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[–] [email protected] 181 points 6 days ago (40 children)

So how much longer before we get pissed enough to start doing something about it? I’m a white CIS heterosexual male and this is infuriating to me. This isn’t correction of DEI policies. This is blatant sexism and racism. Fuck these nazis.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (13 children)

If someone starts a revolution I'd join the fight. "And just because he's a worker, no class can free him but his own. The emancipation of the working class is the task of the worker alone."

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 6 days ago (9 children)

I thought my dad would have come around by now with everything going on. Last night he was gloating about how much work is getting done in the White House and how everything’s about to get a lot cheaper.

Insanity.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Then, you should challenge him and make him set a deadline for when everything is supposed to be a lot cheaper. When people starts to get sidetracked from thinking critically, that's when you need to make them set an ultimatum that either forces them to think critically, or make them set their own limit that you can then point back to later.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago

That only works for people who haven't taught themselves to ignore constant cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I mean, that's the real trump derangement syndrome. People who are outside of reality because of their support of the man.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Same with my Mom. I told her "yeah, Mussolini did a good job making the trains run on time". She never responded.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

(Beside the point, but Mussolini totally did not run an efficient train network, it was a cluster fuck like everything else he did)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

im pretty sure that's the exact implication being made lol

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ask your dad why the GOP needs to raise the Debt Ceiling by $4 Trillion in their budget bill, and how many of the now dozens of lawsuits Trump might win based on his performance in 2020 when he lost almost every single court case, even when Trump appointed the judges himself.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

His only concern is himself, he thinks he'll benefit so everyone else can suffer as far as he is concerned. This is the broad motivation of the entire movement. As if America first didn't make it obvious enough, it was really "me first". What they don't understand is how the me in that is entirely relative and they quickly become expendable.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

I can't wait to talk to my parents. Lifelong republicans (though not specifically trump fans, just voting R), so it's extremely likely they voted for this.

I'm a federal employee. They voted to put my job (and my wife's job) in jeopardy. They voted for this. They voted to hurt us.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They want something not that different from the Taliban. Subservient women existing only to make and raise kids.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 6 days ago

While all this is going on, I'd also like to point out that grants are being flagged for being "woke" by this anti-DEI nonsense. Grants that have to do with cancer, physics, eclipses, and so on.

DEI is just a dogwhistle.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5295043/sen-ted-cruzs-list-of-woke-science-includes-self-driving-cars-solar-eclipses

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Https://2025realitycheck.com - please review, and if you're able go to the GitHub link at the bottom and help me fill everything out!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago

I will feel mad as fuck for you and use this as evidence when people say these EOs aren't hurting anyone other than illegal immigrants.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

Completely unrelated, book burnings

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure threads won't remove your posts

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isn't that the American dream in essence?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

It's the feel-good story that Republicans talk about when they say "pull yourself up by your bootstrap" but they're upset because that's only supposed to work for white men.

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