If we cannot all be on the same page that the sitting president threatening to invade a US city is fascist dictator shit then truly I do not know what to do.
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I know hypocrisy doesn’t work on the right. But all we heard for years was we need our guns to protect us from tyrannical government. We here we are we got death camps and a police state and pissing on the constitution and not one peep from the “freedom” guys.
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I live in a very red state and I just got a new job.
Boy am I hearing all about it. They think Chicago is some crime capital of the world or some shit.
They think he's a hero.
They won't understand till there's boots down in our town. And then they'll sing a different tune.
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this country is so fucking cooked
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Honestly do not know how to navigate family right now
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Eagerly awaiting the Technology Connections on the Browning Automatic Rifle
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Alec talking sense again
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The quick reality check is to remind you that bad people do exist - in large quantities.
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I'm pretty sure he's just poking at city after city until he elicits a sufficient violent uprising and can declare martial law. No city has risen to the bait yet.
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I was discussing this recently with an actual Chicago resident who honestly believes that such an intervention by Trump might help, but they weren't certain it would.
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Others pointed out that many are already on the same page but either think they benefit from what's happening and don't care about the laws or are scared and numb and pretending it isn't happening or is normal. I think there's more to it than knowledge at this point. People don't know what to do...
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Those who study history are doomed to watch idiots repeat it. It drives me insane how stupid and bigoted people are and are actually ROOTING for this crap to happen. The system needs to be purged and rebuilt but good luck getting that to happen when people barely live paycheck to paycheck as is.
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I agree that there currently is no justification for deploying Federal troops to any US city.
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Hope to see you on the streets protesting.
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WHERE IS CONGRESS?! WHERE ARE MY CHECKS AND BALANCES?!
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You have to realize a large chunk of right wingers in this country lied to your face about what they believed. It was never smaller government. It was never a stronger economy. They just want America for white people only.
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It's like shades of the 1930s all over again...
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Jesus, when even the gadgets guy is speaking out...
I can't think of a more never-been-about-politics-or-current-events channel (and great stuff too)
This is a turning point for the entire Nation.
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Yes!!
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It's because they despise and are afraid of pluralism. To them, democracy is irrelevant. They are in favor of authoritarianism if it means that their tribe "wins".
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I hope Chicago kicks their ass
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You have my sympathies. Hopefully, democracy can be restored soon.
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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. What's it going to take for Americans to get into the streets? What's it going to take for what remains of the media to start screaming? Have we been boiled alive by all of his craziness, and we just can't see it any more?
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Don’t worry our savior Gavin newsom (who was married to Donny trump) will do….nothing
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I'm afraid that we maybe at the point where meaningful resistance to this stuff is the kind of stuff that cannot be mentioned online, which means people wanting to do something about it finding the old ways of getting that message across.
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Along with his VP shrugging off war crimes in public
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Reading the comments on Reddit on the Chipocalypse post, they are openly talking about civil war and reciprocal violence. You can tell that temu hitler is pushing the left as hard as he can to make them retaliate. When they finally crack and hit back, it's all going to kick off.
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Everyday I fall into more disbelief that people can see the government take resources from people (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid). Then they watch the feds go against people and their cities, and have no problem with that.
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We are not on the same page because everyone agrees on all the bullshit racist priors that led him to this point.
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Chicago, if you send this clown packing like the fascist moron he is, I'll never say a bad thing about the Cubs again
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If this is the point where people are starting to piece together that this is a dictatorship then we need to really spend more money on education. There have been tons of things he's done that scream dictator in his first 6 months
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I believe we agree. Some people want it.
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“We’re not like the Muslim fundamentalists!” said the Christian fundamentalists, drafting their own religious laws. “We don’t do those things!” they continued, electing a dictator to attacking their own country, Assad-style. “And why are we slowly turning into corn cobs??!?”
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We need to come together and agree on what to do —- fast.
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I am not seeing a whole lot of outrage. I feel like USA voters have checked out.
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He using the military to quell protests against him
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“Department of War”
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I can’t help but wonder if, in a world this media-saturated, there will always be a huge chunk of people totally lost in the weeds and unable to get a bird’s eye view of even the most obvious stuff. It has been ten years. His fascistic tendencies have been obvious for TEN YEARS
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tbh I'm too scared to fully process it rn. my mind keeps circling back to the plan to label all trans people mentally incompetent and how that would so thoroughly fuck up my life in literally every way imaginable
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I really hate that the moment I bring up anything happening (especially as a queer trans person) my extended family just goes on about how "Biden was worse!"
If it gets to the point I have to flee or hide, maybe things will start to sink in for them...
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We're done playing with chalk "Resist Chicago, M𖤐577" designed by Charlotte Monteacuto 2025 for #577fashionistas #movement577
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A lot of people wonder how the German people could ever allow nazis to rise to power, and we're seeing it all right now.
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I'm DC adjacent and the Guard was relegated to picking up trash and landscaping before Trump stiffed them on deployment pay. That's the angle of attack that will land with low information voters.
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It’s the ENTIRE republican party.
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Let me just say “amen”
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I have conservative family members who say liberals are just as bad or worse. I'd really like to hear an example of a democratic politician who's done something as bad or worse than building concentration camps for people who didn't get due process and deploying the military on DC
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He’s being enabled by the richest and therefore most powerful people in the World. People on the street will be dying because these Wealthy Elites want to protect their power and wealth.
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Fully agree
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Para bellum
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You don’t defeat fascism by asking nicely, which is why we’re here now. They’re not afraid to get violent, the rest of us cannot be afraid to stand up to it. None of what is coming is going to be easy, and the only way out is through.
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Right?? This feels beyond insane. The real world feels downright dissociative to me right now because it doesn't seem possible
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The problem isn’t that we’re not all on the same page. The problem is some of those fuckers out there are rooting for this. Like it’s a team fucking sport, and today it’s South Carolina against Chicago
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I think we're learning that 1) lots of people think fascist dictator shit is totally cool if it aligns with their views, and 2) lots of folks' views can be easily manipulated by propaganda masquerading as news.
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Thank Christian Nationalist sects training their dozens of children to get into politics/law. They pack the courts and use hate/fearmongering to unite conservative voters. They use wealth and influence to appoint judges. They've been playing the long game while Progressives can only react.
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Buddy, we have people who genuinely are convinced the earth is flat. I genuinely envy your hope for peoples intellectual capacity, but years of watching idiots get their way eroded any surprise i could have from people either ignoring or supporting outright fascist action.
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I feel almost embarrassed that I didn’t see Texas invading Illinois as a possibility with trump. I knew it would be bad, but I never imagined this!
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What would you have done if you were in 1930s Germany?
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Yeah, if we can’t agree that a president casually threatening to use the military against his own citizens is crossing into authoritarianism, then the baseline of what’s acceptable in a democracy has already shifted way too far. There really should be mass protests everywhere.
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But it's like totally not you guys when it's something that they agree with. You're like totally overreacting. Didn't you know that there's totally a ton of caveats and exceptions to everything that's inside the Constitution when we want there to be except for when we don't want there to be?
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police in portland bumped the NET (Neighborhood Emergency Teams) program for some kind of emergency training in our scenario village. it's a little unnerving not knowing what side of the scenario they're training for
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Hey I'm a big fan. This shit blows.
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Unfortunately, the right wing thinks this is their revenge, and the far left would go after easier targets in the Democrats over actually putting their money where their mouth is and actually resist the tyrannical gov't they also enabled
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If you don’t hate Republicans, you’re not hooked up right.
