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I wonder how things are going in America today... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

I'm in Philly and I read local reports of I.C.E. Raids... 😖 (I'm a US Citizen, but I'm not white)

Just google "Philadelphia ICE Raid" and you'll the what I'm talking about.

I saw some reports that some college kids at Temple University, are pretending to be ICE agents and harassing people, they got suspended (hopefully expelled). They are facing charges of impersonating the authorities. (probably getting a pardon by their nazi in chief)

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

"How many genders have you had to drink today, sir?"

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

At least 3

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Including the mind goblin?

[-] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Shit was I sposed to count?

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 202 points 1 day ago

This is what happens when we let conservatives have any sort of power in society

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Gonna get downvoted, but conservative ideals should be present to some minor extent to balance things out. I don't mean modern conservatives or Republicans, but the concept of fiscal conservatism (e.g. preventing waste in the military). I'm not talking about the fIsCaL cOnSeRvAtIsM that current Republicans preach either, like hollowing out social programs to give tax cuts to their buddies. So yeah that's of course not what we have now, but there should be a healthy balance for that kind of thing.

[-] Transtronaut 31 points 1 day ago

The problem is that what you describe is not conservatism, it's just basic competence in governance. It's an impressive achievement of the radical right that they have managed to get people to conflate the two.

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Sure that's fair. Whatever you want to label it, there needs to be some kind of balances against full progressivism so it doesn't go extremely far to the left. I say this as a pretty far left progressive in most things, but have some minor conservative ideals (such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources). Again, I'm well aware that's not modern Conservatism in the US these days.

[-] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

such as individuals wanting to support themselves without relying on outside sources

You mean we shouldn't have social welfare programs?

No public healthcare, no public housing, no public infrastructure, no public health services, no free public education, no social security, no universal basic income

How are any of these bad?

Knowing Better has an incredibly informative video about the history of meritocracy, rugged individualism, and fiscal responsibility in America. I think you'd find it interesting

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

The people who say this tend to forget that if you only take the "good things" from conservatism it ceases to be conservatism. The conservative ideology is garbage and only leads countries to a sort of destructive cannabalism.

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Basically what I mean is the mindset of doing everything possible in your power to be self-sufficient. I think I've gone so far off the left side I've horseshoed around. Everyone should be striving to be as self-sufficient as possible and not need to rely on external forces. I'm far from it, but I'm trying, at least given the past few years (and especially this month) I'm preparing for bad situations.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

That is the mindset that got us here. Maybe it will help to double down, but the reality is we don't know, we're in uncharted waters

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

You won't get downvoted. Ideally you'd have both parties suck it up and work together and combine ideologies. But.. well you know... Babies

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

Nah, I'm not talking about the actual current Republican party nowadays. They need to die out and form a new party that's actually conservative. It's the most corrupt swamp straight outta Uzbekistan or Russia at this point. The things they're doing now, no Democrats should compromise on ever.

[-] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ideally you wouldn't have two parties, but have an odd number of parties to figure it out. So three at minimum

[-] zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Ideally you'd have multi-party coalition districts with RCV or STV to elect them. We have a duopoly because of FPTP.

[-] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Ideally people wouldn’t use abbreviations in general context. Searching for it on Ecosia doesn’t help that much either.

But coalitions are a mess on their own, just check politics in Europe. At least Geert Wilders is only an example for Trump and nowhere near as bas

[-] Vinstaal0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Describing the good of the opinions that are more on the right side of the spectrum isn't going to come across as good if you use conservatives to describe it.

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 68 points 1 day ago

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

whats this from?

[-] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Best episode of community: chaos theory

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago

It's a popular meme from this scene in Community.

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 99 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nervous laughing ..... as the police keep pounding at my door

Yeah, it's going to be hilarious to be fighting in WWIII while everyone tries to convince themselves that it isn't WWIII

[-] peregrin5@lemm.ee 83 points 1 day ago

Hopefully it's just Civil War II and not WWIII. The rest of the world doesn't deserve to be dragged into our shit.

[-] SHOW_ME_YOUR_ASSHOLE@lemm.ee 54 points 1 day ago

Even if it was just contained to US soil we'd still call WWIII like we do with the World Series.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Whether it's because of us or fascism is just trending globally, the rest of the world is already thoroughly dragged into our shit. We're not the only ones having this fight, we're just the most-visible and possibly farthest-along outside of Russia, Turkmenistan, North Korea, etc.

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

The US might be the biggest problem, but we're not where this started.

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

It's Civil War 2: Electric AI killing machine-aloo

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

It's not like they can rely of self sufficient solar panels, they just lobbied them out of existance with climate change denial

[-] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

It will be WWIII either way. A US civil war would leave a massive power vacuum, and a whole bunch of candidates trying to fill it.

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[-] Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Bad. All the bad. Going very very bad in America today. But hey... at least tomorrow will be a lot worse.

[-] ordellrb@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

This is a joke right,? right?

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 17 hours ago

Wow, I've never seen a quommstion mark before!

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In my country you need to be accused of being a communist in order to be arrested. Well sometimes there were no accusations just arrests, but at least we were an official dictatorship.

Signed: anywhere in South America in the 80s. Thanks ~~Obama~~ McArthur

Epiphany: are climate scientists a tool of communist hoaxes? Dang, you're all getting arrested soon aren't y'all

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Man that laughing nervously meme has been getting a LOT of mileage these days lol

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

2 CH~3~​NO~2​~+O~2~​→2 CO+3H~2~​O+N~2~

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 day ago

That's not balanced though

4 CH~3~NO~2~ + O~2~ → 4 CO + 6 H~2~O + 2 N~2~

also, why are we burning nitromethane?

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

burning

Well thats one word for rapid decomposition.

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Nitromethane doesn't explode on it's own under normal conditions

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[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

What movie is slide 2 from

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