This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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It's been pointed out repeatedly that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I still chose to blame the republicans.
No one ever just blames them directly in these conversations. It's always "blame the protest non-voters" or "blame the leftists" or whatever.
Just go directly to blaming the people who gleefully voted for it. Everything else is just infighting and stupid.
Just go directly to blaming the people who gleefully voted for it. Everything else is just infighting and stupid.
No it's not. There is a huge difference.
Republicans wanted this so they voted for it. You don't have to tell them this lol they are thrilled. Of course we blame them. That shit is all over the internet all the time, but a scorpion is a scorpion. Its in its nature, you cant change their whole ideology.
The group he is criticizing claimed to have been protest-non-voting because of harm done to specific groups. Mainly Palestinians. This is the group who should have empathy for human beings, who's motive should align with the other Democratic voters.
We told them REPTEADLY. LOUDLY. CLEARLY. that what they were doing would result in worse violence FOR PALESTINIANS and MORE marginalized groups like TRANS PEOPLE and IMMIGRANTS. And what happened? Exactly what we told them would happen. So everyone who fucking claimed to have been doing what they were doing to protest needs to see this. They need to be held accountable. WHAT PRIVILEGE IT IS to be able to protest and go back to your life without worrying about ICE or Israel or transphobes or Russians coming and killing you.
WE TRIED TO GET THEM TO HELP PROTECT THESE GROUPS AND THEY REFUSED KNOWING FULL WELL WHAT WAS COMING. THE GOP PUBLISHED THE MANUAL BEFORE THE ELECTION.
Every time someone says "I told you so" it comes with a justified rage and I won't fuckin hear someone telling them to stop bringing it up. Fuck that.
I hope this sticks with them and the guilt haunts whatever conscience they have for the rest of their life. It's not comparable to what they allowed to happen. It doesn't even register on the scale next to this. They were the ones who actually could've stopped this.
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The problem is, you know what the Republicans will do. Not voting is cutting your nose off to spite your face.
I am informing the protest-non-voters what they voted for.
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Meh, they showed the world what piece of shit US is.
If your country can openly fund genocide to concentration camps, your "system" probably needs a big reset. But the people who wanted none of it are to blame. 1000 IQ logic, there bud.
It's a mask off and the world thanks them for it. US will probably be next to Russia, China, Iran and North Korea in a decade in terms on international reputation. Hollywood's not going to work this time because people have way more access to information first hand than they did with pirated movies last decade.
Keep projecting tho, that'll definitely fix it.
I'm not blaming, I am informing protest-non-voters what they voted for. As for ~~what they wanted~~ what they voted for, this is it.
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If you guys get another left leaning president be better be a socialist dictator. If this is the game now, play it. Next guy better abolish ice
It still doesn't solve the new MAGA party. The republican party is dead. 50 million Americans are MAGA. I don't see how they're getting out of this without going through hell. In other words open warfare.
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Be prepared to have checkpoints everywhere you go.
papers please
And people are disappearing.
That's the actual point.
Bludgeoningly obviously, ICE had been chosen to be America's Gestapo.
How can we not have a recall option? I don't understand how we got this far without one.
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I always wondered if family members of ICE members know that they are members... If I had a cousin that was ICE, I would go absolutely no contact with him, and would let everyone know that the guy is ICE. Wear your shitty mask, but people will know.
Someone should start an ICE database, where pictures of ICE people are posted, even masked. And let people who know them come forward and say "hey. I know the guy in picture X, it is John blabla". Then, bully those pieces of shit out of existence.
It'd probably be better to pretend to befriend them. Information is power.
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A massively enlarged unaccountable army beholden to Trump, huh can’t imagine what could go wrong.
God bless the United States of authoritarianism
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America is fuckity fuck fucked. Enjoy Americans, this is what you voted for: fascism and tax breaks for billionaires.
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My pride flag will still fly. I will still protest. But I will now answer the door, chain bolted, and 9mm pointed through the door.
Bad idea. Even pistols can shoot through doors and entry tactics love it when you come to set location.
Get a security camera and if they take it out first... Well, you know what they're there for.
The interesting thing is that the US of today isn't a historical parallel with Nazi Germany.
The US has 300,000,000 guns (among other things) in civilian hands.
I don't think it's going to be an uneventful 10-20 years as this round of fascism works its way through the American system.
A lot of those guns are in the hands of individuals who align politically with ICE, but yes — the greedy dragon will inevitably attack enough people indiscriminately that this will become a serious factor in the years to come.
The only question is, how much damage is going to be done before people use them? Can we trust that the people will fight back against a homegrown Gestapo?
Furthermore, places that are most likely to see heavy ICE action will be places like California, Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, which checks notes... right, have the strictest gun laws.
Then you got gun owners like me who hate ICE.
An overfunded undisciplined paramilitary of degenerates that couldn't make it through police academy, what could go wrong?
You'll soon start seeing huge investment in trains, and their time-table as well.
It's absolutely fucked that this could be how trains and rail-lines get reinvigorated.
Peacefully polite protesting should do the trick. You democrats reading my comment have any thoughts on the Second Amendment now? (Im a socialist and own guns and am not trolling, just want to genuinely ask what a solution is to this)
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Just put everyone in a labor camp and make North Korea look like a joke I guess.