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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 weeks ago

More specifically, child rapist. As well as rapist of women.

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As I've said, many a time, once dictatorship's instantiated, he'll not just remove the vote from all non-Republicans, he'll de-naturalize all non-Republicans, then they can be ICE'd..

making it criminal to do ANY trade with "illegals"/woke.

I found out that he & Miller had a 1-MILLION deportations quota on ICE, for their 1st year..

You're too far in nazi territory, when you're doing that kind of shit .. there's no pretending that away, any more than there's any pretending-away Israel's admission that it's annexing territory from Lebanon, once it's got Hamas controlled/down..

Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Millei.. same fundamental-values, they're demonstrating..

& the fools who are "certain" that social-pressure will prevent the tippingpoint from being crossed..

..solving the wrong problem, while helping the enemy that is walking our world into its "secondary-crime-scene", for our world's butchery..

The Great Filter's actual! This century is it..

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[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently it’s a goal of 100 million removals, nearly one in three of us.

[–] Soulphite@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't yall just make it easy and emigrate, eventually? That way they can just be in their own little secluded isolated delusional pedophilic dystopia they so yearn to have? At this point majority of the world dislikes anything US already, the damage is done. Going to taje decades to reverse.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

You can't move 100M anywhere for a lot of reasons.

  • You don't want to have a corresponding loss of whites defeating the purpose especially if its your more skilled and valuable people leaving first.
  • You don't want them taking their wealth with them
  • Nobody can absorb that many people not singly or even all together
  • A substantially portion will refuse to leave
  • You can't give due process to a sufficient number or yet pretend that due process doesn't exist

If you let it play out naturally you'll have concentration camps, a death toll that would shame Hitler, and nobody coming to the rescue because nobody invades a nuclear armed nation. After that you'll have a psychotic insane dictatorship threatening all of you and potentially touching off Armageddon after threatening everyone and attacking some of you.

The uninvolved can still die of starvation after the bombs drop.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lmaoo I never thought of the Great Filter as a political thing potentially, I always thought of it as a technological thing like industrialization or disease or something. Interesting

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wake up every single day thanking the stars I’m not an American. What a fucking disaster this country is. Vote for a rapist, get raped, I guess.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You think the oligarchs that put Trump in office will stop with the US? Better keep an eye on your own politicians

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We don't need fucking Trump's permission to vote.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

No person needs permission from a leader to vote.

Leaders are elected first in the hearts and minds of the people and then at the ballot box.

A leader can try to take away the ballot box, but they can’t take away people’s will and leaders who forget this will ultimately lose one way or another.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

We need to fight back against the hurdles and vote. Don't let this get us down and maybe we can get the message out as to what people need to do the get over the hurdles they're creating.

[–] Hazmatastic@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Goddamn I want to leave this country, but no one wants immigrants from the US and I don't blame them

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only country I can easily emigrate to is arguably worse. Which is doubly sucky

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Keep your options open, there is still time for it to be preferable to America. I have faith in Trump that he will make things much worse.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yep, most countries are going to refuse American refugees. We'll just have to stay here, and fight back.

[–] TipRing@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

States are well within their power to ignore most of this. They don't answer to the executive branch.

[–] apftwb@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The elephant in the room is him ordering the postal service not to deliver ballots from people not on the federal approved voter list. The postal service isn't state ran. Trump doesn't have direct control over who the post master is, but the board that selects the post master is mostly empty seats so I guess he could flood it with sycophants with support from congress and appoint a new post master if this one puts up any resistance.

It also seeks to bar the U.S. Postal Service from sending absentee ballots to those not on each state’s approved list.

Legal experts noted other potential flaws with the order. David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer who leads the Center for Election Innovation and Research, said the Postal Service is run by a board of governors [not state governors] and the president has no power to tell it what mail it can and cannot deliver.

A spokesperson for USPS said Tuesday the agency will review the order. Trump has sought to bring the independent agency under more presidential control, proposing to fold it under the Commerce Department — whose secretary, Howard Lutnick, was on hand for Tuesday’s signing.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The USPS can be bypassed through strategic and frequent placement of ballot dropboxes. I already didn't use the postal service after the bullshit Trump tried to pull in 2020. It's better to use the dropboxes in every way except for one, and in my case it's only a block to get to the dropbox so it doesn't even apply.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Look for them to seize these along with mail in ballots not on the approved list. We are going to end up either accepting Republicans after they fix the election or taking action.

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Seize them out of the sealed ballot boxes? I mean, maybe, but that's not what is being referred to here - most states with mail in ballots also have drop boxes that do not require mail.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes if people adapt why wouldn't their strategy adapt

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I didn't say it wouldn't, I said that it doesn't apply to this instance. People should have been using the ballot drop boxes all along anyway.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck, this whole scenario is going to end in a lot of violence isn't it...

[–] Worthess@discuss.online 4 points 3 weeks ago
[–] daannii@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Our only possible way out right now is if he dies. Soon.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I live in a dictatorship that toppled dictators before, and this is the current permeating thought. Not "we'll get rid of him" but rather "let's wait it out." And so you wait out a decade, two, three... Maybe it is over and the plans were arranged so his successor would take over instead.

Your thought is one of a people under a brutal dictatorship. So much for the championed first and second amendments, eh?

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm sure a year from now when the courts catch up it will definitely still matter.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

God dammit, fuck that guy.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Learning from his buddy, Putin.