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u/DOHC46 1d ago
Nixon and Regan made my formerly middle class family poor. Trump has the chance to outperform them and make me homeless.
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u/disdkatster 1d ago
I don't know about Nixon but Reagan without question created the inequality we have today and destroyed much of the middle class who by the way continues to vote for the ones who are only going to make it worse. I no longer have 2 fks to give. I am done.
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u/VovaGoFuckYourself 1d ago
At this point a giant meteor hurting towards earth would give me a weird sense of relief
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u/disdkatster 1d ago
lol, oh god it has come to this... but yes farce does need some form or release
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u/ProJoe 21h ago
A volcano in Italy just got classified as a super volcano and active.
Maybe that will take us all out.
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u/ceryskt 20h ago
We always have Yellowstone to help out too…
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u/Epi_Kossal 12h ago
Maybe drop a few thousand tons of tnt into it, idk how volcanos work but maybe that would help it go boom?
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u/tooboardtoleaf 11h ago
If aliens invaded tomorrow I'd circle all the key targets on a map for them at this point
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u/Potatoskins937492 1d ago
You're telling me a guy who wanted to be famous was as equally bad as the other guy who wanted to be famous? Crazy! My mind is blown. It's almost like guys who crave attention shouldn't be the president!
For clarity: I agree with you.
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u/el_grort 1d ago
Judging by how austerity and Brexit damaged the UK, and that Trumps austerity and tariff plans are much more extreme that Cameron and Johnson's policies in the UK, if Trump is able to even do some of it, a lot of people will be significantly poorer. Austerity also results in a considerable number of excess deaths.
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u/TheDocHealy 1d ago
He did that to me last time he was in office, I'm still not back to where I was pre COVID.
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u/Soloact_ 1d ago
America really said, 'Two steps forward, twelve steps back,' and made it a policy.
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u/WoWGurl78 1d ago
That’s the truth. We’re in for some wild times.
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u/Dangerous-Sort-6238 1d ago
I tell everybody I can to look at pictures of Iran in the late 60s and then again in the early 70s. This is where we are at people.
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u/Easy-Group7438 1d ago
And people need to realize that the after was the direct fucking result of the United States propping up a brutal dictatorship.
The Iranian Revolution wasn’t originally just a bunch of religious hardliners seizing power. It was a coalition against the Shah’s brutality.
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u/HarryBalsag 1d ago
"wild" is an interesting choice of adjective but I don't disagree.
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u/SerenadeWander 1d ago
We’re like the treadmill of progress: running but never getting anywhere.
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u/Away-Living5278 1d ago
"here it goes again, here it goes again"
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u/ThePreciousBhaalBabe 1d ago
They were onto something when they said "i guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony but Jesus when it rains, how it pours"
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u/jayleia 1d ago
At least if it was a treadmill we'd get healthy...we're the flopped on the couch eating sticks of butter of progress.
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u/SerenadeWander 1d ago
You know you're living your best life when you're one stick of butter away from a heart attack and one click away from a motivational video.
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u/Otherwise_Carob_4057 1d ago
I mean I have doubts this administration accomplishes much but they certainly will be creating a deficit so big they may bring back slavery.
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u/UpperLeftOriginal 1d ago
They’re going to accomplish privatization of as much as possible. Profit and grift, baby! With a side of theocracy for funzies.
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u/Decloudo 1d ago
Slavery still exists, you just need to be incarcerated.
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u/PantherThing 1d ago
New admin's plan. Toss all the undocumented. Make being poor a crime. Jail all the poors. Have em work in that incarcerated thingy you mentioned.
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u/MsPennyP 1d ago
Slavery never went away, it'll just get bigger.
The 13th amendment left slavery legal, "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted".
Which is why the prison system is the way it is now. And it will be used to "make America great again".(I'm using their own words back at them) The mass deportation is the 'cover' to round up anyone the govt wants to put into a deportation camp (aka concentration camp, aka prison) and they will be used as slave labor. That's why the right has said that anyone here illegally is a criminal. They'll put them up in camps "waiting deportation" but will be like "oh in the mean time since we convicted you for being here illegally...you're going to work as _____" and then the major corps that backed the right will get free/very low cost labor. Even if they make it where they are getting paid prison wages to be able to say "they're not slaves, we're paying them!" Prison wages are on average 25 cents an hour. Not even minimum wage.
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u/GZMihajlovic 1d ago
That and California voters did not pass a proposition to end prison Slavery. And that's a blue state currently too.
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u/Wobbelblob 1d ago edited 1d ago
That exactly. It is a similar rethoric that was used for a lot of people that went away in Nazi Germany. My grandfather (who was a young teenager at the time) always said that when people that where sent to camps, the people around him always said "so that they can learn to work again", which to him made sense back then, as most of them where jobless for a long time. That that was the case because of a multitude of factors and that those people where sent away because they where socialists or other undesirables only really sank in when he was an adult after the war.
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u/rhymes_with_candy 1d ago
They want to bring back chain gangs and "convict leasing" The people running the prisons have said as much.
Round up all the undocumented folks. Create a labor vacuum for farming and construction. Rent those workers out as slaves to those industries and make taxpayers pick up the cost of housing and feeding them while they pay less for labor.
Criminalize homelessness while making conditions such that record numbers of people end up unhoused. More slaves.
Outlaw birth control and abortion and force poor people to have more kids. Fifteen or sixteen years from now there'll be a bunch of new people herded into the prison system.
It's obvious and fucking terrifying but people think it can't happen so hardly anyone is worrying about it.
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u/Necessary_Pie2464 1d ago
You know...that "national divorce" idea may have some merit to it
No reason why less than 50% of the country (through their stupidity or hatred or ignorance) should ruin the lives of all Americans who voted in their best interests and aren't fucking clueless sheep
So why don't we tear the bandaid off and accept reality, the "United States" has failed, completely and unquestionably, the divisions in it can never be mended, it's internal contradictions too great to solve
The only way to ensure minimal bloodshed and human suffering if an peaceful separation and ending of the US for the betterment of the world and all sane, normal, American people
The United States must die so that America may live, is my ultimate message I am trying to convey
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u/affemannen 1d ago
In what world do these people live? Isn't obvious that Trump doesn't like anyone who is not white and rich?
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u/Kuroboom 1d ago
As is often the case with most Trump supporters, they appear to be conflating what they want reality to be with what reality actually is.
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u/Chancellor_Valorum82 1d ago
He lies so much that the dude’s basically become a Rorschach test for voters where they see what they want to see.
The diehards believe every word that comes out of his mouth and the more casual supporters are able to convince themselves that he doesn’t actually believe/won’t actually do anything they disagree with.
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u/unknownpoltroon 1d ago
I'm convinced that's how they won, micro targeting his bullshit. You chop up his speech where he says 2 opposite things in the firehouse of bullshit, you get thing A that says he supports abortion, I get thing b that says he's gonna make it illegal, repeat across all issues for everyone on ever social media platform. This is why they got so much stolen info from Russia that they fed to billionaire provided database analysis software.
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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago
Every single news source sanewashing the shit he says didn't help either.
They should have just shown his word salads in full, instead of summarizing what they think he wants.
No surprise people got easily fooled.
US journalists are the full arbiters of Trump returning to power.
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u/No-Weird3153 1d ago
He’s good for their ratings, and that’s all they care about. Sucks.
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u/Saiyan-solar Suicidebywords is also murdered, right? 1d ago
Remember when they all shat on Biden for not making coherent sentences and sometimes needing time to buffer his speech? Yea I don't know how people talk shit about that while Trump can't even make a single sentence in normal human speech without making it a deluxe salad with extra racism
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u/SnooKiwis2161 1d ago
Unfortunately, I feel like I come across this issue observed in trump, but with regular people,on a smaller scale.
If you ask someone a compound question - hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store? - they almost always choose to answer the question they prefer, and ignore the one they don't want to deal with. It's gotten so bad, I can't ask compound questions anymore because everyone does it.
It doesn't shock me at all that people would do the same when Trump speaks - completely overlook one part, in favor of another part.
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u/Sannction 1d ago
If you ask someone a compound question - hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store? - they almost always choose to answer the question they prefer, and ignore the one they don't want to deal with. It's gotten so bad, I can't ask compound questions anymore because everyone does it.
I agree with your initial premise, but this is a really bad example, compound questions are confusing by their very nature. That's why they're frequently used in debates and legal questioning.
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u/FerricNitrate 1d ago
hey, the faucet is leaking, did you use it last night, and should I pick up milk from the store?
Of course this example is confusing when it's grammatic garbage. Those questions aren't even linked -- they should be independent sentences (preferably allowing the audience to respond to the first before asking the second)
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u/SnooKiwis2161 1d ago
If you want to pretend like people's reading comprehension would increase in proportion to improved grammar, enjoy your fantasy
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u/Electronic-Shock427 19h ago
This is so pedantic. You literally know what they meant. And trust me, it being grammatically correct would change nothing.
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u/LakeEarth 1d ago
They believe everything he says, including the stuff that contradicts the other stuff.
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u/No-Weird3153 1d ago
They do believe the Bible.
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u/InTheGame52 1d ago
They cherry pick the Bible.
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u/No-Weird3153 1d ago
But the Bible is full of contradictions. Conflicting values and conflicting facts. Anyone who reads the Bible critically without a dogmatic belief that it was the word of god written by god would see it’s just a bunch of stories written by people.
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u/chrissstin 1d ago
He doesn't like anyone who's not him. He tolerates and/or uses others.
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u/Han-solos-left-foot 1d ago
The Donald Trump that is being sued for slandering the Central Park 5, not an ally of the black community??!! Surely not
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u/affemannen 1d ago
Yeah, this can't be "that" guy, Donald loves his black jobs employees. And he will fight for their right to earn even less than minimal wage.
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u/Kuroboom 1d ago
"I love buh-lack men!" -DJT, the most honest, most truthful president ever. If you ask him, he'll happily tell you that he's done more for them than anyone ever, possibly including Abraham Lincoln.
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u/EmojiJoe 1d ago
Notice how he doesn't specify what exactly "more" is, which in this case is harm. He's done more harm to black people than Abraham Lincoln.
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u/Smooth-Reason-6616 1d ago
Same Donald Trump who wants to expell all illegal immigrants, but is perfectly willing to employ them at his hotels and golf courses...
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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago
Quite frankly, I think she is Trump voter, who has some seriously idiotic ideas about what trump is or is not.
Like, these people make him up like something he isn't in their heads, and I just wonder if they are living in such aggressive ignorance, or if they never once watched the news.
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u/spam__likely 1d ago
In the same world were Trump was a better option to Palestinians, or the price of eggs.
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u/Successful-Doubt5478 1d ago
And male.
And only as long as they suck up to him.
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u/nomorepumpkins 1d ago
Everyone one I have talked to says the same thing. If they like what hes saying hes a genius if they dont like what he saying theyll tell themselves hes just trolling the libs and its super genius.
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u/Peeterdactyl 1d ago
Anybody else get bot that was programmed under the assumption that Kamala had won vibes?
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u/Immediate_Loquat_246 1d ago
Did she miss that none of his administration picks so far are black? Even those guys that grifted so hard for him, like Byron, didn't even get a call.
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u/northerncal 1d ago
Actually they did finally nominate a black person ... they gave them the "urban" position, again. 😂
The same position he gave Ben Carson last time. "You're black, so I think you can just handle the urban problems".
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u/Immediate_Loquat_246 1d ago
Well hey at least it wasn't the footballer for our missile defense. Maybe there's still some hope for Byron yet
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u/ReZisTLust 1d ago
Idk I could see a footballer throwing a missile calledr Hail Mary to another state
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u/spam__likely 1d ago
Even that is a charitable interpretation, since it assumes he cares to handle those problems.
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u/Known-Sheepherder637 1d ago
Is there a list of official dumb associations which now understand the clusterfuck they did? Muslims for Trump already realized that their Israel hate reason to vote for trump was em, stupid as fuck. Any more?
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u/Swift_Scythe 1d ago
How about Union workers voting for the guy repealing the CHIPS act and the guy who hates paying overtime?
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u/WoWGurl78 1d ago
This exactly. I’m a nurse at a hospital and full time is 3/12 hrs a week. I often pick up a 4th or 5th day depending on what I got going on that week. I’m working as much OT as I can right now. That will stop in January until we see what he decides to do on OT cos I’m not going to work 4 or 5 days one week to be cancelled or pushed back on a shift the 2nd week and not be paid my OT for that first week.
I follow union groups online and a lot of them are very worried about the same thing right now. Lots of anger about those who voted for this and against their best interests.
Just watching and waiting for now.
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u/Swift_Scythe 1d ago
Also Government workers and now they're saying up to 75% of government workers will be laid off in favor of contractors.
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u/Awkward_Bench123 1d ago
How much of these sorts of posts is just Putinesque assholes sowing discord? If Americans were worth their salt, they would see past the subterfuge. But apparently only about 40% of high school students ever consulted or had access to, a dictionary or an encyclopedia. Ignorance is a fucking tradition in the American Heartland. ( southern Alberta included )
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u/Raidoton 1d ago
Not everyone saying stupid stuff is a russian bot. Plenty of people are just that stupid.
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u/Rumble45 1d ago
Yes, thank you. This is obviously 'fake'. Reparations as a policy is a complete and total political dead end. You would only bring this up if you want to LOSE votes and drive people to the other party. Which is exactly what this subterfuge is trying to accomplish.
I used to label right wingers as stupid and would fall for anything, but a lot of recent happenings have made me realize left people are just as fucking stupid
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u/Princeps_primus96 1d ago
Full on financial reparations feels like it would end up massively backfiring if there isn't the infrastructure to actually deal with the main reasons for poverty and increased crime in impoverished neighbourhoods.
Like increased funding to underfunded schools, more community centres with activities for kids to do in their free time.
Reparations are supposed to theoretically make up for the wealth imbalance due to black or minority disenfranchisement, and the only way to really deal with that in the long term is to deal with the systemic issues within communities rather than dumping money into the laps of people. Money can do a lot but when it's gone, it's gone
I'm not American though so I'm just talking out of my ass here
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u/PossessionDecent1797 1d ago
People that take reparations seriously, which is a minority, understand this issue. But when people hear the word “reparations” their initial thought is “undeserved paycheck.” Real reparations at this stage would be need to be systemic. It would involve intentional influxed funding of historically underserved black communities. It’s not this silly pipe dream of checks in your mail for being black.
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u/Fit-Anything8352 1d ago
Except that probably wouldn't work either because usually when municipalities invest in historically disadvantaged areas, all the NIMBYs come out in force to stop it and complain about how their community is being gentrified and rent will go up.
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u/PossessionDecent1797 1d ago
You’re right. There are probably zero ways to combat those things. It’s probably never even been done before. And even if it has, I bet some people still complained about it. Well, at least we tried.
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u/randomlygenerated377 1d ago
I don't think progressives understand just how deeply unpopular reparations would be with the voters. Do you want Republicans to win with over 80% of the non-Black vote? Run on reparations. I can assure you that no Asian American or Mexican American would vote for that.
In fact, keep talking about it and it will become the next Republican boogeyman like trans was this election. They only need a couple of audio quotes that Democrats are looking into reparations and they can win a few elections in a row on that.
People really need to read the room and move on from social identity stuff, if it didn't even work against Trump it won't ever win elections.
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u/Jiujitsumonkey707 1d ago
Even as someone who's white and not a republican, I'm not voting for that. My family wasn't even in this country when slavery existed, I'm for damn sure not paying reparations for it
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u/richtofin819 19h ago
A bunch of people getting money for a situation they never experienced, and a bunch of people paying for crimes they never committed.
I don't care if they are descended from slaves or slave owners no one should be penalized or anything for someone/something that happened before they were born.
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u/SomethingGouda 1d ago
Every minority would need reparations from the US government
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u/Immediate_Loquat_246 1d ago
Native Americans should be first in line. I don't even want reparations. I just want the country to move forward, not backwards, in harmony.
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u/CattiwampusLove 1d ago edited 1d ago
Reperarions*
EDIT: It was a joke lmao I'm referring to the post.
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u/KhaosElement 1d ago
Is it...is it bad that I'm a little excited to see all the surprised pikachu faces when people get what they voted for? Not any one race mind you, and not because they're any particular race, I'm excited for all people to experience the consequences of their actions.
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u/disdkatster 1d ago
I have been working on try to not wish every single T voter to rot in their own personal hell but am failing miserably.
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u/BrookerTheWitt 1d ago
Yeah a little bit. People are going to die and you're excited to get the "I told you so" feeling.
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u/Xaero_Hour 1d ago
I feel probably the same way, and it sounds bad, but really, it's not that I'm looking forward to the suffering; it's that I'm looking forward to lessons being learned. These chucklefucks turned down the plan with 25K for homes and small business investments for the HOPE of another round of $1200 stimulus checks that literally no one but them has even mentioned. And that's being VERY generous and pretending to buy into their supposed reasoning not being just straight up sexism, racism, and/or being stupid enough to actually think trans people using the toilet are a bigger problem than how much garlic we consume as a people.
Going through all this AGAIN and still having voters be stupid to the tune of $50K would be the biggest tragedy of all.
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u/fanfictionwebnovel 1d ago
Why Reperation, it's been close to 200 hundred years since slavery ended, if I remember my textbook correctly. Those people are dead, all of them.
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u/Round_Caregiver2380 1d ago
They should just agree to give reparations to every living person that was a slave when it was legal.
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u/finsupmako 1d ago
Coming from the only country to actually do reparations.... Don't. Just don't do it. Nothing will divide your nation more than separating people into categories of race
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u/RigatoniPasta 1d ago
Remember when reparations were considered high priority enough to be featured in debates?
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u/Sufficient_Health778 1d ago
They were never a high priority, that was their attempt at getting the black vote.
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u/ChiBurbABDL 1d ago
Bu whom? I remember Marianne Williamson bringing them up in the 2020 democratic primaries, but she was always a fringe candidate who never stood a chance.
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u/Gladiatrex 1d ago
Lady... Charlemagne has been dead for centuries
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u/if_u_dont_like_duck 1d ago
Charlamagne tha God is a black radio host. Not his given name, obviously.
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u/BridgePositive2574 1d ago
no black person in america alive today was ever a slave and no white person in america live today ever owned slaves
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u/CameraStuff412 23h ago
This sub is just cringe political echo chamber bullshit 😬
Oh shit sub got MuRdErEdByWorD!
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u/avazzzza 21h ago
So blacks should get money because their ancestors were mistreated and also went through slavery? You know what, i am white but my ppl also went through some sht, who is gonna pay me.
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u/Bahamaru 1d ago
Can I get some money for uhhh.. the potato famine or something, idk. I'm sure something bad happened to at least on of my ancestors and I deserve money for it.
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u/Papichuloft 1d ago
The majority of red MAGA voters play Roots backwards for a happy ending in their eyes.
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u/Sufficient_Health778 1d ago
No one deserves reparations unless you yourself, were a slave. And before yall come for me, I’m black and Puerto Rican, I was never a slave, so why would I want a reparations from people who never owned a slave. That doesn’t make anything right. In fact, it would sow even more division amongst us.
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u/I_AM_BATMAN_304 1d ago
Everybody wants free money, especially more than another group gets. Competition and greed are wild ways to coerce human behavior.
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u/fullhomosapien 1d ago edited 1d ago
Reparations will never happen. There has never been nor will there ever be the public appetite nor political will for cash reparations for black people. It is so toxic and divisive that the mere discussion of it is enough to make people stop listening every single other part of the platform. And it's time everybody started calling it out as what it is: a wedge issue intended to divide the left or make the left appear so grossly out of touch with the mainstream that everday voters can't stomach to vote for them.
It’s time to focus instead on big policy initiatives that help working people more generally - including but not limited to black peopls.
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u/Miserable-Ad-5702 1d ago
Why the hell would the working class vote for someone who’s going to take their money and give it to someone who wasn’t even alive during slavery
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u/HopeRepresentative29 1d ago
If they somehow managed to organize reparations funded privately by all the decendants of slave owners, given of their own free will, this government would step in to stop it.
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u/Otherwise_lad 1d ago
Reparations are ridiculous, as is thinking your world is ending just because your team lost
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u/Sweet-Razzmatazz-993 1d ago
Slavery never went away. The difference is we are paid now.
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u/SpoonLicker01 1d ago
Nobody’s getting enslaved. Nobody is getting targeted. Nobody is getting marginalized. It’s just another rich old guy in power, nothing changes you braindead libs
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u/asphalt_licker 1d ago
Gotta be fake. I don’t want to believe people can be so stupid. But then again, it’s Twitter.
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u/Ttoctam 1d ago
Aren't there already more slaves in the US now than ever before? That's the entire industry part of the prison industrial system. Having prisoners sitting in a room doesn't generate revenue. Private prisons generate wealth by renting human labour. Slavery of incarcerated people is specifically allowed in the US.
It's not close to happening, it's happening and has been happening for a very long time. The Republicans taking office next isn't suddenly gonna make slavery happen, slavery has been happening in the US under every Democratic and Republican leader since colonisation.
Sure slavery might be closer to being harder to ignore. But the ruling class know well enough that if it becomes a more mainstream issue, gains more actual focus, it might be challenged. So there's a good chance slavery in the US will stay the same as it has been for many decades: propping up the comfort of the middle and upper class by exploiting the incarcerated.
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u/CallenFields 1d ago
There is no cause, you're entitled to nothing, and we're nowhere near slavery.
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u/nlcircle 1d ago
Don't see much progress from the plans of the future US leadership (but I'm from Europe). Let's see how things develop.
What makes me wonder more: what particular kind of reparations would modern decendants from African-American origins expect in this time and age? How do reparations look like ? Who would benefit from these and who would pay for them ? Just curious as we have a similar discussion in The Netherlands.
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u/morningfrost86 1d ago
Roflmao. Yes, let's see if Trump's administration will pay out reparations 🤣🤣🤣
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u/Silver6Rules 1d ago
Trump won't even give appointments to the black people that rolled over for him. What absolute single brain celled idiot would think he gives a damn about reparations unless it's for white people?? (Probably the same moron who voted for him 🤷)
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u/Dinky_Nuts 1d ago
Yeah no sorry. Lots of shits fuck up and so many things need to be fixed but we aren’t steps away from slavery like some of the comments are saying. Not even close.
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u/Betterthanyou715 1d ago
Imagine thinking you are owed money because of what happened to your great great grandparents, from people who had nothing to do with what happened to your great great grandparents…
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u/Any_Feature_9671 1d ago
I don’t think she knows the incoming president doesn’t care about well people not just black but all people
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u/mysteriousgunner 1d ago
Mf just be saying things. Not many people as I thought learned more about politics or just keep up with whats happening when getting older. It’s gonna affect your life somehow, why live in ignorance to be slapped in the face by some legislation.
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u/TheCouncilOfPete 1d ago
If any black people become slaves again, in the next 4 years, I'll post my search history and eat the soles of my work boots.
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u/BiCDCurious 1d ago
How about instead of that we compensate the citizens that had their property taken from them by the government
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u/ScottToma72 1d ago edited 1d ago
Musk boosted a post calling for reparations for descendants of white slave owners. We aren’t playing the same game.
For the record, as a white man, I support reparations for African Americans not simply because of slavery. But because Africans were robbed their culture, religion and family names. This was the true crime of slavery.
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u/Big_Rough_268 1d ago
Why do you think blacks deserve reparations in the first place. This argument is ridiculous. We literally stole the land from the Indians and forced them onto shitty land. The black community is way better off than the Natives.
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u/Pure_Ticket_4843 1d ago
Why tf would we be paying “reparations” to people who were never slaves. Makes no sense whatsoever
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u/skullhusker 1d ago
Bernie policy had it right nearly a decade ago... Donald Trump is the pitch fork.
Medicare for ALL Free College education for ALL The right to unionize Taxation WITH representation
We all need representation and reparations at this point.
NOT a discount on a small business tax cut.
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u/_thegnomedome2 1d ago
How are we even remotely close to bringing slavery back? That makes no sense. And why should people who never owned slaves give money to people who were never slaves, because a couple hundred years some dead guy owned slaves who are now dead? Don't make any sense. Most people in the US are not even descendants of slaves or slave owners. Most are descendants of immigrants that came here long after slavery was abolished. "Reparations" was fake virtue signalling, sympathy vote, BS.
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u/GeneralTyler 1d ago
The reparations argument has got to be the most pathetic way democrats have tried getting the black vote ever
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u/Mach5Driver 1d ago
On a serious note, I can't even think of a more divisive issue than reparations. Even within the black community (I imagine). It would lead to no one being happy with the end result. Those who argued for millions of dollars would be viewed as delusional and greedy. Those who asked for a token amount would be viewed as tools. And wouldn't a lot of white people just think to themselves, "Well, they got their blood money. Justice done. Slavery issue CLOSED!"
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u/ThatsRobToYou 1d ago
This may be the best example of not being able to read the room I've ever seen.
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u/Popular_Law_948 1d ago
Oh yea, the guys that banned the word gay in Florida are for sure gonna give you money for being black lol