2 men

Yes, this is the world that happens when you let fascists take over.

We should have been uniting in the streets on day-one, instead of retreating to Lemmy, to discord, to reddit subcommunities to feel smug and argue with each other over which brand of socialism is better.

I hate the people who have done this to my country. But I am also livid at the lazy fucks who thought one march with a sign was going to change anything, or worse, the ones who stayed inside and played video games and said "nothing ever happens."

You all hold a piece of accountability here. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.

I did shit and copped a life ruining restraining order.
Now what?
- I sat at home, my life is still pretty fucked
What can we do? Those of us who have been going to every protest, who are fighting locally against what is going on? Where do we go? We need an organizer, but no one has stepped up to reign everyone in. I would do it but i've got extreme paranoia and am possibly a schizoid. (Im also a minority who would get deported on top of that)
- Do that hard thing you know you need to do, whatever it is. Maybe it's going to the doctor to talk about your anxiety, maybe it's arguing with your insurance company about what they're not doing for you, maybe it's going to your state DES office and seeing what programs or assistance you qualify for - or maybe talking to your family/friends about getting whatever assistance you need to make whatever life changes you need to make to get enough of a handle on your personal issues.
  Your language tells me you have some issues but likely have no formal diagnosis or treatment plan. You're not good to us if you're not healthy. Get healthy, take care of yourself, put money, food and medical supplies aside. Get a gun if you can legally own one. (before your diagnosis, that may get in the way. Just go to a gun-show you barely need to do anything.) About two weeks food and water minimum, everyone should have that. If we see civil disruptions you may have a hard time getting to your grocery stores.
  Now, let's say you start to get a handle on your mental health. What can you do as an individual? First thing is stop spending money on luxuries/reframe your lifestyle and what comforts you feel you depend on. We have to start starving the monsters by ending our addiction to comforts like fast food, junk food, new video games, movies and subscription services, doordash, pot and alcohol, new devices like phones. We will never unify enough people to organize a General Strike in the US, but we can start punching the greedy liches in the face by keeping our money out of their hands.
  Then, again assuming you can push yourself to do what you need to start getting healthier, you need to expose yourself to people more. You need to socialize. You need to get to know your neighbors, you need to hold a yard-sale as pretense for meeting people, you need to learn how to make small-talk and make people like you. Then you get involved in local events, community shit, county and city meetings, go boo loudly at your local [R] comptroller or congressperson, get to know who in your community would support local regime change, help endorse and push new candidates who actually represent you.
  None of this is going to be fast, and it will take a long time, maybe years. Maybe we don't have that long.
  But it's all we have.
  No charismatic progressive leader is going to appear and lead everyone to some glorious tomorrow. Even if they did, we still have to live next to the millions of tuned-out dipshits who think they're winning.
  We HAVE to abandon that fantasy that something is going to happen or someone is going to come, it's child-like. It's on you whether you like it or not. We ALL have to get more involved and less afraid, and if we can't, we have to tackle whatever is keeping us from being involved and less afraid. (Hint: it's your phone and/or PC.)

We are cooked as a country. I didn't have ww3 on my list but here we go.

The US is just one epicenter, We are cooked as a species.
- We could only be so lucky, we're going to circle the drain for a long time before this turd finally disappears.
  We're all in for a very long, very bumpy ride.

This is America, we're just finally going full "mask off."

We're a disgusting disgrace of a country, chock full of Nazis, Nazi apologists, fascist propagandists, and fascist billionaires. I'd argue we never really were anything different, we just had a decent streak of cowards running the show that just wanted to satisfy endless greed without rocking the boat too much. The current bunch relish the chaos, hatred, neck stomping and 40% of the population are absolutely here for it and want more.

It's only downhill from here. :(

It's true the only reason the US didn't go full Nazi in the 30s and 40s was we didn't like how Germany was invading France and Britain.
Otherwise there was a lot of support for a domestic Nazi party leading to and ethnostate. Perhaps even over all of North America.
- Yup... :(
  Madison square garden NYC 1939

Let's not jump the gun on any rumors yet. Police, for what that's worth, said there was no evidence of assault on Trey Reed's body, though his family is rightfully seeking an independent autopsy report. And apparently the second hanging body was a 36-year-old white man.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/16/trey-reed-death-delta-university/

Is the timing suspicious? Absolutely. Are the cops being cagey about it? Even if it's still an ongoing investigation, yes. Although it is Mississippi. We're not exactly expecting excellence from them.

My point being that we're getting information at a slow trickle and we'll have to fucking hound the media to keep these stories in the news cycle, so it's going to be a good while before we have any idea what happened. Especially with all hands on deck dedicated to making sure everyone has a government-approved reaction to the somehow more important murder.

Police, for what that's worth, said there was no evidence of assault on Trey Reed's body
It's worth approximately jack shit. The guys wearing the badges are the guys wearing the hoods. Mississippi pigs are covering up a lynching, plain and simple.
It's not rumors, this is an extremely unusual method of suicide, especially for a black man.
It also happened twice in possibly the most racist state, on the same day
And the cops say there's no foul play. Come on now, there's jumping to conclusions, and then there's situations so unlikely they require one hell of an explanation
- It also happened previously in June in NY to a black man (tbh who I thought the meme was referencing), Earl Smith, 58, and was ruled a suicide, people didn't believe it then either:
  https://www.wbng.com/2025/06/28/binghamton-community-protests-light-recent-death-black-man-albany/
  Personally, I'm with them, timing is extremely suspicious with police having a lot of their force dedicated to ICE efforts instead of investigation. They didn't even catch CK's shooter in Utah, with all those cameras etc - so NY and MS wouldn't surprise me if they were also feeling the staff shortages.
  Also since people have been talking about the most recent homeless mass shooting, there was actually one in June in North Portland, 3 separate events with no injuries and he was never caught. And there's been a LOT of bodies showing up in Portland, especially in the water and highway guard rails.
  https://www.kptv.com/2025/06/12/police-say-someone-is-shooting-homeless-people-north-portland/
  I think conservatives jacking off to Purge night stuff is behind this. There's some creepy weirdos who feel like they've been let off leash.
- This guy is the coroner, so it's not a ole white boy club thing:
  Not saying this isn't all suspicious, just probably doesn't play out how people had in mind.
Police, for what that's worth, said
Which would be about "nothing" without independent confirmation.
If you still have any trust in the press releases of American cops, let alone those of the worst of ALL states in 2025, you're fucking delusional.
You're right about not jumping to CONCLUSIONS, but you're dead wrong about having even a modicum of trust in the statements of Mississippi cops before we reach any.
- A black man found hanging from a tree: no foul play suspected
  Statements of the utterly deranged
- That's why I mentioned that the family is rightfully seeking an independent autopsy report. And my whole last paragraph about how fucked up the whole situation is.
  I'm just saying we can't and shouldn't be calling it a lynching yet, even if the signs are pointing in that direction. We should absolutely be raising questions and bullying the cops to an acceptable answer.
Even if it's still an ongoing investigation, yes. Although it is Mississippi
Education is optional in Mississippi.

This doesn't mean 2 men.

This has #2 and #3 in a list, but where is #1? 🤔

The implication should be obvious, the dictators and oligarchs are working towards erasing critical history..

That isn't a 3.
The & symbol they wrote looks like a three I guess. It's saying that "two Black men were lynched &..."
- Yep. That's how my father wrote his "and" symbols.
- Umm, okay. I've never seen it written or typed that way before, guess I'll just have to take your word on it. 🤷
Well, that one is backwards. It's usually an E. Because an ampersand is originally the latin word "et" (meaning "and"). If you use an epsilon (ε) instead of an E and then cross it, it's a stylized "et".
And now you're burdened with more useless knowledge!
- Indeed I learned a thing today.
  Did you know that only 27% of social media users know how to sharpen a pencil?
  According to recent research, 89℅ of modern AI users know how to sharpen their finger in a pencil sharpener...
  Today's lesson brought to you by the letter &
  /s
Why is this relevant at all?
2 Black men were found hung. That's the fucking thing that matters.
- Well shit, you coulda at least been decent enough to tell me they found a second hanging body. ☹️
  I'm actually from Mississippi, though not from that region. Sorry I wasn't aware of the second deceased, my bad. First I'm hearing about that...
- There is no context of time, there have been many thousands of people hung over time.
  Is there a specific context I'm supposed to take this as?