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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Good, at least someone is paying attention.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

watching alone isn't enough

[–] NovaOG@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

USA is on a steep, purposeful decline.

[–] ITguru@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Fucking awful

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Great. I love that for us. I always said they’d let you keep your guns as a distraction and dismantle all your other rights right from under your nose

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep.... And of course the guns you get to keep are water guns compared to the firepower the gov and military get to own. Your desert eagle hangun vs the Apache helicopter with huge canons and guns and missiles ....

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While the "Who would win Batman or Superman or US army" posturing is interesting to some...I have been finding fewer and fewer reasons to expect a military confrontation.

We saw one during the George Floyd protests - Trump sent the National Guard to quell protestors. It...didn't do much, and the Guard sort of stood around, acknowledging free speech.

I have also read testimonials from those in the Army - while it is true that the (incompetent) very top new leadership, and many grunts are die-hard MAGA, the vast majority of the leadership structure is disciplined and educated in the constitution. There's supposedly already been briefings delivered on "DEI" subjects that indicates the officers are still very vocally in support of them, and they in turn are still loyally respected by their units. In short: An attack within America against Americans would feel blatantly against what most of them stand for.

ICE, on the other hand, is a fringe set of whackjobs - and thankfully they're mostly cowards that only accomplish much by stealing in and out like burglars.

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Anyone on here who shouts for civil war or revolution has never watched 2 dozen Apache helicopters approaching them ready to go. Normal, untrained, unequipped citizens stand no chance. It's either going to be a bloody resistance, think northern Ireland, or guerilla war, think Vietnam.

Or, any coup against the US gov would need to get the military aligned against current structures.... That also leads to a military controlled gov.....think burma.

No of these are good options unless you are facing extreme circumstances with no other hope

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We should have been added when we supported a genocide in the modern era. Its hard to imagine when we will ever live that down. We join the likes of Nazi Germany and Israel with that one. Who needs republicans when we have zionists in charge of the DNC.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You should have been added after like a century of constantly invading countries, funding extremists, setting up "revolutions" promoting their puppets, causing genocide, and doing war crimes nobody can persecute you for. Who needs zionisists when the entire country is a temple to unrestricted capitalism run by oligarchs.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Agreed. Although it seems different this time.

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The US is breaking the world order that it created for its benefit after WWII, out of fascism and incompetence. The mask is off, this empire will fall and the violence is only ramping up in the meantime

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

We put on a great show though for awhile. Glad everyone's seeing Americas fake. Regardless of trump, America's human rights were/are pay to play.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

This, if anything I am begging people to not only ignore America's authority, but to liberate us from our "masters"

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

A couple of centuries late. Even if we're only talking about their own citizens.

Reminder that slavery is still conditionally legal in the constitution (13th Amendment)

[–] DaveyRocket@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool, where can I flee to?

[–] Plurrbear@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That’s what I am thinking!! I legit am a human without a state if “Mango Mussolini” in fact revokes the 14th amendment! Even thought Drumpf and Elon came here ILLEGALLY when my dad came here with a sponser from a church and became a citizen right away! GIVE ME MY TAX MONEY BACK THEN from 15-35 years on… if not then I am an American! I pay taxes and born with a SS# so wtf! If not GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK or F off! Like Drump said about egg prices, “shut up!”. From the douche lord himself!

FUCK AMERICA; WE ARE FUCKED! (New motto)

But really, where would I go?!?!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

Genuinely.... It wasn't before???

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how long it will take for his people to start shouting a catch phrase like the sieg heil.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

"Make America Great Again!"

U. S. A. ! U. S. A. !

Honestly I don't even think most realize how batshit disturbing it is for other countries to hear about their Pledge of Allegiance. Absolute North Korea levels of nationalism worship.

[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 1 month ago

Number 1 leader in human rights violations well before UN definitions, since it's creation