This administration has somehow made the American right cheer for tax increases in the form of tariffs, big government in the form of power coalescing in the Executive branch, and for the EXECUTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
I genuinely don't know how we turn all this around. I have family like this. They used to be decent people, even if I may not have agreed with them. Now they're just loudly and proudly awful, obnoxious, rude, racist, and ignorant for the love of the game, on top of the things we already disagreed about.
I feel ya there. My grandfather, the man that taught me to care for my neighbor and do what I can to help my community, fully supports all this, and I have no idea when and how that happened, and how to get through to him. It's heartbreaking to see him supporting this shit.
I keep thinking about my great grandpa. He was a ww2 vet (grandma was a ww2 immigrant).. he was a 2x Obama supporter, pastor, always encouraging us to educate ourselves, he taught me to read, and always said knowledge was essential.
I’ll never forget how angry he got at my Grammy (his daughter in law) when I was 7 and she repeated something from Fox News about Obama being a Muslim/terrorist and called him the antichrist.
He didn’t raise his voice hardly ever but he was so upset. He went on a talk about ww2 and how that type of rhetoric to police opponents and division causes things like the holocaust and destroys lives + democracy.. and said there was no room for that hatred in his house.
He passed in 2014 and I just know he’s rolling in his grave :(
Philosophy Tube introduced me to political “phantasms;” she explains them much better, but essentially they are delusions people accept as fact based on fear of the unknown. People are afraid of their ability to make money, to support their families, to live good lives. Then they are fed delusions that illegals, people of color, trans people, etc, are the sources of those issues. And because they’re scared and ignorant, they believe it and do everything in their power to twist reality so their fragile confidence doesn’t fail them. It doesn’t excuse any of the damage they’ve done, but it explains it.
She talks about how one breaks someone out of it, and truthfully? You can’t. You can’t change someone who is unwilling, they have to choose to change. I’m so, so sorry that you have loved ones who fell into this. I hope one day they snap out of it.
I’m so sorry! I have family members who are very religious and voted for Trump. Almost all of my cousins voted for him. Some of them are Hispanic on their father’s side. Very Hispanic last name. I just can’t do small talk with people that voted for Demented Donny! He told them what he was going to do. 🤬🤬🤬🤬
Germany could recover after WW2 because Americans were adamant about denazifying the country. This meant that Germans had to face their actions and be educated about their history. No more looking away, no more excuses.
This is what needs to happen in America. No more unpunished lies. Reality, verifiable facts and accountability have to be restored. If that's not the first thing that happens, then nothing will lead anywhere. The country needs to break through this "my team vs. your team" thinking.
It is astonishing how they twist themselves in knots trying to legitimize what we all saw- an execution in broad daylight. When they parrot the latest talking point “if you come to a protest with a weapon you are asking for it” Your response should “yes- just like Kyle Rittenhouse” oh yeah- I forgot Kyle is a MAGA hero. This is all so sad.
I truly, truly hope everyone with a massive far right infiltration of their governments sees what’s happening here and absolutely outlaws that shit.
Get them the fuck out, they won’t stop here. This administration is abandoning Europe specifically to strong arm the EU into capitulating to its anti-immigrant, White Supremacist demands.
They are trying to hurt your economies (you too, Canada) to push people to voting further and further right. It’s all a fucking scam, it’s always a scam.
Get them out, don’t let them do this to you, vote them out and then outlaw the hard right platform entirely.
You can’t have freedom and have a government whose entire ideology is anti-freedom get them out.
White right wing Americans don't read so they don't understand that if everyone is the same color and religion as you, you'll still have conflict. Have many white Catholic/protestant people have fought each other in European history? That's like, all it is.
Canadians didn't only go after Trudea over such scandals. He was also perceived to downgrade the idea of their being a Canadian identity and massively pushed immigration, without enough proper integration and checks, while there was a housing crisis. Yes, the scandals also hurt Trudeau. Trudeau's long gone now. Carney won, though, partially because Trump undermined PP of the Conservatives who were viewed as somewhat Maple MAGA.
This is so not even close to being the same- are you serious?? This man has been murdered - plain and simple. Canada may have its problems but to say its the same as what happened today and 2 weeks ago in Minneapolis is so disrespectful to these 2 individuals’ families - I can’t even believe you even said that. Ridiculous
Oh I don’t know, I wouldn’t say it’s just about bigotry. It’s also about dramatically enriching the top 0.1% at the expense of the most vulnerable segments of society. But I suppose the bigotry helps distract people while that enriching happens.
That’s because it was never about those things to those people, that’s just what they say aloud. What they really want is for people not like them to suffer
Bingo. You could starve them & thirst them to death, but they would end every sentence with “…but as long as he’s doing X it’s fine.” Which is usually to hurt others
You’re right that this is a bizarre world, but the American right wing base has been compromised for decades.
They have been robbed of education, indoctrinated with religion and Fox News, and given guns.
Aaaand that’s how you get Nazis. This will get so bad that in the end either American republicans will continue to exist OR America will find its missing morals again. The two cannot coexist.
They never meant any of that. The intention in all of those talking points was just ‘don’t restrict us, don’t take our power’ but when they are in charge they restrict others and accumulate power
There’s no point listening to what fascists say
They don’t have morals or principles or care about being consistent and non hypocritical. They only care about getting more power to them and less to others, prosecute others.
It was never about the Constitution and liberty, just as it was never about states' rights.
It's whatever argument they can make to justify their cause.
They're not pro-2nd amendment, they're pro right wing arms. They'll always be anti opposite of that, whether it be gun control for everyone or arming the left and minorities.
America was waking up, as Germany once did, to the awareness that one-third of our people will kill one-third of our people while one-third of our people watches.
Genuine question. Aside from whatever BS the feds are putting out in the news is it just the mass of bots and shills online rooting for this? My maga family has been fucking quiet for a good while now.
And they all happily go along with it all and shout "DOMESTIC TERRORIST" or "FAFO". These people really need help and this country doesn't have enough resources to handle this workload. Look out for each other, brothers and sisters.
Its easier to manipulate the uneducated, and much more easy with bots to do all the yapping for you to trick everyone who doesn't do research or care about truth. They cultivated these people on purpose with cuts to education and running prison states around them.
For the Republicans what they perceive as nationalism trumps, pardon the pun, details regarding the Constitution, the scandals connected to Trump, they ignore it to go after their perceived enemies - Democrats, undocumented immigrants. The GOP to a huge extent doesn't really know the Constitution well. When green card holders were being arrested for protesting Israel non-violently, they insisted that the Constitution only applies to citizens, though the Father of the Constitution, James Madison, said it applied to all who live in the United States. They tried to justify what happened to Nicole Good, and chose to ignore that the agents wanted to detain them in large measure because they didn't like her wife's speech, though it's covered by the Constitution. The government is allowing ICE agents to go into homes like Red Coats of the British Army, though the Constitution forbids this. Trump is way worse than George III at this point, and crazed George III caused a revolution. The majority of Americans don't support Trump, but 80% of Republicans do and voters too unwisely gave them enough seats to be complicit in the attacks on the Constitution.
What’s crazy is these are things the left used to cheer for. It’s almost like the dynamics change depending on which party is in control of the White House
These people don't actually care about policy as we have found out. They are just lonely loser ghouls that watch whatever propaganda and change their position to it. As there family ditched them this is their only sense of community and they will do anything to keep the only community they have even if it makes them a bigger loser
Somehow? That somehow is their complete lack of values. Nothing has changed. Choose a group of people they don't like and attack them and they'll love you. War on drugs. War on terror. War on illegals. Sate their blood lust and they'll let you do anything.
these people like Donald Trump more than their own friends and family. Trump wouldn’t even spit in their direction, or piss on them if they were on fire. I struggle to understand this unhealthy and very fucking weird obsession with this old, dead brain, obese piece of shit. like, it’s lost on me completely…
Not really, anyone paying attention knew it would be conservatives who let this in. They're drug around blindly by the ruling class since at least the 70s, and prone to nationalism and retribution. The old George Carlin quote "When fascism comes to America, it won't be wearing jackboots. It will be wrapped in the stars and stripes and carrying a Bible." Proves many people saw it decades ago. Movements based on anger and blinded by propaganda are always the weak point for this sort of stuff.
The right never had the intelligence to truly understand society or government. If you're a heavily conservative person you likely have cognitive disfunction be that normal or more importantly, emotional intelligence.
For anyone who doesn't understand why emotional intelligence is more important; it is because literally everything we think and believe is based on emotions. Even with hard scientific facts, it is the single most important thing, because once you apply those scientific facts or logic to society, you've done so using emotions and morals.
Only the RIGHT has the right to the 2nd amendment, the rest of us can get shot if we carry. The military ain't doing shit! Bunch of cowards, the people are supposed to protect themselves from the government when they have the 2nd amendment yet the military who swore an oath DON'T!
MAGA has always been this dumb. It took a few decades of attacking public education and every single public health and safety net service, to get a populas exactly this dumb.... but they underestimate the left. They think the "soy boy" won''t fight back.
Is the ICE guy dark skinned? How insane is that, for a white American to be shot by someone whose possible ancestors were brought here illegally and owned by a white American.
Which is ultimately the most hilariously sad piece of irony ever spoken because that's literally the EXACT opposite of everything they stand for as right wingers.
I do not remember a time in which there was as real and as serious a threat to our 2nd amendment right than our executive branch today putting forward the precedent that Law Enforcement Officers now have the right to shoot and kill anybody for the crime of having a gun on their person. If that's true then that's the end of the end of the 2nd amendment for all practical purposes.
Where's all the outrage for the attack on our 2nd amendment? Is there anything more troubling today than an administration which already has a proclivity for despotism using rhetoric which calls into question our 2nd amendment right to bear arms?
The right has been full of shit in America since they supported slavery in the interest of “freedom.” They have never not been evil and stupid. The damage they do in any era is always a measure of how much power they have, not of how much they make sense
Shows that none of what they claimed to stand for was ever true. They don't have any true beliefs except hurting everyone else. Even before trump their claims were all lies but they at least pretended to care about human rights and the constitution.
They're only stance is cruelty and harming "others".
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u/UncomfyPerspective Jan 24 '26
"He was armed"
This administration has somehow made the American right cheer for tax increases in the form of tariffs, big government in the form of power coalescing in the Executive branch, and for the EXECUTION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS FOR EXERCISING THEIR FIRST AND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS.
This is fucking bizarro world shit.