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I'm confused about who this post is really aimed at. Personally I don't know anyone who suddenly decided that trump is a bad person because of this one latest act of draconian nonsense.

I wasn't able to edit my post but I wanted to post an addendum so I deleted it and now I'm reposting it with the addendum and a bunch of more angry ranting:

I promise you that guy probably doesn’t actually care if we’re in fascism as long as he’s safe, well fed, and mildly entertained. He will not put his balls on the table to fight fascism. He might be annoyed that his late night cable slop has been disrupted, but that’s it.

To be clear, he doesn't owe us anything either. He doesn't owe us suicidal devotion to a socialist revolution against the fascists. And you would be unhinged and legitimately an immoral sociopath to think otherwise. Liberal normies do not owe us devotion to political awareness. No one chooses to be born. No one owes their lives to a cause. Rage and froth at the mouth about it all you want.

They voted for democrats, and they did not even really owe anyone even that. We could have avoided this. We could have been fighting against a liberal president. We could have built off that. Instead now we're stuck in defense yet again and we are simply out of time. Congratulations.

And no, I wont get over it, suck the shit out of my asshole. I want good things world make no mistake, and I still feel tinges of hope when I see the Trump presidency stumble and fuck up. With hope that maybe the world can heal eventually to something that's not intolerable, perhaps merely just mildly bad. But there is this meta-awareness of resentment overlaid on top of even that because we should not be here and we did not need to be here. And even after when the world has healed.

Even if it heal to a miraculous degree. Maybe we live in a fucking utopia at the end of this: still fuck you. I'll be an elderly man or dead. The prime of my life wasted existing in a toxic miserable slog of a period of time because of a stupid political larpers and weak liberals couldn't stop fucking bickering with each other and I have to stare into the abyss of people's suffering and pain caused by this administration. And let be clear: Its not even my own pain or death. I'm living a materially better life than like 90% of you probably, but my sense of pride in my humanity is fucking dead. Everything I indulge in covered in a grey smog of "Hey I bet a bunch of Africans are going to unnecessarily starve to death because we did not like Harris enough to prevent Trump from cutting USAID haha ok enjoy your sci-fi book buddy"

Its fucking inescapable now. AGHAGHGA

You expressed my feelings pretty well. Will I be completely safe? Maybe not, but for the time being I am relatively insulated from what is going on.
Even so, I am filled with grief for all the suffering that has already happened and that which is yet to come.
I don’t really believe in karma but part of me cynically wonders if this is the price our country pays for exploiting the rest of the world so long. Not paid by those who caused it, but the common people as scapegoats.
They do have a saying about things built on Indian burial grounds… sigh. Perhaps the system has to be broken to be rebuilt, but how many must be crushed under the boots of progress?
What the fuck is going on with Lemmy today? Why can nobody edit their own comments? I've had to delete and repost quite a bit too.
I could be being daft here but I thought USAID was a propaganda and infiltration tactic. Like a way for the USA to put pressure on other countries.
- Maybe, but:
  Those who operated and participated in the aid activities believed it was genuine
  It helped a lot of people under that pretense

I fundamentally disagree with this kind of take. If someone is having their 'oh shit' moment because a mainstream media figure is being targeted by the regime, that's good. Don't dunk on them for not reacting sooner just to make yourself feel cooler than 'the libs.'

the best time to start protesting against the fascist takeover of our government was 40 years ago. the second best time is today
- Like many things, not starting when you should have doesn't make starting later worthless.
Better late than never
- 100%, embrace them for waking up to the nightmare. We need all the help we can get and you damn well know it.
You know what, I'm guilty of this exact thing. I've been pissed because this has been obviously fascism for sometime now, and it angers me how much it feels like I'm one of the few who paid attention to history while the ignoramuses acted like I was overreacting.
However the truth is you're right. I turned my anger on late coming allies and vented my frustration unfairly in their direction. Ultimately it's better late than never and every ally counts in the fight against fascism. After all a lot of us are about to die, or worse.
We’re saturated in information and it’s easy to see so many sources. Some people do accidentally find themselves in echo chambers but you won’t much hear of them because they don’t go online often.
It’s anyone on this planet’s job to follow news and be connected with how their country is being run. You don’t need to be a political scientist or economist but if a US citizen who was being responsible only just now figured out that something is wrong they are objectively pretty stupid. Stupid doesn’t mean undeserving of love or security or anything like that but oh my god do not tell me I’m the bad guy for being so fucking tired of this shit.
If they actually start caring about the people being killed and having massive violence done of then they are very late and that shows a major lack of empathy but sure as long as they don't only talk about when rich white men are affected.
Hard disagree. The US is cooked. Arguably it's been cooked since the election, but there was a world in which the US public banded together and blocked the regime from taking any effective action. But now that Trump has consolidated power and set all kinds of precedents that fascism will be answered by nothing crickets and ass-licking, there's no stopping him through legal means anymore.
So please allow me to regard these "oh shit it that bad?? :((" people with the highest level of disgust and contempt. I don't owe fascist enablers anything. Just like I don't owe anything but contempt to the Germans who woke up a morning of 1936 and realized "hey guys maybe we fucked it".
- right, and so your proposed solution is to drive the people who had their realisation away, so the strategy of divide and conquer can continue to bear fruit? makes sense....
- Right, you give up so you then play directly into their hands by enabling the left divide. You've become another fascist enabler.
Having a mainstream media figure and placing them on pedestals are how you got to this situation in the first place and not just once, but twice.
But hey, continue playing on that theatre.
"Kimmel for president 2028"
- You just took that strawman and ran all the way with it, didn't you?
- I agree that we shouldn't glorify a comedian.
  Still, it is good that this event is in the spotlight. I, as non- US citizen, even looked up what he actually said.
  \ There is nothing that could even be considered defamatory.
  \ This is very scary, independently of your beliefs.
It can be really frustrating when you've been fighting wiþ said person for years about þe issue, when if þey'd just listened and used þeir brain, and voted differently, we might not have gotten to þis point in þe first place.
- Your keyboards all messed up btw, seems to be combining t and h into archaic nonsense for some reason.
I disagree with it as well but man is it hard not being mean to these kinds of people. Like, they literally deserve it.
- I'm not sure we can understand the information environment folks are livin in enough to be confident making fun of how they see things.
  It'd be like going to North Korea and making fun of locals for being pro Kim Jong Un. It's just a bit in poor taste.
  Edit: grammar

Roughly 1500 canaries have died in the coal mine at this point

My neighbor told me the mine keeps killing his canaries so I asked how many canaries he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new canary afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding shelter canaries to the mine and then his daughter started crying
The coal mine was literally converted into a canary processing facility like a decade or two ago, by now. Which sounds bleak, but the bright side is so much delectable canary meat.
- ah sweet succulent canaryflesh. remember folks:

Why do we do this to ourselves!? Nothing is ever good enough. Can't it be enough that we agree with each other? Why are we gate keeping awareness?

- Yeah, I agree. Most of the country has been negatively impacted by the people in power. This does include the D politicians but especially includes the current R politicians.
For real. And not to mention, the Kimmel thing is like, a very serious step forward in a way other things have not been. I'm not saying other bad stuff hasn't happened, for sure. But it's not unreasonable for this to be the straw that breaks the camels back for some people. I hate Kimmel, always have, but it was surprising to see the media control phase unfolding so openly and suddenly. This IS crossing a new line.
Purity check is way more important than building the better world. Building the better world is hard, hating libs for not being your flavour of socialism is easy, satisfying, and makes you look cool to your peers (until you slip up and now you're the lib)
This is just another divisive post to stir engagement and outrage. I doubt the tweet in the screenshot is even real..

Better late than never

You 🤝 Fascists

"The important thing is, we own the libs"

They will never stop being this way.

I swear I did not thought I would see, in my lifetime, the fall of the American Empire, and so fast and so far from where it once stand. As a non american this it makes me sad that the people could not see this coming and now it's too far gone.

A great example to the world that we should never lower our guns because evil is just one election away

Remember the Roman empire. It was a kingdom at the start, then a republic and then a dictatorship.
- It's almost like.. idk.. history repeats itself

Anything that leads to cishet white male anti fascist awakening is welcome at this point. And honestly at any point.

I remember people in my twenties telling me imperialism didn't end and I was like I guesss? Idk tho... But now I see it.

Point is someone's always late to getting woke, even if you clocked it twenty years ago, Panthers clocked it before that. And on and on.

Fascism out in the open? Best I can do is a Disney boycott.

-gun loving Americans

They may have taken my circuses but if they take my bread then I’ll really get upset

That's in process. The tariff wealth transfer will take time, but they are trying to accelerate it all by implementing a 30% national sales tax.
- Sigh… guess I’ll just have to eat cake then. The rich are off of the menu.

Fascism has been completely normal here for the past 400+ years.

USA is actively committing at least one genocide right now.

The president is a literal rapist, racist, fascist and failed casino owner.

Where do y'all think that you live?

I'm all for people waking up to it when they do. This isn't too late, but it would have been nice of they would have listened and seen the signs earlier. We could have had a larger and possibly more effective resistance movement.

However, we didn't really have much of a resistance effort then and more people would have only help so much. And having liberals join us at anytime would have been difficult to integrate because we barely know how to get along with people who agree with us. Liberals have fundamental issues with our insights in other areas.

Frankly, we don't know how to integrate liberals into a leftist resistence. We don't have much of a resistence beyond yelling at each other online. Sadly, we were never prepared for a authoritarian transition. And honestly, not sure when we were suppose to.

Now i'm no christian, but whatever jesus gave us this had fire in his belly. someone get him some wine that is not hygienic.
the this in question so you don't have to click through unless you want:

waking up is like planting trees. best time was 20 years ago. second best time is today. reward doesn't change.
- Planting trees when the world is on fire is the wrong time.
  It's be nice to have well trained environmentally conscious people who are capable of containing a wild fire, but we don't.

Toilet Paper USA robbing Kimmel is not cool.

It was the FCC, which does not answer to Turning Point USA.