• @[email protected]
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    09 days ago

    I wasn’t surprised since as soon as he won he was doing a lot of things. He wasn’t even president then.

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    Are you guilty?’ said Winston.

    ‘Of course I’m guilty!’ cried Parsons with a servile glance at the telescreen. ‘You don’t think the Party would arrest an innocent man, do you?’ His frog-like face grew calmer, and even took on a slightly sanctimonious expression. ‘Thoughtcrime is a dreadful thing, old man,’ he said sententiously. ‘It’s insidious. It can get hold of you without your even knowing it. Do you know how it got hold of me? In my sleep! Yes, that’s a fact. There I was, working away, trying to do my bit—never knew I had any bad stuff in my mind at all. And then I started talking in my sleep. Do you know what they heard me saying?’

    He sank his voice, like someone who is obliged for medical reasons to utter an obscenity.

    ‘“Down with Big Brother!” Yes, I said that! Said it over and over again, it seems. Between you and me, old man, I’m glad they got me before it went any further. Do you know what I’m going to say to them when I go up before the tribunal? “Thank you,” I’m going to say, “thank you for saving me before it was too late.”’

    ‘Who denounced you?’ said Winston.

    ‘It was my little daughter,’ said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. ‘She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day. Pretty smart for a nipper of seven, eh? I don’t bear her any grudge for it. In fact I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway.’

    George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

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      The Weimarer Republic was a very young democracy, it existed only for 15 years and before that Germany was a monarchy. Trump is dismantling the oldest democracy at the moment

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    I don’t get all the misspellings these days. What’s a SOCTUS?

    How hard is it to check spelling?

    • @[email protected]
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      It drives engagement.

      I see so many videos with wrong “subtitles” (sorry, flashing the word as it is said is an annoying way to subtitle your videos, they’re not proper subtitles), people don’t have to proof their text anymore and it generates interaction. Stupid AF.

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      It’s not a car crash for them.

      They just want to make the rest of the country a vile sewer like the south is.

      They simply can’t process why everyone isn’t celebrating the chance to be cruel racists, it’s like people hating ice cream to them.

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        09 days ago

        Agreed 100% I work around people that are Ride Or Die Trump supporters, and they are fully on board with crashing everything so as long as they get to own the Libs.

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    09 days ago

    I’m gonna keep saying that USA is bending over and taking it all in the GOP (grand ole pooper).

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        09 days ago

        The thing is that it took a powerful coalition of countries to actively wage war against him for years for that to happen. I am not seeing anything similar happening here.

        This is all on Americans themselves.

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          Wait… It took the rest of the world being against Nazi Germany to stop them. You’re not seeing a powerful coalition of countries opposing the US. So… This is all on America? Not sure how you got to that last point.

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          I guess that’s what happens when you make doomed political choices and threaten annexation while forcing economic warfare on your closest allies.

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          08 days ago

          Hey, we’re working on creating that broad coalition right now! Don’t worry, invading Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Disneyland and MacDonald’s Island should help motivate the world! If that doesn’t do it, we have plans to bomb China, Australia, Costa Rica, Maine, Disney World, Loompaland, and Imagination Land.

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      09 days ago

      Most of them closed before 1935 and then were reopened but worse in 1938ish

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    09 days ago

    Lol MAGAts aren’t doing what the meme says, they’re cheering it on, because ThOSe DaMn DeMoCrAps are finally getting taken care of

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      09 days ago

      They believe whatever Trump does is gospel and their news outlets convince them the same. He can do no wrong because that would shatter the reality they’ve constructed.

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      I don’t see that at all. The only MAGA that I’m still connected to on Facebook hasn’t posted anything about the Abrego Garcia situation since it happened. He’s literally doing the Homer thing, and the shrubs are his other posts about the weather and stuff. He went from posting about Trump all the time to kinda pretending like he doesn’t exist.

      Meanwhile, the MAGAts around my parents’ house in the middle of rural Indiana have taken down all of their Trump flags. They were already at a low ebb before the election; now there are only two houses with Trump signs up on my route to their house, and I’m pretty sure one of them is owned by an old woman who can’t walk.

      This just isn’t happening on the ground. Only on Fox, as far as I can tell.

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        My hardcore right wing neighbors have anti-elon stickers all over one of their Teslas, but are still the same. I think Fox has them fearful of “persecution”. They highlight every act of vandalism or protest like they’re some sort of oppressed minority so that makes them afraid to speak up, or they straight up know their viewpoints are shameful. Either way I think only the margins are changing as the truth never penetrates the core of the believers.

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          09 days ago

          “oppressed minority”

          “silent majority”

          in control of all three branches of government

          The mental gymnastics, man.

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        09 days ago

        That happened to a buddy in Florida before the 2020 election, people took down their signs all over. I noticed it in rural Washington as well. I guess they saw a black woman, got scared, and put them right back up.

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        09 days ago

        My good friend’s parents are adamant that Trump has done nothing wrong and apparently hope he continues on the current path.

      • @[email protected]
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        My MAGA friend just said due process is only for citizens. I stopped trying to debate with him, he’s too far gone. I’m depressed about it.

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          You can ask how do you know he’s not a citizen without due process?

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            09 days ago

            Couldn’t answer coherently. Comfortably safe as the in group, confident that the others deserve their punishment.

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          Very disappointing. How does he say he’s expected to prove that he’s a citizen without due process? I’ve been wondering.

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            Unconditional trust in the MAGA authorities, plus unconditional disdain for all other authorities (trumps convictions are unjust politically motivated prosecution, he did nothing wrong). He turned his brain off years ago and just lets fox news think for him.

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              He doesn’t actually have an answer? Even more disappointing.

              “What if a socialist demonrat accused you of being a noncitizen? How would you prove them wrong?”

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        I live in a pretty maga area and I can say that maybe the support has dwindled a tiny bit around me? I dunno it’s hard to tell. I can tell you for damn sure tho that there are still plenty of people incredibly happy with everything that’s going on. Especially with the deportations. It seems a little less with the tariffs but even then a ton of them are very happy that America is finally standing up for itself. I’m pretty convinced at this point that there is literally nothing Trump could do that they would see as a bad thing.

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      09 days ago

      Yah I am getting fucking SICK of all these “owning the right” and “leopards are eating their faces” memes.

      THE CONSERVATIVE ORCS ARE CHEERING.

      This “engagement culture” has taught us to keep clicking on things that make us feel good, distancing us from the truth and reality.

      I swear the left has almost an equally distorted picture of the real world as the right, at least the ones who spend all their days scrolling their curated feeds. We are NOT winning, we are NOT sitting here smug while the conservatives whither into the background, they are fucking in control of the world’s wealthiest, most powerful country and they are celebrating every day. The number of worried neolibs out there who lost their 401K’s or the like and are booing Republicans at town halls are a minority.

      I swear this is why we lost this last election. Too many people checked out, didn’t care, figured there was no way people would vote in such an obvious crook… AND YOU NEVER CHECKED WHAT THE OTHER SIDE WAS SEEING AND DOING.

      Fucking 55% of eligible voters showed up. And now we’re gonna lose it all because too many of you thought yourselves the main characters who didn’t need to make a choice.

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        and are booing Republicans at town halls are a minority.

        I checked the mtg one and yup people were cheering him getting removed.

          • BarqsHasBite
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            09 days ago

            I just saw the initial removal. Then she talked about how Democrats are violent, to make everyone assume he was a Democrat.

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        My conservative relatives on the wealthier side are upset, at least. These economic policies and Musk’s foolishness have soured them enough to question their media consumption.

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        I kept telling people that Frederick Douglas helped Lincoln’s campaign at a time when Lincoln couldn’t promise to end slavery. I got called every name in the book for suggesting that a less than perfect candidate was much better than an absolute fascist.

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          Related: a lot of our current problems have been festering for the last century+ since we didn’t finish the job after the civil war. If instead of helping the landowners who incited the rebellion rebuild plantations without slaves and subsidizing their production, if we ignored the financial and diplomatic repercussions and just hung the bastards and took their assets, it would have served a much stronger precedent and then maybe we wouldn’t have had organizations like Daughters of the Confederacy re-writing our textbooks for the last hundred fucking years. (My grandmother was one.)

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            Slavery never went away, they just became sharecroppers, which is a form of slavery.

            SCOTUS ruled that sharecropping was a form of slavery in the 1960s. BTW, Clarence Thomas and Roberts want to overturn that ruling…

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    09 days ago

    I just saw this poll (not mine and cannot verify integrity), that if accurate, would suggest Maga are loving it.

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      08 days ago

      So what you’re telling me is that across the board a third to half of all Americans are disgusting pigs who deserve everything that’s coming for them?

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        I am sorry for the rest, but there’s nothing I can do for them except saying migration also works the other way.

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      I genuinely think that most maga just are fully uneducated about what is currently happening. Most probably don’t even know that people have been disappeared. Their bubble is so fucking densely packed with stupid, nothing real gets in

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    Please be accurate when you criticize the administration. No US citizen has been sent to El Salvador.

    The guy the SC told Trump to get back was a legal immigrant, and a citizen of El Salvador.

    Edit: Well. I’m embarrassed. I misread the meme and my brain skipped the “married to a” part.

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      Worth noting, though, Trump is talking about sending “homegrown criminal” to El Salvador prisons. Considering Trump does not define “criminal” as someone convicted of a crime, this is genuinely scary.

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          09 days ago

          The courts will absolutely shake their fists furiously while the republicans in congress will sit on their thumbs while ceding all their power to the executive branch.

          Democrats really have no power except to shut the government down. Hopefully they use that power in the fall.

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      Hey entwine, just an FYI – Kilmar Ábrego García was not a legal immigrant. He was an illegal immigrant (of course, this doesn’t mean he was charged with a crime) who was granted a protection from deportation to El Salvador by a US judge on the grounds that he would be in danger from El Salvadorean gangs. He has had a work permit since 2019.

      Nevertheless, he was not granted due process and this administration is violating court orders.

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/who-is-kilmar-abrego-garcia

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        Even criminals and illegal aliens are granted protection under the constitution too. Citizen or not, in the eyes of the law, they have the same (ignored) rights.

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          Right. Only reason I mention it is because entwine (rightly) noted we should be accurate when critizing the administration, and then accidentally inaccurately described him as a legal immigrant. Legal or not, it was a miscarriage of justice to send this man to El Salvador.

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        Nevertheless, I misread the meme which never said he was a US citizen, so I was talking out of my ass.

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          08 days ago

          I’m pretty sure they edited it when you pointed out the inaccuracy

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        Nevertheless, he was not granted due process and this administration is violating court orders.

        This, I don’t care if he’s a shit bag. I know a lot of shit bags are in our country right now, some high up in government who admitted to being here illegally, does that mean we just send them to El Salvador?

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      do we actually know that no US citizen has been sent? Without due process, there’s no way to confirm. Or am I missing something?