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  • comrade_twisty@feddit.org
    703·
    1 day ago

    Hey Americans this is more than a red flag. This is a dystopian nightmare future and you’re all sleepwalking right into it. WTF is wrong with you all?

    • cygnus@lemmy.ca
      43·
      1 day ago

      you’re all sleepwalking right into it

      This is what bothers me the most too. Decades of chest-thumping about liberty and freedom, and now this? It’s pathetic, really.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 day ago

        I mean, we fought a war based on a the premise that all men were created equal, then decided some men were only worth 3/5 of others…

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        13·
        22 hours ago

        The chest thumpers were propagandized that guns were a critical component of life and anything a liberal did was tyranny, while the rest of us were propagandized to think authorities are always legitimate, the system will produce justice if you just wait, and violence solves nothing.

      • MynameisAllen@lemmy.zip
        21·
        1 day ago

        But but this is different, it’s not like they’re trying to have us take a vaccine or something! It’s just rounding people up and grabbing people off the streets with little to no oversight. I mean sure have we already lost hundreds of people that we can’t account for? Sure, but it’s not like they’re making me get rid of my rolling coal dumbass truck or something important

        • Optional@lemmy.world
          14·
          1 day ago

          It’s just rounding people up and grabbing people brown people* off the streets with little to no oversight.

          * and the occasional UK tourist who took a left turn in Canada

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
        71·
        22 hours ago

        Its honestly strange to see non US people who have bought the propaganda as much or more than some people in the US.

        • butwhyishischinabook@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          Yeah that’s what’s so strange, they act like we believe in the propaganda. It’s like they completely forget that a lot of us were fighting this battle 25 years ago and fucking lost. The people who were chest thumping now are the same ones who were chest thumping for authoritarianism 25 years ago. Any time I see some idiot European post “Americans, I thought you…” it’s a dead giveaway that their stupid ass didn’t pay attention to the post 2001 fall of democracy. This didn’t just happen overnight…

        • cygnus@lemmy.ca
          11·
          12 hours ago

          I don’t think many of us did, but we at least expected the average American to buy it, and yet it seems they didn’t.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      26·
      24 hours ago

      Hey, I fucking hate this just as much as you do. I’ve voted and participated against these policies at every step of the way, but I am not wealthy or politically powerful, I live in a state where my vote is diluted at the national level (California, one of the states with the highest citizen to representative ratios), and when I try to explain these consequences and dangers, all I get in return is apathy.

      Edit: typo fixes

      • KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        111·
        22 hours ago

        I stopped talking to most people I knew because getting “i don’t do politics” as a dead-end to every response is just disheartening.