. There’s also zero organizing, zero workers rights and zero collaboration amongst the left to do anything. I fully expect things to keep getting worse and most of us honestly just don’t give a shit. America is also huge and you’re not gonna get people in Hawaii to just come to DC.

      The “1789 France” memes are all bullshit. The US also has the most advanced military to keep all the peasants in line and you bet your ass they won’t join the peasants.

      A little more than five years ago remember people were throwing public fits over putting a piece of cloth on their face, they ain’t gonna rise up.

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      I am once again wondering when the brave and free american people will stand up to this corruption in a meaningful way

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          sounds like they didn’t do something meaningful enough, then

          don’t get me wrong, some people need to do that. but other people also need to do more.

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      Yes they are. We revolt they slam the hammer and get all the power they want. Regular folks get hurt or killed as they try to fight the most powerful military on earth. All the 2A guys swear their 9mms and hunting rifles can stop drones and tanks and any of the other machines of war out tax dollars have been funding to kill the pesky brown people not in our borders.

      It’s too late to wake up now. Our complacency has caught up with us.

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      I don’t think they care. They’ve been insulated so long they think it’ll never happen to them.

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      I think if they really want to give all the hoi polloi the finger, they need to speed up the ballroom completion, then throw King Louis XVI themed parties about every week. All while yanking things like ACA and SNAP…

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      I’m convinced Trump is trying with the way he speaks about random stuff, and way too on the nose. But he knows what he can’t say, or who he can’t speak against without getting another ear shot at. There’s no way he can possibly be this dumb… Can he?

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    No wonder the Confederate base are so angry all the time - the amount of effort it must take to sustain the cognitive dissonance between watching the pedo-in-chief flip virtually all of America the bird, partying like Gatsby while people are getting ready to starve, and also believing at the same time that he’s for “The Forgotten Man”, must cause a lot of pain.

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      What do you mean everything is fine just listen to faux news, oh it’s not fine? Well faux news says it’s the democrats fault, oh trump is spending money, faux news says it’s money taken from immigrants drug money

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    Not one to be outdone by let them eat cake, yeah? A noble effort

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    I gave up on blaming this shit on Trump over a year ago …

    … it’s all on America at this point for putting up with this shit.

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        It’s always “you should do something!”

        What?

        …oh you’re right I guess I wouldn’t want to get shot first either 🥺

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          And yet, risking getting shot may be exactly what winds up happening, or rather, may be what needs to happen even if no one wants to do it. But it also can’t just be one person, can’t make change with just one Luigi. Whole neighborhoods and communities have to organize, and it’s simply not happening on a mass scale.

          Then again, even if that happens, the public still needs the military on their side. Because if it gets to the point Trump thinks he can call down missiles on American cities, the military needs to tell him to fuck off. Citizens won’t be able to defend against that or drones.

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        Organize with your local groups. Political activism, mutual aid, any kind of community support.

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      I gave up on blaming America a long time ago…

      … it’s all on the EU for putting up with this shit.