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Opinion: Brace yourselves: whatever crazy, awful things Trump may have done to date, it’s only going to get worse
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Yeah but who's? I have a bad feeling it won't be theirs, it'll probably be the vulnerable and the enemies of the MAGA.
The opposition to the MAGA cult can't just sleep for too long on letting them terrorize everyone's livelihoods since they've gotten the backing and enabling of their 'leader'. They won't sleep to upset everyone's lives.
Well, it's starting with ours. It'll end with theirs.
Tap for spoiler
Damn this is the edgiest shit I've said since I was in high school, holy fuckDude, I'm Canadian and I've been anti-gun since I'm about 2, and now I'm seriously considering getting one. The world we are in right now as nothing to do with the one we born in, edgy is not what it use to be.
MAGAs are going to be hit hard with the cost cuttings and job eliminations. Sit back. They are the ones who are violent and they will take that violence to their source of problems when they wise up enough. It may take them awhile to work through the propaganda and bullshit though.
Some are waking up and getting on board. We struggle with the same issues, assessment of cause and cure are where we differ.
They're as likely to direct that violence at us as against their leadership. They're authoritarian enablers who want to be abused. Most of them will never wise up, let alone rise up.
That’s the whole point of starting off with scapegoats. “Ermagod, the transgirl trying to use the bathroom in another state raised the price of eggs”. Or of course “we’re breaking up families and sending children to concentration camps at Guantanamo because they’re criminals “ and even “Canada deserves it because we need to stop fentanyl”
Will they ever wise up though?
Scoreboard shows these people, the most violent among them, are disconnected from reality and blindly trust Trump and his cronies.
I can't even get my MAGA mom to believe Musk did a Nazi salute. "Apparently he was throwing his heart to the crowd." Granted, she's not politically engaged, she just listens to my dad who stopped watching Fox News because it wasn't conservative enough. So yeah.
MAGA are willing enough to storm the capitol, they'd be easier to convince to "rise up" than any liberal i've ever seen.
Rise up against whom though? Their violence is not driven on principle. It's out of trust and loyalty to a con man who told them to "fight like hell". What makes you think they'll turn on him? Other than a tiny handful of folks, when have the leapords eating their faces stopped them from offering their faces up on silver platters at the leopard's feast?
https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/
I wouldn't bet on MAGA suddenly waking up to class conflict to the point of guillotines unless Trump points his grubby little finger at them.
What a world that would be.
If you take reality as evidence, MAGA did more to the point of guillotines than any liberal or leftist has. They brought gallows to the capitol ffs, tell me the last time leftists built gallows and chanted to hang members of the status quo. MAGA are ironically better at antiestablishmentarianism and revolutionary action than leftists are, that's not a praise for MAGA but a condemnation of leftist inaction.
I mean if you want to blame liberals and leftists go on ahead I suppose, thanks for being unhelpful.
MAGA are predominantly fatter and older, we can take them!
You may be surprised.
Can we just... not? I know this is where everything is headed, and the Republican SCOTUS, Congress, and Executive have been slowly dismantling protections and getting laws in place to make this legal, but there has to be some other way before it gets there.
inb4 "just protest", they don't give a shit. A national strike would start to do something but still probably wouldn't be large enough or last for long enough for them to care.
And more hateful and violent. More vengeful and racist. More armed and stockpiled. More members of the police. Etc.
Are there any left wing militias?
The idea they're all dumb and y'allqaida rednecks is a joke that people have been playing on themselves.
And the punchline is not funny.
do you think the left are advertising themselves?
Its more likely to be guerrilla style warfare, at least thats my guess.