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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] mjsaber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 day ago (16 children)

How do I request asylum in a country that doesn't want to erase trans people?

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[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 44 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Some of us are still trying to figure out how this happened here. At least in between trying to figure out where and how to flee the country, and shutting down entirely.

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[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I remember seven years ago. Beautiful IV Reich there with caged migrant kids, white Americans publicly scolding people for speaking Spanish, improvisation all around, xenophobia as a government policy, riots on the streets. A revolution is due.

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[–] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 95 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I don't understand why you people only kill your good presidents.

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[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 90 points 1 day ago (22 children)

I guess I underestimated just how many americans have a problem with a PoC + Woman candidate, perhaps it was an error from the dems to not run a white guy at this moment.

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (7 children)

As an American, our bell was tolling long ago and so few of us cared to listen. (This is a quote from Carl Sagan's book from nearly 20 years ago).

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

America is likely now doomed. We'll balkanize into minor states that join either the axis or allies of WWIII until we mostly dissolve altogether and the next wave of history and death and rolls through. Though seeing the rise of fascism on the world scale, I think we're generally just doomed, all of us. Perhaps we're just an avenue for AGI to wipe us out and go fight other AGIs on some intergalactic scale not much different from our own inability to get along and work together. Perhaps I've been drinking myself to stupor now that I see what has happened.

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[–] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 42 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The next question now is. Will your neighbors/friends/relatives cooperate with the new SS (ICE)

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