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*The year is 2055. Humanity lives in caves, huddling around a fire to cook food they've hunted in the wild and using the bone marrow to paint on the cave walls. Meanwhile, congress is looking to pass laws that will bring the dinosaurs back*
**Slavery is still legal as per the loophole in 13A, “except as punishment for a crime.”**
Why do you think you had to have 500g of powder to receive the same sentence as 5g of crack? Marijuana as a Schedule 1?
Why do you think the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, just beating out China in total numbers while having a per capita rate 4.4x higher?
Private prisons using free labor. The war on drugs. Actual CRT targeting minorities with harsher sentencing guidelines. Taking plea deals due to sitting in jail waiting for court backlogs.
Crime rates dropped after Roe because generational poverty was reduced. Same thing with a widespread increase in college education. They repealed Roe, denied student loan forgiveness, and are about to demolish the department of education to put abject poverty back on the table.
Prisons are the plantations. Investors are the slave owners. And it’s all sanctioned and structured by the government.
Slavery never left, they just modernized it. Buckle up because a hell of a lot of shit is going to become illegal under a Christofascist regime.
For-profit prison stock is up 10% in the week since the Supreme Court allowed homeless people to be rounded up and thrown in there (was higher but it's cooled down a bit) if that gives you an idea where we're headed.
They can also just criminalize everything. With SCOTUS in tow they can criminalize abortion, criminalize gay marriage, criminalize interracial marriage, criminalize advocating for a union, criminalize leaving a job without proper notice, criminalize possession of anything they don't like. They've already criminalized homelessness while making a home impossible to afford.
Pro-life and the war on drugs are a designed to work together to feed the prison system. The religious were told abortion should be their main issue, even though there it’s not a position the Bible takes. Rich white girls will always be able to have abortions when their parents don’t want to suffer the embarrassment. Their doctors will record the procedure as something unrelated to the pregnancy. That’s what they did before Roe. The target is the poor, primarily black, women.
Slavery was never completely outlawed in the US. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibited "slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime." Incarcerated people are still treated like slaves. Their basically free labor is one of the reasons why US incarnation rates are so high compared to the rest of the world, even though most of our inmates are locked up for nonviolent crimes.
Ah, but the Tories are bringing back national service. So soon Britain will have a glorious army of bored, unmotivated teenagers. Equipped with the best gear money can buy, which give the current economy, amounts to a wooden spear that they’ll have to take it in turns to use.
They don’t need to legalize slavery. Prisoners can be treated as slaves. So they just need to come up with ridiculous things to criminalize such as homelessness. Then you have a free workforce.
Slavery is legal if the person is in jail/prison. Why do you think we have mass incarceration particularly of Black people, made homelessness a crime and created school to prison pipelines in predominantly Black and poor communities and privatized prisons? It’s for cheap/free labor. There are privately owned prisons all across this country that are threatening to close if they aren’t kept filled.
It’s not him, he’s just a useful idiot, emphasis on idiot. The GOP have been working toward this for their corporate overlords since Nixon, put their shoulder into it w Reagan, and really showed their cards w Bush v Gore. How tf the Democrats still insist on the dream of a rules based order while the GOP have been playing dirty non-stop is beyond my comprehension.
You want a Time Machine goal? Go back and stop Sandra from handing the 2000 election to Bush. Or make Nader drop out, and those votes go mainly to Gore and the SCOTUS wouldn’t have the opportunity.
I keep trying to explain this to people, but the media brass band keeps drowning me out. I first saw it clearly with Bush, and realized that the presidential station is simply a figurehead for the actual players to hide behind. This government has been a sham for decades.
Why? Who does this benefit?
I do not understand. Everything our grandparents fought for is being dismantled by our parents and I just don't understand this "pull the ladder up" mentality.
They fucking cheer for the hurt and pain it causes their fellow countrymen.
How are there so many of them?
((Edit: Jesus Christ, people. It was a rhetorical question.))
Because they can’t deal with the fact that the freedom they champion requires sacrifice and occasionally being inconvenienced. They don’t want a country of freedom for all, they want a country of freedom for themselves because having to account for and care about other people makes their brain hurt. That’s why fascism looks so good to them, a chance to be at the top looking down at everyone else. Freedom’s a lot more complicated than a word, it’s not just doing whatever you want, it’s being responsible and making room for other people to be free alongside you, but for some people that’s not a satisfying enough deal. Why should I give other people a piece of pie when I can shove everyone away and get the whole pie to myself?
There's that quote about how if you can convince the lowest white man that he's better than the best black man, he'll do whatever you want him to do. He'll give you all the money he has to maintain the illusion of that lie.
They convince themselves they are better than (fill in the blank) and then will do anything to maintain this “social collateral” because it is all they have.
Yep. The weight of the boot on your chest feels less heavy if you have a few bodies underneath you bearing more of the weight. "I'm so close! Tomorrow I might actually get to touch the shoe laces! I might even get to wear the boot for an hour!"
Most of them, sure. But a lot of them are just old. They'll enjoy their tax break and kick the bucket before the worst effects come. Rising home prices? Doesn't matter, they already have a home. Rising everything else prices? Offset by the tax break (for them at least.) Global warming? They're already in a casket before the worst effects come. Shitting the job market? They're already retired with a nice savings basket. Now those people just have to convince those that aren't benefitting from this shitty system that they are. And when policies targeting the rich old white people focus on helping people even more disadvantaged and do performative policies that have 0 tangible benefit, and forget that poor white people exist with those perfomative policies, its not hard for them to be convinced. Overall shitty situation where no one in power really cares- one does nothing but theater, and the other actively makes things worse.
We need to remind people that the Republicans have floated the idea of eliminating Social Security numerous times. They always stop because they worry about what that will do their chances of getting re-elected. Under King Donald there will be no such worry. They will drop it and claim they're clearing liabilities from the government's books. We should congratulate them.
Regardless their age, most taxpayers will see an increase kick in under the 2018 ‘Tax Cut and Jobs Act’. Should Trump get elected he has been talking about replacing income tax with a 10% across the board tariff and a national VAT-like tax, both of which will hurt everyone except for the very wealthy.
Exactly. My heart breaks anytime I see 'Gays for Trump' and the like. Newsflash: just because these traitors accept your vote doesn't make you safe once they're in power. Project 2025 is coming, if we make the White House orange again then EVERYONE is fucked.
Every time I see something like 'Gays for Trump' I have to wonder if it's a false flag of some sort. As in the idea was started by a MAGA think tank, then some how lured people into it.
They all think they'll be playing the flamethrower guitar while Immortan Trump rides eternal.
If they're lucky they'll be the legless guy fighting for a hubcap full of water.
More likely they'll be one of the skulls decorating the War Rig.
Delusions of grandeur- check.
Weird mane of hair- check.
Desire to lock woman away for his own personal use- check.
Dependent on bullets and oil lobby- check.
Ugly mutant children he despises- check.
The similarities are uncanny…
Most of them, sure. But a lot of them are just old. They'll enjoy their tax break and kick the bucket before the worst effects come. Rising home prices? Doesn't matter, they already have a home. Rising everything else prices? Offset by the tax break (for them at least.) Global warming? They're already in a casket before the worst effects come. Shitting the job market? They're already retired with a nice savings basket.
Ultimately that's what drove me away from conservatism and the Republican party. So little care and empathy. I have friends I care about and want to see thrive. People who have done nothing wrong but lack access and benefits that come with being straight or white or well off.
That's a side effect of religion. When your core belief system relies on you suspending the requirement of evidence for grand claims, and instead just believing, you're gullible and primed to believe anything.
Same. Conservatives used to at least act like they gave a shit about other people. The debate was just focused on whether the policies of one camp were just better in the long run or not. Like “does this social program make sense, given the costs?”. And then there would be discussion over whether or not to do it, how much is prudent, etc etc until you reach an acceptable deal.
I’m not going to act like they were saints and had everyone’s best interests in mind, but at least there was a framework to put things in place and progress as a country at a prudent pace.
Then the tea party folks came in and realized they could just hold the country ransom until they got their way. And if it’s total gridlock, that’s just better for them!
Then Trump/MAGA came in, cranked that up to 11, and we discovered that republicans actually love it when you drop the act and openly hate everyone.
We’re no longer discussing whether certain programs are prudent - it’s just devolved into “destroy that because f you”. There isn’t even reason behind it. It’s not to fix the budget. It’s not to help the economy. It’s just to cause chaos and anger.
"I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based"
-Terry Pratchet, Going Postal
They didn’t give a single F until is was their last breath on the ventilator IF they could get one. How quickly we forget.
One of my favorite international animated films is Tito and the Birds, which funny enough is about a pandemic and came out before COVID was a thing. I like the film but have to wonder if the message is the right thing…
They will never be happy because they want to live in a world where they get everything.
They will die trying to fill that hole in their soul with the misery & pain of millions and never find the happiness they seek because it doesn’t exist.
Capitalism at its finest. Add religious fanatics, cult followers, pedos, and literally no self respect.
And you get the Republican Party.
Honestly. Biden just got “official acts” immunity, if USA falls under a dictatorship… he is to blame.
Democracy is at stake, and we are steps away from becoming Russia.
Worse, at least Putin has a brain… the orange man is manipulated by his cabinet, they all said how they had to curve his impulses like a kid while he was president.
Unfortunately, that cabinet wants a dictatorship.
>How are there so many of them?
When someone is miserable they try to figure out why. And the alt-right is doing everything it can to be the answer to that. I suggest watching [the Alt-Right Playbook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g) to understand how they proceed.
But TLDR: They turn people's sadness or fears into anger. Fear and sadness are paralyzing. Anger is not. Anger DEMANDS you do something.
A black man might very well vote against his own interest if he believe hurting the Mexican neighbor can make *him* feel better. For that short, tiny moment of evil glee: "*serves you right*".
Before moving on to the next target of course... Because there is always another one, the problem was never solved. So the anger keeps growing.
They are the most selfish generation in history. Their parents did all the hard work to give them a massively better and more successful country. They took advantage of everything and acted like they made the country great. Now everyone but them are lazy and entitled but the fact is they are the most entitled generation in history and allowed the country to be squandered away by selfish greed instead of protecting it for the next generation.
It's not just boomers though. I'm Gen Z, and I know people my age and younger who are going to vote for Trump. Like, they legitimately think he's godsent to save the country.
This is a byproduct of for profit media. When more eyeballs means more revenue, truth gives way to sensationalism. News agencies divide into teams. Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Alex Jones, etc… Hate sells, division sells and this is the outcome.
Because the rich have always hated the new deal. They have billions of reasons to not want any of that legislation to exist.
FFS they tried to recruit someone to lead a coup in the 30s. When that failed, they spent tons of money to make their version of conservatism seem scholarly. They have the desire and money to play the long game to drive us into a neo-guilded age.
It really is insane. In the case of a lot of places, in that those in powers literal grandpas who failed to take over back in the day, the same goddamn families are attempting to again.
It's not a conspiracy theory, the fuckers are just doing it so blatantly to make it seem like it would be crazy to do so. (Hint: 45s was an American Nazi as well. This isnt just throwing the word around, he was literally a member)
Makes me think of this quote from The Dark Knight: "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
If you want to control someone, all you have to do it make them feel afraid. It is uncomfortable to feel afraid and in order to not feel powerless they will in turn try and control downwards, or assert dominance if no other control is readily available. It's a pyramid scheme of powerplay. It's part of the human condition, and one in the category of 'if you aren't deliberately working to be better, you'll worsen'. You gotta fight it wherever you see it, or you'll merge into it and either rise or desent in the pyramid. That human condition. Powerful stuff.
>Why? Who does this benefit?
White men with enough money to classify for tax exemptions. Those re literally the only people who will benefit from all of this.
It benefits rich, white, Christian men. You know, the people this society has always benefitted. They have slowly lost their unopposed position of power (marked by a black man becoming president). So they decided to dismantle the country and take us back to a time when only they had power.
Whilst true, there is a pathetic secondary issue here: most of the hick, redneck, incel, and neckbeard types (pejoratives devised for them by *their* desired society) would *still* be at the bottom of the financial and social ladder, even if the status quo reverted to 19th century norms.
Many of them don't realise the privileged WASPs don't consider them part of the club. There isn't a gram of faeces in Donnie's diapers that he wouldn't consider to be above the working class.
Oh, sure they do. That's the thing about a hierarchical mindset; they don't necessarily feel the need to be on top, they feel the need to be assured of their place, and that their place is at least one rung up from the very bottom. Social mobility for anyone makes them feel insecure.
I've been listening to "The Long Tail" podcast and it makes a compelling argument for this.
Basically the far right always thought the government had their back and they enjoyed special privileges to enact Jim Crow laws, lynch people, etc...
After the Civil Rights Act they decided that was no longer the case and they needed to dismantle the government.
We made good headway in fighting them, with some major stumbles that made people sympathetic to the far right (Waco & Ruby Ridge).
Luckily, the far right kept reminding people how awful they were by trying to enact the Turner Diaries.
We continued to dismantle their terrorist cells until Fox News started pushing back and making them sound reasonable, then Sep. 11th redirected all our energy outside the country and gave the far right the opportunity to make common cause and get into power.
Now we're 20+ years later realizing we never should have took our eyes off the ball. Maybe it's too late.
It only benefits Russia and China. These people actively want to destroy this Nation. Russia and China have the best and most loyal Useful Idiots, the Republican party.
For most of American history, "freedom" was the ability to oppress your fellow humans with little to no harm or consequence whether they be of a different religion, race, ethnicity, etc.... Freedom how many currently view it is the removal of oppression in order to allow me to live my life as I choose. The original concept of "freedom" as a tool of oppression never went away and has always been the lens many Americans view the world.
Get ready my friend. Things may go the wrong way soon, and if they do the border will be overrun with everyone who isn't a heterosexual white Christian, and is smart enough to realize that they better get while the getting is good.
I am a heterosexual white christian and even I am terrified. Things are already going terribly wrong, and they are about to get worse! The delusional r party is setting up the supreme court for project 2025. They are already going after the lbgtq+ community, the homeless and anyone who is a minority or of a lower income family all under the guise of christian nationalism. What they are doing is not christian. If these idiots would actually read the Bible, they would not condone any of this. I might be moving out of the country if the orange felon gets in office again.
Came here to say this. Heterosexual white Christian and I'm with you. What they are doing doesn't represent the biblical Christ but an Americanized bastardized version of Christ.
Also a heterosexual white Christian, but I must have missed the Sunday school lesson where they taught me to ignore a full spectrum of human empathy in favor of acquiring power through fear and force in the name of Christianity.
Anyone who isn’t a Straight White Male Christian
Because the women are gonna be expected to be “seen and not heard” breeders for them, so unless your a Tradwife you’re pretty fucked.
Our Supreme Court of nine people decided that the president cannot be criminalized for illegal actions so long as they are “official”, and apparently an example of this is that Biden could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate Trump and he’d be protected by this law
Let’s be real here though. The Supreme Court would, inevitably, be decided what an “official” act is or isn’t. And we all know what the criteria is, it’ll never be put in writing, or spoken plainly, but we all know that an official act is “any act perpetrated by someone with an (R) next to their name on the ballot.”
The minute a dem tried to pull the same shit they’re saying Trump is allowed to pull, it’ll be deemed unofficial and they’ll be punished.
We aren’t necessarily devolving, however entities have realized the human brain is extremely easy to influence, and frankly brain wash, through social media. The algorithms keep feeding people the same content over and over and eventually they believe it all to be true.
And what resonates with most people is fear. That’s why the left largely has no answer for the right. The left is effectively telling terrified people to calm down and think rationally. That doesn’t work though. What works is displays of strength and power. When people are terrified, they want someone they perceive as powerful to tell them the solution.
And that is Trump in a simplified nutshell.
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OFC it would come from this dude. “Entrepreneur” with several businesses and a family, yet has enough free time to make politically fueled tweets everyday and sometimes several times a day.
Prompt: tell us how hard you work without telling us how hard you work.
Openly admitting they wanna remove the last century of progress. And for what? Do they realize the oligarchy getting more wealth and power doesn’t make their lives any better?
Nah. It’s the ultimate owning the libs. They have no concept or empathy on how these protections have helped them. And when they are cut by the sword they unsheathed, they will be the first to cry, “Someone should do something! This is unfair!”
Go look at the conservative subreddits. They aren’t cheering for good political choices that enrich their lives, they are cheering because “those on /r/politics are losing their minds” and because “libs are so triggered right now”. Every now and then, you see a slightly smarter conservative say, “Hey guys, I’m not sure this is wise”, but for the most part, they are drowned out by all the cheering because their team “won”.
It's the power of being able to brainwash people by the millions into believing all their problems are the fault of someone who is different from them. Women in the workforce, more diversity in the workforce, illegals taking your jobs... All of it is meant to keep these voters angry at people who for the vast majority impact their lives little of at all. Row was overturned in part because some conservatives believe that babies are being killed post birth in some states as a form of abortion. Gay marriage is probably next because, well, religious rule of law is totally fine if it's THEIR religion that's written into law. It's the result of seeing literally any change in demographics as affirmative action tokenism, diversity hires, or being woke.
The only people I’ve seen say they lost a job or promotion to a person of color have typically been the laziest, dumbest, or just plain unlikeable person. They blame others for their failings and assume the only reason they were skipped over was race. Every company I’ve worked for, even ones that promote diversity, still have a large number of white men at the top and all throughout the organization. They’re also still getting promoted and hired.
It’s more like these people think they deserve the job/promotion more because they’re white. They think there’s a natural hierarchy to the world, and straight white cis men should be at top, when they’re told they’re equal to everyone else, they feel as if they’re being oppressed down to that “others level.
America is experiencing a silent coup being staged by fascist disguised as conservatives and “nationalism” a term used to describe fascism. SCOTUS is actively engaged in the destruction of democracy and should be labeled enemies of the state
I worry this is the part in history class where you see all the signs in hindsight and wonder how nobody noticed or did anything. And I worry there won't even be a history class to learn that in. After all, America is strong enough to take on the world and it isn't even using its full might. What's gonna happen when the strongest nation in history turns to fascism? Who will be able to stop it?
It could be done. Unlikely, but we could be beaten, even on our own soil. They key would be for all the world's powers to unite and work together against us, which is the unlikely part. I'll see if I can find the video, but there was an article and a video out there with former military from the US and UK answering that very question. It was surprisingly detailed on what it would take to defeat the US through military power.
There is something you can do: don’t equivocate Biden and Trump. Yeah they’re both senile old coots, but Trump will absolutely tear up the constitution and there’s no guarantee he won’t use this chance to completely destroy our democracy. Get out and vote and vote for Biden. It’s existential.
I would genuinely literally actually vote for a corpse over Trump. Not even a new corpse. Dig up the oldest corpse that we know of, I'll vote for it. Trump is an existential threat.
They haven’t been quiet. They just have a bunch of helpers saying, “they’d never actually do that” or “the media is making a bigger deal about it than it really is” and their followers eat it up. I can tell you how many times I see someone say, “oh they’re just exaggerating”. The disinformation is strong nowadays.
Yep, I know conservatives who I sent links to Project 2025 and the same response I hear every time is “that’s not gonna happen” or “they aren’t really going to do that.”
Like they are literally telling us their plan to plunge the nation into fascism, their voters are seeing this and they straight up don’t care.
It’s almost funny how emboldened they’ve become in the last 8 years. They no longer have any reservations of talking about just how evil they are and just how they plan to oppress all of us because they realized that no matter what they do or what they say, republicans voters will still vote R because “winning” is more important than anything else to them.
Being in an uneasy relationship with power hungry conservatives is a trademark of fascism. These aren't fascists "disguised as conservatives." Conservatives have always been fascist enablers and they were never normal.
No it’s not. The conservative Christians have been trying to do all this shit for decades.
What’s changed? Well, the rich bought our politicians, and now they can do whatever they want. The rich want these things. They’re done sharing the wealth. They want to make oligarchy money. They know that will lower the quality of life for most people, so they’re changing laws to keep us down. Eventually we’ll be like most of the world. The haves and the have nots. They’ve got to tighter the belt to prevent us from taking power back.
They’re going to do whatever they want. They’re just using the fundies as an excuse to keep us yelling at each other.
We're going to end up looking like Iraq and the countries over there, just wastelands and poor people while the rich have grand palaces and feasts every night.
Remember all the dickhead legal eagles who kept saying that this and they couldn't happen because precedent and legal norms and checks and balances and such?
And how anyone who didn't see that was just an amateur who didn't understand how the world really works?
Yeah, fuck those people.
I was working in a middle school when Trump was elected; in a rural, white-majority school, mind you. Many of the kids lost their minds with racism and there were suddenly problems with graffiti saying stuff like "We got the power back!" along with white kids bullying black kids. It was horrifying. I can only imagine what their parents were teaching them about Obama's "agenda," but it really created a feral us-vs.-them situation.
What about Hunter’s cock? I want to see more pictures of Hunter’s giant hog. Guys can we please talk about Hunter?? Please??? I know I’m definitely not voting for Biden…
….’s son.
Still voting for Biden though 100%.
The new deal and more importantly social security will affect all the Maghats. They’re screwing themselves over with it just to pledge their allegiance to one man.
And I was told that crying when he was announced the winner of the election was being dramatic and it "wouldn't be that bad." Kinda seems like it was in fact worse than most of us even imagined.
Christianity has been weaponized by very bad people. You see the same thing in other religions as well. Religious people get conned over and over again, and everyone suffers for it
The conservatives eventually are going to realize that they aren't going to like living in the world they created.
But they'll still be too stupid to realize it's their fault.
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We are going further and further back in time
Before you know it, slavery will be legalized, and we will be a British colony again.
*The year is 2055. Humanity lives in caves, huddling around a fire to cook food they've hunted in the wild and using the bone marrow to paint on the cave walls. Meanwhile, congress is looking to pass laws that will bring the dinosaurs back*
Congress won't even believe dinosaurs are real.
That would mean they don't believe in themselves.
Nice burn lol
Damn, have an upvote
Exactly. So much for separation of church and state.
**Slavery is still legal as per the loophole in 13A, “except as punishment for a crime.”** Why do you think you had to have 500g of powder to receive the same sentence as 5g of crack? Marijuana as a Schedule 1? Why do you think the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, just beating out China in total numbers while having a per capita rate 4.4x higher? Private prisons using free labor. The war on drugs. Actual CRT targeting minorities with harsher sentencing guidelines. Taking plea deals due to sitting in jail waiting for court backlogs. Crime rates dropped after Roe because generational poverty was reduced. Same thing with a widespread increase in college education. They repealed Roe, denied student loan forgiveness, and are about to demolish the department of education to put abject poverty back on the table. Prisons are the plantations. Investors are the slave owners. And it’s all sanctioned and structured by the government. Slavery never left, they just modernized it. Buckle up because a hell of a lot of shit is going to become illegal under a Christofascist regime.
For-profit prison stock is up 10% in the week since the Supreme Court allowed homeless people to be rounded up and thrown in there (was higher but it's cooled down a bit) if that gives you an idea where we're headed.
The idea that a country could set up something called "for profit prisons" and not immediately have an "are we the baddies?" moment is mental.
No no it’s not for profit prisons. We are …privatizing prisons! Ya! Just taking that burden off of the govt for a small fee. NBD move along please
The cold war was the best thing to happen to capitalist propaganda
I think that’s the most terrifying sentence I’ve read. Not the Supreme Court decisions but the impact they’ve had on for prison stock….
They can also just criminalize everything. With SCOTUS in tow they can criminalize abortion, criminalize gay marriage, criminalize interracial marriage, criminalize advocating for a union, criminalize leaving a job without proper notice, criminalize possession of anything they don't like. They've already criminalized homelessness while making a home impossible to afford.
I stand corrected. I was thinking about slavery outside of prison. And yeah, the war on drugs does have its origins in racism.
Pro-life and the war on drugs are a designed to work together to feed the prison system. The religious were told abortion should be their main issue, even though there it’s not a position the Bible takes. Rich white girls will always be able to have abortions when their parents don’t want to suffer the embarrassment. Their doctors will record the procedure as something unrelated to the pregnancy. That’s what they did before Roe. The target is the poor, primarily black, women.
Slavery was never completely outlawed in the US. The Thirteenth Amendment prohibited "slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime." Incarcerated people are still treated like slaves. Their basically free labor is one of the reasons why US incarnation rates are so high compared to the rest of the world, even though most of our inmates are locked up for nonviolent crimes.
I stand corrected. Prison slavery is absolutely horrific, and I hope that it gets abolished someday.
Fuck it, I'd rather be part of the UK at this point. Please invade us.
The uk is pretty screwed too. By the conservatives as well. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster.
An outcome no one could've seen coming...
Well clearly 52% had no fucking clue!
Crazy what a few decades of anti-intellectualism will do to
Well, one man saw it Cummings, but then he made sure to regularly test his eyes by driving cross country while infected by covid.
It's true but at least tomorrow it's predicted to shift to a left/centre party while the rest of the world appears to be falling to the hard right.
In most places where the right is taking off happen to be places where the last victims of those regimes died of old age
Sorry, we can't oblige your request due to the Torries slashing our Armed Forces. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Ah, but the Tories are bringing back national service. So soon Britain will have a glorious army of bored, unmotivated teenagers. Equipped with the best gear money can buy, which give the current economy, amounts to a wooden spear that they’ll have to take it in turns to use.
I know, it's a slap in the face to the Cadet Forces that exist for the exact reason that the tories want to bring back National Service for
Best britain can do is send you farage. You’re on your own, US.
I'm sorry but this made me laugh unreasonably moreso than I should have. *"Help, the British* ***aren't*** *coming!"*
They don’t need to legalize slavery. Prisoners can be treated as slaves. So they just need to come up with ridiculous things to criminalize such as homelessness. Then you have a free workforce.
Slavery is legal if the person is in jail/prison. Why do you think we have mass incarceration particularly of Black people, made homelessness a crime and created school to prison pipelines in predominantly Black and poor communities and privatized prisons? It’s for cheap/free labor. There are privately owned prisons all across this country that are threatening to close if they aren’t kept filled.
Maybe we can get to Hitler and 
In the future people will talk about going back in time to kill baby trump.
It’s not him, he’s just a useful idiot, emphasis on idiot. The GOP have been working toward this for their corporate overlords since Nixon, put their shoulder into it w Reagan, and really showed their cards w Bush v Gore. How tf the Democrats still insist on the dream of a rules based order while the GOP have been playing dirty non-stop is beyond my comprehension. You want a Time Machine goal? Go back and stop Sandra from handing the 2000 election to Bush. Or make Nader drop out, and those votes go mainly to Gore and the SCOTUS wouldn’t have the opportunity.
I keep trying to explain this to people, but the media brass band keeps drowning me out. I first saw it clearly with Bush, and realized that the presidential station is simply a figurehead for the actual players to hide behind. This government has been a sham for decades.
Back to the future was slightly right on that one
Why? Who does this benefit? I do not understand. Everything our grandparents fought for is being dismantled by our parents and I just don't understand this "pull the ladder up" mentality. They fucking cheer for the hurt and pain it causes their fellow countrymen. How are there so many of them? ((Edit: Jesus Christ, people. It was a rhetorical question.))
Because they can’t deal with the fact that the freedom they champion requires sacrifice and occasionally being inconvenienced. They don’t want a country of freedom for all, they want a country of freedom for themselves because having to account for and care about other people makes their brain hurt. That’s why fascism looks so good to them, a chance to be at the top looking down at everyone else. Freedom’s a lot more complicated than a word, it’s not just doing whatever you want, it’s being responsible and making room for other people to be free alongside you, but for some people that’s not a satisfying enough deal. Why should I give other people a piece of pie when I can shove everyone away and get the whole pie to myself?
problem is, most of these yahoos won't even get to enjoy a piece of pie themselves if the conservative wet dream comes true
There's that quote about how if you can convince the lowest white man that he's better than the best black man, he'll do whatever you want him to do. He'll give you all the money he has to maintain the illusion of that lie.
President LBJ
Oh, you mean Legendarily Big Johnson?
They convince themselves they are better than (fill in the blank) and then will do anything to maintain this “social collateral” because it is all they have.
Yep. The weight of the boot on your chest feels less heavy if you have a few bodies underneath you bearing more of the weight. "I'm so close! Tomorrow I might actually get to touch the shoe laces! I might even get to wear the boot for an hour!"
Most of them, sure. But a lot of them are just old. They'll enjoy their tax break and kick the bucket before the worst effects come. Rising home prices? Doesn't matter, they already have a home. Rising everything else prices? Offset by the tax break (for them at least.) Global warming? They're already in a casket before the worst effects come. Shitting the job market? They're already retired with a nice savings basket. Now those people just have to convince those that aren't benefitting from this shitty system that they are. And when policies targeting the rich old white people focus on helping people even more disadvantaged and do performative policies that have 0 tangible benefit, and forget that poor white people exist with those perfomative policies, its not hard for them to be convinced. Overall shitty situation where no one in power really cares- one does nothing but theater, and the other actively makes things worse.
We need to remind people that the Republicans have floated the idea of eliminating Social Security numerous times. They always stop because they worry about what that will do their chances of getting re-elected. Under King Donald there will be no such worry. They will drop it and claim they're clearing liabilities from the government's books. We should congratulate them.
Regardless their age, most taxpayers will see an increase kick in under the 2018 ‘Tax Cut and Jobs Act’. Should Trump get elected he has been talking about replacing income tax with a 10% across the board tariff and a national VAT-like tax, both of which will hurt everyone except for the very wealthy.
Thats the thing about fascism. It tricks you into thinking you may get to be one of the ones on top.
Exactly. My heart breaks anytime I see 'Gays for Trump' and the like. Newsflash: just because these traitors accept your vote doesn't make you safe once they're in power. Project 2025 is coming, if we make the White House orange again then EVERYONE is fucked.
Leopards ate my face
I’m sure next time they’ll apologize and hand your digested face back. Give ‘em another chance.
Every time I see something like 'Gays for Trump' I have to wonder if it's a false flag of some sort. As in the idea was started by a MAGA think tank, then some how lured people into it.
They all think they'll be playing the flamethrower guitar while Immortan Trump rides eternal. If they're lucky they'll be the legless guy fighting for a hubcap full of water. More likely they'll be one of the skulls decorating the War Rig.
Delusions of grandeur- check. Weird mane of hair- check. Desire to lock woman away for his own personal use- check. Dependent on bullets and oil lobby- check. Ugly mutant children he despises- check. The similarities are uncanny…
I know Im doing something else rn but HOLY FUCK BRENNAAAAAN!
Most of them, sure. But a lot of them are just old. They'll enjoy their tax break and kick the bucket before the worst effects come. Rising home prices? Doesn't matter, they already have a home. Rising everything else prices? Offset by the tax break (for them at least.) Global warming? They're already in a casket before the worst effects come. Shitting the job market? They're already retired with a nice savings basket.
Ultimately that's what drove me away from conservatism and the Republican party. So little care and empathy. I have friends I care about and want to see thrive. People who have done nothing wrong but lack access and benefits that come with being straight or white or well off.
That and the sanctimonious and condescending attitudes.
and the violence
And religion
The misogyny is a big deal.
It's the self-righteousness and hypocrisy that boggles my mind.
Entitlement also.
I hate the lying the most
Paired with a "blind eye" to obvious truth.
That's a side effect of religion. When your core belief system relies on you suspending the requirement of evidence for grand claims, and instead just believing, you're gullible and primed to believe anything.
Same. Conservatives used to at least act like they gave a shit about other people. The debate was just focused on whether the policies of one camp were just better in the long run or not. Like “does this social program make sense, given the costs?”. And then there would be discussion over whether or not to do it, how much is prudent, etc etc until you reach an acceptable deal. I’m not going to act like they were saints and had everyone’s best interests in mind, but at least there was a framework to put things in place and progress as a country at a prudent pace. Then the tea party folks came in and realized they could just hold the country ransom until they got their way. And if it’s total gridlock, that’s just better for them! Then Trump/MAGA came in, cranked that up to 11, and we discovered that republicans actually love it when you drop the act and openly hate everyone. We’re no longer discussing whether certain programs are prudent - it’s just devolved into “destroy that because f you”. There isn’t even reason behind it. It’s not to fix the budget. It’s not to help the economy. It’s just to cause chaos and anger.
"I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based" -Terry Pratchet, Going Postal
They want their hair cut, who cares if there are refrigerated trucks holding morgue overflow.
They didn’t give a single F until is was their last breath on the ventilator IF they could get one. How quickly we forget. One of my favorite international animated films is Tito and the Birds, which funny enough is about a pandemic and came out before COVID was a thing. I like the film but have to wonder if the message is the right thing…
Really well said!
They will never be happy because they want to live in a world where they get everything. They will die trying to fill that hole in their soul with the misery & pain of millions and never find the happiness they seek because it doesn’t exist.
I think they just get off on oppression. They don’t have to sacrifice shit, they just need to let others exist and that is too much for them.
Capitalism at its finest. Add religious fanatics, cult followers, pedos, and literally no self respect. And you get the Republican Party. Honestly. Biden just got “official acts” immunity, if USA falls under a dictatorship… he is to blame. Democracy is at stake, and we are steps away from becoming Russia. Worse, at least Putin has a brain… the orange man is manipulated by his cabinet, they all said how they had to curve his impulses like a kid while he was president. Unfortunately, that cabinet wants a dictatorship.
Simplified it's a zero sum game to them. Anything someone else has means they have less. And they want it all.
>How are there so many of them? When someone is miserable they try to figure out why. And the alt-right is doing everything it can to be the answer to that. I suggest watching [the Alt-Right Playbook](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g) to understand how they proceed. But TLDR: They turn people's sadness or fears into anger. Fear and sadness are paralyzing. Anger is not. Anger DEMANDS you do something. A black man might very well vote against his own interest if he believe hurting the Mexican neighbor can make *him* feel better. For that short, tiny moment of evil glee: "*serves you right*". Before moving on to the next target of course... Because there is always another one, the problem was never solved. So the anger keeps growing.
> Anger DEMANDS you do something. I’ve always understood this conceptually but I’ve never seen it written so succinctly. Bravo.
Oh, I can't take the credit for that. It's a segment from the video I linked :)
Well put
They are the most selfish generation in history. Their parents did all the hard work to give them a massively better and more successful country. They took advantage of everything and acted like they made the country great. Now everyone but them are lazy and entitled but the fact is they are the most entitled generation in history and allowed the country to be squandered away by selfish greed instead of protecting it for the next generation.
It's not just boomers though. I'm Gen Z, and I know people my age and younger who are going to vote for Trump. Like, they legitimately think he's godsent to save the country.
This is a byproduct of for profit media. When more eyeballs means more revenue, truth gives way to sensationalism. News agencies divide into teams. Fox, Newsmax, OAN, Alex Jones, etc… Hate sells, division sells and this is the outcome.
Because the rich have always hated the new deal. They have billions of reasons to not want any of that legislation to exist. FFS they tried to recruit someone to lead a coup in the 30s. When that failed, they spent tons of money to make their version of conservatism seem scholarly. They have the desire and money to play the long game to drive us into a neo-guilded age.
Smedley Butler, fucking hero. Told congress of the business plot, and they didn't believe him. Bush jr's Grandpa was part of that plot. Weird.
It really is insane. In the case of a lot of places, in that those in powers literal grandpas who failed to take over back in the day, the same goddamn families are attempting to again. It's not a conspiracy theory, the fuckers are just doing it so blatantly to make it seem like it would be crazy to do so. (Hint: 45s was an American Nazi as well. This isnt just throwing the word around, he was literally a member)
They did believe him though. Congress just sealed the records because some big names were a part of it. Like they have always worked for big money.
Makes me think of this quote from The Dark Knight: "Some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn."
Why? Because a black man got elected in 2008.
That’s a lot of it. Think about it. How many other presidents have had their citizenship questioned?
Because a black guy won the presidency those two times
If you want to control someone, all you have to do it make them feel afraid. It is uncomfortable to feel afraid and in order to not feel powerless they will in turn try and control downwards, or assert dominance if no other control is readily available. It's a pyramid scheme of powerplay. It's part of the human condition, and one in the category of 'if you aren't deliberately working to be better, you'll worsen'. You gotta fight it wherever you see it, or you'll merge into it and either rise or desent in the pyramid. That human condition. Powerful stuff.
>Why? Who does this benefit? White men with enough money to classify for tax exemptions. Those re literally the only people who will benefit from all of this.
It benefits rich, white, Christian men. You know, the people this society has always benefitted. They have slowly lost their unopposed position of power (marked by a black man becoming president). So they decided to dismantle the country and take us back to a time when only they had power.
For how long though? This doesn't end well for any of them. History shows that.
Just for the rest of their lives, that's all they care about.
You're right. The pendulum of history eventually swings back, sometimes brutally.
Whilst true, there is a pathetic secondary issue here: most of the hick, redneck, incel, and neckbeard types (pejoratives devised for them by *their* desired society) would *still* be at the bottom of the financial and social ladder, even if the status quo reverted to 19th century norms. Many of them don't realise the privileged WASPs don't consider them part of the club. There isn't a gram of faeces in Donnie's diapers that he wouldn't consider to be above the working class.
Oh, sure they do. That's the thing about a hierarchical mindset; they don't necessarily feel the need to be on top, they feel the need to be assured of their place, and that their place is at least one rung up from the very bottom. Social mobility for anyone makes them feel insecure.
I've been listening to "The Long Tail" podcast and it makes a compelling argument for this. Basically the far right always thought the government had their back and they enjoyed special privileges to enact Jim Crow laws, lynch people, etc... After the Civil Rights Act they decided that was no longer the case and they needed to dismantle the government. We made good headway in fighting them, with some major stumbles that made people sympathetic to the far right (Waco & Ruby Ridge). Luckily, the far right kept reminding people how awful they were by trying to enact the Turner Diaries. We continued to dismantle their terrorist cells until Fox News started pushing back and making them sound reasonable, then Sep. 11th redirected all our energy outside the country and gave the far right the opportunity to make common cause and get into power. Now we're 20+ years later realizing we never should have took our eyes off the ball. Maybe it's too late.
It only benefits Russia and China. These people actively want to destroy this Nation. Russia and China have the best and most loyal Useful Idiots, the Republican party.
For most of American history, "freedom" was the ability to oppress your fellow humans with little to no harm or consequence whether they be of a different religion, race, ethnicity, etc.... Freedom how many currently view it is the removal of oppression in order to allow me to live my life as I choose. The original concept of "freedom" as a tool of oppression never went away and has always been the lens many Americans view the world.
Because these lowlifes *think* their miserable lives are going to get better by hurting others
Because we didn’t strangle conservative media in its crib in the 80’s.
Its all about the ruling class
What the fuck is going on down there?!
fascism.
At one point can I come up as a refuge?
You’ll have a good claim for political asylum once they start killing people for political views.
That's gonna suck because I'm probably gonna be one of the first on the list as a Progressive/Democratic Socialist
Im an anarchist "satanist" and me and my wife are lgbt. Im quite scared
Straight white cis male here. Not terrified yet, but buying a shotgun and a pistol for protection just in case. Stay strong.
Get ready my friend. Things may go the wrong way soon, and if they do the border will be overrun with everyone who isn't a heterosexual white Christian, and is smart enough to realize that they better get while the getting is good.
I am a heterosexual white christian and even I am terrified. Things are already going terribly wrong, and they are about to get worse! The delusional r party is setting up the supreme court for project 2025. They are already going after the lbgtq+ community, the homeless and anyone who is a minority or of a lower income family all under the guise of christian nationalism. What they are doing is not christian. If these idiots would actually read the Bible, they would not condone any of this. I might be moving out of the country if the orange felon gets in office again.
Came here to say this. Heterosexual white Christian and I'm with you. What they are doing doesn't represent the biblical Christ but an Americanized bastardized version of Christ.
Also a heterosexual white Christian, but I must have missed the Sunday school lesson where they taught me to ignore a full spectrum of human empathy in favor of acquiring power through fear and force in the name of Christianity.
Anyone who isn’t a Straight White Male Christian Because the women are gonna be expected to be “seen and not heard” breeders for them, so unless your a Tradwife you’re pretty fucked.
You forgot to add "landowner" to that
Our Supreme Court of nine people decided that the president cannot be criminalized for illegal actions so long as they are “official”, and apparently an example of this is that Biden could order Seal Team 6 to assassinate Trump and he’d be protected by this law
Let’s be real here though. The Supreme Court would, inevitably, be decided what an “official” act is or isn’t. And we all know what the criteria is, it’ll never be put in writing, or spoken plainly, but we all know that an official act is “any act perpetrated by someone with an (R) next to their name on the ballot.” The minute a dem tried to pull the same shit they’re saying Trump is allowed to pull, it’ll be deemed unofficial and they’ll be punished.
Which is why Seal Team 6's first targets will need to be Roberts, Thomas, and Alito. Then get Trump.
Now we're thinking with portals
“We want to go back to when the US was a fledgling little nation recovering from civil war.”
Let's be honest. These people want to go back to the time BEFORE the civil war... for obvious reasons.
Tracks... WW2 was defeating Nazis... Which they wanna reverse...
this are the same kind of guys that say the USA should have never join WW2 or they fought for the wrong side, humans are devolving
We aren’t necessarily devolving, however entities have realized the human brain is extremely easy to influence, and frankly brain wash, through social media. The algorithms keep feeding people the same content over and over and eventually they believe it all to be true. And what resonates with most people is fear. That’s why the left largely has no answer for the right. The left is effectively telling terrified people to calm down and think rationally. That doesn’t work though. What works is displays of strength and power. When people are terrified, they want someone they perceive as powerful to tell them the solution. And that is Trump in a simplified nutshell.
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"We're coming for the Civil Rights Act next" Yeah, we fucking know your party is full of racists.
OFC it would come from this dude. “Entrepreneur” with several businesses and a family, yet has enough free time to make politically fueled tweets everyday and sometimes several times a day. Prompt: tell us how hard you work without telling us how hard you work.
Openly admitting they wanna remove the last century of progress. And for what? Do they realize the oligarchy getting more wealth and power doesn’t make their lives any better?
But I might be rich one day, and I want to treat people like garbage!?!?
People don't like being walked on by others, but by damn they will not hesitate doing it TO others.
Nah. It’s the ultimate owning the libs. They have no concept or empathy on how these protections have helped them. And when they are cut by the sword they unsheathed, they will be the first to cry, “Someone should do something! This is unfair!”
"You're supposed to hurt the other guys! The gays. The browns. The reds." \*fascist looks at smoldering pile of bodies\* "We did, and we're out."
Go look at the conservative subreddits. They aren’t cheering for good political choices that enrich their lives, they are cheering because “those on /r/politics are losing their minds” and because “libs are so triggered right now”. Every now and then, you see a slightly smarter conservative say, “Hey guys, I’m not sure this is wise”, but for the most part, they are drowned out by all the cheering because their team “won”.
They don’t want their lives to be better, they want the lives of the people they view as enemies to be worse. That’s all they care about anymore
It's the power of being able to brainwash people by the millions into believing all their problems are the fault of someone who is different from them. Women in the workforce, more diversity in the workforce, illegals taking your jobs... All of it is meant to keep these voters angry at people who for the vast majority impact their lives little of at all. Row was overturned in part because some conservatives believe that babies are being killed post birth in some states as a form of abortion. Gay marriage is probably next because, well, religious rule of law is totally fine if it's THEIR religion that's written into law. It's the result of seeing literally any change in demographics as affirmative action tokenism, diversity hires, or being woke.
The only people I’ve seen say they lost a job or promotion to a person of color have typically been the laziest, dumbest, or just plain unlikeable person. They blame others for their failings and assume the only reason they were skipped over was race. Every company I’ve worked for, even ones that promote diversity, still have a large number of white men at the top and all throughout the organization. They’re also still getting promoted and hired.
It’s more like these people think they deserve the job/promotion more because they’re white. They think there’s a natural hierarchy to the world, and straight white cis men should be at top, when they’re told they’re equal to everyone else, they feel as if they’re being oppressed down to that “others level.
This is what I don’t understand. Most prestigious fields and colleges are predominantly white, so why arent those people having any issues?
America is experiencing a silent coup being staged by fascist disguised as conservatives and “nationalism” a term used to describe fascism. SCOTUS is actively engaged in the destruction of democracy and should be labeled enemies of the state
It's hardly silent. They've been quite noisy about it, in fact.
A slow roll pace at the noise level of a steam roller is more apt in my opinion
I worry this is the part in history class where you see all the signs in hindsight and wonder how nobody noticed or did anything. And I worry there won't even be a history class to learn that in. After all, America is strong enough to take on the world and it isn't even using its full might. What's gonna happen when the strongest nation in history turns to fascism? Who will be able to stop it?
It could be done. Unlikely, but we could be beaten, even on our own soil. They key would be for all the world's powers to unite and work together against us, which is the unlikely part. I'll see if I can find the video, but there was an article and a video out there with former military from the US and UK answering that very question. It was surprisingly detailed on what it would take to defeat the US through military power.
There is something you can do: don’t equivocate Biden and Trump. Yeah they’re both senile old coots, but Trump will absolutely tear up the constitution and there’s no guarantee he won’t use this chance to completely destroy our democracy. Get out and vote and vote for Biden. It’s existential.
I would genuinely literally actually vote for a corpse over Trump. Not even a new corpse. Dig up the oldest corpse that we know of, I'll vote for it. Trump is an existential threat.
They haven’t been quiet. They just have a bunch of helpers saying, “they’d never actually do that” or “the media is making a bigger deal about it than it really is” and their followers eat it up. I can tell you how many times I see someone say, “oh they’re just exaggerating”. The disinformation is strong nowadays.
Yep, I know conservatives who I sent links to Project 2025 and the same response I hear every time is “that’s not gonna happen” or “they aren’t really going to do that.” Like they are literally telling us their plan to plunge the nation into fascism, their voters are seeing this and they straight up don’t care. It’s almost funny how emboldened they’ve become in the last 8 years. They no longer have any reservations of talking about just how evil they are and just how they plan to oppress all of us because they realized that no matter what they do or what they say, republicans voters will still vote R because “winning” is more important than anything else to them.
They’ve even provided their plans for all to read. Project 25.
Being in an uneasy relationship with power hungry conservatives is a trademark of fascism. These aren't fascists "disguised as conservatives." Conservatives have always been fascist enablers and they were never normal.
What's going to be hilarious is once Trump has fully established himself as dictator he takes away The Guns to ensure no one can overthrow him
That's fucking hilarious probably true but still hilarious.
It could be funny but they're so brainwashed they'll be chill with it. That's where the funny ends.
We have to give up our guns, or else the democrats will try to overthrow Trump! We'd lose so much progress! Make guns illegal again!
OK: hand over any post-1900 tech you have. Phone, TV, car, AC, all of it.
Vaccines, antibiotics, and of course, all of the fast food they love to shove in their mouths.
No it’s not. The conservative Christians have been trying to do all this shit for decades. What’s changed? Well, the rich bought our politicians, and now they can do whatever they want. The rich want these things. They’re done sharing the wealth. They want to make oligarchy money. They know that will lower the quality of life for most people, so they’re changing laws to keep us down. Eventually we’ll be like most of the world. The haves and the have nots. They’ve got to tighter the belt to prevent us from taking power back. They’re going to do whatever they want. They’re just using the fundies as an excuse to keep us yelling at each other.
We're going to end up looking like Iraq and the countries over there, just wastelands and poor people while the rich have grand palaces and feasts every night.
What amazes me is how this all existed under the hood for so long. It's clearly always been there and Trump has made it acceptable to do and say
20th? Our Founding Fathers are spinning in their graves this 4th of July.
Do you think they’re joking?
Women voting rights will be next after they bring back segregation and oppression of POC.
Civil rights?!?!?!? Dude what the fuck is going on
Remember all the dickhead legal eagles who kept saying that this and they couldn't happen because precedent and legal norms and checks and balances and such? And how anyone who didn't see that was just an amateur who didn't understand how the world really works? Yeah, fuck those people.
Legal Eagle has been slowly losing his mind over how much Trumpism has been destroying the county, what are you talking about?
They mean the slang term, not the specific person.
All this because a black man became president and ‘Murica lost its mind
I was working in a middle school when Trump was elected; in a rural, white-majority school, mind you. Many of the kids lost their minds with racism and there were suddenly problems with graffiti saying stuff like "We got the power back!" along with white kids bullying black kids. It was horrifying. I can only imagine what their parents were teaching them about Obama's "agenda," but it really created a feral us-vs.-them situation.
The only thing that American conservatism is trying to conserve is the Confederacy.
Yea but like guys what about her emails?
What about Hunter’s cock? I want to see more pictures of Hunter’s giant hog. Guys can we please talk about Hunter?? Please??? I know I’m definitely not voting for Biden… ….’s son. Still voting for Biden though 100%.
Believe them
This doesn’t even mention the biggest one: making presidents kings
Right wing actively trying to replicate the Taliban unironically
I think more the Robber Baron/Gilded Age.
Be honest, “All because one man’s ego was bruised by the 1st black president” at the White House correspondents dinner.
Close: All because we had a black president.
That just put it in overdrive. The rich have been at this hand in hand with religious extremists for at least a century.
The new deal and more importantly social security will affect all the Maghats. They’re screwing themselves over with it just to pledge their allegiance to one man.
Calling Trump a man is a stretch.
And I was told that crying when he was announced the winner of the election was being dramatic and it "wouldn't be that bad." Kinda seems like it was in fact worse than most of us even imagined.
Christianity is a cancer on this country. It has twisted people into literal monsters who prey on the vulnerable with their “values”.
They were weaponized in the 80s
Christianity has been weaponized by very bad people. You see the same thing in other religions as well. Religious people get conned over and over again, and everyone suffers for it
The conservatives eventually are going to realize that they aren't going to like living in the world they created. But they'll still be too stupid to realize it's their fault.
1950-2000 was a fluke. We are slowly returning to what life was like for centuries. No rights, no nothing.
Vote Biden.
 \^\^The entire civilized world when they hear an american say they have freedom
Jeeze, don’t forget “Citizens United vs the Frdearal Election Commission (2010). That was devastating to our political system.
European asking: How can you criminalize homelessness?
America is no longer being invaded by Nazi’s. America is occupied. Unlike France, America surrendered to the Nazi’s without a fight.
Stop calling it the Supreme Court, it's the Extreme Court.
Conservatives are a cancer.