Trump administration raises possibility of stripping Mamdani of US citizenship

We need some cold pipe hittin niggas to deal with the felon in chief.

Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead.

fyi there is no such thing as a no log vpn; be careful out there.

also look into reloading. it’s not only economical but nerdy fun too.

Jesus. I’m sorry to hear my friend.

Started reading this as "stacking up animation" and thought you are going for inner escapism with your anime collection when there'll be problems with interwebs, interpipes and intergunshots on the streets.

This is the most accurate no I've ever read in my life.

Probably shouldn’t have made all those white flag jokes huh?

Yeah, no, clean up your own mess. We have better things to do than rescue you from a mess you got yourselves into.

Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads.

Nope. Germans will not help. They have seen where this road leads, and they've decided that they must never do anything military again. They prefer allowing all of the rest of the world to turn 100 % fascist over doing one single small thing that somehow hints towards militarism. Germans allow the road to lead where it leads, as long as that does not happen in Germany.

Also, for the same reason, in Germany it is extremely impolite calling someone a nazi. As long as they aren't openly showing a swastika or publicly calling for a genocide with that specific word, or lifting their arm in the specific way done by Germans in 1930's and 1940's, they are allowed to do what they do. If you call someone a nazi, you are comparing their acts to what Germany did in 1940's, and it's considered a grave insult towards the victims of those times. It is not acceptable in Germany to say to someone is behaving just like a nazi, and therefore, it is de facto not acceptable calling out a nazi.

Germany is the last country you can expect to stand up against nazis, precisely because they're so traumatized by their own past. It's also why I expect Germany to eventually fall under a nazi rule again some day. When you cannot talk about a danger, you cannot stop it.

Well said. I think the rest of the world has a pretty vested interest in the US not going completely off the rails, even if we don't deserve the help after all the imperialist bullshit.

Well, you can only trust things you read online so much, it’s always nice to hear from real people.

Wow, look at don knowing fancy words, like Aqua's fluoride animatronic acid

It's an important distinction. No need for them to take their pets down with them.

Well yeah. They have money. Theyll throw anyone they can under the bus to hold on to a dollar for five more seconds.

Senator who?

Trump is literally America’s spirit animal, he represents everything that America stands for: greed, ignorance, hate, racism, bigotry, misogyny, corruption, and deceit. Trump is not an outlier, he is America’s mirror.

Probably because that demented walking corpse was picked intentionally as an avatar. He represents a group of people in power. Without Trump they'd probably find some other one. But he's too convenient.

I don't believe that. Not the same America that elected Obama. I think Trump's first term convinced people he wouldn't be that bad compared to a party that tried to do a "Weekend at Bernie's" with their candidate. This is a different Trump than we had last time. This one is willing to do every word of what he says. And that caught people by surprise.

For sheer size of the US, it can be exceedingly difficult to get all the way to DC. If you can't fly and have to drive for whatever reason, financial or otherwise, it's a 39 hour drive going from LA in California to DC. One way. With absolutely no time accounted for bathroom breaks, food, or even sleep. It's like a three day drive each way. That's basically a worst case scenario, but also, a ton of people live on the west coast, so it's not exactly an uncommon one. Unfortunately, the sheer geographical scale of the US makes it very difficult for people to amass specifically in DC.

You're 100% right, though, that anyone who can do it should do it.

You may be right, but don't surrender before you fight.

At least I'll be too dead to see it.

Just look around. People are already doing it. Don't wait for TV to show you. Grab a friend and go party!

That sounds pretty provocative. They should send the marines, and some air support, just in case someone raises their voice. Loudness is violence.

Do you have any solutions other than sarcasm?

Sounds like "terrorism" to me. Deport deport deport!

With at least 70% of us living paycheck to paycheck, and 48% of us having $1,000 or less in savings, I don't think that a national strike is likely. I agree that it would be by far the most impactful thing we could collectively do, but hell - at least half of us are one missed paycheck away from homelessness, and America really fucking hates the homeless. Combine that with the fact that most people get their family health insurance from their job, and the fact that our Senate just voted to practically obliterate medicare / medicaid, and you get an extra level of devastating consequences for losing your job. And people would lose their jobs. Even if a significant amount of people are participating in the nation-wide strike, employers would be very heavy-handed with the dismissals. I just don't think that it's in the cards for us.

We are terrified of losing our jobs. We are told there is always another person waiting for your job. We are often a couple pay checks away from ruin.

Maybe we need to stop spending. Don't buy it if we don't need it. Live Spartan for a month.

I think a general strike would be effective, but dangerous when people are kept so close to poverty.

Remember the pandemic, we "all" stopped going into work? Except the grocery store workers, and the food processor workers, and those that distribute the food, and water treatment plant staff, and the power plant, and hospital staff, and taxis, and drug store workers, and so on and on. Do those people stop working? How many people can't obtain the things they need beyond their next paycheck? What if in addition, the store shelves are empty?

I agree, it's the most feasible way to fight back, so don't get me wrong. But just like union dues and preparation enable a local strike, accounting for food, water, amenities...a general strike would need to do that or else we would be fighting a war of attrition not just against billionaires with multi-year bunkers but also against ourselves.

While I do explicitely not disagree with you, TDS is more likely to become a totally not made up medical condition suitable for persecuting political opponents developing remedies for affected citizens than MDS.

And no, The Onion is not involved.

Just like nothing happened when George Floyd was murdered? This camel's back isn't unbreakable.

Funk off