• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Donald trump is not intelligent enough to create this plan. Let’s not forget he is only the figurehead for an entire movement.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    We know. But more people should.

    The whole point of the government shutdown was to start riots. The Republicans wanted to take healthcare from millions. The Democrats stopped them, but the cost was SNAP (food stamps) benefits. The Republicans were willing to starve their voting base to push the healthcare cuts — either would likely result in riots. Now it’s literally attacking Americans. The goal is to push martial law and suspend elections. That is the whole point.

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      I live in a hard red area and a huge number of families here depend on SNAP and food stamps. They are also heavily armed.

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        Don’t worry. The Great Leader will speak on Foxnews saying that he had to remove the food stamps because of any racist shit and they will use those firearms to hunt non-whites as if they were paid for it.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        So?

        I mean, a lot of people who are heavily armed, prior to 2020, used the historical justification of the Second Amendment to justify being heavily armed. That a well-regulated militia (guys who know how to handle guns, essentially) was necessary to protect the country from tyranny. Only, a lot of these guys (who voted red and who didn’t vote blue) sat back and let tyranny take over. They either wanted it to happen, or they had the opportunity to vote against it and chose not to.

        So I gotta ask of guys like that: what does it matter they’re armed? At this point they’re all just cosplaying. Because they had the opportunity to do what their forefathers did and they did fuck-all about it.

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        If you’re friendly with any of them, make sure that when push comes to shove they’re robbing the local Walmart and not their neighbors.

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      And with a minimum of three more years of this, they will eventually get what they want. There is no way that this administration ends without the US military acting against domestic Americans, at some point. It is going to happen.

      As much as I’m tempted to play the accellerationist and demand that we give them what they’re asking for, I know that we can’t rip off the bandaid like that. Americans are not yet mentally prepared to take up arms against their government. The government will strike first, after they exhaust all attempts to get the people to make the first move. Trump needs martial law or some equivalent immunity before his time in the Oval Office is up.

      Our best bet might be that Trump dies of a blood clot, Vance is too unlikable to hold the tenuous fascist truces together, and the momentum falls apart.

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        They already have. They executed a woman on the streets because she saw too much, or they thought she did. She didn’t do anything wrong, but they decided that she needed to die rather than be allowed to leave peacefully, as she was trying to do. She was a white woman, not an immigrant. (She was also gay, but they probably didn’t know that at the time.) And they still executed her right then and there on the spot.

        Side note: is your avatar the playable character from Noita?

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    Tim Walz hurt his feelings during the election. Trump couldn’t even find Minnesota on a map he’s just unbelievably fragile and petty

  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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    I did some math.

    Florida population: 23M

    Florida undocumented/capita: 1 in 19

    Minnesota population: 5.8M

    Minnesota undocumented/capita: 1 in 58

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    They are swarming Florida and Texas. And with comparatively much more cooperation/less protest, because they are more popular there. The white house even made a post bragging about how rent was down in Texas.

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    Wasn’t sure if this was just a population thing, so:

    State | population | Undocumented est |  % undocumented
    TX    |     31M    |     2.0 M        |   6.4%
    FL    |     23M    |     1.2 M        |   5.2%
    IL    |     13M    |     0.59 M       |   4.5%
    MN    |     5.8M   |      100 k       |   1.7%
    CA    |     39M    |     2.9 M        |   7.4%
    
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      It basically is. California has the most, then texas, then Florida. All around the same percentage.

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        If 5-ish% of most state populations are undocumented, doesn’t that make it even more bizarre to go into Minnesota, where they don’t even have half the national average?

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          I’m not talking about ICE. I’m talking about how Florida and Texas have more. It’s the same as showing a map of a statistic and it’s basically just a population map.

          ICE being in Minnesota is because Donny got his feelings hurt.

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            No it’s not a population thing because MN’s percentage is substantially lower. It’s not a population map because MN’s percentage is substantially lower. That’s what the original comment meant. You have this all twisted up somehow so I’m just gonna leave it here.

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              The original comment says “this”. The original post mentions both TX and FL immigrant population as well as MN.

              “This” could be interpreted two different ways in relation to the original comment. I took it to mean that the volume of immigrants per state in relation to total population of the original mentioned FL and TX.

              The percentage doesn’t matter. The percentage count be .001% or it could be 30% and they’d still go after someone that hurt Don’s feelings.

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    ICE is obviously a secret police force. This was already clear when the regime (with extensive support from the Democrats btw) approved a budget for this “agency” that exceeds the military spending of medium-sized countries.

    What is so difficult to understand about this? The economic elite in the US, which has been ruling the country de facto for ages, now wants to transition to a more Russian-style system (open autocracy with corresponding repressive measures), and ICE is ideally suited to make undesirable dissidents disappear.

    I think everyone has been aware of this since around February 2025, except apparently the US citizens, who, despite all the absurdity, still cling to the illusion that the US is a constitutional state or even a democracy - which has not been the case for at least 30 years.

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      Yep. And it is this delusion that allows US citizens to be subjugated so completely to Putin’s 84th subject.

      So long as they continue to believe it, they’ll allow ICE to abduct anyone they want in their Blue “state.”

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    Even my hard red family member told me they want to incite violence. I couldn’t tell if he thought it was good or bad though.

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    I hate to burst your bubble, but ICE is all over both Florida & Texas, your corporate news media simply isn’t reporting it.

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    That didn’t vote for Trump and will be more likely to resist the invasion. Florida and Texas would invite them into their homes and throw block parties for ICE. They want the resistence.