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[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 380 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 124 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Trump was already facing multiple criminal and civil suits in 2016. They had 8+ years to hold him accountable for even a single thing, and didn't.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 61 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Yeah this is an important point. If the system lets guys like Trump get away with obvious crimes for 8 years, and that's when it's working as intended, then the system needs to be dismantled. Maybe the only way to drain the swamp is to let it turn into a sinkhole that drags everything down with it. Not that we have much choice in the matter at this point.

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[–] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I could go for kicking Merrick Garland in the dick. Might make me feel just a little better.

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[–] whithom@discuss.online 36 points 6 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 298 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

“No one in their right mind is backing 2025…”

Then why did YOU?!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 82 points 6 days ago (9 children)
[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago

I'd like to start a new response of "I don't care if you're joking, you're still an asshole".

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[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 246 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (7 children)

"He's probably just joking" is something I heard so much over the past few years about things the right has been spewing. THEY ARE NOT JOKING, THEY ARE NEVER JOKING! I don't know how this is a hard thing to understand.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 107 points 6 days ago

Also, if they are lying about these things, why did they vote for a liar? A lot of people who called agenda 2025 fake or lies still voted for the party representing it.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Trump says 'I don't kid' after aides argue he was joking about slowing coronavirus testing.

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[–] SGforce@lemmy.ca 37 points 6 days ago

Also, why the fuck is it cool for a politician to joke about doing shit? Literally any joke is not cool.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Fuck, my neighbor says the same every time Trump says something awful. "Trump just talks a lot of shit, he's just joking."

Fuck you neighbor, you approved leadership from the guy who encouraged putting kids in cages.

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[–] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The Narcissist's Prayer

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

[–] zib@lemmy.world 193 points 6 days ago (8 children)

I used to have a boss who like to joke about firing people on his team. He was a nice guy and there was no ill intention behind the jokes, but we eventually had to sit him down and tell him that he couldn't joke about that stuff because it causes a great deal of stress to people given his position.

Another example is bomb jokes in airports. Aside from just being in poor taste, that's something that will get you arrested and probably put on a no-fly list for life because it's an extremely serious matter with no exceptions.

So, even if Trump and his people are just joking about these horrible things, it's completely unacceptable when it's entirely believable they would do this stuff and would be in a position to make it happen.

TLDR: There are just some things you don't fucking joke about.

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[–] archonet@lemy.lol 96 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Conservatives: I like [insert obnoxious conservative figurehead] because they tell it like it is, they mean what they say

Also conservatives, sometimes in the same breath: Fake! [obnoxious conservative figurehead] didn't mean that! Taken out of context! 'Tis but a jape!

Jesus fuck the reality distortion field is strong, it's like doublethink but without being a clever social trick to survive, it's just they're that stupid.

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[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 157 points 6 days ago (1 children)

"I don't like it when you show me what I'm supporting"

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 81 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Hold MAGA accountable. Every. Single. Day.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (19 children)

This is why America deserves everything it voted for this time around.

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 35 points 5 days ago (3 children)

A lot of people are going to suffer who didn't vote for him. This is as callous as the fascists.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

there are alot of voters that didn't vote *at all *.

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The people who voted for evil do.

The people who failed to vote against evil do, but less.

The people who voted against evil? No fuckin chance.

"America" is too wide a brush, but I get talking that way.

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[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Conservative / fascist leaders deserve it, the rest of us do not. The kids who were too young to vote, the leftists who fight against fascism, and the workers who don't have the time to follow politics do not deserve any of what is to come.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Young voters voted for Trump. Tons of kids support him: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/07/young-men-voters-trump-2024-exit-polls

Unionized workers had grassroots support for Trump: https://www.axios.com/2024/09/18/teamsters-endorsement-harris-trump-2024

Staunch democrats sat out, or protest voted: https://www.axios.com/local/detroit/2024/11/07/why-biden-outperformed-harris-throughout-metro-detroit

Ignorantia juris non excusat. Ignorance of the law excuses not.

America is objectively, measurably, ignorant, trapped in bubbles, and we collectively did little to lift each other out. We are going to face justice for it.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] capital@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The velocity of those goalposts is astounding.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 94 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 27 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Oh this.... So much of this.

This is like the UK voting for brexit only to start searching "what will brexit do for me" the day AFTER the vote...

It sucks sonbad that dictatorships don't work, because democracy with stupid people doesn't work either and most people are just. So. Stupid...

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[–] boomzilla@programming.dev 20 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Let me be a grammar Nazi. It's "gewusst". But spot on, yes.

For non-german speakers: "I didn't knew of this". In a reference to Nazi germany when Hitler and the NSDAP publicised a lot of their plans inb4. Just like HF with P2025.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 89 points 6 days ago

bullies always start out "joking"

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Republicans consider a "joke" to mean what they retroactively designate something that they meant in earnest as soon as they get pushback.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

That goes against what I believe so I will reject it.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 99 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They've lied so much and gaslit so much that people don't know what to believe anymore.

And with all the AI and Russian troll farm bullshit being posted on social media, it's just poisoning the truth. It's time to ditch Twitter, Facebook and company.

I keep telling my folks that and that they'll end up being influenced and manipulated but they refuse because of how convenient it is. And I almost have to keep it because that's the only way they communicate right now.

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[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 73 points 6 days ago
[–] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago (3 children)

The time for being reasonable and trying to convince willfully ignorant fucks is long past. You tell them they are a fucking fool. You block them on all communication channels. You never talk to them again. Trying to reason with an idiot is a waste of time. If anything you feed their thought process they are right by debating. They should all be ignored. They should all be cut off from their loved ones and friends.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

Shut them down, but leave them a route out.

It's a cult, one of the goals is to trap people within them. The worst thing we can do is shove people back into that box, once they try and escape. It might be satisfying, but it's also extremely counterproductive.

If America wants to actually win, you either need to outlive, or deconvert the members. The first will take generations, I presume you don't want to have to wait that long?

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[–] Digital_man@lemmy.one 70 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Worried about making white people uncomfortable is how we got here in this first place.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 67 points 6 days ago (10 children)

I listened to many interviews with people convinced that Trump wouldn't do the things he said he would do. They definitely won't acknowledge the things he said he won't do.

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[–] db2@lemmy.world 55 points 6 days ago (2 children)
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[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 41 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Like the citizens of Weimar (near concentration camp Buchenwald) said in april 1945: wir haben es nicht gewusst

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[–] auzy@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

I also argued with someone who said the information was a badly organized protest and said I was overreacting lol

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (4 children)

We know most of them are stupid.

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[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 28 points 6 days ago (4 children)

How delusional. They’re gonna try to pass all of it.

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My parents contantly regurgitates propaganda from wechat about how democrats in NYC are letting homess people and migrants ruin everything.

We dont even live in NYC.

I told her to vote Harris and she did (she didn't even know how to fill out a ballot I had to tell her how to) but then later she said "maybe we shouldn't vote for democrats" because of the homeless shelters built near Chinese populations in NYC (which is a fair grivence, but I dont see how republicans are gonna solve it better). Abosolutely no independent thought and no critical thinking just parroting whatever the last person said.

She doesn't understand that the "homeless" or "migrants" are just dogwhistles referring to people like us who maga republicans deem inferior.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago

RumbaGPT, how will this play out?

He's probably just joking and if he's not, it's not so bad and if it is that bad it won't affect you and it if will you deserve it

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

"The things we said we're gonna do? We're doing them."

:O

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