This is what an insurrection looks like to Republicans who have pardoned January 6th people.
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This is Tennessee. My sister in law just left there after working in rural areas the last few years. She spent time as an aid worker in Kabul and found Tennessee to be worse off.
Maybe - bear with me - some people don't want to be and just want to power trip?
I think not acknowledging that is part of the issue.
and that is not trump. neither cuffing nor cuffed.it is the average joe. and in the US average joe has become an asshole.
Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.
That was the moment I realized where the US was headed.
It didn't even cause much protest, people were just shrugging it off. These were not humans, but immigrants, after all. Being from Germany I had a good understanding of the depths of inhumanity ICE was already willing to entertain back then. US Americans not only let this happen, they wanted more of it. Now they're getting it.
Everyone could have seen this coming years ago. I still remember the first images from the ICE facilities where small children were separated from their parents and held in steel cages. Google it, it was heartbreaking.
"No no no, you see. It was fine when democrats did it under the radar. We're just angry an uncharismatic person won and bad things started to happen. Now we're losing respect and soft power all over the world by blatant disrespect of the law. And I have to pay more for the chinese shit? This is UNACCEPTABLE.
If a democrat had won, we'd totally be fine with its continuation as long as it doesn't affect me.
They'll totally fix it in the next election though. You see, It's only because of those darn republicans who are the only ones being bought by billionaires and foreign lobbyists dragging us down.
I just want to return to a time when we could bomb civilians abroad and still get nobel peace prize for our president. Oh how many war crimes we committed and got away with it. Still gives me goosebumps. Is that too much to ask?"
The outcry over HitlerPig's child separation policy was enormous. I personally called every one of my elected officials and literally HOLLERED at them over the phone, demanding they do something about it. I don't think I was ever outraged more about a government policy. He rescinded it after a few days because the pressure was so intense.
The Biden administration tried hard to return those children, but to this day, there are almost 1000 children who have never been reunited with their parents, and likely never will. It is one of the worst modern atrocities of the American government iny lifetime, and it is entirely MAGA's fault.
Why are they even ziptied? Are the cops afraid of being beat up by grandmas ?
The answer is Yes. ALL cops are cowards to begin with, and are trained to embrace their cowardice by responding with extreme force to the slightest inconvenience.
The cruelty is the point.
Republicans see these people as undesirable leeches on society.
I pay my fucking taxes and social security so Grandma there can have housing, healthcare, so give her the fucking money.
Why didn't they just zip tie the wheel on the rascal
Or just take the key. Unplug the batteries?
Or just grow a pair and not be the boot for the oligarchy
There ya go.
The US is beyond saving. Fuck this place. I don’t care what it takes, we need a revolution, and conservatives need to be annihilated. Tarred and fucking feathered.
Right there with you
Nothing matters in this country aside from how much wealth you generate or spend at the moment. Doesn't matter how good or bad you are. Ethics are frowned upon. How much money you can spend or generate for others is the only factor. We are an experiment in how far largely unrelated capitalism can be pushed. The only fix for this is an absolute societal collapse.
Christians, through history, loved stoning anyone who did not agree with them or follow their beliefs. I think it would be ironic if they ended up on the other end of this.
But truthfully, I think just permanently removing their ability to have any effect on the world we live in, by their speech, money, action, position, etc, as quickly as humanly possible is far more important than just carrying out old fashioned punishments for catharsis. We all just need them gone.
That would just feed their persecution fetish
So what? Society shouldn't have to indulge their untreated mental illness.
I'm not saying to avoid it, fuck em, but it's basically their kink
Who cares?
So will giving them everything. Dumb to cater to the delusions of others.
RADICAL LEFTIST GRANDMA
Someone should screen record this embedded video of an embedded video of an embedded video lol
Yes, you guys are. Yet you’re still moralizing to countries across the planet.
Turns out women should have rights. Even while we're rolling them back, we're still leagues above a lot of the world in that regard. I don't think we've done much moralizing, as you put it, to western Europe.
My apologies if it offends you that we've been telling Afganis they shouldn't screw young boys and telling Saudis that maybe it's okay to let women drive.
[...] we've been telling Afganis [...]
Yes, tell me about how the US has a dialogue with the people of Afghanistan.
Your country is run by fascists but it’s easier to criticize a country across the planet than to fix your own mess. Americans need to shut the fuck up and stay out of global affairs for a long time. You’ve murdered and colonized enough of us that we don’t buy your moral bullshit
Yeah, that's pretty much all we Americans do here on Lemmy. We're constantly bragging about the state of our country and we never criticize our dear leader.
If there's one thing I've learned from Lemmy it's that America's problems are just not a big concern.
It's incredible how often people will directly blame the Americans here on lemmy as if those of us here dont lean progressive.
Am I directly responsible for the trail of tears, banana republics, and the Middle East despite the fact I've only been able to vote in 3 elections?
People are pissed because even progressives in the US are pretty fucking weak half the time. Sometimes you get these grannies being awesome, and sometimes you get cowardly centrists who can’t stop being defensive.
I don’t think you fully grasp just how much the rest of the world hates the US, nor how much damage the US has done despite having all these supposed “progressives” in it. Your Overton window is in a real fuckin’ bad place.
I fully agree with you.
Am I responsible for that despite advocating for a more progressive country by attending protests and canvassing for the candidates who are progressive?
The logic applied here means 20-somethings in France are responsible for Haiti. Thats pretty fucking reductive.
You were literally defending a guy who was trying to deflect and act like the US is doesn’t deserve the criticism because women are treated poorly in some other countries(likely thinking about one of the places where he US helped install the very governments that oppress those women).
That most certainly is not the case. I am defending myself from accusations that I helped make the world the way it is today by being born in the wrong country decades after the path had been set.
What country are you from? The logic applied means you're directly responsible for any atrocity committed by your government.
Nobody here makes a distinction between Netanyahu and Israel as a whole, so I will make no distinction between you and Trump
You just made the correct distinction and then really fucked it up.
Are you Israel? Because I am certainly not the US, im just a dude and not an entire country.
And im an indigenous Central American who is sick of white kids moralizing to me about colonialism. Who is sick of hypocrites who destroyed my people, now acting like they own the planet. Americans are trash, im throwing out the whole country because you guys have done nothing but prove over and over that you’re Terrorists
Yeah, I'm not mad at my Iranian friends because of what their leaders do. I can't blame them for not starting a bloody uprising. It requires coordinated, collective action, and religious leaders and the uber rich work together to keep true change from happening. The same goes for the USA. Propaganda works, and it's keeping the people too divided to easily take serious action.
We need to help make change possible, not only chastise people for being trapped in oppressive systems.