• ubergeek@lemmy.today
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        24 hours ago

        Which makes me wonder, what is the breaking point for 78% of Americans, before they start burning it down, and building guillotines in front of ever federal building?

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          24 hours ago

          Which makes me wonder, what is the breaking point for 78% of Americans, before they start burning it down, and building guillotines in front of ever federal building?

          Let’s get them all off the couch and to the voting booth first, and then we’ll worry about Revolution later after that.

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            23 hours ago

            It makes me laugh when people say 70% of people didn’t vote for him, what if they all marched into Washington… Like we can’t even get a lot of them to march into a voting booth

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                  21 hours ago

                  Was avoiding it ever really an option?

                  The rights were being rolled back while Biden sat and watched…

                  Do you think Cheney, a known fascist was voting against fascism?

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            22 hours ago

            Cool. In 23 months we can aim for that.

            In the meantime, are we going to work to get anyone worth voting for?

            And, in the meantime… what are we going to do about today’s situation, not the voting one in over a year and a half away?

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        22 hours ago

        This is dispicable American apologetics. All those that didn’t vote are equally as guilty. America spoke and it said we are a hateful bigoted and foolish nation. Don’t forget that.

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          18 hours ago

          English may not be your first language.

          Not voting for one person, doesn’t mean that people didn’t vote for another person.

          That being said, the entire US population also contains non-voters because children can’t vote. (Although the Fascists seem to be trying to get rid of kids too.)

          What the U.S. Federal Government is doing right now is not representative of the majority of its People.

          Most Americans are good people and will stand up to keep our country, and the rest of the world, free from Tyranny.

          It has been one month. Real life isn’t an App Store update, although right now, I really wish it was.

          There are processes that have been created over two centuries being destroyed, and the ripple effect is only beginning.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah, but I was quoting that “approximately half of us” number based on multiple polls, over time, and not just voting.

        The nation is approximately 45% / 45% / 10%, in their belief systems.

        In a very real sense we really are two nations occupying the same landmass.

        I don’t know if anyone will remember this, but way back in the ?late 80s?, back before the Internet, there was a TV mini series on ABC, where the Soviet Union invaded America, and won.

        And there’s a scene in that movie, at the end, where there’s a couple of Soviet top military persons, and they’re in front of a map of the US, and the US is split into multiple zones, with names like “Homeland”, etc.

        Then the one Soviet person askes the other Soviet person about how they will maintain control of the country.

        The other Soviet person talks about how the US it’s not just one people, but is just really groups of people, split in different area, divided, so they’ll be easy to control and suppress.

        I keep thinking back to that movie, and specifically to that scene, when I see what’s going on today in the world.

        About how we’re divided, with everyone just looking out for themselves.

        Edit: Here we go. What I described is discussed in the “Climax and resolution” and “The Divided States of America” sections of that article/page.

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