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Trump's Deportations Are Tearing Apart Florida Communities (www.motherjones.com)
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[–] -3 points 6 days ago* (21 children)

Yeah fuck the almost half of registered voters who are actively working against them, and consistently vote against them, at great risk to ourselves while you sit on your fat, lazy ass doing fuck all. Must be pretty nice to be away from the struggle and pretend it makes you better than people actually organizing and building community power.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Half of the registered voters who work actively against them?

    Your math ain't mathing here, buddy. Of the 16 million Floridians registered and eligible for voting (18mil eligible minus ~216k felons), 11 million turned out.

    Of that, ~6.1 million voted for Trump, and ~4.7 million votes for Kamala.

    6.1 million of that ~11 million is 56%.

    Now, let's presume every Trump supporter went and voted. That means there were a total of 12 million voters against him... of which 2 million didn't even bother to register to vote, and of the 10 million who did register, 53% didn't bother to go and vote.

    If you can't be arsed to go and fucking vote then don't be all high and mighty when it gets called out, and most definitely don't claim to be actively working against Trump. The very first step to that would be to GO AND FUCKING VOTE.

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  • [+] 0 points 6 days ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    Did you, "dipshit"? Turnout was, again, 11 million against 16. Trump won 5.3 million.

    Therefore we can conclude, as I said above, that even if half the registered voters (so about 8 million) were indeed against Trump, half of those didn't fucking bother to show up.

    That's not activism, that's laziness.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (11 children)

    Fuck off, Yank. Your entire cuntry (sic) can burn down for all I give a shit. I've got my own country to worry about; one that your nation is attacking. You want me to cry for you? Fuck you.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

    Yes, I agree, fuck my country and boycott the shit out of us. But, it's going to burn a lot hotter and cause a lot more suffering for the countries we're attacking when the people opposing Trump are getting disappeared by ICE while the pro-Trump areas are not really targeted, but don't let common sense get in the way of your crying I guess.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (9 children)

    You still don't fucking get it.

    Your demanding that people outside of the USA help you is just more fucking American fucking exceptionalist fucking entitlement.

    YOU fucked up YOUR cuntry (sic). The rest of us are trying to keep our own countries going in the face of YOUR cuntry's (sic) aggression. We don't owe you motherfuckers anything at all.

    By your idiot logic, the USA should have been pouring money into the USSR to help those who resisted the USSR's government. All while the USSR was undermining your nation on the world stage, doing whatever it could to attack you. It's a fucking idiot take.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (8 children)

    Nobody's saying you should help us lol, I'm just saying this isn't leopards eating faces so much as Trump using these raids as a tool to punish less conservative areas. In that context I don't see how this is a "good" thing for the areas being hurt by America. Maybe read?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (7 children)

    Oh, you misread me.

    I don't give a shit about any American area. All y'all shit in your nest; time for you to get used to the stink.

    It's good that Americans are suffering. Perhaps they'll finally wake the fuck up and fight the Nazis in their midst.

    Or, of course, they'll more likely just whine piteously and scream at us for not helping. That's what all your "good guy" politicians are doing, after all.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    Cool. I guess when I see dictators in other countries punishing areas that aren't compliant enough by unleashing their thugs on that area I think "damn, it sucks that the dictator is consolidating their power, this will probably only make things worse for the other countries getting attacked by that dictator," instead of "lol eat shit, that's what you get for not supporting the dictator I hate." But then again I'm not a 14 year old rageposting on internet fora so I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (5 children)

    And still the American sense of entitlement. The rest of the world should worry about the poor Americans! Boo hoo!

    Fuck you.

    Fix your own fucking problems. We've got enough of our own to deal with that your cuntry (sic) dumped on our heads.

    All these motherfucking tears for the "poor Americans" ... not a single fucking tear shed for the now millions of children who will be dying horribly because of your elected government. All the motherfucking guilt trips over failing American businesses without a single though spared for the businesses on the other side of the border going through equal hardships over your incontinent orangutan's temper tantrums.

    Fuck. You. With. A. Rusty. Chainsaw. Through. Both. Ears.

    You don't seem to get it: you're 1930s Germany. You're not the fucking victims here.

    You want me to take your posturing seriously? Bhasad Machao!

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    Listen, you can say "you still don't get it" all you want and ignore the fact that I am literally agreeing with you that my country is evil. I'm saying that cheering on the retribution of the very people who are opposing the Great Orange Turd inside the Metropol makes zero sense. About as much sense as using bold and italics instead of actually addressing anything I'm saying. I thought y'all were the ones who had real education but I guess not.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago (3 children)

    What. Fucking. Opposition!?

    I'm not seeing the smoke from burning city blocks. I'm not seeing the economy grind to a halt because everybody's in the street protesting and rioting. I'm seeing a lot of talk and zero action.

    You're part of the problem that led to the fuckwits taking over your government and you're part of the problem keeping them there.

    Show with action, not words. Burn the motherfuckers down and break out the guillotines. Then we'll talk about giving a shit. While you're complacently sitting there acting as if the Other Guys™ are the solution to your deep-set culture rot, you're just part of the culture rot. Burn in Hell.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago (2 children)

    Lol "literally burn down the beating heart of global imperialism right now or else your actions mean nothing." Okay, it must be nice in whatever anime world you're living in.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Maybe Americans could stop being such shit exceptionalists and learn from abroad. Like France. Or Hungary. Or a few other places that put fascists back into their corner. The Quarterly No Kings Outdoor Barbeque Oh And Some Protesting Too doesn't cut it.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago

    Oh so you're conveniently changing your take from "you all are worthless because you aren't literally burning your cities down and executing the oligarchs this very minute" to "well actually you need to do something more than No Kings," which, once again, I agree with you on. This entire chain contains zero logical consistency; you're just airing incoherent grievances. You might as well be yelling at clouds.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Yeah this isn't leopardsatemyface. It's not a Trump supporter getting fucked over to our amusement. Like you said, there are people who consistently vote against him that get dragged into the mess and we shouldn't be so unsympathetic about that.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    Problem #1 here: "voting" is the absolute minimum you do in a democracy. There's a whole lot more to democracy than going to a polling booth and checking off the name that has the right democracy-subverting symbol next to it.

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