WideEyedStupid

That’s exactly it. I just don’t get it. Seems like a no-brainer to me, but apparently I’m wrong.

I guess it’s about money? Or they still think that being against genocide will lose them votes in the future? Or something.

Lmao. I actually laughed at this and my husband too, when I told him. Jesus christ, haha.

It’s funny how so many of these nicknames are so obvious, but I never would have come up with them myself.

Florida is on it already.

Florida considers bill to roll back child labor laws to fill jobs once held by undocumented migrants

They want minors to work night shifts and encourage people to home school their kids, so they can work more! Yay, progress.

Edit: Oh and they want to pay them below minimum wage!

That one, yes. And the Txt STOP one too. That one actually had me laughing.

If they pulled something like this, do you think people would finally get into action?

It really feels like they’re testing the waters before going full-on Nazi and dragging their political opponents off the street.

I mean, really all they need to do is arrest her on some bullshit charge, drag her into a black van and put her on a plane to El Salvador. Who’s going to know about it, or do anything about it? It’d be a chilling message to all their enemies.

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Oh do fuck off. They were absolutely 100% fucking right about everything they said. Maybe the caps overdid it for you, but I could feel the frustration like my own, when dealing with people like you.

People who refuse to get vaccinated tell me exactly three things:

1. They are morons,
2. they are selfish, and
3. they don’t give a fuck about anyone else and would gladly infect and kill other people just so they can continue being ignorant fucking selfish assholes.

I want nothing to do with anyone like that. Ever again. Thankfully they all outed themselves during the last pandemic and made it easier for me to cut them out of my life. And anyone who defends these people can fuck off as well.

I am done trying to explain that vaccines don’t cause autism. I am done trying to explain that vaccine side effects aren’t killing millions of people outside conspiracy theory, anti-vax facebook groups. I am done trying to explain that when you live in a society with other people sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to for the greater good. I am done trying to explain that not vaccinating your kids so they can die horribly from preventable shit MAKES YOU A FUCKING MURDERER and should be punishable by law.

I am done. I sincerely hope for all the poor children with anti-vax parents that they will survive into adulthood, and for all the immuno-compromised people that they can shield themselves from this terrifying ignorance, but for anti-vax conspiracy nuts themselves? There is only one thing I hope for: a new, deadlier pandemic. And I hope they suffer and die, just like all the other people who suffered and died while they stood by and didn’t care and refused to do their teeny, tiny part to make it safer for everyone around them.

Fuck them.

I will always remember him as the guy who filibustered his own bill just because Democrats voted for it. That one act perfectly encapsulates who he is.

That’s not fascist at all.

Aufmachen!

It doesn’t fucking matter. Illegal or legal, they do not deserve to be sent to Gitmo. Nobody deserves to be sent there.

Or are you somehow arguing that concentration camps are fine, for some people. Then let’s hope you don’t belong to a group that becomes the other in the future.

And apparently they also arrest legal immigrants now. So eh… well done, I guess.

Yeah Biden was doing nothing to stop the genocide, and their solution was to help the guy promising to speed it up.

They do? Huh. I thought they only did that on the boxes, not the eggs themselves. TIL.

No, they say they want their 2nd amendment to protect their country from tyrants. But what they really meant was: to help the tyrant.

They won’t have to prosecute you if they just arrest you for being ‘violent’ or ‘terrorists’ and ship you off to El Salvador.

It’s just so fucked up, all of it. They’ve been pumping shitloads of money into their military for so long, it’s a behemoth larger than the military of the next, what, 9 countries combined? All that money should have been spent on things that are actually good for U.S. citizens. A better educational system, a healthcare system, more worker protections, a better social security net, trying to fix homelessness, etc.

But now, their humongous military is going to be used against their own people and their allies. And all the while I’m here thinking that a well-educated, healthy, happy populace would have been much less inclined to vote a fascist into office. But hey, they didn’t need all that, they were already the best country in the world, right?

If you file off the serial number, they can’t be traced!

And way too much of the public is cheering it on.

The most mind-boggling part imho. Trump and Musk doing all this shit doesn’t surprise me at all. Trump especially has been very clear about the things he wanted to do, Project 2025 wasn’t a secret either, and Musk… well, he’s been fascist-adjacent for a long time with his support for right-wingers the world over… But the fact that normal people can look at this and believe it will make their country better somehow is insane to me.

No, because people still think it isn’t bad enough. Even in this thread I read stuff about how people ‘can’t’ protest because it’s the middle of the week. I mean, sure, if losing your job is the worst thing you have to worry about, then by all means, stay home. Of course, you know, by the time the fascist regime is well and truly established and things finally get bad enough for people to want to actually fucking do something, it will be too late.

Thanks for taking the time. So I guess it is all legal and Musk somehow does have all this authority… It’s bonkers, right? Doesn’t it somehow feel like the U.S. government has been running relatively well for a long time based solely on… the expectation of decency and norms, promises and gentleman’s agreements? There aren’t actual laws, checks or balances to avoid any of this, but it was sort of assumed that nobody in these positions would be pure evil. But then, once they’re in, they can do whatever they want.

Courts are slow everywhere, that’s why it’s a good idea to have some rules and roadblocks, so that someone can’t just start dismantling everything on day one and courts have time to catch up before shit hits the fan.