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Trump calls on Republicans to ‘nationalize’ future elections
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Here’s the deal: If you are American and you want to be able to vote in the future, you have one option, and it’s bloody awful.
If you choose to do nothing, you choose to not have voting rights. If me telling you this upsets you, ask yourself: am I more upset that it is the truth or that someone is telling the truth to me?
I have no problem saying the Democrats fucking suck and I'm going to vote for them down the whole ballot.
Well, I do have a problem saying that, I wish I didnt have to, but that's life while democracy is circling the drain.
Thank you for voting. I do feel your pain.
CNN from 9 years ago, but there are more current if you need them:
Inside Russia's internet 'troll factory'
Are you a black cis man from Texas?
Any one who says anything @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works doesn't like is a bot/ psyop.
They want chaos in our streets so they can do martial law. These are tests for the midterms. We're very fortunate to have clear examples of how it works:
Throughout all of this, immigrants and US citizens that are POC are being shot, separated from their families, deported, beat up and stalked (severity not in order). If we do the thing and start having chaos, they will shoot to kill many, many people. They have masks and guns. Again, most of the US hates ICE.
Nationwide martial law is never happening in this country.
"Martial law" is the leftist version of the Rapture. It's never happening, and every time it doesn't the goalposts just move to the future again.
So what exactly are you saying? If you show up with guns to a protest, they'll execute you. What are your other ideas?
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Spread the word. The only downside to a strike is not enough people striking.
And that when USA during WWII rounded up all the Americans of Japanese descent to put them in prison they still were forced to work.
You're upset that others won't fix your problems for you?
Ah, so you're upset that others won't tell you how to fix your problems? Vastly different, yes
25% to 30% of social media is astroturf, according to studies I've heard. Maybe not a Russian troll, but certainly paid for by fascists. Don't let them bother you. They hate their lives sitting in their tiny cubicle telling lies for a meager wage.
"Certainly paid for by fascists", lol.
How dare I say that Americans should fix their own fucking problems instead of whining about how everybody is being mean and not telling them how to fix them
Certainly a Russian troll for suggesting you Americans get your own shit together instead of whining that the rest of the world won't tell you how to fix things.
Because Gaza and Palestine are definitely the same as the US. Excellent analogy, only something an American could have come up with – Israel committing genocide in Gaza is the same as Americans voting for fascists
Another fresh account calling for major violence. Go fuck yourself.
It's funny how easy it is for other people to call for us to revolt as if it's just that easy. Oh yeah, just all of you get together and overthrow the biggest, most well armed government in the world. Sure... yup. Easy peasy. We do that every other weekend in my country!
The people of the US aren't going to rise up and overthrow a government that can curb stomp literally any other formally trained militaries in the world. It just won't happen. All it will mean is fewer dissidents and an even stronger fascist response in the event of future uprising. We just don't have any hope of attaining the sort of power.
If there's a revolution, the only way is to start from the top down. Formal legal complaint and lawsuits, impeachments, etc. That's where we're at right now. If that fails, then we need our officials to start talking dissolution or secession.
While the US military is as powerful as you describe, I don't believe Trump has that level of control over the military. It's why he's militarizing ICE as his personal army. ICE is much easier to resist since they lack the discipline and training of the military
There are many ways we can resist. We all have to try something and hope one of the efforts is successful. ICE is still hiring. Gumming up the works from the inside could be effective, as an example
What has happened to the ICE thugs who murdered two US citizens? I think that tells you that he does have the power to do whatever the fuck he wants.
Also, you're right that he has ICE to replace the military, but they have billions and billions of dollars to stock up on weapons and absolutely no accountability. It takes some serious digging to find out who they are. Rising up with force is just plain dumb.
Nice alt account. 2.7 years lol
Another .world account within a month of 2.7 years complaining about people not being fascists lovers.
Go fuck yourself.
No. It doesn't work like that child.
What doesn’t work like what?
Pointing out that in several states the US midterms might not exactly be free and open seems to really get a lot of resistance from Americans. Many seem like they really don't even want to think about it, and would just rather keep believing that the midterms will solve everything
It’s shocking to me how many feel that way. They get MAD when I even mention the possibility of what Trump is literally saying. Many of them are on Lemmy too, which has always felt strange.
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reddit has very minimal bot protection and a lot of systems designed to benefit those who pay to play, as it were.
Lemmy doesn't even have that. And it is trivial to make multiple accounts across multiple instances. Whether that is to role play some nonsense or to do the old "the first two or three downdoots set the tone" trick people try to pretend isn't a thing. And spend a bit of time shitposting/reading the timestamps and... some of them are REAL obvious.
And this is very apparent in the various political threads. LOTS of people pushing agendas (the gun nut lobby being particularly alarming). Let alone the "official" lemmy instance being blocked by most people because it is infested with lead dev sanctioned tankies who are largely indistinguishable from chuds when it comes to pushing putin et al's policies.
Much like in the good old days: Open, minimally invasive, social media is fun (yes. IRC and Usenet were social media). It is also infested with bad actors and manipulators.
Oh IRC, how I miss you. I was on the Undernet, you?
Yeah, we're getting downvoted for daring to point out in a comment that what Trump said in the post I linked to might not be great for election security
Here’s an observation I’ve had. There are a large number of .world accounts with ages all within a month or two of 2.7 years. These accounts a very vocal about how they feel any kind of uprising is bad news. Just sit tight, follow the rules, let the politicians solve the problem. Don’t fight.
Its when the first major exodus from Reddit was, around the API restrictions. Before that Lemmy was barely fledgling, practically unpopulated.
Elections in this country have literally never been free and open. Voter suppression has always happened. Don't let it discourage you from acting or make you believe that we can't still win, because history has shown us that it isn't true.
History got Trump as President. Twice. History has led to Republicans getting full control of USA.
If people had not been historically discouraged we would not be here yet again talking about Trump.
Those here who need to be told this cannot read, or at least choose to not read anything that isn't delivered via Faux News, "NewsMax", OAN, etc.
It's going to take more than rationality on a screen or a piece of paper.
The chuds are happy for this.
The ones who really need to be told this are the ones who STILL insist that Biden would have been worse for Palestine than trump is so that is why they couldn't vote for such an uncharismatic candidate as Kamala. They don't support genocide, period.
And they don't watch fox news. They watch tankie nonsense like hasan. So they feel genuinely righteous as they are either so stupid as to not realize they are pushing an accelerationist agenda or figure it will turn out good for them because they are the best socialist so they will have the most money and power after The Revolution.
And... we are REALLY fucking stupid in the US. But you EU and rest of the world folk might want to pay attention to what is going on domestically too because a lot of y'all ain't THAT far behind us on the way to the drain.
The ones who need to be told this are the ones who INSISTED that Biden needed to be the candidate. Its not the left that got us here: It was fucking shitty liberals who didn't want to bother finding candidates who represent the people.