mekdoonggi 21 hours ago
I'm hopeful that the pressures on the administration prevent a massacre in Minneapolis, but it's a possibility. The propaganda repeaters are working overtime, but surely the electorate in the US is being moved by the media coming out of Minneapolis.

I feel that this issue is engulfing the administration, and they have no ability to take any accountability.

I hope that it's been made plain to everyone with the ability to reason that MAGA are fascists and bootlicking cowards to a man, and that progressives are teargas eating revolutionaries.

pixl97 20 hours ago
>but surely the electorate in the US is being moved by the media coming out of Minneapolis.

Depends which media you subscribe to. Quite a lot of it spins it so insanely I can't understand how it comes from the same planet.

bigbadfeline 18 hours ago
> I can't understand how it comes from the same planet.

A brain on a nationalism is worse than another planet. The disease isn't widespread yet, but the bot farms are working hard to make sure everyone gets an infectious doze.

mrguyorama 17 hours ago
>I'm hopeful that the pressures on the administration prevent a massacre in Minneapolis, but it's a possibility

More than 50% of Americans polled in the days after the Kent State shooting blamed the protestors for being shot.

Plenty of those people are still alive, and happy to support current "ICE"

Some of the people who threw rocks at a little black girl having the gall to go to a white school are still alive.

There's so much hatred. It's core to their identities.

More people will die, in more obviously fucked ways, and more people will insist that being alive around ICE is somehow a crime. They will literally raise GoFundMes for gestapo murderers. They want execution squads. "If only we finally kill those no good liberals, we can have a good country". They reject your right to life if you don't agree with their goals because they fundamentally do not want a democracy, but an authoritarian system that propagates their personal belief system.

These people are your neighbors. Your family. Your friends. Your coworkers. They come to your church and nod along to the sermon about helping those in need, and then they go home and post on facebook about how that guy deserved to die and they celebrate it.

The USA had a civil war, and killed 600k of it's young men, and a large portion of the country wanted to sweep it under the rug, and still work towards that goal today. Entire groups were spun up to the express purpose of insisting that the civil war was about anything other than slavery despite the literal text of documents from all the slave states saying otherwise.

Americans need to wake the fuck up and read some history. Democracy is a historical aberration, and authoritarian dictatorships can be successful and stable for generations. Nobody can help us. Nobody can save us but ourselves.