Apparently they just purged ICE leadership and replaced them with people from Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection. The imperial boomerang is about to hit harder.

  • Wheaties [she/her]
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    6 months ago

    Summoned every general into a single room to call them woke and fat.

    Payroll is only being met by the "donation" of a billionaire friend.

    Says he's gonna ask them to blow up US civilians.

    SNAP isn't going out this Saturday.

    ...guys, I think Trump is trying to get couped.

    • JohnBrownsBawdy [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      He’s not trying to get couped he’s trying to get riots going so he can call in the troops and do the shit he’s dreaming about.

      • homhom9000 [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        But when he's messing with his armed wing and purging his loyalists for being incompetent, he sabotages himself. Even before the shutdown national guard troops were bored and confused about why they were in cities.

          • homhom9000 [she/her]
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            6 months ago

            And they can't do this the same time they're beating their chest in the carribean. Or I mean they can but it will not be successful

      • nothx [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        This!

        Him and the other monsters in power are really just looking for a reason to raze some cities and cull those they deem undesirable.

          • nothx [he/him]
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            6 months ago

            Their plan isn’t sound, but I do feel that is still their plan.

          • JohnBrownsBawdy [none/use name]
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            6 months ago

            Think about how many asshole freaks are in the military. No, some of the national guard guys don’t want to massacre civilians (some would be happy to tho), but considering the number of known nazi/white supremacist/blackpilled gangs in the military you’ve definitely got enough to do some major damage.

            I sincerely doubt the Fat Woke Generals are going to do as much as a replacement level lib member of congress to stop shit from going down.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      Payroll is only being met by the "donation" of a billionaire friend.

      Did they actually pay? In any case - the math didn't work. It works out to $100 a person.

    • Hestia [she/her, fae/faer]
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      6 months ago

      An important step of fascism is manufacturing a crisis. Get rid of people’s ability to obtain food = rampant theft and “crime” = excuse to crack down

    • Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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      6 months ago

      "Critics say deploying an aircraft carrier battle group to Chicago raises several questions. Mike Johnson has not reviewed the proposal."

  • prole [any, any]
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    6 months ago

    If they start doing airstrikes will any country offer USAians refugee status?

      • Muinteoir_Saoirse [she/her]
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        6 months ago

        I dunno, they did an airstrike on a house in Philly and burned down an entire city block (61 buildings) and that wasn't the final straw, so who's to say

      • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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        6 months ago

        Can't think of a population more groomed to turn on each other. Being able to legally kill your neighbor is the real American dream.

      • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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        6 months ago

        And what would happen?

        Would that be the moment the "good" people gather their arms against him?

        Odds are likely they'll either just flee or hope to quietly wait it out

      • D61 [any]
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        6 months ago

        The average USAian with chuddy politics is likely to be just as atomized and alone as the rest of us. Finally realizing that "things have gone too far" is going to push them to what?

        I don't have faith that individuals will both radicalize and organize against their former political "friends". I'm more willing to believe that they will just go quiet, hunker down, and hope that things "get better" at some future point in time after "somebody" does "something".

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      6 months ago

      Nato country? Doubtful. Others? Maybe the ones with refugee programs that don't have any reliance on the US.

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        • Awoo [she/her]
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          6 months ago

          Maybe through UNHCR? I think you need to actually go there first though, then apply from within the country. They don't get very many applications per year:

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          I suspect this is mostly because refugees try to flee somewhere that they speak the language.

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          • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            I suspect this is mostly because refugees try to flee somewhere that they speak the language.

            It's still so wild that a country of 1 billion people only received 78 refugee applications in a whole year. In comparison India got >3000 applications last year.

            Wherever you're from, whatever language you speak, you will be able to find some small diaspora in a country so large.

            Either something is not right with the data or there's something else going on. Maybe China has some different asylum/refugee process that's easier?

      • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        I don't think alliances are so cut-and-dry. I would assume e.g. EU countries will gladly take US refugees (because they're white enough, if nothing else)

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          6 months ago

          It's not so simple. Doing so would involve acknowledging that the US is doing something wrong enough to warrant it. Doing so would also trigger legal repercussions in many of those countries that must automatically carry out various actions against perpetrating countries. They are more likely to look the other way and pretend the US is doing nothing wrong than they are to acknowledge that the leader of nato is carrying out such abuses that it is producing refugees.

          • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            They might call it something other than "refugees" to avoid legal issues, but in practice accepting refugees who are already close culturally, and are ready to work 12h shifts (because they've been doing so in the US already) makes financial sense. The usual right-wing opposition won't be an issue either. So it's more likely to happen than not, in my view.

        • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          EU countries would collapse if America fell into civil war. Besides people are already hating on white Ukrainian refugees, americans wont be received that much better.

    • purpleworm [none/use name]
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      6 months ago

      I think Vietnam probably would.

      Come to think of it, I bet you the DPRK would, but like the other commenter said, good luck getting there.

    • nefertum
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      6 months ago

      Those evil ghouls are going to salivate at the chance to kill people in the internal colonies

      • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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        6 months ago

        I was once debased and among those ranks - never met anyone who'd be okay with just invading a US city. There's never really been a mental permission structure set up in the military for this. It was more of a sense of 'we need to protect our paradise back home' mentality.

        • redchert@lemmygrad.ml
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          6 months ago

          The trope of the "inner city" hellhole which is "like Afghanistan" has been implanted for a while. The soldiers wont hesitate.

        • nefertum
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          6 months ago

          I don't believe you enough to go to the US to find out. I think with the right incentive brainwashed evil genocidal ghouls will do whatever they are told.

          • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
            ·
            6 months ago

            Oh, you don't live here?! Yeah, avoid the US like the plague then! You and everyone else it seems is officially not welcome as far as the admin is concerned anyway.

            And yeah, I don't blame you for not believing you'd be safe, the US is a fucking wild place and is not to be trusted.

        • D61 [any]
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          6 months ago

          never met anyone who'd be okay with just invading a US city

          Downside is, there's probably a sizable chunk of the military that falls into the "go along to get along" gang. They might not like invading a US city or providing armed escorts during ICE raids, but they are also not going to resist doing those things.