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[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 161 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As a german: this is 1:1 the 3rd Reich playbook.

Stop it as long as you can!

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 4 days ago (25 children)

It's too late. It's now on the rest of the world to prepare for the American Nazi regime

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

We have no ability to effect any meaningful change at this point outside of high velocity lead poisoning.

I kinda want to leave for good.

[–] vapeloki@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You have. Go in the street in masses make sure that Republicans fear you.

Our german constitution allows for violence from civilians to protect the democratic order if any other means failed.

We have this for good reasons. To make sure we don't ever end up with a dictatorship again.

It will pe painful, it will be ugly, but if you wait to long this is the only way

[–] AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In America, our system works like this:

The police will shoot you, maybe burn your house or neighborhood down, steal everything you own, Lock you up without charges, and then if you can ever afford a lawyer to sue them you might get out of jail only to find the burned-out hole in the ground you used to live in was sold to a property developer and none of the money found its way to you.

You also owe tens of thousands of dollars in back taxes on the burned down house for the time you were in jail, but all of the money for selling the house was given to some scam artist who knew you wouldn't be able to stop them.

You can't afford to go to the doctor, but a third of your income is spent on health insurance. It takes 2 hours of work to afford a dozen eggs. You no longer have a car because they towed it from your driveway while you were locked up and you can't even afford to get it out of impound despite the fact that every day the cost of storing the vehicle goes up by more than you earn.

This country is a fucking nightmare for so many people.

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[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 88 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Yes, hating Trump is deranged, but this was not:

collapsed inline mediatruck gate decal depicting President Biden tied up in the bed of the truck

Anyone ever see one of these with Trump?

Btw, I got this simply from searching “Biden truck decal”. I got no negative top results searching Trump instead of Biden. In fact, this is the best one I got from adding anti- in front of Trump in the search (with relevant double-standard caption included):

collapsed inline mediapicture of a white truck’s back window with the words “fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him” but with the f-words blurred out. Caption says, “Outstanding warrant. Woman with anti-Trump decal arrested.”

So tell me again, who is deranged?

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So I just googled "anti-trump car decals" and was given a link to buy anti-maga stickers on Amazon, and when I went to images I got to see some decent ones. But then I saw an article with the same truck in your second picture, stating the driver added another sticker to the back windshield saying "FUCK LOCAL SHERIFF'S NAME AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM"

[–] Pandantic@midwest.social 22 points 4 days ago

But then I saw an article with the same truck in your second picture, stating the driver added another sticker to the back windshield saying "FUCK LOCAL SHERIFF'S NAME AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM"

Top tier boss bitch.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 77 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes, Trump's derangement can be classified as a completely new form of mental illness

[–] Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works 23 points 4 days ago

They forgot the apostrophe!

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[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 63 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Last month, Elon Musk revived the term and told Fox News host Sean Hannity he used to be “adored by the left” until they were infected with TDS.

From what I remember, it had nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with you calling the experts who successfully rescued a bunch of children trapped in a cave, “pedo guy” along with all your other aggressive tactics to silence critics. Followed by the Twitter purchase.

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[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Conservatives are wild. I don’t know if they intentionally do it but their behavior is absurd. Obsessed with Obama’s birth certificate, LeTs Go BrAnDoN, and even super whacky shit like QAnon and trying to prove Michelle Obama is a man. They hate “mainstream media” yet Fox News is one of the biggest networks. They’re all about merit yet discount anything AOC says, who’s smart and studied, because she bartended. And now they want to turn the tables, claim they are and have always been normal, and it’s people who disapprove of Trump who are deranged. It makes no sense.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

All of that? That's the point. That's exactly how they want us to feel: confused, hurt, isolated. They will gladly say something incredibly hypocritical and then just smile a shit-eating grin when you call them out, because we both know there's nothing that can be done short of violence and that's when they've "won."

But in all honesty, violence actually is an answer, and a proper one to bullshit like this. I don't give a fuck if you could call it assault if someone is literally taunting and threatening me when I haul off and beat their ass.

Do it. Make them scared of violent revolution and reprisals.

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[–] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 days ago

If hating the guy who's threatening to take over my country is an illness, then bring it on, I've got it bad.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

The smug childishness of a grade school bully who got you in trouble after you lost your shit and finally punched back. These assclowns are infuriating.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Guys, just steal this and use it to describe deranged Trump idiots. The right wing steals useful words like "fake news" and "groomer" and alters their meanings for political purposes all of the time. This one should be a layup because without reading into it everyone already thinks it's the condition those everyday July 4th cosplay, big truck with tattered flags morons have.

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[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When I first heard of TDS I thought it was about his deranged stans and I thought that made sense.

Then I was told it was about all the people who lost their minds because of his election and defined themselves purely oppositionally to him, and I thought that made sense.

Then I observed that it's really just used as a slur against anyone who doesn't like him or his policies, and that makes sense too because that's the ultimate death of every social critique that ends up promulgated by conservatives.

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[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 27 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I love how far I had to read before it was clear that it's not what Trump has; it's what people who disagree with him apparently have.

Diseases are often named after their victims...

Also, and this is buried in everything he is doing, but how arrogant do you have to be to assume that every person disagrees with him just because he's Donald Trump, and not because there are valid concerns?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

its not about arrogance.

its about manufacturing cause to lock up and dispose of dissenting voices.

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[–] ItsJannnneee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

"How dare you notice my fascism! You're mentally ill!" gaslighting at its finest and classifying something doesn't make it true.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I seem to clearly remember a story from the Bible about this, but perhaps they've simply skipped that part during their reading?

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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So trumps followers have Trump derangement syndrome. Makes sense.

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[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago

Phhhs you people are getting so worked up over adolf hitler. Stop worrying guys! he'll by gone by 1937

[–] Benetto@literature.cafe 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

...I'm confused. He named a new mental illness after himself now?

[–] T156@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Not him, but a bunch of other people on his political party.

It does feel a little like an attempt to legitimise it, so that criticisms are flipped off as mental illness, and/or an opportunity for institutionalising/excluding political opponents for much the same reason.

[–] suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 15 points 3 days ago

This is their attempt to get around that pesky 1st amendment. Make criticism of the king a "mental disorder", and then you can lock them up involuntarily "for their own protection".

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 4 days ago

The best thing about someone using the term Trump derangement syndrome unironically is that I know I can just ignore them and nothing of value will be lost.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Michigan Republicans

probably worth noting that their Governor is Tim Walz, the VP candidate from the last election. One of the few Democratic Party members who is in the news constantly for criticism of the current President.

Not that this has a chance to pass because the DFL controls the State Senate and the Governors office, but I be its a political ploy so they can say then need to remove Walz because he is mentally unsound.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 42 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Walz is the Minnesota governor, not Michigan.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I just type the wrong state, this is happening in Minnesota not Michigan

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago

He is not deranged he is just a piece of shit Nazi like his father.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

Shouldn't it be "Trump's Derangement Syndrome"?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago

Russian stooge uses Russian method of oppression by abusing the mental health care system.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 days ago

My guess is he's trying to rename Testosterone Deficiency Syndrome because he has it.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Maybe if your cult obsession with Trump is to the point where you propose bills like this you might be mentally ill for real.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

When you let the nuts runs the show, sanity goes on trial

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