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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 433 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (13 children)

Are all Republicans this childish and petty?

Edit: And this is the official White House account as well.

[–] AshMan85@lemmy.world 168 points 5 days ago

99.9% of them, yes

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 137 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This is what they want. See, Trump is utterly destroying America's economy and nucleus of global hegemony. The people are in for increasingly tough circumstances as China just stops trading with America, and all previous allies start to shun the country. Trump is trying to grow the US military to start his fascist wars of conquest both south and north. This will also put the people in increasingly dire circumstances, both with the massive amount of death involved in such a conflict and in the mass reallocation of resources towards war efforts. He can't talk about those things openly to the people because he'd have to admit their lives are going to get significantly worse. So, what can he do instead?

He can do the same thing he's been doing the entire time. Build a fervore for ethnic cleansing and eugencist racialist politics. The people are trained to lap it up without even thinking, and they get genuinely itchy for their next fix. Who's the minority we're hating today? Who's the person of color we're going to commit vile acts of cruelty on today? Where do I direct my homicidal rage at the threat to my inherent superiority today? This is how they are. Every single day, Fox News, Twitter, and the White House all come together to deliver. They fill the bowl, and the bigots heads are down gorging themselves on it while their own lives are horrifically torn apart around them.

It doesn't matter what else he's doing. He's fighting DEI. He's putting black people and women in their place. He's making immigrants, muslims, jews, and the queers afraid again. His support base is unyielding. We know they will never yield because fascists never do. Even decades after the end of World War 2, many former SS and former Nazi supporters STILL thought Hitler was sent from God and that everything he did was right. Even as Soviet bombs were falling on their heads. The ardent supporters of fascism will support it literally until they die. They loved that Hitler was committing genocide. They loved that he was cruel and inhuman. They admired how the image he portrayed so neatly fit with their patriarchal worldview. Its why they supported him to begin with. Economy this, nationalism that, but down to the line it was all about cruelty.

Are the people who support these kinds of tweets petty and childish? Absolutely they are. This isn't even about pettiness though. This is what they voted for. They voted for people of color to suffer. They voted for immigrants to suffer. If it came out tomorrow that he died in that hellhole they'd all cheer.

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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 90 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Remember when you have been 16 and you fell for every single rage bait there is on the internet, wasting your next 2-3 years on defending gaming and your virginity from SJWs and radical feminism?

Imagine you never grew out of that. That’s your modern day republican.

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Childish and petty? Or "winning"?

I feel like a corner piece of the puzzle of MAGA is feeling like some how sending a brown Maryland father to El Salvador makes them feel better about their shitty lives. It's a superiority thing.

And some how Trump and Fox News have convinced them that they share in the victories of guys like Mush and Trump enriching themselves.

My mom said something completely asinine (and factually false) once.

"I'm way too successful to be a Democrat."

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[–] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works 45 points 5 days ago

🌏👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

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[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 266 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The fact an official gov channel is posting this kind of childish shit is abhorrent and embarrassing. If I pulled shit like this at my job I'd be thrown out. Fucking slime.

[–] Bouzou@lemmy.world 114 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Not just government -- the official White House account. It's... dystopian...

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It’s… dystopian…

We've already used up our big words in February. Supercynical "I have no words" in March.

Now, the horror getting worse every day has become the new normal coming out of the US, every day, steady as a slow machine gun.

Had I known how much worse it's going to get I'd have saved up some words during the first months.

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[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 38 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I don't know how to express this feeling I have properly so bear with me. I kinda hate the reference of political office as a job. It's not really a job. It's a position of societal power. One that should come with, frankly, deadly consequences when people in that position of power start talking like this. This is a branch of the government saying fuck the courts and their decision. There should be blood over that. Equating it to a job just rubs me wrong. Not to shit on you, I have no problem with what you said, I agree with it even. Just expressing general thoughts

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[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 140 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Omg. I just realized this is really from The white house???!!??

I thought this was some stupid meme..... Omg

I just can't even.....omg

[–] huppakee@lemm.ee 49 points 5 days ago (8 children)
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[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 34 points 5 days ago

You're not alone. I see this shit and I say aloud "woww" and pass my phone to my partner. I've never seen such unhinged shit from the official white house communications team.

This is stuff any self-respecting 15yo would be embarrassed to post. I know they have been posting other cringey memes recently too. Seems like the person managing the account came straight from 4chan.

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[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 168 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Let's do some fact checking.

THEY said he was wrongly deported. Repeatedly. And refused to do anything about it.

Our jackass Attorney General shared a link recently that said he had "no criminal background" and there's been no actual evidence that shows he was in MS-13.

And while I'm not sure of his technical, official status, I would say somebody who was allowed to stay in the United States by a judge because of dangers back home, isn't consider an illegal alien any more, but a political refugee who has asylum in our country.

You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 75 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You have to wonder if this whole thing is just a petty attempt at retribution by Trump, because this guy was allowed to stay in the country the first time.

I think it's simpler than that. Bringing him back would show they did something wrong, and that's obviously impossible, because he's the second coming of Prosperity Gospel Jesus.

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[–] Bouzou@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's even worse than that: he's testing the boundaries.

He's testing if he can get away with deporting an innocent man. He's testing if he can ignore the Supreme Court without consequences. He's testing if the Salvadorian president will stand firm and be his good little concentration camp boy.

If they are successful, it means they can imprison ANYONE they want to.

If they are successful, our Bill of Rights is about to come crashing down.

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[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 73 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The most heavily armed country in the world is run by someone with the emotional intelligence of a rhubarb and a cohort of sycophants. This is gonna bode well.

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (5 children)

The jury's already come back in: it's not boding. It's already been bade.

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 128 points 5 days ago (8 children)

That official White House X-account is really something. The utter shamelessness combined with the harrowing inhumanity would make Goebbels blush.

At the same time it is so honest and clear about the Trump administration's perspective on things it's refreshing. They don't hold back, there is no secret agenda, they just put it all out in the open for the Americans and the whole world to see. They really feel invincible.

[–] laserm@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Would be shame if someone used it as evidence in a contempt hearing or impeachment trial.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 106 points 5 days ago (15 children)

They had their chance to show MS 13 gang membership in court, and failed. Screaming it over from podiums/media doesn't make it true, or a basis for jail/death camps.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago (4 children)

These psychos truly believe that the truth is anything they say it is.

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago

I imagine Nazi Germany would have made very similar Tweets if Twitter was around back then.

[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This is wild fucking times, civil war is coming.

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 116 points 5 days ago (5 children)
[–] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Part of how you know that no one they send there is going to actually be a gang member or terrorist or anything like that. Those guys wouldn't be going without a fight. And with no due process and no chance of ever getting out, it's not like they have anything to lose.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 54 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Fascists are cowards and will only fight when they are certain of victory.

That's why "it's ok to punch a Nazi" was an effective deterrent.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 119 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 days ago (8 children)

They want people to be scared and not fight back. We have strength in numbers and they know it.

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[–] LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 4 days ago
[–] FLX@lemmy.world 44 points 5 days ago

The MAGA-sect comments are really frightening. Big resemblance to the Waffen-SS supporters like back in the day.

[–] nuko147@lemm.ee 28 points 4 days ago

It can not be real. Opens the link... HOLY SHIT

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 56 points 5 days ago (11 children)

They’re already openly saying there will never be another administration after this, either one way or another.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 96 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I uhh.

I think the "boring" part is over.

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So...

When he does come back, how fucking weak and stupid is Trump going to look?

He seems to think this is some liberal bullshit, he doesn't even realize that he's crossed the line

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 33 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm remembering his full-page ads calling for the death penalty for the Central Park 5.

Garcia and his family have slam-dunk civil cases against Trump in both his personal and professional capacities.

[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 18 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Ok. Now let's see the court enforcing any of it.

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[–] misterred@feddit.online 66 points 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

The first word I'd remove is "Deported". Reporters, editors, citizens should stop using the crimebosses' lingo & framing. Mr. Abrego García is a (noncriminal) US resident. He wasn't deported. He's a first-generation American, #ABDUCTED by thugs, #TRAFFICKED by armed mercenaries, to a FOREIGN #tortureprison for profit, #slavery, #disinfo and #disruption.

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[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

Imagine official government account tweeting shit like edgy teenager. How can any country of the world take America seriously?

Also they themselves admitted it was a mistake and now thry are furiously claiming he was achtually a drug warlord and he's not coming back to USA. They aren't fucking serious.

Jesus tapdancing christ

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 61 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Biden had pea soup for brains and still the executive branch was more functional than this.

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[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 45 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Looks like libel evidence. Family should sue.

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 52 points 5 days ago (6 children)

That is actual contempt of court. Could I tell a federal judge to piss off if he gave me a court order?

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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The greatest country in the world my a**.

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago

They’re mocking the Supreme Court

[–] boughtmysoul@lemmy.world 37 points 5 days ago

But Obama wore a tan suit once, and her emails.

[–] Tungsten5@lemm.ee 50 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I want this to be fake. This looks like some right wing troll post or some shit. If this is actually the white house, how embarrassing...

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[–] PanArab@lemm.ee 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As someone who looks illegal, I’m glad that I left on my own terms. I can’t imagine the horror this man and many like him are going through.

[–] BeNotAfraid@lemmy.world 50 points 5 days ago (6 children)

You don't look illegal bro. It's not illegal to be you.

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