Across the US, people have been carrying their passports amid reports of citizens being detained. Five people explain what living this reality is like

    • minorkeys@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      They want to throw undesirables out of the country. Until that motive and goal is not part of US leadership, they will find excuses to ignore any road blocks. The best course of action is to force them to become as brutal as possible, as fast as possible, and hope the sudden shock of brutality wakes America the fuck up.

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        14 hours ago

        You are so fucking stupid. “I hope these peasents are tortured more, and hopefully that will wake them up!” Wake us up from what to do what? Holy fuck.

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          5 hours ago

          From complacency and a complete lack of political action of any kind. You all could stop this if you were involved in politics, in political action, but you don’t, you sit on the sidelines of history, on Facebook and tiktok and waste your potential on the circus that the techbros keep you distracted with. That you think it would only matter if you could personal stop Trump is sort of the problem, just find likeminded people and start talking about what’s happening and what you realistically could be doing. Is that really too much to ask? The entire world is suffering from MAGA and Trump and y’all have the responsibility by virtue of being American voters. MAGA and Trump is the American citizen’s responsibility. The world won’t forget the complacency of Americans to the consequences of their own political indifference.

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            “The world won’t forget that the unwashed peasents living paycheck to paycheck allowed Trump to rape them and their children. Meanwhile, our world leaders will continue to make deals with Trump because fuck the poor.”

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            44 minutes ago

            There is no such thing as “American voters” you stupid fucking muppet we are living under an actual fascist regime, this isn’t the movies.

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            46 minutes ago

            It’s really easy for you to do this from the comfort of your own home. Book a flight and bring a bullet proof vest if you’re so fucking brave. They shoot at protestors over here, this isn’t Canada.

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          12 hours ago

          The “tortured peasants” have shown they’re willing to overlook literally anything as long as they maintain their lifestyles. Whatever is necessary to wake them up at this point, if you want to keep your country.

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        18 hours ago

        I’m always wary of accelerationist approaches to social progress. 😬

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          14 hours ago

          It’s because this person doesn’t give a fuck about working people and probably isn’t American, so it won’t be their friends and family in the gas chamber

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            12 hours ago

            Imagine believing that standing up for your constitution will get citizens the gas chamber and then deciding NOT to act. Jesus Christ.

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              11 hours ago

              If I ever did act against a similarly tyrannical government, I would never tell you, because you would post about it here to seem cool and end up getting me killed.