“bUt iT’s oNLy tHe dAnGeRoUs oNeS!”
I loathe law-and-order rhetoric in any nation, but most certainly in America. Tough On Crime policies have led to the dumbest fucking things that have ever existed in the United States. People are voting for a serial liar and conman who will probably ship them off to Dijbouti or El Salvador just to stay away from someone who broke the law once, or who is likely to break the law. The lesson we should all learn is to stop going nuts over “crime waves”. If the news claims that crime is “going through the roof” or that there is an “epidemic of crime”, make sure to remember:
- There are way, way bigger threats to public safety than a few gangbangers, for example tech companies, evangelicals, and Nazis.
- Criminals are people too. They have hopes and dreams, motives, economic conditions, and opinions. Consider why someone is committing a murder or robbery, rather than assuming it’s because of greed.
- There are for-profit security forces and prisons that all benefit from fear of crime. The news will often blow crime out of proportion to satisfy their sponsors, and downplay authoritarianism likewise.
- Police officers are often just as dangerous as criminals. It’s better to think of crime as a situation that can be escalated and de-escalated (cops are notoriously bad at this) than as the result of Bad People who need Good People to stop them.
- There are a lot of good resources for reading about crime in a productive way. Although I am not quite Anarchist, the Anarchist Library has a lot of thought-provoking material on what makes law just and unjust. There’s a big difference between “murder is wrong because the Law says so” and “murder is wrong because killing people is wrong”.
- Some people are so evil that they need to be killed, i.e. Real Estate CEOs.
Yes. Yes it is. It’s exactly what you voted for. Everyone tried to warn you but you were too fucking focused on dumb, single issue voter shit. You got exactly what you voted for. Enjoy it!
I am also very confused. They had ‘Mass Deportation Now’ signs, but she didn’t think she was voting for this. Que ingenua!
I’m of Irish and Scottish decent. I’m white. As fuck. Not AF. As fuck. I don’t tan, I fucking burn, peel, and burn again. All the while, I suffer.
I’m from the south. Grew up in Texas, only been out of it for less than a year and still in the fucking south - so not much better.
Even I could tell… well, anyone, not to vote for Trump. “Oh, Trump likes _______” No, Trump likes Trump. End statement. End logic. End all.
Trump likes Trump.
If anyone thinks that Trump will put them, their group, or their issue, ahead of himself then they have refused to pay attention. Not that they haven’t had the chance, they have willfully refused.
I was not able to vote. Moving from Texas to Arkansas, there was in issue with my registration, which in hind-sight sounds like “I’m lazy, have some voter suppression” because I didn’t have a capital T branded on my forehead. I should have fought harder, but I was more worried about a roof over my head and food on the table. Fuck me for trying to survive and provide for my wife.
End statement: Not everyone who was unable to vote was lazy: Fuck all of you who say otherwise. Some of us could NOT vote, for whatever reason.
If it’s any consolation, most of us not from the US know your system doesn’t work for the people and deliberately makes it difficult for people like yourself to contribute to your country’s democracy.
In my country, if you deliberately choose not to vote, you get fined.
I don’t think the problem quite amounts to Trump likes Trump. For me, the issue is obvious: this is reactionary policy that he and the Republicans have been quite clear about enacting. I am trying to be a bit more sympathetic because I get that people have been tricked, but I think Trump was very clear about doing this well in advance of the election.
If you voted for Trump then this is 100% what you specifically voted for. I’m tired of hearing this line, it’s bullshit. He was barking about literally everything he is doing the entire time, everyone else was pointing out that this is exactly what he was saying, if you genuinely didn’t think this is what he was all about the entire time then you are an idiot and the exact kind of tool they were asking you to be.
Fuck every single person who voted for this.
Or didn’t vote. Those people are even worse than maga in my opinion.
Yeah, not voting for any of the bad options is a lot worse than voting for the worst option.
I wouldn’t say worse, but equally idiotic. Not voting doesn’t absolve you from causing the result.
Not voting in 2020 would actually have been the optimal outcome for the country. Objectively, we would have been far, far better off if a large number of Democrats had stayed home in 2020, allowing Trump to get a second term then instead of now. Democrats focused on short-term expediency by forcing Biden through. They won the election in 2020, but at what a terrible price. Instead of a flailing second Trump term with Trump as a lame duck, Democrats gave Trump four more years to regroup, strategize, and come up with Project 2025. Democrats chose the cheap and easy solution in 2020, and every one of us is paying for it now.
Your strategy has some merit, but it fails in that it only considers short-term, rather than long-term thinking. Your victories end up temporary and ultimately Pyrrhic.
Voting for today’s lesser of two evils only works if you’re a goldfish with no memory of history.
You know, there’s no law of nature dictating that Trump had to get a second term. If people had voted democrat in 2024 and 2028, Trump would just not have had a second term.
Project 2025 is not from yesterday. Do you even know what the Heritage Foundation is?
This(project 2025) has been in the works for decades.
You have very little understanding of what is going on. You are the very goldfish you argue against.
Yes, they’ve tried for years. But they actually managed to properly plan it this time. Do you honestly believe there’s no difference between Trump in 2024 and Trump in 2020? They have completely different cabinets. Hell, we would have had Pence as VP. The administration is run by entirely different people. They were a lot more careful about selecting for avowed loyalists this time. Trump winning in 2020 would have completely denied them this chance to reorganize. We would have objectively been much, much better off if a second Trump term came in 2020 than in 2024.
You have very little understanding of what is going on.
dumb bitch, it’s exactly what you voted for.
you just didn’t think you would have been on the deport list if you voted for him.
Makes me wonder what the fuck they think they voted for
Making merica great, bald eagles, kid rock, 25¢ eggs, free diesel for their monster trucks, short bottom shorts on blondes, beer holders in car and no seatbelt laws taking their freedum.
That sorta thing.
I personally have no problem with bald eagles, 25¢ eggs, and short bottom shorts on blondes.
Maybe Kamala should have used that as her platform.
I’ll take one Chris Hemsworth in short-shorts, please!
lol but I’ve never heard of Latinas being into those things, well maybe cheap eggs…
Oh, they love their “performance vehicles” too
I’m pretty sure that in the 1930’s, there were groups called “Juden für Hitler” (Jews for Hitler) or similar appellations in Germany.
(Thats Kanye for anyone who somehow doesn’t know yet)
Yup, The Association of German National Jews or Verband nationaldeutscher Juden.
Their slogan was “Der Leopard wird sicher nicht mein Gesicht fressen.”
“No, we meant the other brown people!”
“No, no we meant just all the brown people after us.”
Ladder pulling is a shockingly common trait among immigrants.
lol “Latinas for trump”
Sheep for the wolf
This is what you voted for xd, smartasa
Yes it is. You just thought you were the “good Jew”
Pick up a goddamn history book. There are no safe zones.
Oh yea what did you vote for? Trump deporting immigrants other than your community?
“'But we are hardworking people, unlike those other immigrants people don’t like” 🤡
“While I stand by my support for him, I will call out harmful actions when necessary,” she said. “And finally, this isn’t about regrets; I have none.”
Oh well then, I hope you burn in Hell. Or in Florida. Whichever.
I hope you burn in Hell. Or in Florida. Whichever.
Texas, too. (With Louisiana and Alabama on the fringe)
There’s a difference?
“Latinas for Trump”
aka
The idiot girls club of America
Ok, but why idiot girls? Why not idiot boys? Or idiot transgenders? They can all be idiots too, I think it’s wrong to discriminate against the boys and transgenders who can be equally idiotic.
Maybe you could look up what the word Latina means.
Omg, didn’t realise this was such a sensitive topic, read my other comments, I was being sarcastic… Faaaaaaq.
This is a perfect example of ignorance leading to being offended.
Latina specifically means those of the feminine persuasion. Latino would be the all encompassing term or the term for those of the masculine persuasion.
Ok, I am neither ignorant nor offended. I was being sarcastic.
Anyway, maybe my fault for not including the /s at the end of my post, but I really thought the tone was good enough, sorry internet strangers
Also, I upvoted the comment I was making fun of, thought it was clear, but still, soz guys
Rereading your comment in a heavily sarcastic tone, I can see what you were going for, but I am also unsurprised at it being misinterpreted. Sarcastic jokes are hard when there are people who say that kind of thing unironically
That certainly wasn’t sarcastic.
