4d ago

Gotta admit, I expected this admin to speedrun fascism, but I'd be lying if I said I was expecting it as soon as April

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Lol MAGAts aren't doing what the meme says, they're cheering it on, because ThOSe DaMn DeMoCrAps are finally getting taken care of
- I don't see that at all. The only MAGA that I'm still connected to on Facebook hasn't posted anything about the Abrego Garcia situation since it happened. He's literally doing the Homer thing, and the shrubs are his other posts about the weather and stuff. He went from posting about Trump all the time to kinda pretending like he doesn't exist.
  Meanwhile, the MAGAts around my parents' house in the middle of rural Indiana have taken down all of their Trump flags. They were already at a low ebb before the election; now there are only two houses with Trump signs up on my route to their house, and I'm pretty sure one of them is owned by an old woman who can't walk.
  This just isn't happening on the ground. Only on Fox, as far as I can tell.
  
  My MAGA friend just said due process is only for citizens. I stopped trying to debate with him, he’s too far gone. I’m depressed about it.
  
  Very disappointing. How does he say he's expected to prove that he's a citizen without due process? I've been wondering.
  
  Unconditional trust in the MAGA authorities, plus unconditional disdain for all other authorities (trumps convictions are unjust politically motivated prosecution, he did nothing wrong). He turned his brain off years ago and just lets fox news think for him.
  
  He doesn't actually have an answer? Even more disappointing.
  "What if a socialist demonrat accused you of being a noncitizen? How would you prove them wrong?"
  
  Correct, no answer. It just cant happen.
  
  You can ask how do you know he's not a citizen without due process?
  
  Couldn’t answer coherently. Comfortably safe as the in group, confident that the others deserve their punishment.
  
  You mean your illegal alien friend? Better let ICE know about him!
  
  If you’re ever forced to have a debate with him, I would love to know about a (actually, an honest) strategy:
  Yeah I want him to have a third term too and be as effective as possible, but how will it work if the deep state gets Obama in for a third term and he sends all Republicans to Turkish prisons? Makes me wonder if we listen to the courts whether we can keep the DemonRats/DementedCraps from being their usual fascist selves 🤔
  
  I live in a pretty maga area and I can say that maybe the support has dwindled a tiny bit around me? I dunno it's hard to tell. I can tell you for damn sure tho that there are still plenty of people incredibly happy with everything that's going on. Especially with the deportations. It seems a little less with the tariffs but even then a ton of them are very happy that America is finally standing up for itself. I'm pretty convinced at this point that there is literally nothing Trump could do that they would see as a bad thing.
  
  That happened to a buddy in Florida before the 2020 election, people took down their signs all over. I noticed it in rural Washington as well. I guess they saw a black woman, got scared, and put them right back up.
  
  My good friend's parents are adamant that Trump has done nothing wrong and apparently hope he continues on the current path.
  
  That'll change once his cancer touches them. Mark my words.
  
  They are pretty disconnected from the rest of the country both geographically and financially, so honestly, I doubt it.
  
  My hardcore right wing neighbors have anti-elon stickers all over one of their Teslas, but are still the same. I think Fox has them fearful of "persecution". They highlight every act of vandalism or protest like they're some sort of oppressed minority so that makes them afraid to speak up, or they straight up know their viewpoints are shameful. Either way I think only the margins are changing as the truth never penetrates the core of the believers.
  
  "oppressed minority"
  "silent majority"
  in control of all three branches of government
  The mental gymnastics, man.
  
  I wish that was happening near me. All the "MAGA" and "vote Trump" flags and billboards are still up around here.
- Yah I am getting fucking SICK of all these "owning the right" and "leopards are eating their faces" memes.
  THE CONSERVATIVE ORCS ARE CHEERING.
  This "engagement culture" has taught us to keep clicking on things that make us feel good, distancing us from the truth and reality.
  I swear the left has almost an equally distorted picture of the real world as the right, at least the ones who spend all their days scrolling their curated feeds. We are NOT winning, we are NOT sitting here smug while the conservatives whither into the background, they are fucking in control of the world's wealthiest, most powerful country and they are celebrating every day. The number of worried neolibs out there who lost their 401K's or the like and are booing Republicans at town halls are a minority.
  I swear this is why we lost this last election. Too many people checked out, didn't care, figured there was no way people would vote in such an obvious crook... AND YOU NEVER CHECKED WHAT THE OTHER SIDE WAS SEEING AND DOING.
  Fucking 55% of eligible voters showed up. And now we're gonna lose it all because too many of you thought yourselves the main characters who didn't need to make a choice.
  
  I kept telling people that Frederick Douglas helped Lincoln's campaign at a time when Lincoln couldn't promise to end slavery. I got called every name in the book for suggesting that a less than perfect candidate was much better than an absolute fascist.
  
  Related: a lot of our current problems have been festering for the last century+ since we didn't finish the job after the civil war. If instead of helping the landowners who incited the rebellion rebuild plantations without slaves and subsidizing their production, if we ignored the financial and diplomatic repercussions and just hung the bastards and took their assets, it would have served a much stronger precedent and then maybe we wouldn't have had organizations like Daughters of the Confederacy re-writing our textbooks for the last hundred fucking years. (My grandmother was one.)
  
  They need to be reminded of their place as the scum of America.
  Which, given proper context, should put them high in the running for scum of all existence.
  
  Slavery never went away, they just became sharecroppers, which is a form of slavery.
  SCOTUS ruled that sharecropping was a form of slavery in the 1960s. BTW, Clarence Thomas and Roberts want to overturn that ruling....
  
  My conservative relatives on the wealthier side are upset, at least. These economic policies and Musk's foolishness have soured them enough to question their media consumption.
  
  and are booing Republicans at town halls are a minority.
  I checked the mtg one and yup people were cheering him getting removed.
  
  It's that the one where they tazer the minority?
  
  I just saw the initial removal. Then she talked about how Democrats are violent, to make everyone assume he was a Democrat.
  
  We are NOT winning, we are NOT sitting here smug while the conservatives whither into the background, they are fucking in control of the world’s wealthiest, most powerful country and they are celebrating every day.
  You just described my mom's YouTube feed. Just metric fucking tons of copium. The Midas Touch has like 20 videos a day, each of them with titles like Trump BLASTED by Immigration JUDGE! or Trump suffers MAJOR LOSS and FREAKS OUT or Trump has PANICKED MELTDOWN as he meets HIS FATE in COURT!!1!
  None of this is true. It's all happy fantasy. The sky is literally falling, but these fuckwits are saying it's ok, go have a picnic, everything is working out, and all you have to do is go look outside and see THEY'RE COMPLETELY FULL OF SHIT.
  One side is setting everything on fire, while the "other" side is busting out marshmallows and graham crackers.
- They believe whatever Trump does is gospel and their news outlets convince them the same. He can do no wrong because that would shatter the reality they've constructed.

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