Spyke

More suffering -> more crime and more unrest.

More crime and more unrest -> more they can justify future power grabs, increased surveillance, and use of military power on domestic soil.

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lemmy.ca

I can't think of a place more deserving of a mass-shooting than this room.

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We can exit the ride at any time. Few are willing to climb out of the top car of the stranded Ferris wheel and scale down, though, and in this case, it's enough or nothing. So far it's nothing.

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I mean if you had no idea who Rambo was and you just like saw that shit on your lunch break or something... That's wild. You don't know who the fuck this short muscle-bound speech deficient asshole is. He's screaming and popping off rounds like end of days shit. Wild.

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There are approximately 146,000 people named Mario in the US alone. Any one of them could do the FUNNIEST THING.

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Diddlydeereply
feddit.uk

Any room with Netanyahu and his cronies would be a good alternative

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Queue police siren and light...

"The Naked Gun" theme music begins

Roll intro!

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jjjalljsreply
ttrpg.network

No one's going to rally around creepy Mike Johnson's corpse. No one cares about the guy Luigi (allegedly) shot.

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iAmTheTotreply
sh.itjust.works

I think you are falsely hopeful if you think it would lead to anything good.

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iAmTheTotreply
sh.itjust.works

The thing about martyrs though is that they aren't useless kinda by definition.

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bthestreply
lemmy.world

So was the Nazi leadership more dangerous as dead martyrs or were they more dangerous when they were living?

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iAmTheTotreply
sh.itjust.works

Well I disagree that the Nazi leadership became martyrs, for one, so I reject the premise of the question.

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bthestreply
lemmy.world

I agree. And I don't think any of these Republican Nazis will be martyrs either.

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That much was made clear from the downvotes. But I don't think the two situations are equivalent. I'm not interested in continuing on a debate though so we can agree to disagree.

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Oh wow. All the way on the left. Head barely on the photo. Only saw him because of his hand

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It's a bunch of murderous ghouls celebrating the death of poor people.

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lemmy.ca

And send it to everyone diagnosed with a life-threatening illness that won't be able to pay for treatment.

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I'm sure they already know who they are. Republicans have tried to kill those that depend on social safety nets for decades.

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lemmy.ca

The majority of these people should be a few meters under IMO.

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and their remains sent to the furthest reaches of the universe, so their Stardust doesn’t get used in anything anymore.

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Lucky for the them, that's all we have now that the billionaires have bought them all up and carved them out to husks with shambling corpses that used to be loved ones!

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I wonder what the combined financial net worth of this photo is because the calculation for the combined human value shown in this photo is easy

That is zero

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kbin.earth

what a beautiful place to throw around my weirdly heavily bouncy ball 💣

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Every single one of these people is a human rights violator and should be tried for such, along with being some of the most corrupt, hateful people in history.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

I hope someday to see a hero get caught with this photo but there are red x's over the ones he's already taken out.

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Etterrareply
discuss.online

It wouldn't help, there's an unstoppable army of fuckheads that blindly vote Republican no matter who it is. At this point I've just given up entirely.

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Proof why the only good fascist is a dead fascist.

And thank the gods this isn't Reddit; this comment wouldn't last 5 minutes in that fascist circlejerk.

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They aren't unstoppable. There are a lot of them for sure, but there are at least as many bullets in the US.

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lemmy.world

I feel like future Americans will be seeing this photo a lot in history books

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The entirety of Trump's second presidency will just be a sideshow.

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lemmy.world

I wish I could find something that made me as happy as Republicans killing poor people.

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lemmy.world

step one. dress one to two dozen terminal patients who are about to die from lack of health coverage as ice agents. masked up.

step two. arm them.

step three. wait for next congressional hearing. when they are all gathered together.

step four. uphold the second amendment.

the diabetics can save the US from the 1 percent.

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Casereply
lemmy.world

Killing some old white dudes with other old people is not the tactic to rely on.

You need the young and radicalized who are terminal.

I wish, wish, wish I had faith in the system, checks and balances, and all that bullshit.

Violence should only be used in self defense when violence is going to be used on you, or to protect other who can not protect themselves.

Fascism, sadly, only seems to understand pain and suffering. I suppose a clean kill is more merciful than that, though I can't say I condone it outright.

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Alloireply
lemmy.world

Violence should only be used in self defense when violence is going to be used on you, or to protect other who can not protect themselves.

my friend, this is self defense.

they are about to kill millions of americans. through neglect, and theft of their hard earned tax dollars.

again.

you should feel no guilt when a small group of mass murdering psychopaths feel the wrath of universal karma. your conscience is clean.

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Starya67reply
lemmy.world

How come literally everyone misses the part where they're getting rid of renewable energy and completely obliterating nature and the climate? It's not just going to be millions of Americans. It's going to be million and millions everywhere.

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Fleur_reply
aussie.zone

Sort of off topic from your comment but the reason arming people to protect liberty doesn't work is because the people crazy enough to kill others don't care about liberty.

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not at all? the comment thread started with saying magats will get the brunt of it. then someone said no, migrants would. so i said the migrants voted for Trump anyways. nowhere is there any implication anyone deserves it, unless that's just what you're looking to see

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aussie.zone

As an Australian I am constantly amazed that no matter how racist, homophobic, greedy, stupid, selfish and blatantly self-serving America’s government representatives are, you continue to vote for them.

We arent so committed to the red vs blue ideology. If I vote for blue one term and they don’t perform I’ll vote red or green or independent next term.

Unfortunately, the way things are going, your vote might not make a difference for much longer.

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ysjetreply
lemmy.world

Yyyyeah. Unfortunately we're not actually a democratic nation- land and especially money count for more than actual people when it comes to voting. Gerrymandering just reinforces it, and ensures an undemocratic result.

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America is like the beta version of liberal democracy that launched far too soon with a constitution full of bugs and the developers decided to make it nearly impossible to patch.

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That's no excuse... everybody knows the Republicans kept on cheating with gerrymandering and still Americans voted them in over and over.

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lemmy.world

Doesn't the coal industry control your government? And remind me where Rupert Murdoch came from.

If I vote for blue one term and they don’t perform I’ll vote red or green or independent next term.

uh, I'm pretty sure that's a factor to how America got to the way it is.

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Psiczarreply
aussie.zone

To be clear, Australia is not perfect by a long stretch, but our politicians are much more discrete in their desire for enrichment, we also have a lot more guard rails in place to prevent it, while they are in office.

While there is obviously big business trying to influence government decisions, that will always happen regardless of who we vote in. My point is, if the person you vote for isn’t clearly concerned with improving the lives of their constituents you should absolutely fuck them off and not continually vote for them for decades.

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I’ve seen sky news clips from Australia, y’all are on your way soon enough to look like America, unfortunately

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One of the parties is blatantly racist, homophobic, greedy, stupid, and selfish, and they celebrate it, they are proud of it. The other party is not. The other party has issues, but they are worlds apart. There is no excuse not to aggressively vote blue at every opportunity.

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lemmy.sdf.org

It would be a great service to this nation if a plane had crashed into that spot.

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Maevereply
kbin.earth

The people in those buildings were not of the legislative, executive, or judicial branches...I did laugh though

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They did try to fuck up congress if I remember correctly. That plane was brought down in a field.

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lemmy.world

True story.

I was given a chance to talk to a bunch of high schoolers about volunteering at volunteer healthcare clinic.

Most highschoolers ignored me. They had no idea what healthcare is. They think it is free.

They feel invincible, as expected.

I stressed the importance of volunteering because there are many people are uninsured and underinsured.

One highschooler made a snide comment, "Everyone has insurance. Our family have Medicaid. It is free."

I hope life will treat her kindly.

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nope, no aa guy in the back this time, they arnt hiding it anymore. thier current token is a racist old granny in the front.

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Jax
sh.itjust.works

These fucking assholes are looking at different cameras to seem like they're normal human beings, and that these pictures are taken naturally — rather than being staged.

I hate these fucking people.

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Valmondreply
lemmy.world

Some don't even know how to thumbs up. Or is this AI?

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I don't think it's AI. Its too coherent to be. Every place on the picture where AI would usually half ass it and make some sloppy solution that looks okayish from afar, is very distinct and coherent when you zoom in.

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Sooner or later, the U.S. is going to have to face the reality that the only thing they should be seeing in a photo like that is a really good spot to have planted an improvised explosive device.

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Imagine having half the villains responsible in one room (the other half are their donors and largely present at fundraisers)

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lemmy.world

When I’m dictator, every last one of these traitors will be in prison or worse.

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why wait? I was hoping you americans would have acted by now but...psh I'm not holding my breathe anymore. almost any other country would be rioting, violently, right now but you guys have zero leaders to rally anything. and any thing close to an opposition leader you have is saying "just wait for the midterms!" yeah...ok buddy either you'll be lucky if your dear leader allows midterms to happen OR they do, dems win across the board, but most of this shit goes into effect AFTER said midterms thus the nazi's blame the dems for everything and ensure glorious leader wins a 3rd term.

shit I'll be surprised if most of you guys are still working, eating, not in a camp, or hell even alive by that point.

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sh.itjust.works

I am starting to question the possibility that maybe we might not quite be close to almost great yet.

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lemmy.world

Virginia spontaneously collapsed into a pile of dust after this photo was taken

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is she the old ass lady in pink? the same necromancer that turned mcconnel into a lich, also is keeping her alive.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yankistanis will never reflect on their history and think their country was built for the rich, by the rich, from the very beginning. They still think it's built on some humane "values", lol.

The values like genocide, racism, sexism, slavery, oppression, segregation, xenophobia, and neocolonialism.

Useful fools.

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lemmy.world

This, like so many other cruel unnecessary things, could have been easily avoided.
"But... but... muh puriteh! bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe"
vOtE fOr A wOmAn? mE?!! wHeN PIGS FLY!!!

The mental gymnastics so many non-voters use to convince themselves that their lazy mediocrity is not a HUGE part of the problem. They exert a hundred times the energy to stab themselves in the chest with a rusty knife, and as gangrene sets in, they fancy themselves as hero martyrs, because they so bravely did nothing of value to stop this. Useless deadweight flakes that they are.

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But genocide Joe!!

Meanwhile Trump: Lets remove all people living in Gaza and built golf courses there lol

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we have to stop blaming voters for their apathy and instead try to understand why a campaign fails to mobilize them. scolding a voter for rejecting persistent mediocrity implies that we must accept it, simply by virtue of being less bad. pragmatically, this makes sense but not everybody has the privilege of accepting the least bad option when doing so appears to have little impact on their present untenable situation.

i exercise what little power i have to try to keep fascists from power but if others weren't motivated to do the same, we have to actually speak to their grievances. Kamala campaign had every opportunity to reach these people and instead chose to basically say, "fuck what you want, we don't need your votes." so when she gets BTFO across the country, she has nobody to blame but herself for running a campaign that failed to stand for anything her constituents cared enough to vote for (i know there is also always voter suppression that favors Republicans too but she also failed to pursue effective legal remedy for that).

yeah it sucks hard that this happened, especially so for those of us first on the chopping block for fascism. but to break the cycle, the impetus is on our politicians to be better, not on the voters to settle for worse.

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aussie.zone

The woman in the red dress, isn’t she the Alaskan senator that voted yes then told everyone else to vote no?

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It will be funny if someone paint all the thumbs brown and then we make sure it's the brown thumbs version that goes around the web and not the original version.

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Not a bad way to cut down your already short lifespan.

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given how many idiots are in that photo AND how many Republicans are in the line of succession (99% + 1 RFK Jr), we might as well beg for a Red Wedding a la GoT style.

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lemmings.world

where will they find enough pale faces to mow their lawns, clean their houses, harvest their food once they’ve removed all the scary darker skinned people from within these borders?

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And killed the rest with medical bills or by withholding medical care?

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They are already talking about "allowing immigrants to stay on the farm". I feel like I heard of these before in history class?

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The big beautiful bill..I can't even comprehend how maggots can believe this stuff. Congrats, your healthcare is now even worse than before, happy 4th oh July.

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It's not that easy to get so many traitors to the Union all in one photo. I hope they all have a really crummy time.

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lemmy.world

Can anyone specifically point out which pieces on the bill will remove healthcare from Medicaid. I was reading through and haven’t found those parts yet. I was focusing on the rescinding for green energy tax credits.

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Work requirements. Other states have done this before. They all canned it because they found out, work requirements don't increase work. It decrease the use of those that qualify. It increases paperwork which can be rejected by errors.

You also have the SSDI part. Most people that are disabled don't qualify for SSDI.

I personally know someone that had double kidney failure. This is from a direct issue the U.S. government caused acknowledged. However, they don't what to make it easy and hope the people just die. Which is a very strong possibility. They DO NOT qualify for SSDI.

Next time they get sick, they will die. Point Blank.

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AA5Breply
lemmy.world

If you want to read it yourself, there’s an entire section. Table of contents ….

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Subtitle B--Health

                      Chapter 1--Medicaid

subchapter a--reducing fraud and improving enrollment processes

Sec. 71101. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eligibility and enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs. Sec. 71102. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to eligibility and enrollment for Medicaid, CHIP, and the Basic Health Program. Sec. 71103. Reducing duplicate enrollment under the Medicaid and CHIP programs. Sec. 71104. Ensuring deceased individuals do not remain enrolled. Sec. 71105. Ensuring deceased providers do not remain enrolled. Sec. 71106. Payment reduction related to certain erroneous excess payments under Medicaid. Sec. 71107. Eligibility redeterminations. Sec. 71108. Revising home equity limit for determining eligibility for long-term care services under the Medicaid program. Sec. 71109. Alien Medicaid eligibility. Sec. 71110. Expansion FMAP for emergency Medicaid.

           subchapter b--preventing wasteful spending

Sec. 71111. Moratorium on implementation of rule relating to staffing standards for long-term care facilities under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Sec. 71112. Reducing State Medicaid costs. Sec. 71113. Federal payments to prohibited entities.

       subchapter c--stopping abusive financing practices

Sec. 71114. Sunsetting increased FMAP incentive. Sec. 71115. Provider taxes. Sec. 71116. State directed payments. Sec. 71117. Requirements regarding waiver of uniform tax requirement for Medicaid provider tax. Sec. 71118. Requiring budget neutrality for Medicaid demonstration projects under section 1115.

        subchapter d--increasing personal accountability

Sec. 71119. Requirement for States to establish Medicaid community engagement requirements for certain individuals. Sec. 71120. Modifying cost sharing requirements for certain expansion individuals under the Medicaid program.

             subchapter e--expanding access to care

Sec. 71121. Making certain adjustments to coverage of home or community-based services under Medicaid.

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lemmy.world

they're pointing to the direction your money is going to go with this bill.

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pyrereply
lemmy.world

lol what does this have to do with me

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Mazuureply
lemmy.world

I think he thought you meant they were pointing up, instead of towards themselves. And from his reply I assume the bill provides benefits for incomes over 1.1 million dollars

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i did mean they're pointing up, it's gonna funnel lots of money from the bottom to the top. i don't see how this means I'm benefitting from it though.

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lemmy.world

our last president supported segregation, Trump, Obama who had one who supported segregation as vp, bush, clinton, bush, reagan, carter, ford, nixon, johnson

been here for long time

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There's a big difference between getting a paper cut and being stabbed with a rusty sword. Neither one may be what you want, but telling people with a sword sticking out of their chest some platitude about "Yeah, but papercuts suck too" makes you sound like an absolute idiot.

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Clinton explicitly didn't support segregation. One of the biggest influences in his life was his mom's parents, who he spent a significant portion of his childhood living with. They owned a grocery store and faced frequent harassment and threats because they refused to segregate their business. There's plenty to go after Big Willy for but this particular point is incorrect. You can't even shoehorn in his VP like with Obama because Gore was an avid civil rights supporter as well.

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