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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (109 children)

I have some gloves-off shit I need to get off my mind and I feel the time and place for it is now because I’m very angry:

So… non voters, remember when we were telling everyone that would listen to “vote blue no matter who? Remember that? Of course you do- you threw that shit back at us like it was a god damned grenade. Remember that? 

Yeah, well…. THIS is why we were saying that. 

You see, we all saw this shit coming. Which is why we were saying to plug your fucking noses and just vote. Hell.., We even tried to reason with you- suggesting that- 

You’re not voting FOR Harris, you’re voting AGAINST fascism!

You didn’t listen. 

Your “…but, they’re doing a genocide!” was so deeply embedded via your little edgelord wind-tunnels, that most of you began to see it as an argument to win, instead of a point to be made-

Instead of doing anything substantial to help end it.

Well. Your point was definitely made. We all have heard you loud and clear. You collectively and VERY loudly agreed that you would be fine with the outcome either way- since genocide was going to be happening no matter who you voted for, right?

I do have to ask though… 

Are you still fine with your choice? How about the memory of you, sitting on your asses and laughing at all the people rushing to voting booths in-between work and picking their kids up from daycare… How is that sitting with you? All those jokes and inflammatory remarks you hurled at the people who tried their fucking best to stop this with the only thing they have- their vote. The people, who tried to protect your sorry asses that couldn’t be bothered to even do the BARE FUCKING MINIMUM asked to protect our democracy. 

I ask you… are those jokes still funny? 

Is there any chance that any of you want to walk back all those accusations you made about everyone being sheep? What about those smug and arrogant jabs about how both sides are the same? About how democrats and republicans are somehow working together… 

care to issue a statement here? 

Because I’m pretty damned certain that NONE of this shit would be happening right now if you had listened to us when we told you that this was going to happen.

When HE fucking told you this would happen.  

And while very few people here were ever in favor of the genocide in Palestine- much to the disagreement of the few that are around that are STILL arguing against this point- we knew and know- that the pain we face at home must be resolved before we can be of any aid in the pain endured by others in theirs… Especially when most of you couldn’t have even pointed to any of those homes on a map a year ago and a half ago.

It should be noted that this is not in any way to lay the entirety of blame at the feet of the stay-at-home/its-someone-else’s-problem protestors, but the numbers are in, and while your combined lack of effort might not make up the entirety of the ninety one million registered voters that stayed home, it’s a fair guess that between you and the ones that voted third party- 

We could have avoided this.  

Roughly four to five million votes. That’s all we needed. Just four to five million of you to have listened. But your arrogance, your fucking entitlement- wouldn’t let this happen. 

So now here we are. With this shit. This tyrant king and his pet tech-gremlin, stripping away our rights hour by hour, day by day. And while dealing with this shit, I as an American, have to carry on hour by hour, day by day- being tossed into the same bucked with you. 

I have to shoulder the blame right along side you. And it’s not fucking fair. I did my part. I voted. I canvased, I shouted from the fucking rooftops. 

But I’ll digress…

I sincerely hope that high road you thought you were taking lands you all right to where it seems the rest of us are going…. 

Because no one deserves it more.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I held my nose and voted for Kamala, but 2016, 2020, and 2024 should have been cakewalks for Dems but they refuse to win the easy races by picking the worst candidates, sure 2020 fell for Dems but that wasn't for lack of trying to lose. The Democrat party keeps putting their fingers on the scale for the losing option in the primaries.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

If you want me to vote, run candidates that represent my interests.

Stop telling the progressives to 'fall in line.' Start telling it to the neo-liberals.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I have so many idiot friends who said "I'm not voting for Harris cause of Israel". I'm betting that line was a plant by the Republicans or Putin. but it stuck. and my friends bought it hook line and sinker.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

line was a plant

Didn't need to be, the whole point of the Israel support was to sow the division. It was designed to be a no-win scenario on the left, orchestrated by the right, and the dino's. The defense contractors win, there's a stock angle to play and the collapse of support for the left.

The truth is, the left is not listening. They haven't been for a long time. But not voting left wasn't about to change any of that. Half the left is owned by the right. This takeover wasn't overnight, it was over decades. Even if we managed to squeek in Harris, it would only have been another 4-8 years and we'd be back here.

Unless something drastic happens, we will stay a fascist dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

Yep. They sure as shit did.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Except Palestinian babies. They deserve what they get.

—blue maga

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Additionally,

This comes as House Republicans have proposed a bill that would charge people arriving at a U.S. port of entry $1,000 in order to file an asylum claim — and a $3,500 fee for those sponsoring children. The right to seek asylum is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law, and the U.S. has never before charged petitioners.

This is enough grounds for impeachment.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've written this multiple times in the last few months. I'll keep doing it because people need to get the message: There isn't going to be an impeachment, and even if there were, it would fail.

The impeachment process requires cooperation from both houses of congress. A simple majority in the house of representatives must vote to approve articles of impeachment. Then the Senate decides what to do with them. They can hold a trial or they can just vote. Conviction requires a 2/3 majority of the Senate. This is why both attempts to impeach Trump previously already failed. The Senate Republicans simply moved to an immediate vote and killed it.

Now, consider that Republicans currently hold a majority in both houses. THERE WILL BE NO IMPEACHMENT barring a major upset in the midterm elections. Even then it is almost guaranteed to fail. Impeachment is not going to save us.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

i think everyone realises that there will be no impeachment, but it’s useful to point out that any single 1 of these acts SHOULD result in impeachment and that it’s REPUBLICANS as a whole that are betraying their role in the system; not ONLY a single man

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Everything he does can be grounds for impeachment, but if the republicans control all branches of government even if impeached (he was impeached 3 times last time) they will never remove him from office.

EDIT: Y'all notice a common pattern on all those "peace officers" on the picture?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 19 hours ago

They all look like Confederate zombies taken from the pages of the Time Life Book The Civil War and their family tree is a pole?

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A second order further militarizes local police departments, while providing legal resources to officers accused of abuses; it also seeks to undo federal consent decrees for departments that have committed civil rights abuses and seeks to punish local officials who “unlawfully prohibit law enforcement officers from carrying out duties.”

That’s not militarization, it’s promoting lawlessness and removing any remaining accountability.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seattle PD literally had to be partially taken over by the federal government because it was so corrupt and would not curb its officers… this is going to be VERY problematic in Seattle and surrounding areas.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By definition the federal government will return Seattle PD back into what it was, but with federal backing and technical support.

I'm in a smaller city and even our local PD has two apcs. This is a nightmare.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the police state, y'all

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

So.....those of you who have lived though things like this, realistically what can an individual do?

Im talking beyond voting. Stock up on things? Get to know all my neighbors?

Because of an earlier Executive order, ICE (and related law enforcement) no longer needs to have a warrant. Now we are talking about militarizing local police forces. What happens if my family and I get disappeared?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Organize. Organize. And organize.

Not speaking from experience, but if history has taught us anything, the best course of action is practicing mutual aid. Talk to locals. And arm yourselves.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Many Germans were wondering the same thing nearly a hundred years ago.

Some of them decided to move while they still had the chance. You could say it’s traditional to move across the ocean if your country becomes a totalitarian dictatorship. The other options aren’t that nice though. Once the system falls apart you could be judged for just going with the flow.

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