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[–] MithranArkanere@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Ever since the nazi learned to boil the frog, they have kept those burners running.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What the fuck is going on here? It can't get much more blatantly fascist. I implore anyone who can leave the Untied States to do so

[–] EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

Don't leave, stay and fight. The US is taking problems that will follow you if you leave.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

and all im hearing is *crickets" offline....

[–] Footer1998@crazypeople.online 10 points 6 hours ago

Mainstream media is owned and controlled by the ruling class, so yeah, only independent media will report such things

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And still Americans get all defensive when people from other countries boycott the USA and say "we're not coming back until you fix your shit".

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Really? You've run into people like that? Only people I can think of like that would be Magats.

Edit: Hell, as an American I encourage you to do exactly that. Hurt our economy, don't visit until we get shit sorted. It's dangerous to come so please stay home and stay safe. As much as I would love more of you to come see the good things here, the bad is so bad, you shouldn't risk it.

[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 25 points 9 hours ago

Riots are the language of the unheard. I don't ever want to hear pissing and moaning from Republicans when there shit hole state burns down

[–] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Arresting BLACK PEOPLE who want to Vote is how you KNOW Republicans are NOT Racist!

-Log Cabin Republicans!

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yes and according to the conservative super majority of the Supreme Court, racism in election polls doesn't exist anymore apparently.

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 6 points 7 hours ago

I'll never forgive rbg for not stepping down when Obama first got elected

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

Has nothing to do with 2026. This is not happening un France or Germany or Italy, Canada, Australia, India, the whole south America, etc, etc.

Just in that shithole country that voted in a shit dictator (not even a good one) and refuses to use their second amendment for what it was designed for....

Goodbye, I'm done.

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago

I'm just so mad and angry at American exceptionalism but also see this clear racism.

And nobody is teaching that megalomaniacal mango Mussolini a lesson....

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[–] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking Farva doing the arrest

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

It is for a cop, don't spit in it!

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 27 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

What people aren't realizing is that MAGA may well have screwed themselves worse, especially in such a hostile political environment as this one.

Before all this redistricting, it was going to be a bloodbath, not just because EVERY Dems is going to vote against MAGA, but a lot of Republicans are as well. Even more aren't going to vote at all.

None of that has changed. In fact, the dishonest gerrymandering is going to make many people even angrier and more determined. They can gerrymander all they want, but the votes don't go away.

Take Tennessee, for example, in which they eliminated the single Democratic district - but they didn't get rid of the votes. They just spread them across 3 other strong Republican districts, weakening them badly. In a normal year, it might not be anything to worry about, but in a year in which the waters are flowing hard AGAINST the Traitors, it could easily lead to 3 districts going Blue, instead of just one.

Always remember this one important axiom of MAGA: they are profoundly ignorant, and virtuosically incompetent. They fuck up literally everything they contact, and they will fuck this up, too. The real problem is that we have to have leaders that will pounce on those inevitable mistakes, and exploit the shit out of them. We can't be polite, and say "Oh, MAGA stumbled, let's help them back up," we have to kick them when they are down, then drop a giant rock on their head.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They can gerrymander all they want, but the votes don't go away.

Are you sure you know how gerrymandering works?

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Gerrymandering dilutes both sides' votes by making smaller majorities and larger minorities to favor one side.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

well, no. "well done" gerrymandering dilutes only one side's votes, that is why republicans love it.

notice the disproportionate results in top right corner. the votes literally went away...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/DifferingApportionment.svg

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But it doesn't weaken only one side. They may have gotten rid of ONE Democratic district, but they severely WEAKENED THREE Republican districts. That's the kind of thing that can backfire badly in a bloodbath election.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

Never thought of that, lets hope you are right.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

How is only one side diluted here? Out of five districts, there are two districts with a single yellow vote (diluted to half as much as proportional), and three with four blue votes (also diluted to 2/3 as much as proportional).

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The assumption is that some purple voters will turn blue.

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

That's irrelevant to the context here.

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The biggest issue America faces right now is the sheer number of people who still think rules, laws, and logic apply (they barely did in the first place but it's fully gone now). This administration, Israel, all the pedos, and all the oligarchs will not stop just because people vote against them. You cannot beat authoritarians with the system, you cannot beat them with laws, you cannot beat them with the truth, literally the only thing that can work against authoritarians is extreme violence against them.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 4 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

We may get to that point, but we still have to work our way through all of our legal, Constitutional steps first. If we get to the point that they have thwarted every legal means, then it will be time to move to violence.

"Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -JFK

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Has there been any case in history where a fascist dictatorship ended by voting them out? People need to accept the reality that a fascist takeover is happening

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 hours ago

It just happened in Hungary after 16 years of Orban. The Soviet Union countries all fell with a minimum of violence. There weren't official votes, but the people made their choices very clear, and most countries accepted it, even Russia. Those that didn't, like Ceaucescu in Romania, met a bad end.

Sometimes a dictator realizes that he doesn't have a choice, and makes the smart decision. Other times their ego does the thinking, and it doesn't go so well. Guess which one Trump and the rest of his psycho henchmen will choose?Hint: they aren't known for SMART decisions.

[–] Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Whoa, be careful, with quotes like that you might be considered a domestic terrorist /s

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[–] Stitch0815@feddit.org 20 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I really hope you are right.

Because the alternative seems not just dark but pitch black

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 2 points 6 hours ago

Pitch white?

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 6 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

MAGAs are frequently wrong, but NEVER in doubt. They are BLUFFING. They are ALWAYS bluffing.

You are under no obligation to believe anything they say. In fact, if you are a patriotic American citizen, you have an obligation to ignore everything they say, for many reasons:

  • They lie about everything
  • They are mind-bogglingly stupid
  • They NEVER know what they are talking about.
  • They get ALL their information from their own Conservative Propaganda Machine, i.e: they sniff their own farts.
  • They don't know anything about anything, and they get their advice and strategies from the same people. All they care about, and know about, is money, literally nothing else.
  • They have all the confidence of a guy declaring their perfect health, as a piano is literally dropping out of the sky above them.
  • They are always bluffing, count on it.

Why would you believe anything that these proven morons say? They're MORONS, do you really think they can do anything right? Their best strategy is to try to scare you into surrendering, and all you have to do is ignore them.

They may enjoy sniffing their own farts, but we don't have to.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I was kinda thinking about the point you made about the gerrymandering might bite them in the ass. Texas announced they were doing it and I thought the districts were already somewhat gerrymandered. How far can you min/max that setup before your repub+ districts are so razor thin that you lose more than you gain in a high turnout vote? I'm sure someone smart did math but if it's maga math then I expect it to be wrong.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

If any of their gerrymandering schemes fail because of what you describe, the Republicans will claim that Dems must have cheated, and refuse to accept it. Like this time, I think actually refuse to honor the results.

They know that they simply cannot lose power, and I believe we are going to see as-yet unseen levels of fuckery to that end.

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[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

America ~~1856~~ 2026

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

This should t surprise anyone. We only Got rid of racism 60 years ago. And just barely.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 3 hours ago

I assume you mean overtly legal racism 60 years ago.

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