I fucking hate America.
A billionaire can hold a multi-million dollar lottery, where the only way to enter is to vote for who he wants; but you can and will be arrested for handing someone a bottle of water while they wait in line to vote.
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Im so fucking pissed no one stopped this!!!
Voting lines that can take hours too... it's so fucked
I hate Americans.
They have all these guns, and not one of them is using them in the face of a full fascist takeover of their country. Is there such a thing as a good American or are you all complicit Nazi enablers?
not one
well, there was one
There have been four so far, IIRC. Only one of them got a shot off, though.
Out of a population of over 300 million...
42% of American households contain at least one firearm. That 42% includes every single American cop, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse or repercussions if given the opportunity. It also includes every white supremacist terrorist, who will shoot you dead in the street without trial with no remorse, and maybe some repercussions if your family manages to get them into court and you get lucky with the right judge.
The other 58% of us do not own firearms and, generally speaking, are afraid for our lives.
I'm with you, and I agree with your general sentiment, but most people are afraid to die. It's ridiculous to expect people to have a competent plan to assassinate a president under normal circumstances, let alone when our police forces are killing people in the street or disappearing them, gaining national news attention for doing so and seeing zero repercussions. The people who always made a big stink about having their guns and using them to prevent tyranny are the people that are destroying our nation. They ARE the tyranny.
Regular people are generally nonviolent and scared. What you're asking is equivalent to asking why nobody just walked up and stabbed Genghis Khan to death. Like, yeah, it's probably possible to do, but five seconds of thinking about it should make it pretty apparent why nobody took that opportunity.
Besides which, several Americans have taken shots at him already.
You wouldn't do shit and you know it. But I tell you what, if you want to play Rambo, fly on over and give it a go.
Oh, right. It's "not your fight."
I get the sentiment, but you need to remember...you fight at the right time....we have to wait for a tipping point, we are too unorganized. We are building momentum and there will mostly likely be a key moment when all hell turns loose.
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Don't forget, last time he did this it wasn't given to some random person. They were hand picked to 'win'.
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Literal "Soros Bucks" in broad daylight.
Crickets.
It was always projection.
We have been in psychological warfare for a long time. A long con... The dots should be connecting for people but I think that American culture has been purposely dumbed down and that people just care about escaping real life.
It's like most Americans are a product and get bought and sold, used and written off. There's no integrity of self and their humanity. The issue is broad and a method used by all sides, although it's most evident in the right right now.
It's sad watching this collapse. It's sad understanding it's been a game, a war, within our nation and that the pride and nationalism was just a gimmick to use us.
There isn't anything to go back to because essentially what were told it was ...never was.
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So...
- Musk made the offer.
- it was established it was illegal.
- he did it anyway.
- ????
America!
Fuck yeah!
(scnr team America reference)
All it takes is for good people to do nothing.
There's a lot of good people doing things.
But to stop them they need to be physically restrained.
So really the good people need more groups of organized local militias ready to capture or kill the fascists.
There need to be good political candidates and good people to vote them in. At this point though, maybe you're right.
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Republicans paying for votes.
There, fixed your title.
Well that didn't take long. I literally said nothing would happen and it's already not happening.
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Musk’s attorneys argued in filings with the court that Musk was exercising his free speech rights with the giveaways and any attempt to restrict that would violate both the Wisconsin and U.S. constitutions.
Right, because money is speech, according to Citizens United. Utter horseshit since the day of the ruling.
Meanwhile, I just came from a thread about Musk calling for crackdowns on anti-Tesla protests because a woman pointed at a Cyber Truck.
Maybe she should have thrown money at the Cyber Truck instead of pointing at it.
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Legacy media and dem politicians need to stop pulling punches and get to the bottom of WHY Musk needs Wisconsin. I get that the AP is hyperneutral, but the reporting, political, and public response on this issue has been irresponsible and feckless. The outrage is so wholly insufficient. This needs Benghazi and Hunter Biden’s laptop energy.
Could it be because it is a critical swing state and they are gearing up for the mother of all power grabs in the next presidential election?
Grow some fucking balls and attack this properly goddamn before the GOP cements their fascist coup of America.
The leadership of the Democratic party chose to do nothing, thinking they can just let the pendulum swing back in the next election. Rather than actually do anything to help people, they're expecting us to just vote them in because of how insane the Republicans are, but once they're in, they won't actually do anything.
We need a populist party yesterday.
The point is: if they don’t figure out how to do something RIGHT NOW, there won’t be any other party. All parties that are not aligned with Trump will be disallowed. Russia, Turkey, Hungary, is the direction the US is headed.
The window is closing right now and if nothing is done the American people will no longer have a choice. Trump might insist there’s still democracy but it will be a sham like everything else he’s put his name on.
I’ve had so many conversations with Americans online where I’ve pointed out that the second amendment is a joke and Americans wouldn’t have the guts to stand up to a tyrannical government. Well….
Someone should stop Musk. With like a piece of metal if needed.
If you shoot him with a wad of cash, it's legal. His actions in Wisconsin set a precedent that you can hurt people directly as long as you give them some money in return.
This is the SECOND time he's Bought Million Dollar Votes but Ending World Hunger is just TOO Expensive!
For fucks fucks sake
Time to start calling him Soros
If it could be proven one way or another I'd bet the recipients work for or are connected to his companies in some way. $1 million is peanuts to him but he didn't get to be a billionaire by being "generous".
So when Dems do all this shit the GOP has been doing, will they say nothing?
Have you met the Dems? Doing even a tenth of this shit would be SO UNCOUTH.
Disgusting
Pathetic
I had a good time in Wisconsin the 2 times I’ve been there but if y’all buy this shit after Louisiana just rejected all the amendments the governor proposed as a solid “fuck you,” you don’t get anymore beer. And we will escalate based on cheeses and how important they are to recipes.
The meanest concept in Louisiana culture is “We will not buy your ingredients because you failed.” I’m within walking distance of 4 places that cook swamp animals. Mostly with sherry. But that’s not important. The important thing is that if ~65% of Louisianans can vote antagonistically, Wisconsinites should be able to as well.
I won’t root for the Vikings but try me.
These are the fuckers that want to dictate to the rest of the world about freedom and democracy.
For all the people blaming Dems for not doing anything... You do understand a large portion of them are rich as well right? The DNC serves corporations not the people. They are controlled opposition. The whole system is corrupt and that includes the DNC, they won't be saving us.
Bruh, this is the Good Place Committee IRL 🤣
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