• StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Americans say their national passtime is Baseball.

    The rest of the world says America’s national passtime is murder.

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      6 hours ago

      The rest of the world has no room to fucking talk. People in glass houses and all that.

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        I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over all that freedom and democracy. Or was that gunfire? It’s sometimes hard to distinguish the two.

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          Idk. I just feel like making fun of the victims of fascism to be in poor taste 🤷🏻

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            5 hours ago

            Perhaps. The majority cheered them on when when they freedoming and democratizing the rest of the world with the most obnoxious displays of patriotism and hypocrisy.

            Now those same forces have turned inward and the victims are mostly people who failed to prevent this and are still failing to rise to the occasion. I don’t want them to feel comforted because they are victims. I want them goaded into fixing their shit.

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              So you have no clue what’s going on here. The majority have been against all this shit for decades. Shut the fuck up

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                That’s not remotely true; brutality against the global South has been bipartisan American tradition for a long time

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                I don’t care how you feel. Your moral position is as important as a butterfly’s fart in a hurricane.

                I care that you act and act effectively. I’m not seeing it. For decades your collective thumbs have been up your asses and you’re losing very badly. Save your anger for your real enemies. Fix your shit.

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        This really has become the go to excuse for Americans, hasn’t it? They can no longer pretend they’re not doing terrible things, do they move down the list of justifications to “well I’m sure everyone else is doing it too”

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    Why do you think people ran when people mentioned “la migra”? These agencies have always been abusive but people turned that fear into a joke

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    Well 8 years is a Trump hire. 10 years, is a “Obama is a secret Muslim Kenyan that must be stopped to make Mexico pay for the wall” hire.

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    It’s about permission. These guys have always been there harbouring their evil thoughts but the system never allowed them to indulge.

    Now they have permission.

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    Positions of violent authority always attract a certain person. I’m sure we’ve all seen this in our lives.

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      I think the women warned about these types of men during me too and the black community warned us during Black Lives Matter. These types of men have always been the biggest danger to good people

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    Strange headline. We’ve always had a police and border enforcement problem. All countries are rotting if you think of it that way.

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      What are you talking about?

      Title says the agency is corrupted without (before) Trump and you’re saying there’s always been a problem with law enforcement agencies. What’s the incongruency you’re trying to point out? What is strange about it?

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      The 2018 migrant detention centers.

      Photo of migrant detention centers. Basically a cage with too many people inside

      Apparently people thought this was where “illegal immigrants” stayed when in reality it was asylum seekers and similar.

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    It hits a little different when Trump, Vance, and Noem are telling these agents that they have ABSOLUTE immunity from prosecution.

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    It’s what we keep saying - this isn’t a blip, it’s the acute presentation of a systemic disease that’s been developing for decades.