• Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk
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    It wasn’t worse. They’re already at rock bottom. They’re literally lying to everyone and nothing is being done about it.

    I’d wager in two or three years, if nothing is done, the USA will cease to exist as a single, unified sovereign nation. If things keep going the way they’re going, a collapse is inevitable. A country made up with people so viciously opposed to reality cannot survive.

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      This is the Russian plan. It was never about Trump. It was about payback for break up of the USSR.

      United we stand, divided we fall.

      They’ve made us divided: not MAGA, but the gov’ts abroad who have exported the subversion of a debatable reality. Look at Vladislav Surkov’s strategies and how they are here, in America. You don’t debate your enemy, you debate the notion of truth.

      Trump 1 introduced the term “alternative facts,” and now these people sit in a room talking about an ideology as bad, not a formal group or person.

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        We’ve always been divided. Natives against colonizers. White against black. Slavers against abolitionists. Urban against rural. “Communists” against “real Americans.”

        Unity had always been a lie, a story, an excuse for a slow compromise that keepa the landowners ahead.

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            We aren’t even at “Registered Republican Bathroom Only” levels of division yet. (Incidentally, sundown towns still exist in this country)

            The Civil War never really ended because we never actually dealt with the traitors. We compromised on slavery and now we have more slaves than we ever did when a man could own another man, we just need to throw them in jail first. John Brown was right.

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    No, insisted ICE Barbie — they are invaders. They are traitors. They are “just as dangerous” as MS-13, Isis and Hamas. Her priority is “making sure they never see the light again.” This, by the way, is the woman who grandstanded about “staring down” Antifa when footage showed it was actually a couple of photographers and a guy in a chicken suit.

    Edit: This livecam outside ICE in Portland is surprisingly owned by The Sinclair Group.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_ucxfn-HY0

    Edit 2: Here is Chicago Wrigley Field: https://chicago-webcams.com/wrigley-field-webcam/

    Edit 3: Here is Chicago along the river: https://api.wetmet.net/widgets/stream/frame.php?uid=4f3e81c8ba5bf5a0ff1768c88aba1f8c

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    I’ve stopped telling people I’m American. I just say Cascadian now. There’s at least a little distance there.

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    Attorney General Pam Bondi jumped in to underline the message: “We’re not going to stop at just arresting people in the street.” No, they’re going to “take down the organization brick by brick” and “destroy the organization from top to bottom.”

    Antifa is very real. We fought the Nazis and we’re fighting Trump.

    But there’s no organization. No bricks.

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    The US is in desperate need of regime change and the international community is silent.