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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 minutes ago

Same they they did for the other concentration camp which is currently being exterminated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Wait wut?!?

Is there a source you can link to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where do i sign up for the flash mob?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Bay of Pigs 2: America invades America on location in Cuba.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 12 hours ago (5 children)

American here:

I would like for the civilized world to do a full trade embargo on the US. I want the economy to nosedive so hard that either the GOP votes to remove the motherfucker from office, or get crushed in the biggest electoral landslide in history in 2026.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

As a Canadian, it really really sucks that we have to hurt our friends to help them, or you'll hurt us all worse. It really sucks that you, personally, had to say those things too, but it's also brave, and makes me hopeful that we can get through this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Another Canadian with the same sentiment.

I feel like the sane world needs to make a global Alliance where if America tarriffs any country in the membership, everyone else responds with similar tarriffs.

America needs to learn that it isn't alone in the world and it can't survive in its current state without friends.

Poor Columbia having to give in to America's demands over coffee, if they had an alliance with other countries maybe they could have said fuck you Trump.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 hours ago

That is probably the most effective thing that could happen. But if they won't do it to Israel for committing genocide then I doubt they'd do it for it's political doppelgänger.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The world has that option. Come to think of it, it's pretty pitiful they haven't the humanity to stand up to this monster looming across the sea.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

I'm almost as disappointed in the rest of the world not standing up to the USA as I am disappointed in my fellow citizens' abdication of social and civic responsibility, common decency, and basic humanity.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Think the only ways to stop this is passing a bill prohibiting using money on GITMO like the Republicans did with the prohibition of spending money to close GITMO.

Or lawsuits.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

You caught me, I am a Fat Balding Italian. At least partially Italian.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not Italian, but I am a Fat Balding Idiot so we're all good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

I'm not Italian or Balding, but I'm super fat.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe we can start by looking at all the corporations who are most supporting him, and push hard for boycotts. It might be slightly indirect, but corporate partners do seem to have the most influence on policy decisions. Maybe we could make a document in the style of the PrivacyGuides project to help people choose alternatives to fascist supporters.

I've seen posts on Mastodon calling for the general strike as well.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

General strike is the way to go. It's like peaceful protesting but it's devastating to the thing they care about most. Older gen are mostly trumpets so they also get hit when their generational wealth drys up and they get to be the ones worrying about making rent.

I've been saying it but most people are hard programed not to question anything and never stick their neck out. I would have hoped concentration camps would be a line in the sand but just look, all over the this post people are obsfucating who is responsible. They think it's important to assign blame to democrats, an almost irrelevant factor, after they proved they can no longer win elections at a national level.

Anyway, I'll be there with you when the strike hits. By that I mean the strike of the billy club as they throw me in a patty wagon for dissent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yes, I already did, even before this particular news broke out...

I tried to individually tell every one I know IRL (which is not too many ppl sadly), basically told every single one of them to consider back-up career options... There are a couple of 1-year exchange students from Europe in my floor and I have not-subtly hinted at them to make contingency plans for PhD training back home. I've been following the news very carefully recently so I can share relevant items as soon as possible... The people need to know. I've even considered making know-your-rights printouts before they claimed they're doing an ICE raid in Chicago, but realized how little resources I have for that... I absolutely will do something. Not sure what it is but I can't see society go this way.

I just feel bad that as a non-US citizen there is only so little I can do... I don't even know if I could join a protest without being considered for deportation at this rate. Am planning my leave as well so there's that.

Funny incident, I blurted out to my family 2-months ago that Trump will probably build a concentration camp and was told to shut the F up... Murphy's law I suppose

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno what I can do besides get out of the US or sewer slide.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

"To understand revolutionary suicide it is first necessary to have an idea of reactionary suicide, for the two are very different. Reactionary suicide: the reaction of a man who takes his own life in response to social conditions that overwhelm him and condemn him to helplessness.”

“I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth. This belief lies at the heart of the concept of revolutionary suicide. Thus it is better to oppose the forces that would drive me to self-murder than to endure them. Although I risk the likelihood of death, there is at least the possibility, if not the probability, of changing intolerable conditions.”

“But before we die, how shall we live? I say with hope and dignity; and if premature death is the result, that death has a meaning reactionary suicide can never have. It is the price of self-respect.”

– Dr. Huey P. Newton

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I dunno man....are you? I can't afford to go to prison. I have three kids that rely on me for sustenance and a house. Nothing that Trump administration does is going to make life more difficult for me currently. I'm emailing politicians, trying to make good points online, and protest. I think that's all I can do right now. Now, if my family is threatened, or I can no longer provide for my family, then we'll talk again.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I think we're starting to see in real time why nobody stopped Hitler either.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

The people in power that are supposed to stop this aren't. AOC is trying to rally people, but not sure how effective it's going to be yet.

Anything you do as an individual is likely to fail and only make things way, way worse. So you tell me man....what should I do that I'm not already doing?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Joining an armed resistance has a high chance of death. Turns out a lot of people like being alive. I can see why other countries saw a bit more resistance too, when your country voted for it there is probably an impression many support it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

And the US is about 28 times larger than Germany, making it even harder for people to travel to a focal point of power to resist.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Did we stop them from building the internment camps at the border in his last term?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 17 hours ago (8 children)

Did we stop the Biden administration from using them once Trump built them? No, no we did not.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Okay now that we agree concentration camps bad, what is your opionion on trump making new ones?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also bad I expect these to rapidly go from detention camps to work camps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

FoxCon 2: Nacho Boogaloo

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I dunno, what's your plan?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Go to the Winchester, grab a nice cold pint and wait for this all to blow over.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Okay. But dogs CAN look up!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

Write lots of scathing comments online

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

No one is doing anything, because we all decided when facists win legally, we must play by their rules of must not do anything about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago

No one is doing anything

Plenty of not-terminally-online people are organizing to resist mass arrests and deportations. Reach out to your local DSA. My Houston chapter's been great about pulling together legal resources, just for starters.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone who was supposed to prevent this and had the power to do so either tried and failed or didn't bother.

Right now the objective is "Survive", the bad guys have already won.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A consideration to the ending of slavery in the United States was the advent of photography. Film was used to share the horror of the Nazi concentration camps in WW2 because they knew there would be people who deny history. Israel denied access and targeted journalists in Gaza for over a year for a reason.

Public perception sways from indifference to protests when they can't look away from the destructive results. It's the whole reason black sites like Guantanamo Bay exist in the first place and were used to hold extradited citizens without due process for years, they want to pretend the Constitution doesn't exist and they haven't sworn oaths to it and will do everything they can to hide their crimes.

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