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[-] TammyTobacco@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

Dumbass 18 year old committing multiple felonies to support a dictator? He can rot in our fucked up private prison system.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Nah, he’s gonna be alright. He is white after all.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 46 points 1 day ago

Couldn't even wait until their braces were off to potentially throw away their future.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 27 points 1 day ago

The tradition is that when someone's young, dumb, and full of naivety, you get them all hopped-up on patriotic fervor and send them to go serve in the military shooting at some hapless villagers somewhere who never did anything to them, to make someone who lives in Maryland or owns shares in Raytheon a half a billion dollars richer.

Sometimes they got wiser, but sometimes they wound up dying by the side of the road somewhere, so far from home they can't conceive of the distance, and the wisdom came too late. Or they came back with no legs or a traumatic brain injury. Now we're hopping those same people up on faux 1776 imagery and turning them loose on Ethel who's volunteering at the senior center as a poll worker.

I have to say I think this way is better, because it gives them a lot gentler chance at redemption and wisdom. That's still contingent on the hope that it doesn't actually work, and nobody chops up Ethel, but I think this way is better. I think.

[-] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago

When some Aussies get out of school with their hopped up hormones and head full of stupid ideas they get a work visa and come snowboard or ski for a season in Whistler BC. Couldn't Americans do that instead, not come to BC because we'd rather not have them, but go on a world trip to see the world and expand their minds.

Seeing the world but not as a soldier might give them ideas larger than those that fit inside Trump's head.

[-] subignition@fedia.io 1 points 8 hours ago

We can't afford that :(

[-] subignition@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Frankly I don't like that tradition either, but I don't see any realistic way that it ever changes.

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know, man. What does this Ethel chopping job pay? /s

I just get the feeling that these kids aren't the type who are worried about where their next meal is going to come from. Or in other words, they're hobbyists and the military was never going to be an option.

[-] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 day ago

Bro is ballsy, stand your ground state. Your dumbass running around with a machete? Dumb rewards.

[-] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

A guy campaigning for Republican candidates was getting arrested at my polling station (in a very blue area/state) when I went to early voting this weekend. Got into an argument with a Democrat and threatened them with a knife... I'm nervous about Tuesday

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago

That's the point, for you to be nervous. Most places don't have any issues, but they're screaming pretty loud about the few that do so people won't vote. Please vote.

I wonder what his parents will cry about him being interrupted from doing in court while insisting he's a good boy

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago

We have to vote this election, don't let this rhetoric stop you. It can't go to SCOTUS or we're fucked.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If it goes to SCOTUS and TFG is declared king, then I believe it is completely within reason and morallly necessary to send in seal team 6 to ~~assassinate~~ rectify the situation.

As declared completely cool and completely legal by that SCOTUS

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't like wishing ill on anyone, but somehow we have to take back our government. They're not following the law or precedent. There has to be a legal way.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

It is legal. You can thank the SCROTUS. (The extra R is for fascism)

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

True, I just don't want any part of it. They are evil though.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago
[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Police arrested an 18-year-old wielding a machete with an 18-inch blade outside a polling station in Florida on Tuesday, who was part of a group of teenagers accused of intimidating Democratic supporters.

The teenager, Caleb James Williams, was arrested after 4 p.m. when officers were called to the Beaches Branch Library in Neptune Beach.

Williams was arrested on charges of aggravated assault for allegedly brandishing his weapon at two unidentified women, ages 71 and 54, and improper exhibition of a weapon, Neptune Beach Police Department said.

Florida Not-a-Man

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Threatening two older women. What a beta cuck

Notice that he was threatening people who were the least likely to pose a threat to him / fight back.

Trans folk being a threat to women? HA!!!

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

Dipshit is smiling while brandishing a weapon. FAFO

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

That's terrorism, brosef.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It's all fun and games until the swordfights break out

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know, i made some prop swords in high school for the play once. Afterwards, we jumped on stage and started a swordfight. That was pretty fun, until one of us started bleeding.

[-] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

As much as fantasizing about winning a swordfight with a Trump voter is fun, you know the rule: Nobody wins a knife fight.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

That’s not true. The winner is the one that dies in the ambulance

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