• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    DHS?

    It’s time to dismantle the USA.

    Its at this point a failed state and it should just fall apart in 50 independent countries. About half of them (I’ll leave it as as exercise to the reader to figure out which ones) will turn into Canada type counties with healthcare

    The other will turn into 3rd world banana republics that won’t be able to feed their own population while having constant coup’detats going on. After a few decades the world will intervene and install normal functioning democracies in those countries after outlawing religion there.

    A woman can dream

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      The world will interfere and fix them? Like who? Russia? China? Like everyone else intervened and fixed the middle east?

      I hate to break it to you, but the problem isn’t the usa.

      The problem is humanity.

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    Abolish ice, abolish palintir, abolish space x and demilitarize the police. Police should have a bachelor’s degree at minimum.

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      Nationalise SpaceX or force it’s sale. Musk aside, it’s holding up American dominance of the space industry.

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          Rocket bros are calling NASA “legacy Space” when they haven’t accomplished shit compared to them.

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        No fuck SpaceX. And space Force is already nationalized but fuck them too. They all need to be shredded.

        Why don’t we need to dominate anything. That’s chud think. We need to cooperate in space.

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    It’s time to dismantle the US Government, prosecute sex offenders, pedophiles, corrupt politicians and start over.

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    It’s time to dismantle the government in general. The government (through ICE) are stifling people’s liberties. It’s time that the proletariat has a say. Seriously!

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    Democrats will never dismantle an organization that they gain so much from. Prior to this year, the largest increases in federal funding to ice and the department of Homeland security have come from Democrats. Who else is going to do the record number of deportations for Democrats if it wasn’t for ice and Homeland security? And I’m sure I don’t need to remind anyone that the one currently running things for Trump was running things for Obama.

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        Shouldn’t it be primary season for the mid terms now? Are there any left, or at least progressive, candidates running anywhere?

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          It’s going to start any minute, at least in terms of ads and stunts and attention-seeking social media things. But as we get closer to mid-year we’ll see a lot more chaos and carnival stunts, culminating in November when it will be full on “raw dogging a warp jump with no navigator” level of chaos and bullshit to wade through every day.

          I don’t know who’s running, but I know how i’m voting. With a few exceptions, all incumbents must go. Every last rotten piece of ancient, withering meat who hasn’t made any attempt at reform or pushback is out on my ballot, and this should be our goddamn ANTHEM.

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          They didn’t mention the 2ndd part.

          Dismantle to Democrats. Liquidate the Republicans.

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      Wait what? Kristi Noem ran DHS under Obama? What am I missing?

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    This rally cry (to dismantle DHS) sounds exactly like the kind of popular policy position the Democrats always take when they are out of power. Then, when we give them the power act, they refuse to implement it (usually in service of some nonsense like “mending”, “coalition building”, or “returning to normalcy”).

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      Because, let’s face it, democrat and republican are two faces of the same coin.

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      Yep, so if voting is still on the menu, we need to vote out the incumbent establishment dems who refuse to remediate these state terror programs.

      Schumer and Jeffries won’t even support defunding ICE. Primary these dipshits while you still can New York!

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        Installing new politicians in the DNC will change nothing until those Junior members are confirmed to not be a threat to the current power structure they’re not given any power that would threaten that power structure

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        Bro, you can’t vote your way out of fascism. This is tyranny these are not normal times anymore normal things do not always apply for circumstances the courts the laws they’re not gonna save us. The sooner people realize that the sooner we can collectively do something.

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      Wealthy Democratic Party donors/leaders need the military in the streets putting down populist uprisings as much as Republican ones do. Often they are the same people.

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      Yeah, that’s about the size of it. Of course the alternative is electing out-and-proud Nazis, so I guess its the choice that we get.

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        We do have a better choice, and that’s more grassroots, state and local involvement. The Democrat party is just a container, we can pour out the contents.

        But in order to do so, we need to destroy what’s holding the contents inside, which is years of state power and representation absolutely tuning the fuck out of anything that isn’t the 4-year WWE spectacle and circus. Imagine if we got involved enough that we could repeat what happened in New York in every major city, every governor seat, every state congressperson or senator.

        We would kick the goddamn legs out from under this entire rotten system without having to throw a single molotov cocktail. But this approach requires getting a lot of people with the attention-spans of retriever puppies to learn some boring shit and actually leave the computer and socialize.

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    It’s a war-time consolidation of power that has been irredeemably infiltrated & turned against the country’s own residents. It can easily be dismantled l, with power distributed to competing agencies keeping each other in check, like it was for 200 years.

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      If you want people to vote for us when there isn’t a Republican in the White House then we need to push for leaders who

      1. Consistently tell people Republicans are bad people with bad ideas.
      2. Tell people creating ICE and DHS were Republican ideas and they need to be gotten rid of because Republicans have bad ideas.
      3. Tell people things were better back in the 90s before ICE existed because we didn’t let Republicans’ bad ideas ruin everything and we could just go back to what we were doing then.
      4. Publicly disown anyone who tries to campaign with Republicans or says anything positive about them.

      Deviating from those things only loses us votes. Moderate Dems are a cancer on the party and the country.

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      Read: There’s no peaceful solution. Fascism in America has already reached critical mass. Start organizing before it’s too late.

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      There are some economic strategies too, but they would involve varying levels of self-inflicted pain. They also need significant coordination to be effective.

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      It doesn’t matter how people vote if none of their available options wants to do this.

      Articles like this are how you get people to sell candidates that have this position.

      I guess it’s just easier to whine about shit though.

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        If you think you’re limited in your options to represent you in government, then it’s not the land of the free.

        It may seem like there’s only two viable options, and those two options will do all in their power to convince people of that, but anyone can be elected if they gain enough support. There are independents after all, and primaries still count for something too, if enough people show up to vote.

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        People need to vote in the primaries. As bad as turnout in the general election is, the primaries are fucking abysmal.

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        Yeah, the way it’s phrased it definitely seems like they want to make things worse by blaming voters for behaving like voters instead of focusing criticism on the elected officials who refuse to really attack the Republican party and its policies and end up demoralizing everyone

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          I can’t, but you could take this opportunity to stop posting quitter comments online. Just go away if you can’t help

          And if “WE’RE FUCKED NO MATTER WHAT WE DO” is all you have to say, you have nothing to say

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            He literally posted a solution. Nothing about what he said was quitting, he was telling people what doesn’t work. You know what also doesn’t work? Negative comments on Lemmy. Relatively no one is reading this, and you are are just being aggressive. Relax.

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                Actually convincing people to fucking vote is the only peaceful solution.

                There. Right there. In the comment. Right there in the comment where he said, “Actually convincing people to fucking vote is the only peaceful solution.” That’s the part.

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                  You must be confused, or replying to the wrong comment. Either that, or someone’s playing the edit game

                  Either way, hope your day gets better

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                  At no point did anyone in a thread I replied to say we need to vote, I think you’re too upset about this now

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              This sort of commenter frustrates me. I understand that they don’t want to see negativity in the comment section, but they never offer any sort of positivity, just reprimand.

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                You’re assuming these commenters are acting in good faith. They typically aren’t.

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              I’m saying there’s no value in adding doomer loser noise to the signal.

              Adding a positive is positive, reducing a negative is also a positive. I’m reducing a negative by asking these helpless bleating losers to be less unhelpful and vocal.

              I’m happy and open to having a positive and constructive conversation, but they don’t start with rude challenges

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                Still not providing an actual plan.

                When you get one, post it.

                And I consider phrases like ‘doomer loser’ pretty rude.

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                Adding a positive is positive, reducing a negative is also a positive. I’m reducing a negative by asking these helpless bleating losers to be less unhelpful and vocal.

                Lol, telling someone who is claiming the solution is to convince people to vote a loser is positive?

                I mean that’s just the truth… You can’t make changes to the organization of the executive branch without securing the support of both the executive and Congress.

                Maybe instead of loosing your shit about people being looser doomers, you might just want to read a book about civics.

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    But then who will protect us from those 20 guys with box cutters?

    You remember, the ones they used as the excuse to establish the ministry of the interior.

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    It’s given me Nazi Germanic creeps since the moment it was named the Department of Homeland Security.

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      I think this mentality breaks down in the reality of the system we currently have. They are constantly working to make your vote mean less. The structures of our constitution effective gerrymander the states’ influence on national levels through the senate. Similarly, the electoral collage is built to favor the right. And after all that the higher courts have been packed by republican, effectively giving an override to functionally any law in the form of sloppy logic from a broken supreme court.

      All of that to say, if you draw the line at specifically your ability to cast a vote, regardless of the voice you actually have, you’ve essentially decided so long as there is the theater of democracy you will do nothing to help save it.

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      That might be a little like “not using the fire extinguisher until the fire has spread into the living room.”

      Too little, too late. Trump is talking about suspendeding the midterms. Might be time to show some guns.