• Great Blue Heron@lemmy.ca
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      I don’t get the downvotes here. I read it as frustration at the number of people that seem to think the current state of the USA is something that can be fixed at the next election - when it’s clear to anyone with half a brain that it’s way beyond that. We’re already at the point where high profile journalists are being arrested and Nov. is still nine months away!

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        Are we really doing this?

        Can we get like, a fucking questionnaire people gotta answer, before the spout they dumb mouth off? I just don’t have the fucking limits today when journalists getting snatched up out they bedrooms for shitlibs that don’t even know the water in which they swim.

        Liberalism is, and always has been, a center right ideology.

        • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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          That isn’t necessarily correct, and there is zero reason to be an asshole. But even if you think that, you aren’t explaining why you think liberals would want a police state. (For the record they would not.)

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            Then why are Dems voting to increase ICE funding? Why are they voting to fund ICE at all, given that they are murdering innocent civilians and kidnapping journalists? Liberals like Chucklefuck Schumer are literally enabling the fascist regime every step of the way, and you claim they’re somehow above a police state?

            You’re trolling, or delusional about what liberals are all about. Here’s a hint: protect capital at all costs.

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          Ah yes liberalism. The center right ideology which is famously critical of freedoms of speech and the press 🙄.

          EDIT: I can’t believe I’m saying this, but read theory. Liberal isn’t just literally everything that isn’t leftism, monarchy, or feudalism.

    • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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      There’s a proper order to making change like this, called the four boxes of liberty: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the ammo box. They are to be used in that order. The soap box is currently in use across the country, and so far there still is the chance to use the ballot box. Unless and until that option fails violence is only going to make things worse.

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        The US is running concentration camps and killing civilians and prisoners alike, while being accused of no crimes.

        Your privilege is showing.