Hey Americans this is more than a red flag. This is a dystopian nightmare future and you’re all sleepwalking right into it. WTF is wrong with you all?
Too many of us think diplomacy or peaceful protest or voting is the answer.
It isn't.
Hey, I fucking hate this just as much as you do. I've voted and participated against these policies at every step of the way, but I am not wealthy or politically powerful, I live in a state where my vote is diluted at the national level (California, one of the states with the highest citizen to representative ratios), and when I try to explain these consequences and dangers, all I get in return is apathy.
Edit: typo fixes
I stopped talking to most people I knew because getting "i don't do politics" as a dead-end to every response is just disheartening.
you’re all sleepwalking right into it
This is what bothers me the most too. Decades of chest-thumping about liberty and freedom, and now this? It's pathetic, really.
The chest thumpers were propagandized that guns were a critical component of life and anything a liberal did was tyranny, while the rest of us were propagandized to think authorities are always legitimate, the system will produce justice if you just wait, and violence solves nothing.
I mean, we fought a war based on a the premise that all men were created equal, then decided some men were only worth 3/5 of others....
Its honestly strange to see non US people who have bought the propaganda as much or more than some people in the US.
But but this is different, it’s not like they’re trying to have us take a vaccine or something! It’s just rounding people up and grabbing people off the streets with little to no oversight. I mean sure have we already lost hundreds of people that we can’t account for? Sure, but it’s not like they’re making me get rid of my rolling coal dumbass truck or something important
It’s just rounding people up and grabbing ~~people~~ brown people* off the streets with little to no oversight.
* and the occasional UK tourist who took a left turn in Canada
Honestly very excited for a return of frankenstein movies, and slow moving horror, ala german cinema after wwi
This party has hall monitors?
If anyone could tell me where to point my carrier pigeon, I wouldn't mind sending in a resume.
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