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[–] [email protected] 94 points 3 days ago (2 children)

And yet there is so many people thinking they will make an exception for them.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"I'm one of them, surely they will spare me as I'm part of the group, right?"

schadenfraude, we're gonna live of schadenfraude for 4 long years

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we're lucky then Trump dies, there won't really be another cult of personality like him. Even now he's coasting on his old persona, he's just a grumpy old man with limited ability to remember much of anything.

[–] brightandshinyobject 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Vance would be much worse than Trump, Vance can take orders.

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Nobody's going to be fine. Tariffs on our 3 biggest trade partners are going to raise the prices of nearly everything by 25%

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

Who could possibly have the foresight to know that making things more expensive won’t lower the prices?

[–] chiliedogg 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

If we're lucky.

At least he's not raising the effective tax rate on the bottom 95% of.Americans.... right?

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[–] Cornelius_Wangenheim 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And mass deportations are going to lead to food shortages and massive price hikes at the grocery store.

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[–] kshade 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Nobody’s going to be fine.

Not even Elon?

Promise?

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (3 children)

And just like everybody else, you forgot the Native Americans.

You know, the ones that they're trying to remove their citizenship based on some 140-year-old law that has already been superseded by other better law?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I really, really, don't understand how/why Native Americans are treated so bad. It makes no sense to me. Then their artifacts and regalia will be copied or sold for top dollar. It's insane.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Oh shit, why hadn't that come up in my head? You're right. I'm dumb.

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[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 2 days ago

They had the unmitigated gall to be living on our land before we got there.

[–] DougHolland 7 points 3 days ago

One of my best friends in childhood was Duwamish, and his family had it rough. Haven't seen him in 50 years, and all that was forgotten come meme-making time. I'm guilty as charged, sorry.

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[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 2 days ago

Hooray, I'm several of those.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (6 children)

We must follow the teachings of Luigi.

And apply it with the methods of Ted Kaczynski.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

malcolm-x-by-any-means-necessary.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Even if you don’t match any of them… worry

[–] AngryCommieKender 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yep. I'm cis, literally the whitest kid you know, and male. I just bought a backup crossbow.

[–] dufkm 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

In case your primary crossbow jams up? Clever.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

Oh, you'll be fine as long as you don't have to work to live. If you are rich enough to live of the work of others.

Everyone else is fucked. The plutocrats are going to make sure of that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

How did we get to this, I thought the progress he have made would have actually stuck in some people's heads (I've voters). Unfortunately, some people don't understand what the progress was for because all they think about are their wallets and control of others

[–] brucethemoose 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Poor is the most loaded word here. Less than $300K a year is probably the cutoff.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 7 points 2 days ago

... or actually dependent on social security or medicare ...

[–] Resol 35 points 3 days ago (20 children)

I'm not even in the US and I'm worrying. Especially due to the fact that I'm both Moroccan and queer (specifically aroace). Guess I'm not visiting the US at all during his term.

[–] surewhynotlem 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Don't visit us. Don't travel here. They need to understand there's financial consequences to making this country unwelcoming.

[–] Resol 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the advice I'm following. And it's really sad because I was so interested in seeing the US in person for a really long time. Now some scumbag came to ruin it all.

[–] surewhynotlem 18 points 3 days ago

We'd love to see you after we fix our little fascist infestation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just heard an ad on a podcast inviting me to visit Key West, Florida, which is apparently an LGBT resort paradise.

Not happening, not even if they paid me.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Dude I'm in Canada and shit's looking bleeeeak

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[–] CritFail 13 points 3 days ago

I've always considered Musk to have the look of the Innsmouth about him; pale clammy skin, wide eyes clumped above his guppy jaw. I hope he will be lured by the ancestral calls and return to the murky depths in due course.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I fit in at least 5 of those

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

Magats

I’m one of the good ones

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

Early every year the seeds are growing / unseen, unheard, they lie beneath the ground. / would you know before their leaves are showing / that with weeds all your garden will abound?

If you close your eyes, stop your ears / shut your mouth how can you know? / The weeds you cannot see may not be there / the seeds you didn't hear my never grow.

In January you still have the choice / you can cut the weeds before they start to bud / if you leave them to grow high, they'll silence your voice / in December, you may pay with your blood.

Close your eyes, stop your ears, /close your mouth and take it slow. / Let others take the lead while you bring up the rear / and later you can say you didn't know.

Every day, another vulture takes flight; / there's another danger born every morning. / In the darkness of your blindness, the beast will learn to bite. / How can you fight when you don't recognize the warning?

Close your eyes, stop your ears / shut your mouth of course you know. / if weeds are let to be without your hand to fear / then what else can be? Of course they'll grow.

Today, you may earn a living wage / tomorrow you may be on the dole / though there's millions going hungry, you needn't disengage; / it's them, not you who's fallen in the hole.

The weeds are all around us and they're growing / it'll soon be too late for the knife / if you leave them on the wind that around this world is blowing / you'll pay for your silence with your life.

So close your eyes, stop your ears, / bite your tongue and don't you dare. / 'cuz if it happens here, they might not come for you / if they're sure you really never cared.

[–] Stupidmanager 5 points 3 days ago

What if I’m an atheist but wealthy? Like how much do I need to donate to be safe?

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

I'm going to be good all the way. I'm happy being dead knowing I'm not on the same plane of existence as these douche nozzles.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Always two, there are. No more. No less. A Master and an apprentice.

[–] Crashumbc 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)
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