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    Some of my friends may die in prison without a trial, but at least the billionaires got everything they wanted

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    You’re happy that Trump is about consolidating his power and demanding loyalty? I’m sorry but how are YOU benefitting from that? And he says this while seeing how these changes hurt people… Americans get your fucking heads out of your asses challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

    • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      It’s absolutely baffling how dedicated these dumbfucks are to the fantasy. I genuinely don’t believe anything can shake it. We’ll be literally in mad max cool zone world and they’ll talk about how good we have/had it under trump lol

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        It’s absolutely baffling how dedicated these dumbfucks are to the fantasy.

        Most of these people have blind faith in their chosen political leader. They are incapable of introspection or changing their minds, because they are surrounded by things that constantly reaffirm their beliefs and people that allow them to revel in their cruelty toward their fellow humans. I’m not at all surprised anymore sadness

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      It’s that damn cult attitude again. They believe that if only Trump had all the power, he’d fix everything for everyone. They don’t believe that dear leader would actually send them to CECOT if it made Peter Thiel a buck.

  • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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    I was just reading about the 1932 movie Misjudged People and some of the context around it. A documentary about Deaf people in Germany intended to promote a positive attitude towards Deafness among the country’s public, Misjudged People was apparently among the first films banned by the Nazis, being banned in 1934. The first half of the film concerned Deaf education in Germany, and was reportedly filmed at a Deaf Jewish school known as the Israelite Institution for the Deaf (Israelitische Taubstummenanstalt); this half of the film apparently even included an interview with the school’s director Felix Reich, who was himself, naturally, Jewish. Mr. Reich would eventually be arrested by the Nazis, fleeing to England with some of his students; the Deaf Jewish students who stayed behind, as well as their teachers and other school staff, would all be murdered in the Holocaust, and the school building itself was soon torn down, with only a plaque left to commemorate the important chapter of German Deaf Jewish history at the address Berlin-Weißensee, Parkstraße 22 today.

    …The thing is, though, Misjudged People was a movie produced by ReGeDe, the Reich Union of the Deaf of Germany, which was a Nazi organization. The film’s screenplay was written by Wilhelm Ballier, a Deaf Nazi who was ReGeDe’s administrative head at the time. So this man Wilhelm Ballier saw his movie banned by his own political party for being too positive about “his people”, this man featured a Jewish school prominently and positively in his movie, and he saw the terrible things that happened to that school’s staff and students after his political party came to power, and he only continued to support the Nazis. In fact, he doubled down and became a firm believer in the idea that Deaf Germans were “hereditarily diseased” people who should sterilize themselves as a “sacrifice for the greater good of the nation” — and he denounced any Deaf Germans who refused to submit to this program of mandatory sterilization.

    I just don’t get this mentality at all…

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    “I’m sad because multiple friends have been deported, irrevocably changing their futures, but in return I got…uhhhh… I got….

    …a president who’s ’hooked in the game’”

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    Holy shit

    Am I the only one who read “a couple of friends” and completed the sentence in my head as “a couple of friends stopped speaking to me” or something like that before reading the rest

    Jesus fucking christ, these fucking nazis may have been born human but they sure as hell aren’t human anymore

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    As a construction manager there’s a decent chance some of those friends were people he supervised and helped exploit by leveraging their legal immigration status.

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      It’s even more ridiculous than that. The kind of bluemaga lib to trot that out is saying it because they’re not affected personally and don’t care about those who are affected. OOP has been personally negatively affected multiple times for no apparent benefit but is still defending Trump.