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[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 299 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nazi child of apartheid encourages elevated racial tensions, more at 11.

[–] Septapus@lemmy.ca 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I mean the plan was always to annihilate people of color like my wife and I. This country has treated our people like shit for centuries and the rest of the world wants us to stay and fight to fix our country. I say fuck that. That's like saying the German Jews should have stayed to fix Germany and should have started committing acts of violence to fix their country. That was never going to work last century what the fuck makes anyone think it would this century. No the fact is racist whites enabled and did this, we aren't at fault and we are not responsible to fix it for them. We are going to be part of the brain drain of this country. Leave the whites to sort out their own fucking mess for once.

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

They'll beat the drums of nationalism, and try to guilt you. If you flee now, the hundreds of years of oppression will have been in vain. You dare turn your back on the failed revolutions of MLK? Malcolm X? Coward, they'll say. But I say fuck that noise. You owe them nothing. Get out, before it gets worse. You owe it to you and yours to try and find happiness, if you can.

Edit: This is my 666th comment. I meant to drop it in a christian thread, but I thought I had at least one more. Oh well.

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[–] PotatoLibre@feddit.it 17 points 11 months ago

Really, really nasty move.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 183 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Do you want riots? Because that's how you get riots.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 40 points 11 months ago (9 children)

actually, yes. I think they do.

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 90 points 11 months ago (5 children)

They just want to cause riots. Trump and Elon are agitators.

[–] nicky7@lemmy.ml 51 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This. I'm convinced at this point they're attempting to instigate riots so they can declare material law and seize full control over the US government.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

I agree. This is just intended to cause civil unrest to distract from everything else they’re doing to tear America apart.

But also, Musk is a Nazi.

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[–] Nualkris@lemm.ee 84 points 11 months ago

I think the ultimate goal is martial law, and I think he is unconcerned about what triggers his ability to declare it.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 71 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If Trump pardons him he still has 20+years of state sentence to finish, this is a distraction….

They are about to do the biggest grift ever with the tax cuts for the rich.

All of this is a distraction

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A possible motive is to push the power of the executive. If Trump can somehow seize this power, there's nothing that can stop him.

That or just trying to embolden the police, but I'm guessing it's even worse than that.

[–] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'd say it's to embolden police and violent racists, in hope of helping encouraging their race war to destabilize the country so that they can divy it up.

The interesting lack of forethought from the oligarchic billionaires is that their billions mean nothing without the US dollar and NYSE. The majority of their hoards of wealth are not backed by anything tangible that could be of use in the event that the US dollar ceases to be relevant. I suppose that this kind of thought isn't likely to occur to sociopaths that were born with platinum spoons in their mouths.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 30 points 11 months ago

Yes - just as with the DEI controversy, the main point is just to fan the flames of racism.

The 1% understand that the US is approaching a breaking point. Things are going to shit, and people are going to start looking for someone to blame for the ugliness and horror and death to come.

And the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the 1%.

And of course, they don't want us to see that. So they're doing everything they can to divide us against ourselves.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Gotta throw red meat to the racist AF base to distract from how fElon and his Incel Clown Posse is stealing from the American people...

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[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 46 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 21 points 11 months ago

That's encouraging. Thanks!

[–] segabased@lemmy.zip 44 points 11 months ago

They reeaally doing anything they can to get that martial law step started from their project 2025 handbook

[–] kludge@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Couldn't he only be pardoned for the federal level conviction and not the state? Looking at his Wikipedia article, he has a 21 year fed sentence and a 22.5 state.

But yeah, this is a way to force violent protests and eventually martial law.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So which company building we burning down first? I vote for Wal-Mart.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

How about a Tesla building? Or a government building?

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[–] moakley@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I scrolled all the way to the bottom of these comments, then breathed a sigh of relief.

Because the comments that I'd see on reddit, the ones all the way at the bottom that show up every time George Floyd is mentioned, weren't there. I hadn't even thought about those comments until I got to the end.

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[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Elon's brain got damaged by ketamine usage. At his level of power and wealth, he basically runs the planet and the drugs embolden him to shamelessly call for whatever shits he believes

[–] Goblino@lemmy.studio 24 points 11 months ago

He's basically Baron Harkonnen with a broken dick.

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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 11 months ago

Nazi Musk does nazi things.

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

The fact that Elon Musk is for pardoning someone who murdered an innocent person speaks volumes. Also, I can't see how this wouldn't lead to riots.

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[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

(Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don't have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

People lose their shit over jury nullification, yet somehow pardons are A-OK

Pardons should not be a thing, in my lifetime its pretty much only been used for scummy shit.

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[–] reidand@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago (5 children)

If he gets pardoned I hope that will push the Americans harder to overthrow these sycophants. On the other hand it could be to try to trigger something so Cheeto Mussolini can crack down on the protests with violence.

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[–] himmyguap@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Elon knows millions of Americans hate him and are coming for him so he wants every single super-villain free to team up together.

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

No. He wants a racial war and Chauvin walking free is a surefire way to start one.

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[–] Ted_Chips@lemmy.world 23 points 11 months ago

They're trying to Reichstag fire up their own Reichstag fire. Martial law in America as a toe dip for their invasion of Canada.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Hell yes! Get Chauvin out of Club Fed and right into GenPop of the nearest state prison. That'll work out GREAT for everyone. Except Chauvin.

[–] pinheadednightmare@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, a part of me wants this to happen because I believe it would cause some serious protests.

[–] Bobbinapples@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Call me a conspiracy theorist but i believe that is the point.

[–] iowagneiss@midwest.social 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I think it's a reasonable assessment of the current situation. He wants/they want to put us in a situation where our military must or can be used to restore order. They want to normalize military use against US citizens.

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[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Getting classier by the day. Fucking embarrassing

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