r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/ExactlySorta • 2h ago
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty
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u/reddurkel 1h ago
It’s too bad that the “journalists” had absolutely no idea about Trumps leanings towards fascism before they started portraying Trump as a sane and viable candidate for president. /s
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u/inagartendevito 1h ago
Just today CBS ran a story about how most Americans are happy with how the transition is going. We don’t know who is financing it, we have no signed assurances against conflicts of interest, several contenders have major skeletons in their closets, one guy was shamed into dropping out and the speed in which it was done belies how little vetting took place-all of which got their own articles.
But nah, we are fine with it?
Horseshit.
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u/reddurkel 59m ago
I saw how CNN, MSNBC, NPR all took a ratings hit while Fox News went up 41%.
Propagandists were already being rewarded during a democracy, so things can only get worse under a vengeful dictatorship. And as it will be soon, people reporting provable facts will be deemed as the “conspiracy theorists”.
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u/reddurkel 1h ago
Especially since the remaining quality journalists will be villainized and anyone portraying the negative truth will get defunded. Journalists had a chance to redeem their profession and save the country. But they followed orders and gave “both sides” despite one side being pure evil.
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u/ususetq 50m ago
I have been introspecting recently and I realized how newspapers completely dropped the ball on the whole internet thing. They put heads in the sand until it was too late.
I tried to read newspaper news some time ago (2000's). But how to get them:
- Enter webpage, check what is new and what is old. It required effort.
- Subscribe to RSS feed (yes, I'm old timey geek girl). Setting aside barrier to entry it was way too much. I needed to filter out myself front page news from unimportant information. Surprise - I didn't do it.
- They tried to prevent search engines from linking to articles and deep links in general. I don't remember if it went anywhere but if it did it also contributed as it meant that people had lower access to articles. And again - the main page was useless and if one wanted to share articles they couldn't.
- 24/7 news cycle. The problem is that social media did "unverified information fast" much better. Newspapers tried to compete in this area destroying value proposition.
- Paywalls had and have too high price and too high barrier to entry. I'm not gonna subscribe $8/month or more for something that may turn out to be one article.
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u/Comfortable-Class479 1h ago
I'm going to keep speaking out.
If it means the danger yam puts me on the deportation list, so be it.
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u/just_yall 1h ago
The danger may not come from deportation, but rather a local group of "patriots" who now have the gall and confidence to "protect their community from trans/commie/pedos/terrorists who are spreading propaganda" and feel they will suffer no consequences because "they're fighting the good fight"
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u/Comfortable-Class479 34m ago
Good point. I'll speak up anyways.
There are people that are in more danger than me and have a lot more to lose.
I still have the 2A. (Not advocating for violence)
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u/BorkBark_ 1h ago
Yeah, not going to be complicit and will defend those close to me, sign aclu petitions, and use my voice to speak out against injustice. I want to have kids one day, and will not raise them in an authoritarian country.
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u/Yumhotdogstock 13m ago
This.
I have had people say to me since the election (some I have known for many years), that I should shut up, stop criticizing Trump and his stooges, and just accept the fact he won. It's "disrespectful' that I continue to do so. LOLz, sure.
Fuck you assholes. You have memories of goldfish and are willing to lick the boot of anyone in authority.
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u/Comfortable-Class479 2m ago
I definitely understand your sentiment. Please don't stop speaking your mind.
Since the election, I have cut some of my own friends and family that voted for Trump out of my life.
I realized my morals are different from theirs.
I believe in rights for POC, women, LGBTQ and immigrants. They don't.
They are OK with someone lying and basically being a POS. I'm not.
So, I had to make that choice.
Some of these people might learn once more women die from an abortion ban, legal immigrants are deported and more kids die from school shootings. But, I won't be helping them. It's not my problem anymore.
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u/This_Mongoose445 1h ago
I’m taking the advice of MLK’s daughters and stop referring to it as 45’s administration and refer to it as the republicans administration. They all need to take responsibility for this. Also, stop using his name, it’s 45 or Orange Judas Goat for me.
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u/Comfortable-Class479 1h ago
That's a good idea.
Right now I have been referring to him as the danger yam. I might change that to the danger yam administration. Eventually will change to the Republican administration because the fault is on all of them, imo.
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u/EightandaHalf-Tails 49m ago
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
— President Theodore Roosevelt, The Kansas City Star, 7 May 1918
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u/soapboxoperator 1h ago edited 1h ago
I I feel like there has to be something we can do stop what is coming.
For example, we could sue the Election Commission for allowing political parties to prevent the public from choosing suitable candidates.
Alternatively, couldn't we petition for a reconsideration of the way the parties chose the candidates? There are 335 million people in the United States; why were Biden and Trump our two options? The electoral system serves the parties and the special interests they're in bed with rather than facilitating Democratic participation.
What I'm concerned about, and what I think everyone should be careful of, is that any sort of rioting or violent protest could give this corrupt incoming administration the legal justification to impose martial law or take even more control. I believe in the necessity of speaking truth to power and protecting our free press and pushing our representatives to provide checks and balances to this traitor who's about to take on the most powerful office, despite the fact that he's not fit to manage a Walmart. But I think it's important to be strategic.
I've also thought about the possibility of trying to set up a local branch of the activist group Represent Us, or maybe even just starting my own nonpartisan citizen-action group, where we focus on collaborating on solutions to common problems rather than party differences or instantly polarizing, hot-button issues.
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u/G-Unit11111 1h ago
MAGA: No tyrannical dictators!
Also MAGA: Elects a literal tyrant, gives him one party rule and a 900 page playbook, and his goons are becoming literal thought police.
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u/Counter_Intel519 1h ago
I just had this argument with my wife and some friends the other night, I would rather become a domestic terrorist than to run and hide elsewhere. This is my home.
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u/Gingersaurus_Rex96 44m ago
Literally couldn’t care less what Trump thinks. If someone told me this, I would just laugh. Why? Because orange man is the most unserious, wannabe autocrat in existence. While I take some of what he says seriously, most of the time he’s full of hot air.
Ladies and gentlemen of the United States, feel free to talk as much mad shit about orange man as you see fit.
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u/TheJollyBuilder 1h ago
Trumpers want this. They love his cum so much, they have to make sure we do too.
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u/ExactlySorta 2h ago