• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I’m in Philly and I read local reports of I.C.E. Raids… 😖 (I’m a US Citizen, but I’m not white)

    Just google “Philadelphia ICE Raid” and you’ll the what I’m talking about.

    I saw some reports that some college kids at Temple University, are pretending to be ICE agents and harassing people, they got suspended (hopefully expelled). They are facing charges of impersonating the authorities. (probably getting a pardon by their nazi in chief)

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      any sort of power, they have it ALL now, because not enough Democrats figured it was important enough to simply cast a vote in Novembers election. more arab and latino americans voted for donald trump than have ever voted for any republican candidate before in american history. leftists told anyone that would listen they weren’t going to vote for “genocide joe” while marching on every major american city chanting “from the river to the sea”, while flooding social media with anti israel and anti democratic party messaging, the result of which was democratic youth vote was the lowest it’s ever been in american history, while republican youth vote was the highest it’s ever been. with everything on the line democratic youth couldn’t find it within themselves to defend the republic, by doing the lowest effort simplest action by casting a ballot in a safe, free, and fair election. donald trump won his second term as president by ~2.3% of the vote.

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        Blaming the voters is most of the reason you’re in the position you’re in, you do understand that, right?

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            ¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

            I am not going to defend the democrats one bit. I voted for them in order to oppose this shit storm we find ourselves in.

            However, anybody who voted for Trump was alive for his first term, and he got MORE votes this time around. Fuck the voters.

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            Yep. And this way you don’t need to make any changes, or do even the smallest amount of introspection. Just keep fucking up the same way, over and over again.

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          It’s also an easy/lazy excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility.

          Like, OK, if voting is the only mechanism, did you spend time on the phones or on the streets convincing people how to vote? Or talking to representatives about policy? Somehow I doubt it.

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            I have a suspicion this type of person would be terrible at convincing people to vote a certain way.

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        I just want to clarify that Arab and Latino Americans voting for Trump is marginal and would be insignificant if white voters weren’t in the bag for fascism already.

        White women are the only marginalized group that fuck with Republicans in numbers.

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            They are.

            Marginalized groups can be more or less marginalized than others. That does not make them powerful relative to the rich-ass white men that run the world through financial influence alone.

            Ya’ll motherfuckers act like just cause women can vote now, sexism is “solved.”

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              Women who are 50% of the US population had the opportunity to vote for the first black woman president, protect their reproductive rights and instead 53% of the women who did turn up voted for the pussy grabbing rapist.

              Maybe you should deal with the traitors in your own house.

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                Because a marginalized group has never been misled to accept and excuse abuse before. What a fuckin’ take.

                Not sure what you mean by my “own house.” American white women are a demographic I’m displaced from in a number of ways.

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              Whatever dude. People having to pretend like they give a fuck what Karen has to say is half the reason we are in this mess.

              They are powerful relative to “rich white ass-men” because they hold their cocks. Wake up.

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                It’s all about the nuances… baby boomers as a cohort are responsible for many of today’s problems and yet individual boomers are not. The elderly get roped into the defence of boomers even though there’s plenty of older people than them that actually helped setup the prosperity that boomers ruined.

                Karens are frustrating and their voices are loud, but to even compare them to predator class humans like billionaires or rapists is waay out of touch.

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              There isn’t a more protected class of people than an American white woman. You’re right, they have way more rights than men, you Goddamn misandrist.

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        I voted for Harris in nov. But you are blaming the people with the least amount of power.

        Democrats could have… you know… appealed to their voters instead of fund and arm a genocide, fund the police more than has ever been done, and ran on racist border fascism. They didn’t appeal to their voters and their voters didn’t show. Harris, Biden and all the people advising them should be the ones we direct our anger at not the voters who didn’t vote for something they weren’t inspi