• Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    28 minutes ago

    If Democrats don’t prosecute the FUCK out of themselves for being complicit with this administration as well as the scummy admin itself, then we are FUCKED because they’d just enable the next wave of fascists.

    Fuck Trump and everyone who enabled him up to this point

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      14 minutes ago

      They don’t care. They will launder the reputation of Republicans and pardon many of them. Meanwhile any protesters against this will be shown no such mercy by the same democrats.

      And all this will be in the name of ‘healing’.

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      Spoiler: they won’t!

      “WhAt wE nEeD nOw iS uNiTy”

      …and as a bonus, you know what else they won’t do? They won’t bother to roll back or repeal any of Trump’s bullshit. Welcome to the new normal, where nothing is normal and your government is either fascists or the spineless cowards who pander to them

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      46 minutes ago

      The jolly old USSR was as half-assed as the Trump DOJ. There’s a famous case of someone being airbrushed out of a group photo, but they couldn’t be bothered to get rid of his shoes.

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    7 hours ago

    An ICE pastor is the craziest part of this story… has the cunt ever read his supposedly favourite book?

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      Just the Old Testament. Yahweh is bit of a dick in that half, from what I recall. Gaslighting some dude to sacrifice his child, I think?

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        YHWH is the archetype of a controlling, abusive father.

        The opening verse of Highway 61 Revisted should be added to the Bible.

        The other highly informative part is the Book of Job, where God and Satan are hanging out and making wagers on how severely they can fuck with some decent, honest guy before he loses it.

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        Well im that particular case he stopped him last second like ‘oh man, you were actually gonna go through with it, nah bro just joking you don’t gotta kill your kid.’ But in other instances he fully destroyed cities, the world, and just killed ransom people cause they didn’t do what he said.

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    7 hours ago

    It’s almost like they don’t understand how and why everyone likes memes. Memes are like a mycelium. Okay make up your own metaphor. Memes are like my gut flora.

    Memes are not allowed to be poisonous disinformation.

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      9 minutes ago

      Memes have contained dangerous misinformation for over a decade. The bigger thing is that this is government propaganda trying to pass itself off as bottom up relatable content.

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    As an American, watching the highest office in this country be turned into an absolute joke over the decades has been demoralizing, to say the least. There’s nothing to be proud of. I feel like, thanks to social media, we got to see the real people, and then it distilled people down to their worst parts. I despise seeing the leaders of the nation be so petty, so idiotic, so childish.

    I mean, throw this on the pile of reasons the current administration isn’t worthy. The felonies, the child raping, the blatant attempts to start wars, the blatant disregard of the Constitution, and just misinformation galore. They edited a photo… how small of a person do you have to be to think “I’m part of the government, I have access to the White House official channel, I’m going to be very transparent about what I think of the current situation and use AI to mock and try to spread misinformation.” I hope people link back to these things (all of these things, not just this photo) every single time anyone in the current administration speaks. When ever any company supports them. When ever any person supports them. Like NEVER let it go. Just flood them every single time. They say Merry Christmas, bring up the Epstien files, the rape, the photo editing, the felonies, the… everything. Just non-fucking-stop.

    It’s just so god damn fucking embarrassing to be an American right now. And I know by the end of the year, I’ll be wishing to get back to how it is now, I’ll look back fondly on how it was “only” so bad at the start of 2026.

    Sorry for the rant, I’m just, so god damn tired of every single day Dimentia Don, doing yet again, another dumbass thing.

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    14 hours ago

    Dystopian fiction: The regime alters photos to make people look happy and smiling, to hide their cruelty.

    Dystopian reality: The regime alters photos to make people look sad and pained, to brag about their cruelty.

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    9 hours ago

    I wonder how many judges will have the courage to sanction the government for this conduct… If POTUS lies or falsifies documents, throw the charges out already. We can’t have a tainted jury.

    And that won’t stop Mr. Orange. But at least it will give some relief to people who are harassed by him.

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          You can sue Donald Trump without suing the US Government. Right now several lawmakers are preparing a lawsuit against Pam Bondi over the Epstein Files.

          If we flip the house and senate I’m gonna start sending drafts to representatives for a law that makes the Trump estate and all future president’s estates liable for all the avoidable and frivolous lawsuits on the basis of which they did not protect the human beings who live in this nation nor represent the system of laws which govern them, rather that they were personal and need to be paid for personally by the officials responsible for giving the orders resulting in lawsuit.

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            13 hours ago

            You would have to show that Trump specifically ordered the alteration. That almost certainly didn’t happen and it was someone else in the administration that actually made that call.

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                  Just because they avoid it doesn’t mean that the express purpose of a CEO isn’t to take that fall…

                  That’s the entire point of the role and excuse for the compensation, is it not?

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    Ignoring the fakery, I don’t see how the alteration makes her less sympathetic. I would also be distressed if being frog-marched by facists for the crime of being born autistic.

    All this propaganda does, is cement my decision to fight. The Trump Regime and Dogey Americans, are enemies of any decent human being, and must be destroyed.

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      They think they are portraying the subject as ‘weak’. It’s for their racist base to feel like ‘right on, we made a weak black leftist woman cry, like they all deserve’'.

      It was never about making her less sympathetic, but a celebration of hurting the ‘correct’ people to get hurt.

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        It’s not JUST for thier base.

        For anyone pondering joining such actions, these would be leaders.

        If you’re thinking of joining, and the leaders look “weak”, it might not inspire much faith. You might decide to hold back.

        The truth is, she looked calm and collected, confident in her decisions and actions. She looks like a leader. She looks like someone worth following. That type of imagery is dangerous if you’re trying to suppress action.

        So, in short, it’s an attempt at active suppression, not just a “treat” for thier own. It’s the modern equivalent of going on about how short Napoleon is. It’s an attempt to diminish those they’re afraid of to try and keep others from following them.

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        Now he’s hurting the people he needs to be hurting! I still cannot afford jack squat, and don’t have a job or health care, but at least he’s punching down, thank goodness!

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      It’s not meant for you. They actually don’t care how it makes you feel. It’s for their racist, fascist loving voters. They love this.