Yo, correct me if I am wrong please, but didn't Hitler rise to power because he promised to fix the German economy and people really liked that so they looked past everything else he was doing??? Like exactly what's happening in America right now???
So many people said they voted for Trump, put a truly evil person in power, because he said he'd fix the economy, and a little voice in my head is going, "Isn't that what happened with fucking Hitler??"
But I've seen no one point that out so maybe I'm miss remembering???????
‘don’t be political’ ‘I don’t want to see that on my dash’ ‘keep your opinions to yourself’
NO. Absolutely not- over my dead fucking body, you hear me?!
Don’t you dare try to make yourself small, don’t you dare be passive and roll over while they run your country to the ground. I’m not even American and this makes my blood boil, watching all the horrible things happening over there. They have taken your rights. Do you understand me? It is propaganda, plain and simple. Staying quiet just to appease other people is exactly what they want. They want you to remain passive, they want you to hope that things will get better on their own.
here’s the simple truth- it won’t. not unless you do something about it. we all saw it with the UHC shooter, citizens being abused and refused for years, but the second someone leaps into actions, suddenly the gears start turning. I understand that politics isn’t for everyone, and it may very well mentally affect you. but I believe this isn’t the time for that.
YOUR PRESIDENT JUST PUT A BUNCH OF LGBTQ KIDS AT RISK. THE WORLDS RICHEST MAN DID THE NAZI SALUTE AT YOUR INAUGURATION. YOU ARE WATCHING THEM TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS IN REAL TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION.
for fucks sake, that doesn’t bother you?
this is the time for action. Do not let them take away your voice. Be inconvenient. Be angry. Be a public menace. Be as fucking difficult to the government as you could possibly be.
it could actually save a life.
I know conservatives generally hate any protests and any form of speech they disagree with, but they will take their guns with them wherever they go - especially protests. So, it really bothers me the insanely hypocritical nature of most conservatives right now. More than a few people have been arrested and threatened with deportation for doing nothing more than protesting or saying something that the people in power disliked.
There are some very obvious signs of tyranny and dictatorship that are recognized world wide. Arresting people for doing nothing wrong but saying something the people in power don't like is a major red flag. When I was a kid examples of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and unnamed dissidents in China were obvious examples of why our country was so much better. We may have not liked people burning the flag or any other protected speech, but we didn't arrest and imprison people simply for their speech.
Those days seem to be gone now. If you were part of the protests last year against Israeli aggression in Gaza you can be arrested and thrown in a jail far away from home while you wait to be extrajudicially deported to a foreign nation. You can be an important scientist who happens to say something unflattering about the president on social media and be refused entry into the country for a conference. Or you can be an ambassador from another country and say that what is happening here is similar to the racism that existed in their own country under apartheid, and suddenly find yourself persona non grata and immediately deported back to your home country.
None of these people were violent. None of them were criminals or are criminals. They are just people speaking their mind, and for some reason the government is violating their first amendment rights of free speech. IT is a marked and definite step toward the end of democracy. It isn't long before we have masked and unmarked police forces removing people from the streets or having "concerned citizens" snitching on their fellow countrymen because the government asked them too. Oh wait, that is already happening.
All I will say to many of you who are happy about the cruelty and law breaking of the government, sooner or later the lawlessness of the government will be focused on you. If it can happen to those you do not like for not doing anything illegal, it will certainly happen to you when you decide to exercise your rights. Dictators will not tolerate nonconformance. Maybe you will be the next one to win a one way trip to the supermax prison in El Salvador.
Oh, greatest king of all the Earth, this lowborn cobbler of no worth attacked me in the square today...shall we take his head away?
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