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      Great band! Awesome to see them mentioned.🤩

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    That is a shock. I expected him to just bomb it to dust and bulldoze it into the sea.

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    “It seems that there might finally be a temporary peace in gaza… wait, it’s, it’s, BY GOD IT’S THE US COMING FROM BEHIND WITH A STEEL CHAIR”

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    Just a not even remotely friendly reminder that if you are American, eligible to vote and didn’t vote for Kamala then you actively voted for this. Actively voted for genocide. If you didn’t vote you’re even fucking worse because at least the Republicans were willing to openly say what horrible people they are. You just don’t care.

    The United States is a failed country, a terrorist state and should be wrenched away from its people. You do not deserve to have a country that large with that much power when you are incapable of agreeing on a singular fucking thing. The United States should be forcibly broken up into at least 2, if not more, countries that can make up a trade bloc. This bullshit of getting everyone killed from coast to coast because of your pathetic patriotic ego of “wahhhhhhh but my countryyyyyyyyyy”

    Fuck the United States.

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      I want to say I’m amazed at the shit fucking takes to justify awful choices that directly lead to a fascist overthrow in response to your comment. But these types love to justify their choices even though they directly lead to an open fascist takeover of our country because BoTh SiDeS bAd because they couldn’t be bothered to engage in harm reduction and are ok with Gaza getting glassed and a probable trans genocide at home.

      Fuck anyone who uses genocide to justify the situation where we now get more genocide, they never actually cared about it in the first place aside from talking points. Either that, or talk is more important than action. Either way, their opinions are meaningless to me as I help my trans homies survive.

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          I don’t simp for him, fuck that scumbag.
          But I think issues are more complicated than that, because for example Democrats actively supported the genocide too, so it’s not just 1 bad guy.

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            I don’t know, definitely feels like the democrats passively supported, while Trump seems to want to participate.

            Can’t say the democrats were making the right choice, but Trumps stance is objectively worse.

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            If you call a cease fire, hostage release, and two state solution as “supported the genocide” then… I guess?

            I wouldn’t call it that though. You do you I guess.

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            Ah yes the black and white both sides bad argument. You do know it’s possible for one side to be worse right? So much worse.

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      Just a not even remotely friendly reminder that if you are American, eligible to vote and didn’t vote for Kamala then you actively voted for this.

      Don’t try to spin logic. The red and blue party were both and has always been unified in supporting the fascist israel government in getting rid of gaza. People who chose not to play the rigged show the US government put up with elections is doing way less harm to humanity than the ones actively voting and supporting murderers.

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        Underrated comment here.

        The Dems knew people were pissed with their support of the genocide in Israel, because several states had large percentages of people who voted ‘undecided’ in the Democratic primaries with the stated purpose of communicating that they wanted the US to stop sending WMD’s to Israel.

        And, like usual, the Dems just ignored it, and opted instead to literally help Genocide Joe stack bodies until his final day in office. Kamala, when asked what she’d do differently, replied: “Nothing comes to mind.” Indulging she and Joe’s arrogance was given more consideration than child genocide. Think about that.

        As much as people hate hearing ‘both sides’, this is very much a both sides issue.

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        Correct. If you didn’t vote then you are spineless, a coward and lack any morals. You saw fascism coming and ignored what everyone said and then decided that it wasn’t worth the bare minimum effort of voting.

        If you did not cast a ballot and you were eligible to do so then the things I want to say to you would get me banned from lemmy and probably arrested.

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          Correct. If you didn’t vote then you are spineless, a coward and lack any morals.

          Not correct, if you didn’t vote you didn’t vote period.

          People saying and persuading others to vote for murderers with blood on their hands are much bigger spineless coward with no morals.

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            Nope. It is dead correct. If you were eligible to vote and you did not vote then you should feel horrible. You should feel attacked. You should feel like everyone hates you. They do. You decided that fascism wasn’t important enough to vote against. You decided to go “Well both sides suck” when one side was actively planning genocide and destruction of the United States.

            You do not get to have a say. Why? Because you didn’t vote. You decided not to use your voice so guess what? You don’t get to have one here.

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            You sound like one of the idiots my grandfather tried to warn in Germany in the 1920s before he got the fuck out and came to America on forged papers on a Japanese fishing boat

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            Inaction is still a choice, so not voting means you’re ok with this. Voting or not voting, you still made your choice in November and here we are.

            People saying and persuading others to vote for murderers with blood on their hands are much bigger spineless coward with no morals.

            That’s the most bullshit argument to justify your shitty choices and is textbook DARVO. Not voting for the lesser murderer means we get an even bigger one who will actively increase the suffering, and it’s hilarious to me how you’re trying to pretend that voting to prevent more genocide is cowardly. But cowards love to pretend they’re not cowards and blame others when they don’t have the stones to make hard decisions. And lol, using morality to justify letting trump genocide people home and abroad shows you have none.

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        Not engaging is also a choice, a very shit one in this case. You either contributed -1, 0, or +1 to a fascist takeover, sure 0 might be better than +1 but taking a neutral stance against such a dogshit prospect really puts the chair in armchair revolutionary, and doesn’t make you much better than the cheeto worshippers.

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          Not voting at minimum makes you more dumb than MAGA… At least they understand voting can bring changes.

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    Trump is a real estate guy. That’s why he wants Canada and Greenland: lots of undeveloped real estate. Never mind that the reason for this is given by being non-developable.

    And now Gaza: he actually thinks that he just has to move a few million people somewhere, and turn it into his personal luxury resort.

    Do you want another 9/11? That’s how you get another 9/11.

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    Their strategy is to overwhelm the news cycle with distractions. Stay focused.

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      On what? It’s all crazy. “We’re going to invade Gaza” is just as insane as “we’re going to put 18 year olds in charge of the Treasury”, “eliminate the department of education” or “win the war on diversity”.

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        Maybe them draining the Calofornia reservoirs used to irrigate crops during the summer to cause widespread crop failures and drive up food prices massively in a few months.

        They’re actively trying to cripple the country to please Putin.

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        Yeah people keep saying “this is just a distraction” to, like, very single story. So what are they distracting from? Please tell us, because all of it is fucking awful.

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          Distracting us from their actions to enact Project 2025 plans, mostly. The degradation of human rights (starting with immigrants and trans people, for example). It seems like they’re gonna keep threatening to invade countries and they’re gonna keep playing tariff chicken, but pay attention to what they’re doing within the US.

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      All, please read this article (NYT gift link) - this IS and has been the strategy. Blitzkrieg policy while distracting the “stupid” media with outrageous, ultimately meaningless distractions.

      From the ever flatulent Steve Bannon: “All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done.”

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        Steve Bannon said six years ago on Bill Maher: “You seperate the signal from the noise. Watch the signal. There’s a flashbang grenade every day as far as noise goes. Watch the signal.”

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      I mean, a huge number of his own supporters are questioning this. I wouldn’t call this a viable strategy.

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      Honestly I think some of this bullshit could be considered semi serious. This is Donnie’s crap. Leon has his own agenda.

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      new zealand’s underground movement to keep it off world maps about to pay off.

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      Everywhere will be a state!

      Well except Puerto Rico, for some odd reason the one place that could reasonably become a state isn’t on the list.

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      The US is his focus, everything else is a means to an end. Either to distract people with his antics, rile up his base to hate “the others”, or get his detractors reacting instead of acting.

      He has always been a two-bit conman, the problem is he’s got the backing to get everyone hunting the queen, while his friends are busy picking our pockets.

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    Keeping the shock and awe on himself while musk fucks off with wheelbarrows of money in the background?

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      and data. tons and tons of data, on everyone, siphoned off fed systems.

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    All his billionaire crones are going to be pissed. Think of all the jobs that will create. How will they be able to abuse the average worker when thier aren’t enough of them to go around. It’s going to drive up wages. And the investment capital that goes to gaza isn’t going to the billionaires tech companies.
    Sooner or later, one of them is going to off him.