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[–] 10 points 1 year ago

But the good news is that your private jet and it's fuel are tax deductible.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Every person who voted a dictator in or didn’t vote deserves this.

    Like how can you not see that they hate you and want you dead?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Buh buh buh...we OwnEd Teh liBs. Fuckin morons, I hope idiot that voted for this suffers and I don't care how that makes me look. Stupid is as stupid does

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    [–] 85 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    AOC nailed it calling this bill a deal with the devil.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Usually when you make a deal with the devil you get something.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I mean the billionaires are getting something!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Right-wingers are getting the hellscape that they voted for. Sucks for everyone else

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Death panels are back on the menu

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  • [–] 160 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Boomers in about six months:

    "But why would Obama do this?"

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I was told today that this is “all the dems fault because they haven’t tried to stop him yet”. I can’t imagine how far your head has to be up your own ass to see that viewpoint.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think that's the "only Democrats have agency" thing that comes up. When Republicans are horrible shits people are just like yeah they're horrible but like you don't blame the bear for doing bear stuff. But everyone else is held to normal human standards

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    It's not all their fault, but by God it'd be nice to see them fight the republicans at least as hard as they fight the leftists in their own party.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I saw a meme the other day that said "Democrats fighting against Progressives," and showed the terrifying T Rex from the first Jurassic Park movie.

    Then it said " Democrats fighting MAGA policies," and it showed Barney.

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  • Good luck everyone there. You are going to need it...

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  • [+] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    50501 needs to start getting people organized. I went to No King's Day; it was great, really, genuinely great, except that there was absolutely zero organizing to try and get people to push towards achievable goals. It was literally just "hey, let's all stand around with signs, that'll show Donald". If we want to make a difference, we need to get organized so we can start directing people and their resources and energy towards attainable goals and start demonstrating that we can get shit done.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I agree with all of this.

    Not only protests but strikes.

    Nationwide. Every industry.

    No idea how to make that happen, though.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The leaders of these 50501 events need to start telling people to general strike.

    Either that or stop hogging the attention and let a real movement take over that isn't controlled by establishment dems

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Well, it's especially difficult to organize if you don't try organizing. I've got a mind to start doing so myself if I don't see anyone organizing at the next one.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    That’s exactly what you need to do! What others are saying is true, it needs to be a sustained movement and not just stop at 4pm. Thankfully there were organizing tents at the protests in Denver but I was in my hometown, in West Virginia, for the No Kings protest and there was a good turnout just not the organizing.

    These protests are great places to meet like minded individuals and do your own organizing if not one else will. Change will not come with once a month protests, change will come from a large movement of organized individuals. You’re the one here who is closest with the people in your area, start talking to them and making strong connections.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My impression is that 50501 aren't actually organizing anything, but just providing a one-stop forum for actual, local groups to advertise their events. And maybe a little bit of, "hey, let's all do something on [this] day." If you're not already in a local activist community, it can be hard to find them.

    Point being: if you can step up, do step up, but please don't organize a Fyre Festival.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I've looked online but I guess I failed my search checks, because I didn't find anything big in NYC.

    But also like others have said, we need to do more than just march. We need to be disruptive. No more labor until every Republican resigns. That kind of thing.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, that last protest -- the biggest ever in the US wasn't it? -- did so much.

    Protesting is what got you here. And they want you to keep protesting uselessly while they continue to take apart America.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Depends on where you think this is all going: Reaganomics or Genocide.

    If it is Genocide you shouldn't be discussing this, and should be forming resistance cells.

    If you think it's Reagonomics, visible protests can help form mutual aid networks and a collective action front that increases solidarity and save lives.

    Two different approaches depending on where you think things are heading.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    "Some of you will die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make"

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I am not looking forward to seeing elderly people living on the streets after a medical issue causes them to lose their house. I don't think many will last long living outdoors.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    If you're a republican and you're ever in a position of need and I have to ability to help, I'll show you the sum total of compassion your political party has and piss on you instead of helping. Don't be upset I learned it from watching y'all.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    100% with you on that one. I'm told that I need to be considerate to them when they start learning the errors of their ways because then they might be allies.

    Fuck that. I've lived in red states all my life, they hurt and they "turn over a new leaf" for a second, then the second a Democrat has the gall to help them out of the hole they scream communist then go running to the person worse than the last.

    I'm done, I'll help those around me that I can to try to cut down the suffering... but if they voted for this or stayed home, they can rot for all I care.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    From Obama-care to Republi-kill.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The rich get richer while the poor get fucked over and out.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Are we at the point where Americans actually defend their democracy and vulnerable citizens yet? No? Just gonna write up a new protest sign while we wait for more people to die?

    They are stealing your country and murdering your neighbours. Wake the fuck up. Organize. Protest. Strike. Resist.

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  • [+] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Can’t forget the lovely chants!

    (But I get the feeling OC wants something more than protests and strikes. And considering they’re apparently not American, I suggest their rhetoric is not actually in our interests.)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    do you remember the police station burning during blm

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    What did they got out of that, though? Violence without a goal is just as ineffective. I'd argue they bring more harm to the movement than doing nothing. If you have a specific goal you're trying to achieve, violence could be a legitimately good way to obtain that goal.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Where else is the 1 trillion dollars tax cut for the rich comes from.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    30% of those affected probably don't even believe in modern healthcare e.g. their patron saint RFKjr

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