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This will end with blood in the streets.
Yeah but who's? I have a bad feeling it won't be theirs, it'll probably be the vulnerable and the enemies of the MAGA.
The opposition to the MAGA cult can't just sleep for too long on letting them terrorize everyone's livelihoods since they've gotten the backing and enabling of their 'leader'. They won't sleep to upset everyone's lives.
it'll probably be the vulnerable and the enemies of the MAGA.
Well, it's starting with ours. It'll end with theirs.
Tap for spoiler
Damn this is the edgiest shit I've said since I was in high school, holy fuck
MAGA are predominantly fatter and older, we can take them!
And more hateful and violent. More vengeful and racist. More armed and stockpiled. More members of the police. Etc.
Are there any left wing militias?
The idea they're all dumb and y'allqaida rednecks is a joke that people have been playing on themselves.
And the punchline is not funny.
Its more likely to be guerrilla style warfare, at least thats my guess.
The process of global de-dollarisation,much talked about, is being hastened far sooner than I think most people (at least those not privvy to whatever intelligence existed on Trump and others' motivations and intentions) expected.
The question as to whether the country with the largest military in the world can accept a much-reduced international role (and much reduced share of unearned global wealth to go with it), without kicking off a kinetic world war three will likely be answered shortly.
Trump and Musk appear wide open to exploitation/manipulation, without anywhere near the required experience or intelligence to maintain the US's international position.
Unstable times ahead.
The chuds at the top (most of them, anyways) know that this will likely lead to ww3, and that's been the plan. The US is the preeminent military power, so they feel safe, and there's a shit load of money to be made in war and instability.
The chuds at the bottom voting for US isolationism don't understand just how much an interconnected world benefits them and how bad dedollarization is going to be for them. But then that goes along with a lot of people not understanding the benefits of concepts like soft power, humanitarian aid, foreign assistance, etc.
The chuds at the bottom are rooting for dedollarization, because they put all their life savings into $TRUMP
If the people at the top's plan is actually WW3, then they're stupider than they let on.
Sure, in theory it's profitable, in practice though? All you're left with is a wrecked world that's worse to live in in every possible way, and that's assuming nukes won't fly
It's literally the broken window fallacy, which to me has always been a dead obvious problem. Stability, cooperation, and peaceful progress and development has always, and always will be, much more beneficial to everyone in the long run
These people are literally enemies of humanity
Even worse, the chuds might be dead of malnourishment, preventable vírus diseases, violence, before the consequences of dedollarization hits them
Yeah, you can read about it in the project 2025 page online....we know what is coming....we have for a few years...
For those who want to watch as the progress bar of doom slowly progresses...
No no no no...we just need to run out the clock - it must be almost time for another election. Let me just check the calenda-... ...SIX WEEKS? It's been six weeks?!
Yeah, in 6 weeks we went from being allies, strong trading partners, and friends to honestly fearing an impending invasion. SIX WEEKS
Imagine what the next 6 will bring.
Iowa passed a law changing their state's interpretation of the Civil Rights Act to be one that excludes Gender Identity, they claimed they were doing it in order to protect women. This marks the first time that a group was removed from a protected status.
Chaos and Anarchy will break out in the US soon, the bad kind though.
not chaos and anarchy. any disruptions to order and civility will get crushed.
I'm just hoping it can stay duct taped together long enough for me to get out of country. I don't know if it will :/ I've been doing the protest thing, donating to resistance efforts, boycotts, building community, been doing all of this for years. I've never seen it tangibly help and I'm one of the first to get black bagged if/when this goes full genocide (am trans). I can't do it anymore, my body is aging, my brain is a disaster. I wish I could keep fighting. At least I can bring my labor somewhere else and stop letting my taxes fund the madness that is the US government
Thank you for doing what you can. It's the only thing we can do. No one can save the world alone.
I hope you get somewhere safe.
The american people will have to stand up for themselves and it‘s gonna be hard and brutal. Cause no one else can help you with this.
I found the recent developments in Serbia quite interesting and it might help to get an idea what a widespread resistance from the people could look like. Video on Serbia
It's going to require daily nationwide protests going on for months and months with national participation approaching 1-2% of the population (4-8 million) on weekends and clear and actionable demands (resignation of Trump and his goons and corrupt members of the judiciary).
From my experience living in the US, I don't think this is likely (I do hope I am wrong). Geographic size can actually be managed by having many thousands of protest sites by key admin buildings all throughout the country. The bigger issue is perhaps a lack of experience "operationalizing" beliefs and standing up to a thugs and oligarchs.
When the Second Great Depression starts, that's when shit will hit the fan. Once the bread and circuses end and the starving begins.
the extent that Trump has gone to remove barriers to committing atrocities likely corresponds to the extent he intends to commit them
And American still just going to whine on the internet and do nothing about it.
If anything this has completely vaporized the "checks and balances" democratic system everyone was so obsessed about.
Americans need to update the constitution where people have the power to dethrone a dictator as of right now theres nothing right?
If you want to know what Trump will do, look at the men he most admires (Putin, Kim Jong Un, etc)
And Hitler. He keeps (or kept) a copy of ~~Mein Kampf~~ his quotes by his bed, and we all know how his neighbours ended up.
It was a book of Hitler quotes.
Ah, my mistake. I should've known he couldn't keep his attention on one thing long enough to read a full page of text.
One thing that concerns me that not many people have talked about is what's going to happen to the US dollar as the world's reserve currency? More and more countries want nothing to do with us and while the US dollar has a huge edge over any other currency, the US becoming a pariah is probably going to impact that.
Trump is going to get worse until he's stopped. That has always been the case.
What's really got me sweating is the fact that we're living in sorta good times. A lot of people are struggling of course, and serious issues are unfolding, but imagine what the world could look like if we get hit by the next Great Recession or Great Depression. Things could quickly go from very bad to much, much worse.
I'm no economist, but I hear the economists are not thrilled with what Trump is doing to the economy. We're headed for a recession at minimum, if those folks are anything to go by.
people were literally going back in time to try to assassinate him before the election. that should give us an indication of how bad it is going to get.
The only thing at this point that could prevent the USA from annexing Canada is a civil war to deal with. So yeah, it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
And that doesn't seem like it's going to happen. For the most part Americans are complaining but not willing to actually do anything about the situation.
I've heard people say the US couldn't invade us because it would cause an uprising, but they aren't willing to stand up and fight for their own democracy. They won't stand up to fight for ours.
We've never been in a situation even remotely like this before. A lot of people aren't sure that doing a coup would be fighting for our democracy because removing them from office would be removing the, as far as any evidence can show, legally elected government. It's about as bad as it's been in nearly 200 years, but what if we "destroy the democracy to save it"?
Invading a country that most Americans like more than their federal government is an entirely different question. This current bullshit is disgusting and heartbreaking.
Not if we actually stand up and all march to DC. Just sayin'. Nothing has ever been won by shit posting and staying home.
Dont brace yourself. Unleash your frustration and direct it at anything that proudly displays the star spangled banner.