• @SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
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    This was so obviously gonna happen with Trump back in office. But at least we saved the Palestinians by not voting for Kamala, right?

    • @theolodis@feddit.org
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      Maybe Kamala shouldn’t have tried to take over the conservatives, and instead focussed on politics that matter. But I guess that worked out really good for her and the country!

      • @boughtmysoul@lemmy.world
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        141 month ago

        Well the important thing is that you found a way to blame her instead of the actual people doing the actual things.

        • @theolodis@feddit.org
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          I am not blaming her for what is happening right now, I am blaming her for leaning too far right, and not being able to win with that.

      • @XM34@feddit.org
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        131 month ago

        Boy am I glad that some voters left their brains at home because their little feelings got hurt by Kamala. Makes me feel real good about that outcome knowing that they showed Kamala who’s boss! /s 🤮

        • @theolodis@feddit.org
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          I think politics need to be interesting for people to vote. If the expected outcome is that everything only worsens a bit, you’ll never get people to vote for you. So by leaning right, she basically tried to appease the conservatives, but made progressives lose interest. I don’t think that anyone (or a substancial number) on the left tried to “own” her.

          Hopefully there will be next elections, and hopefully there will be a party worthy of voting for it.

          (Also disclaimer, I am not american, and am just objectively stating the obvious)

    • @ZMoney@lemmy.world
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      Can you stop with this? How is this helping? We need a broad coalition to fight this walking tumor.

    • @Eddy@lemm.ee
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      101 month ago

      Whatever you do don’t blame the people who threw the campaign and rolled out the red carpet for where you are now. Maybe they’ll get back into power and make sure the people involved face no justice at all, so they can do it again

    • @Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 month ago

      Democrats lost 6 millions voters in 2024 compared to 2020.

      Republicans gained 3 million voters in 2024 compared to 2020.

      Third parties stayed the same between 2024 and 2020 at 3 million total voters.

      9 million people chose to abstain from voting in 2024 compared to 2020.

      Even if you add up the some ~1 million uncommitted voters that voted Green or PSL in 2024, this pails in comparison to the amount of people that either switched parties or didn’t vote at all.

      Democrats did this to themselves. Kamala ran towards the Republicans instead of rallying to the Democrats’ traditional strengths as well as making a coalition with progressives and leftists.

      The more you blame Palestinian voters instead of Democratic party leadership, the more you wish for the destruction of all minority rights in this country.

    • @InvertedParallax@lemm.ee
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      It’s not a car crash for them.

      They just want to make the rest of the country a vile sewer like the south is.

      They simply can’t process why everyone isn’t celebrating the chance to be cruel racists, it’s like people hating ice cream to them.

      • @wanderwisley@lemm.ee
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        121 month ago

        Agreed 100% I work around people that are Ride Or Die Trump supporters, and they are fully on board with crashing everything so as long as they get to own the Libs.

    • @HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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      I genuinely think that most maga just are fully uneducated about what is currently happening. Most probably don’t even know that people have been disappeared. Their bubble is so fucking densely packed with stupid, nothing real gets in

      • @SparroHawc@lemm.ee
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        Even if they do know, they almost certainly are buying into the ‘he’s a criminal and deserves to be deported’ bit.

      • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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        31 month ago

        they are constantly distracted with outrage, so they dont know the actual things are going on.

      • Tbf, we’ve spent the last 8+ years making sure echo chambers become the name of the game and completely breaking down discourse from “across the aisle” so to speak to the degree where we mostly don’t interact with them, and they mostly don’t interact with us. We’ve set it up like this seemingly intentionally, if all they do is watch fox and truth social and neither of those places are talking about it (tbf I’m kinda with you on this, idk if they are talking about it because I’m not there either, so), how can we expect them to have heard about it?

        Like sure we’re all aware of it here, where they aren’t, but have they heard of it where they are? And how do we fix it, go there ourselves and tell them? Might be too late, tbh.

        • @HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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          Something will have to happen that punches through all bubbles. I hate to say it but the most likely scenario at this point is a mass casualty event that is unquestionably perpetrated by the trump regime. May shock enough of them out of it, but likely would be spun as justified somehow.

          That’s it though. I can’t think of anything else.

      • Queen HawlSera
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        21 month ago

        I have ran into them and most didn’t even know the guy they sent to El Salvador was fully legal

    • @XM34@feddit.org
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      111 month ago

      So what you’re telling me is that across the board a third to half of all Americans are disgusting pigs who deserve everything that’s coming for them?

      • @saimen@feddit.org
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        I am sorry for the rest, but there’s nothing I can do for them except saying migration also works the other way.

        • @XM34@feddit.org
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          11 month ago

          Exactly. As a European it’s absolutely high time that we cut all ties with these lunatics and stop letting them into our continent!

      • @ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works
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        11 month ago

        I think the takeaway for me is that there is a decent % of humanity in every nation that see the world differently. We can only see what our mind is capable of.

    • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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      The hard truth is that fascists cannot be redeemed or convinced. He was quite popular among a good portion of the German population long after the war. Even into the 1950s a large portion of the population still didn’t accept Germany’s responsibility for the war. The truth is a lot of the generation that was most affected by the Nazi propaganda, the age bracket that really voted Hitler into power? Most of them never lost those Nazi ideals and kept them right until they died of old age. There’s a reason so many works of fiction in the second half of the 20th century feature groups of old Nazis working one evil scheme or another.

    • @saimen@feddit.org
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      The Weimarer Republic was a very young democracy, it existed only for 15 years and before that Germany was a monarchy. Trump is dismantling the oldest democracy at the moment

      • @epicstove@lemmy.ca
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        171 month ago

        I don’t think the US is the oldest democracy as San Marino has been around for a long ass time.

        When exactly you consider San Marino an Independent entity could be debated but def older than the US.

        • @GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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          To be fair, that country has a population of 30K. For comparison, my town’s population is 200K. But still an interesting case nonetheless.

          • @epicstove@lemmy.ca
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            I think at the time they didn’t believe a republic could really work for a large expansive country and would just use it for smaller city states. Hence why Florence and Venice and San Marino were Republics but then Naples and Sicily were monarchies.

      • @falcunculus@jlai.lu
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        To add to what you’re saying, the Weimar republic was not a really a democracy when Hitler got in power; it was already ruled by decree, with a reactionary minority (Hindenburg, Papen, Schleicher and al) aiming to ignore parliament and preserve the nobility.

        In early 1933 a German observer might have hoped the authoritarian trend was just a temporary thing and the presidential clique would have to bend to the parliament eventually, since they were continually losing support.

  • @entwine413@lemm.ee
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    Please be accurate when you criticize the administration. No US citizen has been sent to El Salvador.

    The guy the SC told Trump to get back was a legal immigrant, and a citizen of El Salvador.

    Edit: Well. I’m embarrassed. I misread the meme and my brain skipped the “married to a” part.

    • @danc4498@lemmy.world
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      Worth noting, though, Trump is talking about sending “homegrown criminal” to El Salvador prisons. Considering Trump does not define “criminal” as someone convicted of a crime, this is genuinely scary.

    • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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      do we actually know that no US citizen has been sent? Without due process, there’s no way to confirm. Or am I missing something?

    • jwiggler
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      Hey entwine, just an FYI – Kilmar Ábrego García was not a legal immigrant. He was an illegal immigrant (of course, this doesn’t mean he was charged with a crime) who was granted a protection from deportation to El Salvador by a US judge on the grounds that he would be in danger from El Salvadorean gangs. He has had a work permit since 2019.

      Nevertheless, he was not granted due process and this administration is violating court orders.

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/who-is-kilmar-abrego-garcia

      • flandish
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        Even criminals and illegal aliens are granted protection under the constitution too. Citizen or not, in the eyes of the law, they have the same (ignored) rights.

        • jwiggler
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          Right. Only reason I mention it is because entwine (rightly) noted we should be accurate when critizing the administration, and then accidentally inaccurately described him as a legal immigrant. Legal or not, it was a miscarriage of justice to send this man to El Salvador.

          • Queen HawlSera
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            I seem to be confused myself. All my news outlets are describing this man as a naturalized citizen and now you’re saying he isn’t?

      • @entwine413@lemm.ee
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        Nevertheless, I misread the meme which never said he was a US citizen, so I was talking out of my ass.

        • jwiggler
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          I’m pretty sure they edited it when you pointed out the inaccuracy

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      41 month ago

      the problem, is the people currently protesting arnt magats, its only the progressive, not everyone is on board with that yet, until the republicans are doing it to, something will change.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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      I don’t have up to date knowledge about this American stuff and what is happening but I’d like my gov to deport and send somewhere far away certain criminals. Why not send all convicted rapists and pedophiles to some desert. I think it should be nationality agnostic thing

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        Even if I agreed with the idea of non-reform prisons, there have been zero trials held to prove they were actually criminals. We aren’t sending convicted rapists to the desert, we’re sending people to a foreign prison, based on nothing but allegations.

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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          Yeah I heard something about amurica, I was just saying unrelated to what is going on I think it isn’t the worst idea what I presented

          It doesn’t surprise me that American execution of this idea is tabarded

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            I just wanted to make sure you understood that 'Murica can’t be used as an example of your ideals, because it sorta sounded like you were trying to say you were in favor of what’s going on.

            Rehabilitation based prisons are more effective than punitive prisons anyways, so it becomes very difficult to argue that inhumane prisons are good for anything. I’m a victim, and don’t believe my rapist should be tortured. If we had such a system, I would probably be even less inclined to report, because I don’t think anybody deserves this pain, not even the people who perpetuate it.

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        The way this works is they make you feel so afraid of criminals that you want someone cruel in power to protect you from them.

        Problem is they need to keep you afraid and keep on being cruel to maintain power. So they will constantly be adding groups of people to the list. The eventual outcome is you may be added to the list and sent to a gulag. But maybe if you’re lucky you won’t and you merely live in fear that your government will execute it’s cruelty on you if you ever speak out.

        Living in a system dominated by fear and cruelty isn’t how I want to live. Why do you want to live that way?

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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          I don’t know what you are talking about. There is no cruelty or fear. We just send the rapists and pedos in space or elsewhere. Somewhere far away

          Is that causing you to tremble

          • WrenM
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            The person sent was not charged with any crimes.

          • @Tiger@sh.itjust.works
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            75% of the people sent to CECOT from the US have no criminal record and might be completely innocent. It could be you, someone you know, or someone you might be able to scrounge up empathy for.

          • @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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            I’m not the one living in fear, you are.

            I’m fine with criminals being held in a prison in my own country and still having human rights no matter what crime they committed because I haven’t been made to be afraid of criminals. They’re the criminals that did horrific things to people, I don’t feel the need to do horrific things to criminals (which would make me the same as them) because I’m afraid.

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            And this man that was sent to El Salvador. What “precise group of offenders” did he belong to again?

          • @rivan@lemm.ee
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            So said by everyone unjustly imprisoned. Without due process, how would we know if that’s true? May what you wish upon others happen to you first.

      • WrenM
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        And when a government gets to decide who goes and who doesn’t without due process….

        What then?

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            Yes and they used to have that in the U.S. as well, but surprise surprise! If you put an authoritarian in power, who delights in being cruel and punishing people, you tend to lose some of those precious rights.

            • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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              Then maybe you shouldn’t vote on such candidate. It’s hard to protect every single law from being twisted when you elect some kind of

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                Well, I didn’t vote for anyone in the U.S. since I don’t live there.

                But my point is, non-authoritarians wouldn’t even suggest sending their own citizens to foreign prisons/camps. It’s cruel and unnecessary and it doesn’t solve the root of any issues. It’s just offloading your problems onto someone else.

          • WrenM
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            You haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?

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              As I said not really. What I am talking about is semi related

              It’s a general trend lately around the world to send immigrant prisoners away but I argue about making it nationality agnostic

              Why should we only send away immigrant offenders when we can send all offenders somewhere?

              This way we can avoid racism accusations

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        because torturing people is evil and pointless.
        apparently your problem is sexual offenses, which is odd because i’d much rather be raped then murdered or tortured….
        at any rate:
        how many innocent people are convicted wrongly?
        (answer: a lot, but an unknowable amount… false confession is a big thing too).
        how many people accused of rape would allow themselves to be arrested without fighting to the death?
        (answer: none of them).
        how many rapists would just go ahead and murder their victim, since the consequences of murder and rape are the same, and might as well eliminate the witness?
        (all of them, now you’ve increased murder and decreased rape convictions).
        how many of these people you want to torture to death in some foreign desert are just pure evil and beyond and rehabilitation or redemption?
        (most of them are not pure psychopaths, but were raised in violent environments… everyone has potential to grow and change, even a rapist or pedophile… there are many such stories of people finding morality, having remorse, and spending the rest of their lives trying to improve the world).
        what about recidivism? don’t all of these violent people keep reoffending?
        (an incredibly complex problem, but prisons tend to not rehabilitate and just end up criminal college, making people worse, and loss of job opportunities on the outside makes crime more likely than before they went in…).
        many many many societies have tried killing criminals, cutting off hands, branding them, etc… it doesn’t reduce crime or eliminate a crime gene, it makes criminals much much worse….
        if i’m going to get my hands cut off for stealing bread but i’ll starve to death if i don’t get it, i will still steal it and kill anyone that tries to catch me….
        tl;dr if you treat humans like animals, you will make them act more like animals….

        and even discounting aaaalll of that, why is it better to ship them to another country to imprison them? we have prisons here….
        the one and ONLY reason to do that is to deny them their human rights, constitutional rights, and ability to appeal….

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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          To be honest I am not so sure that rape is better than murder or torture. Not sure if I wouldn’t actually kill myself afterwards and believe me I am very mentally resistant person

          Quick death isn’t the most horrible thing under the sun, pain is pain whether rape or torture but rape leaves holes in the soul that will never heal. It destroys you as a person.

          On the outside you may still appear to walk, talk and eat but inside everything is dead, merely a shell remains. It is a death of sorts but without respite of nothingness

          All three seem like just words here on the internet but behind all three are incredibly terrible stories that we are not able to truly comprehend.

      • @dryfter@lemm.ee
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        The problem with the prison system here in the U.S. is that in a majority of states the counties’ budget relies on income from maxed out prisons. It’s a for-profit system, but there are very few private prisons compared to public prisons. The private prisons are even MORE incentivized to max out their population.

        I don’t like the idea of non-reform prisons because they don’t even give someone a chance to try to recognize what they did was wrong and be able to change themselves in a meaningful way. Not to say that it happens in “reform” prisons here, but it’s at least a chance.

        The U.S. wouldn’t have such a huge prison population if it wasn’t essentially for-profit and if the “War on Drugs” didn’t happen, among other things.

        But the issue right now isn’t even what you’re talking about. The U.S. is grabbing “illegal immigrants” off the street regardless of immigration status now and sending them to a prison in El Salvador. They are trying to declare all of these people “dead” in the Social Security “Death Master File” which essentially locks these people out of any bank accounts, credit, jobs, etc so they self-deport before being disappeared.

        Once they have all “illegal” immigrants out of the country, then they will focus on what Elon Musk calls “parasites”: people on disability or any kind of government assistance because these people (including myself) are seen as a drain on the federal government and since Trump can’t stop the funding to these agencies he’s going through the back door and looking for “fraud” but recognize that “mistakes will be made” thus causing all kinds of problems for legal U.S. citizens.

        Then when he’s done with them, he’ll move on to people who don’t identify with the gender they were born as. Technically he’s already making their lives hell by doing things like requiring all government documents to show the gender a person was born as, not what they identify as, regardless if any transitions were made or not. For those who have already transitioned they are kinda of in limbo now because their documentation states something that they essentially aren’t.

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    They only care about the second amendment…and then the first amendment when they show that they’re an asshole on social media and get called out for it. I don’t think they learned the others that trump is currently wiping his ass with.

  • @TBi@lemmy.world
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    I don’t get all the misspellings these days. What’s a SOCTUS?

    How hard is it to check spelling?

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      It drives engagement.

      I see so many videos with wrong “subtitles” (sorry, flashing the word as it is said is an annoying way to subtitle your videos, they’re not proper subtitles), people don’t have to proof their text anymore and it generates interaction. Stupid AF.